Projects Big Bertha is Getting a Shave

My '64 Buick Electra 225 Sport Coupe is getting a shave. I have been debating the portholes for months. Portholes or no portholes?

 

Would it still be a Buick without the port holes?
KK

 

My thoughts, exactly. Maybe replace them with another year Buick porthole trim?

 

Or put 'rm ahead of the rear tire under the trim.

 

Yeah guys, that is one side of the argument. But I also like the clean lines sans the portholes.

I have already placed a bullet in the grill emblem hole and removed all Buick & Electra and 225 badges so the portholes are all that is left to give away it's make to the masses. Even with them there I get the "Love your Cadillac!" comments almost as often as I get the "What is it?" comments.

It is still on the BIG Buick X frame, with a Nailhead and clean Buick lines, so it's a Buick, regardless.

Thanks for the input. Still thinkin' thinkin'.

 

No port holes makes it look kind of like a Chevrolet..

 

It has been said that anyone can restore a old car , But it takes a real man to cut one up! Either way it a great car!! Larry

 

I guess, if you squint really, really hard. But the Buick is a bigger, smoother car.

 

I vote no port holes.
Cleans it up, and will keep some guessing.

 

I vote NO portholes as well ... very sleek-looking . I love it !

 

The current 5 - 4 vote pretty well mirrors my thinking. No closer to a decision...

 

Cut the studs off, glue a magnetic patch on and put 'em where you want, when you want.

 

Portholes please

 

Use 54 ventiports, 4 to a side.

 

Portholes should stay. The car looks pretty darn clean with them left in place unlike script and such.

 

You'll get so many more "nice Caddy!" comments without them. Move them, swap for other years if you want, but i vote No to removing them completely. -rick.

 

Keep the port holes. CHROME and more of it is what makes old cars bitchen'!

 

If it were me, I would shave the door handles and the rear quarter panel emblems, plus anything on the trunk lid, and I'd relocate the radio antenna to the rear quarter panels, maybe one on each side, heavily angled either way. But I'd keep the port holes and the emblem in the grille.

The portholes and grille emblem don't distract from the car but they do give it identity, unlike the door handles and front fender antenna, which just distract from the lines of the car, in my opinion. Stuff like that only gets put on the car for practicality, not for design.

 

Lose the port holes,
people will stop saying "nice Cadillac"
and start saying "nice Lincoln"

 

No port holes.

 

Round ports on a boxy car?

 

Reposition the portholes higher on the fender and use 6 or 8 per side instead of 4, that will make people wonder.

 

Portholes only 50s style ones.the oval type

 

Though I appreciate and see the merits of the older style portals, the re-positioning options, and adding portals, that is really not me. I want smooth, clean lines. I will not be adding any distractions to the body lines. I have seen too many cars that end up looking kinda clowny, meaning that a detail like this distracts from the car instead of adding to it.

My thought is, "Do the portholes add to the aesthetics of the car or not?"

 

Keep the port holes!


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The port hole are the only thing that would ever make me want a Buick, keep them.