His automotive adventure started reporting on various motorsport events as a sports writer before moving onto a full-time auto career with various sites, including This Week In Motors and ...

According to George Barris in volume four of his Barris Kustom Techniques of the 50's series (Thaxton Press, 1997), one other Northern Californian who was also experimenting with candy paints was Mel ...

Panels, endless lines, freak dots, and pearl. The paint schemes of the mid-1960s and early 1970s drag racing scene were a blend influenced by the kustom car, Art Deco, and psychedelic movements, and ...