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Randy from B&B Collision in Royal Oak saw me up at the Woodward Dream Cruise doing some striping and liked what he saw - he called me to do some lettering on his dad's car. I forgot my camera on that one, oops. Randy called me again to do some work for a friend of his, Mike, on Mike's trans am. I did a nice red line down the side, and this cool red stripe on the c pillars.

Today I got to put some silver double stripes on a 1947 Pontiac for another friend of Randy's who just had new skirts put on it. I matched the stripes to the ones that have been on the car since it was new, and I also redid the red & black lines in the logo on the hood I love that I get to touch such beautiful cars!

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