The Eastman story

[Officer Dibley]

Most folk may know bits of the ELC story but i came across this interview with Gary Eastman and it gave me more flesh to the bones of a story i thought i knew all about.
I hope others enjoy reading this.

https://www.builtmag.co.uk/gear-articles//eastman-leather-clothing

Dave

 

[Steve27752]

A good article, but who is Virgil Hintz?

 

[B-Man2]

Virgil Hintz?
Isn’t he a long lost cousin on his mother’s side to Virgil Hilts?

 

[Persimmon]

Interesting article.
This was flagged up a few years back.
Built is a U.K. motorcycle magazine featuring the more retro bikes with lots of hipster chap’s with beards.
I have the magazine and I and one of those chaps with the bike as well.

 

[Smithy]

Virgil Hintz?
Isn’t he a long lost cousin on his mother’s side to Virgil Hilts?

Lazy journalism. A quick squiz through the article shows Buzz Rickson is spelt Rixon as well. Obviously the typewriter-wallah can't have been too au fait with what he was writing about.

 

[Officer Dibley]

Interesting article.
This was flagged up a few years back.
Built is a U.K. motorcycle magazine featuring the more retro bikes with lots of hipster chap’s with beards.
I have the magazine and I and one of those chaps with the bike as well.

Truedat. Many things have been done to death on VLJ in the past: collars, tunnelling, "the look" etc, etc but won't stop us still doing them further to death Quicker to post this anew than waste my life looking everywhere to see if it was posted in 2008 or whenever.
I hadn't seen this before and thought some others might not and would enjoy the background. Some seem to have.
As for the typo's, who here hasn't had fat fingers ? And an editor will not be necessarily au fait with nouns. The grammar as spot-on ! To be honest, most of the target audience will not care a jot about the mis-spellings. They just need to know Eastman is where they need to go to get one of those cool jackets. And we Brits are as patriotic and keen to "home-buy" as any Yank is to buy GW So why buy from "Fuzz Rockson" ?

 

[Persimmon]

Gary Eastman magazine article - July 2016 was the forum thread.

 

[MikeyB-17]

I first heard of Gary in the mid-90’s through a mate who was a pilot. He had met Gary and already had one of his A-2’s, which I believe he bought when Gary was visiting airfields selling jackets. Up until then I only had mall jackets, but after that I ordered a catalogue and started saving for an Eastman A-2. I finally got one in 1997. Soon after that I bought a computer, discovered jacket forums, and it was all downhill from there.

 

[Carl]

Typo's !!??? When you got fingers like mine that ressemble pigs teats then thats a legitimate excuse !!

 

[Marv]

Brad Pitt's character in Fury didn't wear an A1 or a Hartmann, as we all know, that was Scott Eastman's character Sgt Miles so some discrepancies in the article there.

 

[Officer Dibley]

I think we can say those errors are not due to Gary nor do - or at least should....- that detract from the Eastman story

People sweating the small shit by getting wrapped up in the details and missing the big picture on VLJ ..? Never !

 

[zoomer]

ELC leads the pack in my jacket arsenal. I own eleven, all bought secondhand (and several still fit me!!!)