Post #301351 by hewey on Mon, Apr 23, 2007 9:02 PM

Go to a sticker/sign shop and get some white hibiscus stickers made up (go for a metalflake finish like those old Schwinn bike seats). Apply them to the maroon painted sections. Thats what this guy did:

This will give you a nice pannelled effect like an old 50s shirt.

Fill the back of the cream front/visor section (the bit you face when riding) with appropriate vintage surf and tiki stickers, reminiscent of a woody with stickers in the side windows. Keep the front of the cream section without surft stickers as it will look too 'busy'

Get the seat retrimmed. Maybe a nice cream colour so it ties in with the body. Get the seat engraved with a cool logo or something, maybe a Shag style tiki with a scooter (colour coordinated of course).

You're a wood guy, so make the footwell in wood.

They're all fairly nice budget options to start with. Should funds allow get a chrome exhaust and wheels, and get some whitewall tyres.

Carve up some shrunken heads and mold em in resin. hang em off the handlebar ends like streamers.

Cruise!

Oh yeh, get someone like Little Lost Tiki to paint your helmet!

The coolest tiki art is not bought on ebay, it comes personally from my fellow artists on TC

[ Edited by: hewey 2007-04-23 21:06 ]