In the early days of hot rodding, many fashions and styles developed.
"Kustom Kulture" is an Americanneologism used to describe the artworks, cars, hairstyles and fashions, of those who drove and built custome cars and lowriders in the U.S.A from the 1950s through today. Over time, each of these distinct styles of customizing have blended and reshaped our everyday life. Artists such as Von dutch , custom car builders such as Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and Dean Jeffries,
hot rod customizers, along with numerous tattoo artists, automobile painters, and movie and television helped to form what is known as Kustom Kulture. Kustom Kulture is usually identified with the greasers of the 1950s, the dragway racers and lowriders . Other subcultures that have had an influence on Kustom Kulture are the mods and rockers of the 1960s, rockabilly and psychobilly. Each separate culture has added their own customizations to the cars, their own fashions, influenced the music, and added their own ideas of what is cool, of what is acceptable, and what is not. Everything from wild pinstriped paintjobs, to choptop Mercurys, to custom harley and triumph motorcycles, to metalflake and black along with music, cartoons, and monster movies have had an impact on what defines anyone and anything who is part of this automobile subculture