We spotted Travis Barker’s immaculate ’51 Chevy truck at the Petersen Automotive Museum just before the museum closed for renovations. Barker, the tattooed  drummer for the rock band Blink-182, happens to be a real car enthusiast. While Barker’s personal life appears to be a roller coaster with the off-again, on-again, off-again, relationship with ex-wife Shanna Moakler and a near death plane crash at the Van Nuys airport, his taste in cars is stable.

One of the cleanest ’51 Chevy trucks that we have ever seen.

When it came to the vintage truck, Barker has explained in several interviews that he had been in the market for an old school truck for a long time. He didn’t want one that had been “molested” by other builders. After searching for what seemed like forever, Barker found a clean ’51 Chevy truck that represented a clean slate from which he could begin working from.

He had the red truck bagged so that it could sit low to the ground and put some new wheels with white-wall tires on. There’s plenty of chrome on the small-block that sits in the engine bay.

From the Petersen Automotive Museum display.

Barker’s love of cars is a trait that he inherited from his father. “My pops loved cars, and between looking at car magazines and the old rusted Cadillac we had in the backyard, it was something that naturally caught my attention.”

In addition to the red truck, Barker has another Chevy in his stable. A ’63 Chevy Impala that he bought from a good friend. The Imp came “juiced up” with hydraulics and sat on Daytons. “I put some Supremes on it and switched out the hydros to air bags to make it sit low. I love that car. It’s seriously up there as one of my all-time favorites.”

Without a doubt, Travis Barker is a GM man with one of his daily drivers being a 2012 GMC Sierra Denali truck. Despite the number of GM vehicles in his garage, we’d have to side with the ’51 truck and pull it out of the museum and run it around town everyday.

-Ahhhhh. To each his own.