Celebrities as supporting actors
10/12/2023
Surf music and the car scene in Southern California went hand in hand in the early sixties. Accordingly, the cover pictures of the albums often featured racy four-wheelers. But not only Sting Rays, Cobras and Jaguars were honored, but also products from local customizers.
On the 1963 sampler "Hot Rod Rally", for example, the famous Dick Flint roadster is hidden in a conglomerate of T-Buckets and High Boys. The cover of the confusingly similarly named album "Hot Rod Alley" by Jerry Kole and The Strokers shows "Ala Kart", an award-winning conversion by George Barris based on a 1929 Ford.
In 1964, the Astronauts posed for the cover photo of their album "Competition Coupe" with two '32 Ford roadsters that are still known throughout the USA: the elegant, turquoise-green creation by Ian Cusey and the wild, flame-armed racer by Tom McMullen. The indy rock band "Wild Carnation" had to resort to simpler props in 2006. Their album "Superbus" features just two old Matchbox cars.
