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Ink N Iron is always one of my favorite events. When we talk say “Respect the Trade”, Ink N Iron truely incorporates three amazing trades with remarkable examples of each. Tattooing, Custom Car Building and Music. That’s what the scene is at Ink N Iron and there is a bunch of it. You couldn’t image the amount of detail and craft that goes into each and everyone of the cars and tattoos. People from all over the world flock to hang out in a parking lot and a stuffy run down ship for the love of Ink and Iron. If you get the chance to go, I highly recommend it. Just be prepared to stand in line for a few hours. And by be prepared, I mean throw a 12 pack in a back pack and bring a bottle of sunscreen.

Obviously I can’t post all the picks otherwise you’ld be scrolling for days but feast your eyes on a few of my favs from the weekend. If you didn’t know, I’m an El Camino fanatic so I’m like a fat kid in a super fat candy store when I stumbled across Elcos like the killer green and white one you’ll see below. We where also glad to see our neighbors from the Devils Car Club representing Venice. They have got a super sick collection and are simply great guys. Besides all of the eye candy (cars, tats and pin up chicks) it was great hanging out with the girls and my homie D.Tea from VeniceRacket.com

OH… and M-CAT, you owe me a car cleaning for your drunken kettle corn shenanigans. HA!

The 7th annual Ink & Iron festival was this weekend at the Queen Mary in Long Beach CA. My buddy Bill and I rolled out Sunday to bask in the amazing custom hot rods, psycobilly tunes, pin-ups, booze and tattoos. The Southern California sun is always a plus for this sort of thing too. Obviously we had a great time, I managed to get out without another random tattoo and there was soooo much going on, I would suggest you check out the Ink & Iron website for the full details. The pics below are just a few shots from outside around the Queen Mary and then the main tattoo convention inside. It was quite a sight to see. Three floors of tattooing, inside an old haunted cruse-liner. Pretty rad. More information about the Queen Mary here.

Now on to the custom cars. Again, too much to describe but over all there where a bunch of bad ass rat rods, hot rods, lowriders, trucks, choppers, bobbers and even a crazy little soapbox car (the one that looks like a missile). This is such an amazing scene with great attention to detail even though it may not seem like it to people new to rat kulture. I’ve just gotta mention one of my other favs was the oh so suttle interior with cheetah carpet, Mexican blanket interior and fuzzy roof liner. This proves there is not such thing as too much.