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Larry Watson’s Personal Photo Collection

AN AMAZING PHOTO COLLECTION The Larry Watson Personal Photo collection contains a couple of thousand photos. Most of them are snapshots Larry took himself or asked some of his friends to ta...

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Larry Watson Fifties Corvettes

COLORFUL 50’S VETTES Larry Watson fifties Corvettes show how great these American Sports Cars look with some customizing and special paint. In a previous article we have showed some o...

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Larry Watson Painted Porsches

WATSON PAINTED PORSCHES Larry Watson painted a large number of Sports Cars and Foreign Exotics, including a number of Porsches THis article shows a selection of the Larry Wats...

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2 Watson Painted 59 Chevies.

WATSON PAINTED 59 CHEVIES Larry Watson painted quite a few 1959 Chevies in his career. Among those were these two nearly identical painted pearl pink hard-tops. Lets take a cl...

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Parking at Watsons part 2

PARKING AT WATSONS PART 2 Second and last part, for now, on Larry Watson painted cars parked in and around the Watson shop. This second article shows another nice selection of photos from L...

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Dave Kyte’s Watson Painted 1955 Mercury

WATSONS WILDEST CUSTOM PAINT JOB Larry Watson was known for his incredible paint jobs. From wild flames, lace or scallops, to super straight, single tone pearls, and candies. But I think th...

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Larry Watson 56 Chevys

WATSON 56 CHEVYS Larry Watson painted a lot of ’56 Chevy’s in his long career. Especially in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s these cars done as mild customs with a...

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Larry Watson Rainbows

LARRY WATSON RAINBOWS Larry Watson was a very skilled painter his technique to make long smooth movements show exceptionally well in his rainbow painted cars. Larry Watson had developed a t...

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BuSonic at Watsons

BUSONIC AT WATSONS In 1959 Roy Abendroth started planning his dream custom based on his 1955 Buick Century. In 1963 the car was finished, Roy named it the BuSonic. oy Abendrot...

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Watson painted 1960 Vette

LAVONNE BREMER VETTE LaVonne Bremer had her 1960 Corvette Restyled with the help of Duane Steck and Dick Williams and Larry Watson added a brilliant Lime Gold to create a stun...

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Larry Watson Flames part 2

THE FLAMING CONTINUES In this second part of the story on Larry Watson’s flames, we take a look at the flames Larry created in the later part of his career as custom car painter. In o...

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Watson painted Lime Gold Model A

LIME GOLD MODEL A Good friends, Larry Watson and Bill DeCarr worked together on many projects. David C. Martin’s model A Roadster is one of those projects. In 1959 Bill DeCarr takes o...

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Larry Watson Cadillacs Part one

LARRY WATSON CADILLACS Part one Cadillac’s always have had something special about them. And if you then ad a wonderful paint-job by the master of custom-paint, Larry Wa...

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Fred LeFevre El-Camino by Watson

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ’59 EL-CAMINO EVER Smooth, subtle customizing by Bill deCarr, and bright yellow pearl paint with candy green outlines by Larry Watson, make Fred LeFev...

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Jack van Tassell’s Pontiac

LIME GOLD SIMPLICITY Larry Watson’s part-time employee Jack van Tassell’s 1957 Pontiac is the perfect example of less is more. A style that became more and more important for La...

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Watson outlined ’54 Olds

WATSON OUTLINED PERFECTION This 1954 Oldsmobile is a prime example of Larry Watson’s color, design and styling skills. Larry always choose the right colors and graphica...

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Larry Watson’s ’59 Cadillac

LARRY’S ’59 LAND YACHT One of Larry Watson’s personal cars was this trend setting 1959 Cadillac Series 62 Special. Candy Burgundy with outlines and scallops in Pearl white...

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Larry Watson’s Personal Photo Collection

Larry Watson Fifties Corvettes

Larry Watson Painted Porsches

2 Watson Painted 59 Chevies.

Parking at Watsons part 2

Dave Kyte’s Watson Painted 1955 Mercury

Larry Watson 56 Chevys

Larry Watson Rainbows

BuSonic at Watsons

Watson painted 1960 Vette

Larry Watson Flames part 2

Watson painted Lime Gold Model A

Larry Watson Cadillacs Part one

Fred LeFevre El-Camino by Watson

Jack van Tassell’s Pontiac

Watson outlined ’54 Olds

Larry Watson’s ’59 Cadillac

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