Tag: Kingpin Kuztum

Rats Tatts n’ PinUps: the Kingpin Kuztum’s journey starts at the Skyways Hotel

The first step of the journey: Kingpin Kuztum and Rats Tatts n’ PinUps at the Skyways Hotel

 

The Kingpin Kuztum’s family are visionaries.

This event was great at the Skyways Hotel, in collaboration with  Rats Tatts n’ PinUps.

They are addicted to nostalgia and perseverance and they don’t do anything by halves.

As a hobby, they can spend years changing and improving their cars into their own personal styling statement.

 

These modified cars look amazing, so shiny and new.

It’s hard to believe that some of these cars have been fully disassembled and sand-blasted.

They look so beautiful, plus they perform and function better than they did when they first left the factory.

This is hard work, but there are no lazy bones here.

But the buzz of getting to drive on the road and see reactions makes it all worth it- that’s what club days are about too.

outside view of the Skyways Hotel Melbourne

 

Swapping headlamp rings, grilles, bumpers, chrome side strips, and taillights. Cutting through the sheet metal, removing bits to make the car lower, welding it back together.

New paint, rebuilding or replacing the engine, rewiring the car, reconditioning or replacing brakes, suspension and steering components, re-trimming the interior, reconditioning, re-chroming or replacing stainless trim and bumpers!

inside a car
Customised interior

 

Think of cake baking days you may have gone to as a kid- (I certainly did, being from a country town). You walked around admiring all the tasty looking icing and decorations- but this is scaled up 100 notches.

It is obvious these guys find the process challenging, satisfying and rewarding.

Luckily for us, we can just meander around, take photos and admire these stunning pieces of art.

Stories of Carlton: Kingpin Kuztums

Kingpin Kuztums brings grease lightning to Carlton!

 

Old traditions die hard and the good ole Rockabilly culture is one tradition that graced the Carlton streets recently.

Rob started Kingpin Kuztums about four years ago, as he has real passion for Kustom culture and Kustom cars/Hot Rods. It’s a great social group that embraces a gone by era.

Rob also loves the vibe of Lygon St, in Carlton, that’s why you can see dancing on the streets, vibrant live music and all those sexy classic hot-rods cruising up and down.

 

Kick into cruise control, roll down the window and turn up the radio, please.

Chevrolet Coupes, Dodge Charges and even a little bit of Grease Lightning with a Ford Convertible Delux- A Palomino dashboard and duel muffler twins, oh yeah!

Rob has great memories of Carlton from the good old days and wanted to inject a little bit of that vibe back into the street, so we can get together, enjoying each other’s company and reminisce of those days gone by.

Tattoos, petrol fumes and studded belts add to that Rockabilly vibrancy.

For a few hours, we got to emerge ourselves in the streets of Carlton and daydream of when we owned our own “Bad Wolf” singlet, whilst swinging around our partner outside a local café.