It Was Not Only Von Dutch
Kenny Howard A.K.A. "Dutch", "Dutchie" or "Von Dutch" is considered by many in the cultural communities to be the Van Gogh of the 1960's wow generation
Interestingly enough in terms of marketing and development the Custom Car craze grew out of the work of one eccentric painter / mechanic named Kenny Howard., now better known as Von Dutch.
Born in 1929, Kenny was the person who transformed simple pin striping into an "art form" on everything from motorcycles to car bodies. Kenny grew up hanging around his father's sign shop. At that point in time there was no such thing as eclectic neon signs, nor decals or spray painting. Everything was hand painted with fine brushes, down to every letter and detail. After finishing high school in the early 1940's he began working in a motorcycle shop and that pinstripes were just great when it came to motorcycle body work and paint jobs. Pin-striping and Pinstripes on a bike were a wonderful ploy of back-lane auto and motorcycle shops to add originality and personality to a machine , and get more than one Manitoba MPIC written off vehicle back onto the road and onto the rolls of more than one auto finance firm.
Pin stripes and Pin-striping were virtually forgotten and unknown when it came to fashion , decoration and virtually unheard of and certainly unknown in the automobile and car painting fields , yet alone motor-bike ,motor-cycle collision repair businesses and avid hobbyist communities. Yet this young eccentric brought it to the forefront of the American if not worldwide cultural scene. Soon Kenny (nicknamed Dutch for his trait of stubbornness), was painting everything and anything with his unique touch including motorcycles and even T-shirts. Auto painting pioneer Max Duchon of the artistic sign paint shop Duchon Signs remembers an era before the day of modern mass produced peel off stick on decals - when even each and every taxi cab in Winnipeg had its taxi license number each hand painted with a tiny paint brush - each hand done to perfection . None of these modern , mass produced , identical to a tee , standardized decals were available on the sign shop marketplace yet . It is certainly different in the field today reports Mr. Duchon's protege - H Assor. It could be said that not only was each design entirely unique and original. On top of that they seemed to be both a mold of and a reflection of the then current owner's personality as well as psyche. On top of that the designs were downright "wild". The genre became more than popular.
Kenny furthered on pin striping nothing but motorcycles. By the 1950's he had painted virtually thousands of motorcycles. From then on he went onto pin-striping cars themselves. It became a trade mark in auto / bike customization paint shops whose work was often subcontracted from more mainstream and considered more reputable auto and motorcycle collision and retail upgrade shops. The small shops did the work , the larger more visible shops took the credit and pushed the upgrades as a most profitable venue. In most cases the work came down to his much time customers who wanted a Dutch creation could afford. The designs were entirely left to Mr. Howard.
It may of been the inspiration for the 60's TV show Partridge Family bus- David Cassidy, Susan Dew et al - the school-bus that became Ken's office ,factory and workbench. So goes the legend of Kenny Howard / Von Dutch.
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