The Wraith

How many of us have seen way cool The Wraith? Here in Finland it was titled Kosto Rajan Takaa (which translates loosely Revenge From Beyond). Actually quite cool title. It starred the young Charlie Sheen and Sherilynn Fenn plus couple more known actors. Also the Dodge M4S Turbo Interceptor rawks big time!
I was lucky enough to get my hands on an original VHS-copy of  The Wraith (with the orig. artwork) before it came out as DVD. I took the logo from there and vectorized it for this shirt. It wasn't easy, lemme tell ya!

This was and is one of the movies I just had to have a shirt of. I love the movie and now I have some kind of a Wraith-shirt. Gotta go with this (for now). I haven't, actually, seen any official 80's Wraith-shirts. Do they exist, anyone?

Automan

Automan never aired in Finland, as far as I know. My dad used to watch the Sweden's channels (few of which were visible in our town - lucky me), since his mother language was Swedish. He informed me of the new Knight Rider-like series that was to be on soon. I was excited like a bunny in the meadows.
I was immediately hooked, man! I didn't know about the Tron-comparisons at the time. I knew of Tron only through Aku Ankka's (Finland's Donald Duck comic) editorial office's info corner. When the Tron came out, there was an article about it. It looked cool to the max, but I didn't see it until years and years after.

Back to the Automan. It was so cool it almost removed Knight Rider from power. But... Nah! The creator of both series is the one and only Glen A. Larson. The man!

Same actually happened when we saw James Bond's white Lotus Esprit in The Spy Who Loved Me for the first time. I think my friends were little compromised, but I stayed true to K.I.T.T.
My quest is to buy a K.I.T.T. replica some day. What season the dash will be, that's anybody's guess. I love them all.

But... Automan's Lamborgini is magic-like machinery. Gotta love it! Oh, and this shirt is self made at the printing company. Thank youuu!

Star Trek - Creation Salutes

I spotted (or is it spocked?) this one when I was investigating the eBay's shirt "stock", just like a shirt-Sherlock.
I very much liked the vintage look, but had no idea what the design was made for. Was it a promo for some game? Or maybe a Trek-Con? And the more important, Am I a squirrel? Eh eh..
Anyway, my band Desyre has a song called "The Creation" and I thought it'd be cool to have a similar shirt. Actually I wore this particular piece of clothing when I went to the studio to sing "The Creation" and two other nice pieces.
The printing is kind of mediocre, but that's just groovy, baby. Unfortunately I have no idea when this was made. I've seen it on eBay couple of times after I bought this.

Empire Strikes Back -pyjama (1980)

"Original Empire shirt" was what I read when I spot this one on eBay. What it turned out to be was a children's pyjama. Funny! The description didn't lie, though. I was just too excited to read it properly.
It's so tight it reveals my belly when I put it on and I can barely move my arms. My wife has that certain look in her eyes when I wear this. But it's so so cool, vintage to the max, baby!
Who can resist a shirt with cartoonish drawings of Darth and Boba?! Not me! Boba Fett is my favorite, anyway! And Vader too, of course.

May the Force be with You!

Battlestar Galactica (1978)

Galactica was probably my first touch with the sci-fi. Finland's MTV2 started to show it in the early 1982. I was just a little boy and super-excited about the space and all the explotions. In the kindergarten it was the constant topic among boys. Cylons were so cool. We were drawing the Vipers and laser guns all the time, as well as the Battlestar Galactica itself (we also built Lego-ships - oh, the memories). A guy across the street knew how to draw a Viper in 3D. He had drawn it on his white cap. He was our hero.

When I discovered this shirt, I had to buy it. It turned out to be smaller than a regular S. But it's ok. I can wear it few hours at a time. Ehh ehh..

That Glen A. Larson is one heckuva guy to create these shows of his.