Hi, I'm Big nick and thanks for crusing into my website. Well I guess for you to understand where I'm at today as an automotive artist I should give you some background of where I came from. I was born in Chicago and grew up on the Northwest side through the 60's and early 70's. Now Chicago in the 60's was a gearheads dream, and having an older brother that was into pinstriping and lettering as well as hot rods and motorcycles, planted a seed early on in my young impressionable brain. This was a time and a place where a 9-year old kid could stand on the street corner of Belmont and Harlem avenues and watch a parade of semi legal hot rods and muscle cars crusing and stop light racing between drive-ins. Bon Bon's I think was on Harlem Ave, as well as Henry's hamburger joint, Super Dawg on Milwaukee and Skip's Fiesta on North ave.. Where else could you watch a front engine dragster go up against a blown gasser on a city street?? You could see it all at Skip's!!!

This was the age of color, sparkling metalflake, mile deep kandy and pearl made made with real mother of pearl. Most guys ran some sinister name lettered and airbrushed on the rear quarter of their cars. Chrome and More Chrome, motors sticking out of highly polished hoods, the sound of a high lift cam and cherry bom glass packs, the smell of Sunco high test, and this was also the home of Mr. Norms Grand Spaulding dodge and Nicky Chevrolet!! Man the circus was in town and I was hooked on all the sounds, shine, and glitter!! The whole show got to me like some kind of narcotic... I Was Done!!

Now, fast forward the wayback machine to 2006. It's been 30 plus years now that I've been laying down the old 1-Shot lettering enamel, and in that time I guess I've worked on just about anything you can think of. From coffee cups to coffins, from pedal cars to quarter million dollar race cars and everything in between. I've done work for rock stars, movie stars, porn stars, professional athletes and everyday working guys like myself. My work has been seen in over 25 national and international publications through the years and I've even been on TV a time or two. Now I guess all that's kool, but it's just what happens when you take your craft seriously and try to do the next job a little better then the last. You have to challenge yourself to always improve.

Here at Big Nick's Garage we do a variety of custom paint work, from my freehand pinstriping heavily inspired by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and Von Dutch, to Airbrushing, Lettering, Gold and Silver Leaf, Flames and complete custom paint for cars and motorcycles. So, take some time and cruise through the site, and know that whoever you are, whatever the budget that if you choose us to lay some paint on your hot rod, chopper, or whatever you got,,, it will be done to the highest standards and to the very best of our ability... Guaranteed!!