Just lettered the James Dean Porsche replica. Thanks to all for your help, I found a few nice vintage shots of the car probably a few hours before the accident. I did it the most authentic way possible relying on those pictures. even the numbers on the trunk and hood are off-centered like the real one!
Funny thing is that the car was already lettered with vynil and I had the immense pleasure of removing it before painting. Sorry vynil people but vintage vehicles deserves hand lettering all the time!! Look so much better anyway.
Thanks again! Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
Nice work Pierre....impressive.!
Brush people rule!
Posted by rene st-pierre (Member # 4116) on :
hey you thinkor the customer think for mask the plate i see a lot of peint whit plate no mask c-ya my friends nice work its usual
Posted by Ryan Culbertson (Member # 7560) on :
Nice work Pierre!
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
Pierre..Can you take and post more pictures??
The only one I saw clearly was "Little Bastard"
Kinda interested because the "130" DOES look like regular ole "Brush Script", even if done by hand.
Posted by Jeff Ogden (Member # 3184) on :
Pierre, my friend... I see a dot over the letter "a", instead of over an "i"...was that the way the original was? Not trying to be critical, it just comes natural to us letterfolks. I'm sure there's a reason for doing it that way...
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
Look again Jeff, he's got it right....besides would you letter "Lattle Bastard?"
Bifocals
Posted by Darcy Baker (Member # 8262) on :
Nice job! Is there a story bout the replica or is it just a private collector? I agree with you on hand lettering. only kit cars deserve vinyl.
Posted by Rene Giroux (Member # 4980) on :
Nice work buddy, did you get to try the car???
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
That looks absolutely terrific, Pierre! And you are right, vinyl has no place on a classic car. Love....Jill
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
James Dean was more than a minor influence on my early teens. Many of us probably took on the attitude from him and Brando. We were replicas at moments.
Don't want to knock your work, but to me those numbers look way modern and the script looks very "fontish" even if done with a brush.
Do you have any photos of the original that you could publish here as well?
Thanks for sharing your caring.
Posted by Pierre Tardif (Member # 3229) on :
Thanks guy for your inputs!!
I know that the numbers look pretty much like brush script font but that brush script comes from...A BRUSH!! way before computers!
The "Little Bastard" is pretty accurate, although I find it though to reproduce another's guy script! But, since this is a porsche replica, the place where the Porsche logo and crest are located are not the same as the original so it look smaller.
Here's a couple shot I relyed on. There's not a lot of pictures as James Dean owned that car only ten days. The picture of the trunk open is probably the only one that we can see Little Bastard that exist.
The guy who owned that car also owned many artefacts that once belong to James Dean. He's a huge fan.
By the way there was only 90 real Porsche spyder manufactured in 1954 and only 66 are still around mostly in museum. One guy should expect to pay close to a million dollars to get a real one today!
That was a fun job! Now I have to go back to add the pinstripe around the red on the fenders. Posted by Mike Faig (Member # 6104) on :
Heckova nice job, Pierre. We can tell you enjoy your work.
Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :
Great job my friend.
While I see a resemblence to brush script on the numbers, it's merely that, a resemblence. If I'm doing "off the brush" numbers with a flat, they come out pretty much the same way. If I were to lay out a casual number it would also look pretty much like those.
Pierre, I couldn't agree more with you about vinyl on a vintage car...drives me absolutely crazy. Why these people will spend years hunting down the "correct" gearbox or tires and then slap vinyl on it is beyond me Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
iam with geo on that. i go to a local car show here on sats and this guy has a beatiful 1951-52 ford sedan deliver......WITH VINLY & A PRINTED PICTURE.....on it.....really kills the whole vehicle next time he shows up ill get a pic of it..........
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
Apart from doing a nice reproduction and the fun of re creating a piece of history, take a look at the sign in the background. Looks like it might be La Morada. Is this in LA? Is it in Si's hood?
Posted by Duncan Wilkie (Member # 132) on :
Thanks Pierre, nice job again!
Posted by Don Hulsey (Member # 128) on :
Rick,
The sign in the background says Rosilee LA MORE Real Estate.
Dean Jeffries was around a long time before computers. Could it be that Brush Script was partially based on his lettering?
Helluva job Pierre. I have other pics that show the deck lid of the car. You nailed it, maybe even closer than Jeffries would have if he did it again.
Posted by Larry Ware (Member # 7352) on :
awesome friggin' work... one of these days my ability will be will a 1/4 of what you are capable of...
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