The Girls of SEMA!!!

Now that I've got your attention.......Doug and I went to Sema for 3 days this year and between the two of us we took about 2000 pictures. So for the next week or so I will be posting pics until I get tired of it then I'll put them all on photobucket so you can peruse them at your leisure   If you have never attended the SEMA show then you better put it on your bucket list and find someone who can take you.  It's on for 4 days and there is absolutely no way you can see it all in that time.  This is Nirvana for the motor head and many top builders use this venue to display there work for the first time.  I will show you all the stuff I like best first...the girls are just a teaser to get yoiu interesting and because I get the most hits on anything that has "girls" in the heading.  So check back tomorrow and every day thereafter to see pics of cool shit you have never seen before.

INFIDEL LIVES ! ! !

Been messing with some paint work on this beast, referred to as my Clark as "The Freakshow". It was a little difficult on the tank because nothing would stick to it. I did the normal sanding and blocking thing and then tried to layout some flames with 7 buck a roll 1/8 3M tape and as soon as I'd try to bend the tape it would just fall off....
So I tried cleaning it with a lot of different things, Pre Cleano, bug remover, lacquer thinner, Windex, etc. Whatever I used it always had a light coating of something on it that I could not remove. So I got out the BULLDOG adhesion promoter and put a few coats of that on. You would think the tape would stick to that, but alas, no go.
I wanted to lay down a few licks of flames to put my "Infidel" vinyl on top of, but that wasn't happening. So instead I laid my vinyl down on top of the bulldog....still no good. I managed to get it off the backing and onto the tank but it definitely was not going to stay on.
So I decided to freehand some flamage over the vinyl and use it as a template. After I sprayed all the colors over the vinyl I pulled it off and VOI LA', the masterpiece you see before you, well my masterpiece anyway, it's the first time I ever tried to freehand something that looks like fire, sorta.
Anyway, it's colorful and gets the point across so I'm calling it done. It was weird when I was laying down the top coat the tank seemed to soak it up. I put whole Dixie cup worth of clear on the one side of the tank alone. I have no idea if it's going to stick, so I'll wait till I color sand and buff it to see if it holds before I do the other side of the tank. Crossing my fingers....

The Kawasaki Chopper

Here's my latest chop build. It started life as a Kawasaki KZ 650 CSR. I used the wheels, front end, motor and frame cradle. Everything else I either made or modified to work. This is what it looked like before I tore it down for paint. It's getting metalflaked and candied and goldleafed and pinstriped. Hope to be done in time for the "CHOPMEET" in July. It's so damned hot the last couple weekends that I couldn't even stand to be in the garage, let alone paint. That's the Wife's Suzuki XR-7 in the background.