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Builder, Painter; Wayne Nowicki
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Dragon 1968 Rally Sport Camero |
After serving a 4 year stint in the navy as a
operations specialist in 1972 I lied about my qualifications
to get a job as a painter at bendix out side of
Baltimore. I squeezed the trigger there for 7 hours a day for 30 years
shooting every kind of paint material imaginable. I was always
consulting with the paint industry reps on how there paints performed.
In my off hours
I started the shop BRO CUSTOMS based near the BWI airport
where I built and painted hot rods, show cars and custom
motorcycles. Showing many of them threw out the mid
Atlantic area threw the 80’s and early 90’s including a
record 3 peoples choice awards in a row at the Philadelphia
car & bike show and 4 at the Baltimore car show. My father was a master wood
worker and built prize wining displays for our show cars and
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Decision time, Bro Customs 1984 - Wayne in baseball cap left.
Cuz I Can Custom build 2004
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The Artist;
Jeff Hall's art career spans decades. As a kid I started
airbrushing in the mid 70s using a truck tire inner tube for air.
I honed my skills airbrushing T-shirts At night, after working all day
as a machinist in the industrial shops out side of Detroit. I then moved on to motorcycles
& cars, I bought a 1970 AMC Javilin
from a returning Vietnam vet and built my first show car. I used every
paint trick in the book and even invented some. That car was my rolling
portfolio. I moved to Baltimore in 1979 where I first drove it up to
Flips Customs. His brother had just built a show bike with an Arlen Ness
frame and needed some artwork, (timing is everything.) At about the same
time I also started painting for Bro Customs, I painted on the curved
metal of motorcycles and hot rods there for 15 years, working my way
threw art college. These busy hands couldn’t do enough, so while In
college I took a lot of figure sculpture classes.
Sculpting was
something that I had to express for a while. In a lot of ways
motorcycles are the ultimate sculpture they
incorporate metal work, engineering and painting. I take a
great deal of pride in my part of your rolling sculpture, the artwork. After browsing through
these pages, I
think you'll see what I mean. I have always tried to give the customer
more than they were expecting so that you get
the best possible paint job for your hard earned dollars.
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1981 Honda chopper 52 degrees rake
built 1996
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Hood
scoop 1979
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