My Bob Brown and John Brain’s Illustration Project

[krate-mayhem]

Wow thank you you so much for your help,I am just having fun building and collecting parts for these kustom bikes

 

[krate-mayhem]

First Hot Rod Bike

1 Little Swinger by krate-mayhem, on Flickr

Little Swinger by krate-mayhem, on Flickr

The Little Swinger Bicycle 1962 by krate-mayhem, on Flickr

Hot Rod Bike by krate-mayhem, on Flickr
mock up

A tribute to Donald Bell's bike The Little Swinger by krate-mayhem, on Flickr

 

[videoranger]

Awesome project! That will be a nice collection when done, thanks for the photos and updates. It's cool to see those illustrations come to life.

 

[bike]

Really rare

is the origninal pictures of the custom bikes back in the day- never seen that one before

 

[Andrew Gorman]

Those are sharp!

 

[krate-mayhem]

The Little Swinger

Yes That is a Picture of the Little Swinger in a hot rod mag from 1962 I have one more picture from Car Craft magazine 1962.

The Little Swinger by krate-mayhem, on Flickr
Roth and Donald Bell

Don Bell and Roth by krate-mayhem, on Flickr
Car Craft

The Little Swinger by krate-mayhem, on Flickr

 

[krate-mayhem]

Barris

Hi all ,here is my Barris bike project that John had at the start of the Barris article,working on the bars,wheels and frame this week,with my mock-up test frame still need to figure out the grip part.

barris kustom by krate-mayhem, on Flickr

IMG_7927 (Medium) by krate-mayhem, on Flickr

IMG_7929 (Medium) by krate-mayhem, on Flickr

 

[krate-mayhem]

iverson

Hi all my friend Crazy Joe helped me weld up the bars next is the chain guard exaust pipes.

IMG_8515 (Medium) by krate-mayhem, on Flickr

 

[krate-mayhem]

kustom

Got back from Trexlertown with some parts so I can start to work on my kustoms again.
here are some links to the shows if you want to see them.
Saturday
http://www.flickr.com/photos/krate-mayhem/sets/72157631709564204/
Sunday
http://www.flickr.com/photos/krate-mayhem/sets/72157631715347540/

 

[Zephyr]

That's a really awesome project. Wow!