Dew tour 9/18/2010

Saturday morning began Rylee and my first trip to the Dew Tour. I know how can that be, I have skated most of my life but haven't been to the Dew tour until now. There has always been something else going on Soccer games work something that kept us from going, but not this year and probably never again.
We splurged for the action zone tickets and let me tell you it was worth it. The day started with a tour of the facility from behind the scenes we got to walk the bike park and stand on the vert ramp. You get free Pepsi products all day (while supplies last) and they have that disclaimer because half way through the day the Mountain Dew and Pepsi were gone. These seats were the best in the house next to being a competitor or media standing on the course. Our before the gates open tour ended with us watching practice for the Gatorade Free Flow tour at the skate park. The free flow tour is for amateurs and it was very exciting to see the level these guys skate at, amazing.
The best part of the day was watching the Dew Tour skate park final getting to see P-Rod, Chaz Ortiz, Greg Lutzka, Ryan Sheckler, Ryan Decenzo and many more skate was incredible.

Pinstriping 1956 Ford Kustom

So last week my friend Adam from APG customs in Tooele called me asking if I could come out and pinstripe a car at his shop, now if you know Adam he is normally working on a pretty cool project so when he explained that the car was an old kustom from the Tooele area I was excited. If you are wondering why when I reference the car I spell kustom with a K it is because this is a certain style of custom car. These cars normally have extensive body modifications and sometimes outrageous paint jobs, this one is no exception. The car is covered in a House of Kolor Kandy tangerine and then has traditional style flames over the hood, tops of the front fenders and down the door bottoms. There is also quite a bit of pinstriping is why I had the opportunity to get involved with this project. See the car is driven (as all cars should be) and had an unfortunate run in with some deer, so I needed to match the old pinstriping to the areas that were repaired and got to add my own piece to the front of the hood and outlined the flames. Thanks Adam for the chance to work on this car.