Nice job! I guess you have now increased airflow to your radiator. If you ever go for a ride in the country watchout for those grasshoppers that like to plaster the front end of vehicles.

 

Do you mean like this? Outsmarted by another teenager.

 

Nah, one of the last two pics - the ones where it's finished in dark metalflake green paint.....kids.......

 

Ferg

Very very nice! I like the LED's....keep up the good work


Bill

 

This one 4....


photographically, himmelberg

 

Only in Canada eh ?

Nice work Fergy, keep up the good work !

Tom

 

Fergie,

Are those LEDs individually addressable? Can you do ... like ... scrolling text messages on them? "Get outa my way" would be way cool on LEDs in your grill!!! You can use Kai's expertise to reverse the text so it shows up correctly in somebody's rear view mirror. Now THAT'S a dark side addition I would seriously consider putting on Earl. Prolly need to keep a big handgun in the cab to avoid getting killed by somebody I would pi$$ off, though.

 

That is FANTASTIC! I love custom grilles! Great job.

 

Very nice RMF, and that from a lightsider ! I'll bet you'll get lots of questions as to where the center section came from. Like others I could not picture exactly what center section you had in mind. I was thinking something like a studebaker. Very trick or as the kids say now "Man, that's sick !"

Bubba

 

Add the V8 emblem. Nice job!

 

Hi. Ferg. The grill looks great, a big imporvment over that thing Ford had in there for 54. Ozzie

 

The grille looks awsome!! Nice work thinking outside the catalog.

 

RMF, very nice work. I like the look. Are you planning on modifying any other areas of the truck or grille only??

Perhaps a Frenched Canadian antenna ??? Serioulsy though, I'm thinking you must have something else in mind???

Kevin

 

Nice work! Turned out really well.



Kevin Kessler
1953 Ford F-100

 

Kecky,

Thanks.

Frenched Cdn antenna !? I am 30 miles from Quebec and live surrounded by by government preference for French Cdns. There won't be frenched anything on this truck...But you were just baiting me, weren't you. You knew the reaction you'd get from an Ottawa Valley boy....

Future plans?

About a year of mechanical work hopefully while the cab is being done professionally.

After that;

Hoping to use front and rear bumpers from a mid 60s American "sports car" with a rolled rear pan.

Undecided on tail lights - possibilities are;

59 Caddy sunk into the rear fenders
flush mount LEDs/non-LEDs in the rear pan
?????

Also toying with the idea of a glass flip front end. I've always wanted to do one but I don't have a lot of patience when things don't go well and it sounds like a glass one piece front end needs LOTS of patience.

Plan to use flush, painted door handles like off a recent Ch*v Malibu or Ford Escort or Mazda Miata. Again, gotta compliment the lines of the truck...can't disturb Euphemia's karma...

Also mulling around cutting out the gauge pod in the dash and smoothing it out and then doing something with maybe individual gauge pods for each of them.....

Mainly just subtle stuff.

Absolute minimum of Chrome and no flashy graphics. Maybe burgundy or dark & light green or silver & grey -definitely not red/orange/yellow or purple. Too many done in those colours already. I can appreciate them but their not for my my truck....What can i say - I'm old and conservative (now anyway. The 60s and 70s were when I howled)....

Later,

(BTW - minus 42 celcius last night....Lard Tunderin Jaysus)