Larry Watson lost his long battle with brain ... especially after he reached the completion stages of his custom 1950 Chevy. He christened the car "Grapevine," and soon after, Larry was the ...

Larry Watson's recently completed 1958 Thuderbird custom at the Renegades Car Club Rod and Custom Motorama at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium in 1958. Watson was a prolific custom painter in ...

but there is another side to the Larry Watson story that oftentimes gets lost behind the shine of all those candy paint jobs. Simply put, Watson was a custom car nut from the get-go. Not only did ...

Larry Watson would eventually have his California ... Sacramento's concerned politicians handed down more and more laws against custom cars. Altered suspension, loud pipes, street racing; any ...

Two classic custom cars that have been immortalized as Hot ... none other than Ed Roth and painted by custom paint legend Larry Watson. Once featured with a group of the world’s most iconic ...

Larry Watson invented techniques such as panel painting ... memorabilia reflecting his decades-long contribution to the custom-car world. On July 20, a day short of his 71st birthday, Watson ...

In the custom car world, there are obvious legends -- Dean Jeffries, Larry Watson, Sam and George Barris, Ed Roth, Bill Hines …the list goes on. Thanks to their automotive innovations ...

Celebrating custom cars and Hot Wheels legends ... but underneath the Larry Watson paint and Ed Roth fiberglass work lies what’s left of a highly modified Oldsmobile chassis.