Jeff’s 1960 Impala is looking sharp. He sent through these photo’s that he took this morning down at the wharf in Portland. Jeff’s living the Kiwi dream in the States.
We don’t have much of a story on the car, but we just had to post these photo’s up. Its running the factory 283, Jeff’s upgraded to disc breaks and bags. It was running the classic muscle 15×8 Cragars which had to go, so Jeff has gone for the crisp old fashioned approach, 15″ inch steels, big whites and bullet caps. Looks fuckin rad if you ask us. I’ve posted this link before, Jeff’s blog Gasoline Academy.
A picture of a car i’ve been searching on and off for a long while is a ’54 Chevy that Jason Jesse once owned in the Dukes C.C. I’ve heard he’s not into fans, but thats too bad as i’m one. The dude kicked arse on a skateboard and has been building cars and H.D’s in the style that is popular today long before anyone was thinking of reincarnating the trends a second or third time round. Trends or what, good shit is timeless! Images found here
J. Jesse, gold Flaked ’54 on Supremes in the 90′s and silver flaked ’50 when kooks were painting their cars in pastels.
A couple of clips from my younger years that will never grow old.
I love it how Ice Cube lives with his Mum but has a sick ’64. Some great messages promoting drink driving and how to treat women. Yeah Ice Cube
When these videos came out I was about 12 years old and very impressionable. It was the early 90′s. Dr Dre is introducing Snoop Dogg to the world and lowriders. These two clips aswell as Easy E helped rise 1964 Impalas up to the iconic status that ’57 Chevys hold with the older generation.
I’m on a gangsta roll here from my youth. Colors played one Sunday night on New Zealands TV3 in 1992. The very next day, my mate Jock and I who were 12 years old rolled around the school yard at Shirley Intermediate with our top buttons done up on our school shirts. The teachers shut us down pretty quick. No top buttons were allowed to be done up after that film.
My mate Neil introduced how rad VW’s are to me in the 90′s. He was the first dude I knew slamming out his ’55 oval, narrowing his own front beam, cutting the shock towers off. Smokey was the funnest car for rattling around Christchurch with Eric Sermon bumping. We dig VW’s, not just any they gotta be cool as fuck. Joel found this sweet little clip of some slammed Volkswagens from the UK’s Slow n Low club. Keep posted for some bad ass Volks editorials coming up soon. The locals here in the south of NZ have some world class shit.
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