Saturday 24 July 2010 at 10:46 pm
Our hobby has lost another legend, Larry Watson. Watson's career began when he opened his own shop as a mere teenager in L.A. During the next decade, Larry changed the way we paint hot rods, customs, & motorcycles. Larry's iconic 50 Chevy, known as Grapevine was done about the time he graduated High School. It was an instant hit at the Bellflower Drive-In, despite the fact that everybody thought that Von Dutch did it. Nobody believed Larry was the artist, until Harvey Budoff dropped off his 50 Ford in the Watson driveway.
Watson invented many of the custom tricks that rocked the 60's show car scene. Techniques like paneling, cob-webbing, & lace painting were just a few ideas that sprang from his fertile mind.
Larry departed the custom car scene to pursue an acting career in TV & movies. Larry ended up in something like 140 different shows, such as MacGyver, Columbo, and Mission Impossible.
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Friday 02 July 2010 at 11:02 pm
The price of FREEDOM is dear. This day is a tribute to our fore-fathers & those that showed our fledgling country the way forward into history. We need to re-read this profound document often & compare it to today's events. We should ALWAYS remember to be thankful to be born as Americans!
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. - Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
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