Flaked and Low – Lowrider Custom Paint at 2014 GNRS
Amazing Metal Flake Paint
Would you say 10 miles of masking tape??
By now, you’ve probably seen that the Grand National Roadster Show is one of the best. I used some pretty stupid criteria to say that:
1) Diversity of cars
2) Show at a ridiculously high caliber.
There aren’t many shows with Hot Rods, the “America’s Most Beautiful Roadster” contenders, then motorcyles and really, the most radically detailed and perfected rides of the event: Lowriders. Combine that fact (discuss/object if you like) with my amazement or maybe sheer disbelief in how metal flake paint like this is done and you’ve got some cool pics!
Taking a walk down Lifestyle Blvd (the car club that dominates GNRS lowrider hall every year) there’s eye candy everywhere. The loweriders don’t just wear candy-flaked-striped custom paint. That’s only the start! On the highest-end lowrider, every single part of the car is customized…. either painted, chromed, etched… sometimes a combination of all. Then the interiors are perfect, the stereos rock and of course, they’re laid out on hydraulics. There’s not one ride half-stepping.
And my favorite of the room was one of the more subtle rides….
Custom 1967 Buick Riviera at 2014 Grand National Roadster Show
Amazing. I want to cruise this car so bad, but I don’t know if I’m cool enough. The car screamed custom and luxury at the same time with one of the sweetest paint jobs, complete with metal flaked roof. This was easily my favorite! One of the tops in the show for me…
Don’t think this is the end of the fun! This is the last picture in this story, but there’s a bunch more pictures in the Lowrider and Flaked Paint Picture Gallery.
Then, if you just can’t get enough, check out the other metal flake paint stories and pictures right here.
If you’re a custom painter… especially one from this show, let us know! I’d love to put a name with the paint job! Thanks!!
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