Browsing Archive: March, 2010

Jevries at the 2010 Tokyo Lowrider kick off show

Posted by Jevries on Thursday, March 18, 2010,

Tomorrow I fly out to Japan to be present at the Tokyo Lowrider kick off show in Tokyo on Sunday 21st of March. Hope to meet you there!
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The 1/10 scale '96 Cadillac Fleetwood Big Body

Posted by Jevries on Wednesday, March 17, 2010,

picture by El Volo

I'm obsessed with the '96 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham for many years now and that's the reason why I wanted to create a large scale model of it. 5 years ago I started to build one but I did not prepare myself enough to pull it of.

A year ago I gave it another shot collecting hundreds of pictures from the internet and with help of my homie Mario Montano from Imperials C.C. in Phoenix who did all the measuring using his own Cadillac Fleetwood.

I started out using two RC 1/1...
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Volo: The Cars, The Culture, & The Camera - Documentary Part 1!

Posted by Jevries on Saturday, March 13, 2010,

Enjoy!

Volo: The Cars, The Culture, & The Camera Documentary Trailer

Posted by Jevries on Thursday, March 11, 2010,

Besides the fact that Dustin Volo is a really cool guy he also creates stunning work as a photographer of lowrider cars, the culture and lifestyle. His work is featured in many lowrider magazines and now it's time for his own documentary. Watching the trailer I can't wait to see the first part because it looks really good and very well made by the people of DRG films.
The photo above to me is one of the most beautiful pictures I ever seen of lowrider in an urban enviroment. It captures the sp...
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Creating the 1/12 Jevries wire wheels

Posted by Jevries on Monday, March 1, 2010,

I own a nice collection of 1/12 RC cars that I'm going to transform into masterpiece model lowriders.
The thing that sets a lowrider apart from many other custom cars, besides the hydraulics, are the ofcourse the wire wheels like Dayton and Zenith.
Since there are no aftermarket 1/12 scale wire wheels I decided to create my own set of rims and wires. In the early days I used a PVC pipe fitting as rim, cut the wires from a 1/10 Pegasus wire wheel and used sticky vinyl to give em a chrome or g...
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