BATES CUSTOM LEATHERS

Rudolph changed the name to Bates Industries, Inc. and moved to Long Beach, California. It was a good era for the company; Rudolph was building the "Bates kingdom" by the late 1960s.

Bates' great achievement in the 1960s was to turn the all-black raceway gear of the time to bright color. Motorcycle champions like Mert Lawwill, Gene Romero, and Kenny Roberts wore Bates' colorful racing suits in the 1960s through the 80s. Nothing other than Bates suited sunny days in California. Moreover, Bates developed a high-performance racing suit to match rapidly evolving motorcycle performance beyond the mid-1970s.

Bates Leathers has since changed hands several times and is now in the ownership of dynamic sister duo Dawn and Dana.

...text quoted from the Bates Leathers website.

Dawn Grindle, the Co-Owner of Bates Leathers contacted FILMJACKETS.COM and told us that Bates "has an authentic T2 jacket from the movie in my showroom that was given back to us after T2 was done filming. We keep it on a mannequin for walk-in customers to see. It's pretty cool. We also go Arnold's movie posters from 1 and 2 signed and hanging in the showroom."

Bates Leathers also brought the jackets for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines to life from a drawing, but they ultimately were not used in the movie.