The Karb Kings CC: April 2009

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Karb Kings do Carlisle

Shop Boy Frank's 50' Ford get it revenge for trying to sell it.

Lowered F-100

6 in Chop

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Pinstripping Party @ Mobtown Cycle: Sunday, May 3rd

CANCELLED!!!! SORRY YA'ALL... DUE TO WISHY-WASHY WEATHER, WE CAN'T CHANCE IT. KEEP POSTED FOR WHEN WE'LL DO THIS AGAIN.

I'm putting the word out to all who want their stuff pinstriped!!! Get your helmet, bike, car, cooler,... whatever striped this weekend at Mobtown Cycle. Kobbie will be pinstriping all day so if you can't make it Sunday.. drop your stuff off this week at the shop! See you at the shop!

Some back history on Kobbie...

The Original...KOBBIE'S KUSTOM PINSTRIPING: Home of REAL Free-Hand Pinstriping.This is the place to contact for original artwork by Kobbie,the original pinstriper from the Big-M Drive-In. He offers,TRADITIONAL-ANTIQUE-HOT ROD-AND KUSTOM FREE-HAND PINSTRIPING on CARRIAGES-COACHES-HOT RODS AND KUSTOMS. His work has been featured in Rod and Custom,Street Trucks,Car Kulture Deluxe,Eastwood,Super Chevy,Good-Guys Gazette,and Street Rodder...just to name a few! As a career hi-light his fine lines have appeared on the Today Show via the drumset belonging to noneother than Tico Torrez of Bon Jovi fame,and his lines has also graced the guitar belonging to the masterful and legendary guitarist Richie Sambora,crediting all this with a greatest dept of gratitude to the world reknown producer and sound engineer Obie Obrien. So...when you think pinstriping,think KOBBIE'S KUSTOM! "Layin' em fine,one line at a time"

For sale: Shopboy Franks '50 shoebox Ford

Stop by Mobtown Cycle and check out the car... if your interested, talk to Tim or Les

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Checking out the View

A shot of the strip from the Ghost Bar while out in Vegas for VLV 12

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Rockabilly Night @ McAvoy's... featuring The Garnet Hearts and The Switchblade Cats!

VIVA LAS VEGAS!!!

Saturday, April 11, 2009

rockabilly Night @ McAvoy's... featuring The Tonehounds!

If you missed it... you missed a great time! Thanks to the Tonehounds for giving us a great time!

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Rockabilly Night @ McAvoy's... featuring The Tonehounds!

Friday, April 3, 2009

Our Newest member! Rich "Dirty" Sanchez

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Viva Las Vegas

We will be there, will you?

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In 1957 a handful of guys from Baltimore, Maryland put together a car club called The Karb Kings. Back then a "car club" meant a group of friends that hung out and worked on their cars together. Those guys drove both kustom cars and "stockers". For the uninitiated, stockers are cars as they came from the show room floor with no special modifications. KUSTOMS on the other hand, were cars made from daydreams-- modified to look and perform how the owner thought the car should have been built to being with. Examples of popular customizations were things like lowering the stance, changing wheel/tire combinations, hopping-up engines, chopping the roof, frenching head lights, wild custom paints jobs, etc. The Karb Kings were informal, but there was one very important rule: the guy with the fastest car got to be President. In 1961 the fastest car belonged to Bill "Whitey" Sneed who was one of the founders of the original Karb Kings. Over the years, Karb Kings members drifted apart and the club slid into neutral until 1995. That's when Tim Sneed, Bill's son, decided to revive the former club and return to the old traditions. Today the cars are still traditional-style hot rods and kustoms and are still worked on and owned by club members. The Karb Kings promote the cars & the culture that goes with them. What that means is that Karb Kings members are out enjoying their cars and not just parking them at shows and finding the nearest lawn chair. They DO NOT trailer their cars, they DRIVE them! The Karb Kings don't care if you have a shiny paint job or no paint at all. They don't care if your car has 2 or 4 doors and certainly do not care if you are male or female as long as you own your car and it is younger than 1970. Of course, the ability to wrench is a big plus as they love it when members can help members. In general they all share the same passion for hot-rodding and having a good time doing what they love. Some of The Karb Kings have already been called "rowdy and loud". They can handle that, but they can not handle cry-babies, bitchin, trophy chasers or people who think they have the "best" car because they spent the most money on it. Any idiot can build a car with a MasterCard, but the soul of a car can only come from the blood, sweat, and tears that goes into building it yourself. Currently we have 3 Chapters and over 30 members.