Data and Facts:
Car: Chevrolet
Model: Camaro RCS
Engine: 305 PS
Wheels: 9,5x20" DOTZ Revvo dark
Tyres: 275/35 R20
Modifications: Painted Hood, Aerokit
DOTZ Teamrider Knud Tiroch: designer gene meets full-throttle fan
It was more than 35 years when an article in a magazine aroused young Knud’s curiosity. A curiosity for the creative possibilities of air guns. To learn the art of airbrushing from the bottom up, he went to the U.S. and, after having visited the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, he studied in the legendary custom-paint studios in Chicago. Knud returned with his own G-Rave technique which gives special emphasis to the dynamics of the object to be created. These dynamics have eventually connected Knud with DOTZ because speed and technology are also qualities that characterise DOTZ on the tuning market. DOTZ and Knud were bound to come together, and Knud Tiroch became the very first DOTZ Teamrider. The kick-start project for the cooperation between the designer with the full-throttle attitude and the full-throttle company with the designer gene had been the now legendary 1950 Chevy Bel Air which not only featured comprehensively in the first DOTZ magazine as the “667 – the Neighbour of the Beast”, on a DOTZ Las Vegas dark, but also bagged the George Barris award for the Hotrod Hangar as the best modification in 2011.
But back to Chicago where Knud caught a virus that hasn’t loosened its grip until today: the muscle car virus. A dragster race kicked it all off. When Knud came back he got himself a true rarity: a 1973 Plymouth Roadrunner. The myth-ridden car has gone off production in 1980 and is a rare sight in the U.S. and even more so in Baden close to Vienna. In the past few years, dozens of muscle cars, hot rods and other Americans went through his tuning and design garage. But Knud has also beautified “exotic birds” – thanks to the diversity of DOTZ, almost always with the tuning company as rim supplier. Such as, for example, the Nissan Silvia S15 with the project name “Last Samurai” which not only received some highly elaborate design work but also a DOTZ Fast Seven. Knud, of course, also gave the finishing touches to the DOTZ BMW E92 DD1 which enhanced numerous shows as the “King of Sideways” and worked a couple of drift tracks in Europe, with Knud’s son Dominic behind the wheel.
The cooperation between Knud and DOTZ has resulted in a few eyecatchers, as is the case with his most recent everyday car, a Chevy Camaro featuring a DOTZ Revvo dark. Knud hopes that the tuning company will continue to be in cahoots with him and is convinced that the designs from the house of DOTZ will provide future tuning generations plenty of gearhead fun.