LARRY WATSON 1939-2010

A day short of 71, Larry Watson, legendary custom car painter dies of a struggle with brain cancer. I have a lot of respect for this guy and always thought it was rad that he was from the same area I was born in. I always had it in the back of my head that I would meet him someday. I was just talking to a cool old cat at the Mooneyes Show about him. We were both wearing Larry Watson t-shirts. His was from his 2001 show in Apple Valley and was autographed. I didn't think much of it, figured I'd have an autographed shirt too someday. It's strange to miss someone you never knew but have looked up to. Here is a link from a post I had put up a few months back. LARRY WATSON. R.I.P.

LARRY WATSON

I knew there was a lot of custom car shops around my hometown of Bellflower when I was growing up, but it was cool to read on Kustomrama that after watching Von Dutch lay some pinstripes at Barris Kustoms, Larry Watson bought his first paint at Jackson Paint Co. (which was a few blocks from the house I grew up in) so he could stripe his 1950 Chevy, The Grapevine. I remember going there with my pops as a kid to buy House of Kolors Kandy Paint for our dirtbike helmets. The guys in Larry's school thought that Dutch must have stripped it and one day after school Harvey Budoff called his bluff and had Watson stripe his car. He was the real deal and without Harvey knowing, Larry painted an eyeball bleeding into a spoon on the inside of the glove box door. Radical!! The video is about ten minutes long, so sit back with a cold beer and enjoy!