![]() Since the third issue, Dave has followed-and in some aspects led-the industry by capturing the essence of a changing lifestyle on the center- spreads of Easyriders. Then in 1971, Dave discovered a new magazine with a twist-Easyriders! It was the first full-fledged, lifestyle-related bike rag. ![]() He also studied at the Kansas City Art Institute. By 1967, David developed into a full-fledged architectural renderer, learning careful detail, exacting dimension, and mechanical perspective. The precise craft that Dave has incorporated into his fanciful art for the last 30 years. In 1965, David went to work in the mailroom at Scheffer Studios in Kansas city, where he met an architectural renderer, Dave Poole, who taught him Dave painted several posters for Big Daddy Roth. In addition, Tiny took a Polaroid of his first painting and sent it to the eccentric Ed "Big Daddy” Roth, the California custom car creator and publisher of the first chopper magazine. In addition, a Sioux City, Iowa, club member named Tiny noticed Dave and took him under his wing. He had the only custom-bike entry in the show, so for his creative efforts the judges initiated a new class and trophy specifically for Dave. That car show launched Dave’s artistic/biker career. Riding his customized Harley with his first painting tucked under his arm, he entered the 1963 Kansas City Custom Car Show. ![]() At the same time he created his first artistic creation, “Hollywood Run.” It represented the wild, unleashed, Hollywood outlaw lifestyle. He returned to Kansas City and bought his first new bike, a 1948 Panhead, for $350. They projected freedom, power and mobility with every chromed curve. While cruising the seaside community he stumbled across Bay Area Muffler, an area custom car house, and there he discovered completely insane chopped Harleys. The wild lure of the West Coast drew him and buddy Al Burnett into the tuck and-roll interior of a candy-apple red and pearl-white, customized 1947 Chevy coupe, and they peeled rubber to Santa Monica, California. His crude sketches opened the door for David’s first job, pinstriping cars for Doug Thompson and Ray Hetrick’s custom car shop in Kansas City. In 1957 he first drew pencil sketches of hot rods while feigning attention in high school. The younger Mann was born in Kansas City, Missouri. But it maintains the original three inch open primary belt drive, the pointed sissybar over the traditional English ribbed fender, the jockey/ratchet shift and the illegal highbars.ĭavid aboard his rigid Pan/Shovel, Kansas City, 1969.ĭavid’s dad was a lifelong illustrator and an active member of the Society of Scribes in London. It’s been stretched, mounted in a stock frame, touched by the legend, Arlen Ness, and most recently returned to its highbar roots. He’s had the same bright red rigid framed Shovel/Pan for 25 years. He’s been here since the beginning and continues to be the epitome of the biker artist, our Norman Rockwell, and a lifelong rider himself. A LIFETIME OF RIDING AND PORTRAYING DAVID MANN'S LIFESTYLE ON CANVASīilly Tinney captured Dave and Jacquie jammin'
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