Cobwebbing was big as was using a rainbow of colors in many panels outlined by pinstriping in never ending lines. Vans were probably the biggest receiver of lace paint among other techniques maybe followed by drag cars. Jairus is pretty accurate on the time frame. I had done a bunch of buddies' cars paint jobs and did do a couple of lace jobs. My own ride was a 66 Chevelle with a transplanted 427 in it. In 1970 I was in my senior year of high school and heavy into muscle cars of the day. That is all I did so don't pull out a 1800's carriage that was painted in lace and say.
70S STYLE CAR PAINNT JOB PRO
Pro Street, Monochromatic paint, Retro Rods, Wide White wall tires, Gow-jobs, fade paint are all trends that have a peak that is identifiable with a time period. 1968 to 1972 was the hight of that boom and it trickled off after.Īll trends have a bell curve and trends that come on hot generally drop off just as quickly. but it really did not become mainstream in automotive custom painting until the 60's boom. The action was indeed way quicker than would have the artist tried to do so with a brush. So the use of lace as decoration and clothing has been with us for many hundreds of years! I am sure that some enterprising artist figured out that shooting color through the patterns left a reverse pattern as soon as the airbrush was invented. Poor women were forced to eek out a living making lace for wealthy land owners back then to use as fanny wipes. Lace has been with us since the dark ages.
I thought lace painting started in the '50s and had faded out by the '70s.ĭo you know if anyone makes scale lace stencils?
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