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Can't recall the source

Von Dutch car I just learned of, the Bungatti

Story about it here: http://www.rumpsville.com/2010/01/-in-1997-i-was.html

but the basics are that the photographer was at Universal studios in Orlando and found this miniture roadster owned by Jim Brucker in a storefront window

Ever come across a Von Dutch tribute roadster before? This is the first I've seen or heard of

Built by Dick Dean, flamed by Keith Dean, Stipped by Tom Clark

If the pinstriped rabbit looks familiar, it was in the 1956 Car Craft interview with Von Dutch as he brushed it down for a gallery of 6 shots... and called it Harvey - shaken by cross breeding (from the Jimmy Stewart movie Harvey)

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Von Dutch still lives!

Photos I think you'll like better as a gallery than posted with cars

Above... beatniks of Koolsville?

What a cool way to mount your hydraulic switches!

Bonneville, 1954. Photography of Life magazine archives and a bit of photoshop crop and auto color with a hit of sharpen

That's Von Dutch's flying eyeball on the nose, wish I could read what's written under it

Ever hear about how Von Dutch pissed off the Mercedes and sports car people? Did a flame job on a 300 SL gullwing Benz and put it in a car show?

Image via: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=1836

For incredible color video from a 1956 or 57 car show where this gullwing, Barris' Kopper Kart, Norm's Kookie T, and lots of other kustoms were filmed: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=1836 this gullwing is at the one minute mark, and 3 minutes 30 seconds for both exterior and interior coverage.

For a write up about it: http://books.google.com/books?id=10di738DvjoC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=gullwing+von+dutch&source=bl&ots=LkYIpr5Lye&sig=mNkL9bZeJo8hhkVsDdMVuJmkJWw&hl=en&ei=ENB6S73JJIq-sgOVuM2yCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CA4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false
It was Earl Bruce's Gullwing, and according to a thread on the HAMB http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-243779.html it might have been the first flame job Von Dutch did

Found a cool blog, unfortunately it never posted much, but it's all about T Buckets

Above: the Geraghty-Crawford grasshopper that Von Dutch striped and lettered

Above: what the dumbasses that bought Grabowski's Kookie T did to it, two better images of it at the end of my gallery http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/replica-of-norms-kookie-t-i-doubt.html

And a couple images of Roth's Excalibur and Tweedy Pie

all of these are from http://t-bucketworld.blogspot.com/ but the guy who put it on the web only had about 2 dozen posts total.