About Us
ABOUT THE KUSTOM KULTURE COLLECTIVE
Kustom Kulture is a website created for everyone who loves American classic cars, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, Tattoos, Custom Motorcycles, Lowbrow art and pinstriping and whoever that live and love a Rock N Roll lifestyle! We offer a collective of the coolest brands and styles inspired by the Hot Rod, Tattoo, Music and Motorcycle industry. We are stocking loads of brands from all over the world, including some of the coolest brands from here in the UK. As we grow we will make this the one stop shop to go to for all your needs within the custom culture industry.
About Our Inspiration and passion :
Kustom Kulture is a neologism used to describe the artworks, vehicles, hairstyles, and fashions of those who drove and built custom cars and motorcycles in the United States of America from the 1950s through today. It was born out of the hot rod culture of Southern California of the 1960s.
In the early days of hot rodding, many fashions and styles developed. Artists such as Von Dutch (Kenny Howard), Robert Williams, and custom car builder Ed "Big Daddy" Roth; along with Lyle Fisk, Dean Jeffries and hot rod and lowrider customizers such as the Barris Brothers (George Barris, who was said to be so custom he even customized the word custom to Kustom) along with numerous tattoo artists, automobile painters, and movies and television shows such as American Graffiti and The Munsters (The Munster Koach, DRAG-U-LA) have all helped to form what is known as Custom Culture.
Custom Culture is usually identified with the greasers of the 1950s, the drag racers of the 1960s, and the lowriders of the 1970s. Other subcultures that have had an influence on Custom Culture are the Skinheads, mods and rockers of the 1960s. Each separate culture has added their own customizations to the cars, their own fashions, influenced the music, and added their own ideas of what is cool, what is acceptable, and what is not. Everything from wild pinstriped paintjobs, to choptop Mercurys, to custom Harley-Davidson and Triumph motorcycles, to metal-flake and black primer paint jobs, along with music, cartoons, and monster movies have influenced what defines anyone and anything who is part of this automobile subculture