Customizing, sin or salvation?
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Customizing, sin or salvation?
Flashback. Jersey. June of our sophomore year. School is out at last and the July issue of Hot Rod (everybody's automotive magazine) is sticking out of the mailbox. With the callowness of youth I pass over page 51. Trucks are what plumbers drive in Jersey in the early '60's... not bad but not cool. It looks nice... has that great scooped out opening in the front... a customizers dream. I'm just not into trucks.
Fire forward some 40 odd years. Summer in the desert. There is a truck for every man, woman, and child in the free world... and one sits in my driveway. It has that great scooped out opening... and Niolon pinpoints one of its design flaws. That would be the bugeyed look for you new listeners.
Let me deposit the pic from Hot Rod. I'll go work on photoshoping my front end and listen to what you guys have to say. himmelberg
Fire forward some 40 odd years. Summer in the desert. There is a truck for every man, woman, and child in the free world... and one sits in my driveway. It has that great scooped out opening... and Niolon pinpoints one of its design flaws. That would be the bugeyed look for you new listeners.
Let me deposit the pic from Hot Rod. I'll go work on photoshoping my front end and listen to what you guys have to say. himmelberg
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Sorry, George.
Now this is just a first pass. Trying to make those bugeyes recede... pulled the buckets back a bit. Float some simple bars. Add nerf bars?
Somebody wake the Canadians up. himmelberg
Now this is just a first pass. Trying to make those bugeyes recede... pulled the buckets back a bit. Float some simple bars. Add nerf bars?
Somebody wake the Canadians up. himmelberg
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Yuck!
I like customs but not that treatment.
Try this link, after wading thru a ton of Brand C there are a few nice effies including a decent slanted quad approach.
I sort of like the one with the horizontal quads and a simple floating grille bar.
http://www.carnut.com/photo/truck/_trkm1.html
I like customs but not that treatment.
Try this link, after wading thru a ton of Brand C there are a few nice effies including a decent slanted quad approach.
I sort of like the one with the horizontal quads and a simple floating grille bar.
http://www.carnut.com/photo/truck/_trkm1.html
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I saw one of those at the goodguy's show I went to last weekend. It used the stock opening with chyrsler(?) dual headlamp buckets. It wasn't finished but was cool non-the-less. Barris built a 54' F-100 called the Wildcat Dream truck. It burned in the 58' shop fire he had but it was very cool. There's also a blue 56 f-100 in cali done up like it. I say salvation to some. Is this the next mod for himmie? -4speed
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himm....
step away from the truck.... go in the house and take your meds... promise to never ever stop your meds again.
maybe take a couple extra, being as how we got the full moon effects....
Robert
OBTW please dont harm the good looking truck
step away from the truck.... go in the house and take your meds... promise to never ever stop your meds again.
maybe take a couple extra, being as how we got the full moon effects....
Robert
OBTW please dont harm the good looking truck
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While i appreciate the effort that would go into a custom truck like that, it is an old design that few would accept. Cars/trucks etc are subject to fads or trends and this is one trend that is long gone. Several years ago it was the "pro-street" look, now the lowered look, or a "ricer car" etc.... I live in a small town in northern Saskatchewan and am maybe the farthest from any trend setting centers so i'm no expert, but there's nothing that says a person can't start a new (old) trend anytime.
But I'm thinkin' the 60s custom look will be a long time in being the style again.
But I'm thinkin' the 60s custom look will be a long time in being the style again.
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Carl... is this the one? I like it.
Daryl, Daryl... calm down. Surely, a few chrome dresser drawer ***** doesn't merit such venom. I'm not in love with that look... or even some of Barris' endlit plex rods. This scalloped white one needs harsh critique.
mr4... I haven't the skills or the mazuma to put a new face on my truck, I'm a schoolteacher. This is something of an exercise in aesthetics... a diversion of mine. I like to see a little individuality in a guy's ride. Even the ugly have their place in my esteem. Like layn, I appreciate the shot at and missed as much as the hit at and hit. Here's one...
Relax, Robert. It's hot here in the desert. Just a little something to do til the sheetmetal cools down enough to lean into those 3 deuces we're mounting.
Best. Himmelberg
Daryl, Daryl... calm down. Surely, a few chrome dresser drawer ***** doesn't merit such venom. I'm not in love with that look... or even some of Barris' endlit plex rods. This scalloped white one needs harsh critique.
mr4... I haven't the skills or the mazuma to put a new face on my truck, I'm a schoolteacher. This is something of an exercise in aesthetics... a diversion of mine. I like to see a little individuality in a guy's ride. Even the ugly have their place in my esteem. Like layn, I appreciate the shot at and missed as much as the hit at and hit. Here's one...
Relax, Robert. It's hot here in the desert. Just a little something to do til the sheetmetal cools down enough to lean into those 3 deuces we're mounting.
Best. Himmelberg
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IMBBO (in my bold brash opinion) as long as you don't do somthing that can't be undone changing things to suit you is OK. These ole Fords are getting hard to come by and I really dislike seeing good metal destroyed.
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Himmelberg,
Never thought I'd see the day, but I have to agree with Daryl "Butch 302" Stone -
"Customizing, sin or salvation???
I vote sin. that's the ugliest f*#%'g truck I've ever seen!
Daryl (Owner of Lola the wonder truck) Stone"
I love frenched head & tail lights, frenched antenas, shaved doors, and especially chopped tops and such but I was never a fan of the George Barris style of radical customs.
But to each his own.
This stuff isn't coming back into fashion is it? (I ask becuase the Ottawa Valley is about 3 yrs behind the U.S.A., so I just want to be warned).
Later,
Never thought I'd see the day, but I have to agree with Daryl "Butch 302" Stone -
"Customizing, sin or salvation???
I vote sin. that's the ugliest f*#%'g truck I've ever seen!
Daryl (Owner of Lola the wonder truck) Stone"
I love frenched head & tail lights, frenched antenas, shaved doors, and especially chopped tops and such but I was never a fan of the George Barris style of radical customs.
But to each his own.
This stuff isn't coming back into fashion is it? (I ask becuase the Ottawa Valley is about 3 yrs behind the U.S.A., so I just want to be warned).
Later,
