American Pride Camaro – Covered with Transtar’s Clear

On 09.27.10, In Custom Work, By Transtar Team
On Patriot Day (September 11), at the Northeast Ohio Camaro Club’s annual Fall Classic Car Show, the American Pride Camaro made its debut. This extremely detailed piece of art was completed by Mountain Muscle Cars in Cosby, Tennessee and all the airbrushed artwork was done freehand by Mickey Harris.

The American Pride Camaro, a new 2011 Camaro,  is completely covered in iconic American images. The mural covering the car tells ‘the story of America’ from George Washington crossing the Delaware to the present day. Images of American leaders, soldiers and eagles cover the vehicle. The whole project took several hundred hours to complete and leading up to its debut, Mountain Muscle cars and Harris worked 23 days straight, 12-14 hours each day to get the car ready to show to the public.

After the images were carefully painted on, using water-based paints, the American Pride Camaro was sprayed with Signature Series Glamour Clear – a premium, high solids clearcoat. Greg Fodness, owner of Moutain Muscle Cars said, “Transtar Glamour Clear is a very high quality topcoat, giving us excellent results when completing high end projects like the American Pride Camaro.”

The American Pride Camaro will be touring major events nationwide over the next year, so look for it in a city near you!

Tagged with: • • • • • •
 
0 Comments
Leave A Response

Aggressive Designs Does More Bikes for Criss Angel

On 07.29.10, In Custom Work, By Aggressive Designs

Over the past few years, Seth Boldman and his team at Aggressive Designs have created seven custom bikes for magician Criss Angel. However, this year alone, Aggressive Designs created four one-of-a-kind custom painted bikes for the superstar.

The guys at Aggressive Designs used Transtar’s Glamour Clear and Factory Pack Empress Black Basecoat LV-905 to finish this latest bike for Angel. Seth says he likes to use Glamour Clear because it’s “forgiving, doesn’t wrinkle, and covers well if you have to cover over a burn from buffing.”

To make these custom designs, Angel brings ideas to the table from t-shirts, sketches, drawings on napkins, etc. and then gives Seth freedom to run with it and create incredible designs. Each bike takes about 1-2 weeks to complete, depending on the complexity of the graphics.

Click here for more information about Aggressive Designs.

Tagged with: • • • • • •
 
0 Comments
Leave A Response

Aggressive Design Paints Custom Mic Set for Christina Aguilera Using Transtar

On 06.15.10, In Custom Work, By Aggressive Designs

Aggressive Designs

Seth Boldman, owner and designer at Aggressive Designs, recently painted a one-of-a-kind microphone and microphone stand for Christina Aguilera’s 2010 MTV Movie Award performance. Made from start to finish using Transtar products, the stand and mic were finished off with Transtar’s Glamour Clear (#9461) to give it the perfect shine on stage.

The candy apple red stand is composed of ‘lips’ stacked one on top of another with an old race car steering wheel as the base. The mic matches the stand’s candy apple red and reads ‘Xtina’ in a tattoo script. Though the mic set was made specifically for the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, Aguilera was so pleased with Boldman’s work that she is taking the mic set on tour.

Boldman took two days to finish the product and said that Aguilera was looking for the mic set to ‘match her red lips’. This is not the first time Boldman has created a unique design for Aguilera and does custom work for other celebrities including Lady Gaga and Tom Cruise.

Aggressive Designs

For more information about Seth Boldman and Aggressive Designs, visit www.aggressivedesigns.com or call 562.789.4900.

Click here to see pictures of the mic stand in use at the MTV Movie Awards from Radaronline.com.

Tagged with: • • • • •
 
1 Comments
Leave A Response

Customs by Lopez – ’69 Camaro

On 05.24.10, In Custom Work, By Customs by Lopez

Located in Compton, CA, Customs by Lopez has been specializing in the repair and refinishing of automotive car bodies for 10 years. Owned by Ricardo and Monica Lopez, Customs by Lopez also does notable work in the customization market. Lopez’s extraordinary custom work has been featured in multiple magazines as well as on TV. Though a modest shop, Customs by Lopez produces high-end, extremely impressive custom cars.

For the past seven months, Lopez and his team have been working on the restoration of a 1969 Camaro and plan to have the project finished in about three months.  For this unique renovation, Lopez has decided to use several Transtar products.  Lopez has been using Transtar products for the past 2 years and says he likes the precision of No Mix’s color matching and how easy Transtar products are to mix and spray. Most of all, Lopez points out, he uses Transtar because of the high quality of the products.

For the 1969 Camaro, Lopez is using Transtar’s Low VOC Speed Sealer (#6091), No Mix ® Basecoat, Urethane Grade Reducer (#6711) and Signature Series Glamour Clearcoat (#9461). Stay tuned to see how Lopez’s finished 1969 Camaro turns out!

To find out more about Ricardo Lopez’s work and the Customs by Lopez garage, click here.



Tagged with: • • • • • • • • • •
 
0 Comments
Leave A Response

No Mix Clinic in Connecticut

On 05.10.10, In Events, By Transtar Team

This past Wednesday, May 5, Transtar along with Levine Automotive hosted a No Mix Clinic in East Windsor, Connecticut. About 130 guests including body shop owners, technicians, painters, hobbyists, students and teachers attended to learn about Transtar’s No Mix and Low VOC product line.

Held at Lincoln Technical Institute, the clinic showcased Transtar’s full line of Low VOC products, focusing on the No Mix system.  With three full-sized spray booths available for demos, guests were able to peruse the garage and see No Mix in action. Transtar representatives and other volunteers displayed No Mix’s ability to easily color blend on demonstration hoods as well as a full Crown Victoria. Guests were also shown the superior metallic control, coverage, and hiding of No Mix.   Using a new factory fender, guests were shown how 7300 Series Euro Primer can be used as a non-sanding sealer.  The hoods were finished off with Glamour Clear (#9461) or 2.1 Low VOC Euro Clearcoat (#7311).

Transtar and Levine representatives were spread around to room to answer any and all questions.  Food and raffles were also part of the clinic and the winners walked away with prizes ranging from spray guns to cabinets filled with Transtar products.

Each guest will also receive a certificate in the mail verifying that they were at the clinic and participated in the clinic.  Overall, the event was a huge success and we’d like to send our thanks out to everyone who took part.

Tagged with: • • • • • • • •
 
1 Comments
Leave A Response

Aggressive Designs on Sons of Anarchy

On 03.29.10, In Custom Work, By Aggressive Designs

Aggressive Designs

Here at Aggressive Designs, we are currently finishing up some bikes for the show, “Sons Of Anarchy” on The Speed Channel, HD. We used Transtar’s No Mix Low VOC Factory Pack Empress Black Basecoat and Transtar’s No Mix Low VOC Basecoat in white with the Self-Etching Primer and topped it all off with Transtar’s Glamour Clear: the results…wicked.

Seth Boldman, owner of Aggressive Designs, has been a bike designer and the painter for Big Bear Choppers custom bikes for the past seven years.

Anybody who has ever seen a Big Bear Chopper will notice right away the quality of workmanship and the excellence in creativity.

Aggressive Designs

Now you can have your bike or helmet custom painted to be uniquely yours by a world renowned artist.  Join celebrities like Criss Angel who rely on Aggressive Designs to custom build a one of a kind machine.  Or if you just need a repair from some road rash, give us a call.

Visit www.aggressivedesigns.com for more information.

Aggressive Designs

Tagged with: • • • • • • • • •
 
3 Comments
Leave A Response
Go To Top »