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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.