Features Kustoms blues? I need to see some kustoms....

Just noticed the display sign says John D'Augustino. Didn't know that he bought the clone from Jack Walker, but I do now that I read about it on Custom Car Chronicle. (note to self, I gotta get out more)

 

I was going to ask if you knew!!!

 

???? Sorry, this Okie is confused.....

 

Just reiterating what @'Mo was saying... Seems of late that when someone is talking about a pancaked hood they are actually talking about one that has been sectioned (to remove some height).
I have always thought a pancaked hood was like the one I posted (and the 2 'Mo posted), when the hood is welded to the fenders and a new flat hood is cut out of the center. The resulting hood is usually considerably smaller and I always thought it must make underhood work a real pain.

 

Thanks Sancho, I'm on the right page I thought that I was losing it.... It must have been a bad chili burger.

 

I don't like to recycle the "same ol' same ol'", but these two just float my boat.

The "Mountain Pearl" was the first color feature car in HRM, in 1962.
(I doubt that you can imagine the impact of that, given the time.)




Around the same time, this Chevy hit print (albeit in print-green.).



The Lincoln quad lights and '58 Ford mesh w/bullets grille seared like a tattoo, and for a lifetime helped to define custom aesthetics.

Did I say "Two"?

Although the quad lights were not Lincoln, Ray Farhner's "Eclipse" used the same '58 Ford mesh/'59 Caddy bullet grille combo as seen on the Chevy.



Every model car kit I ever built probably had to be, in some respect, a failed attempt to recreate this look!

 

Here's some pages from one of my reference books , Creative Customizing, from the mid 70's ... Covers some of the terminology of the customizing field..

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@rudestude Very Kool Article!!! I'll be saving this to my library.

 

"Every Picture tells a Story."
(Packard.)

 

Heavy chop, Continental Mark II bumper.

 

Thanks for the clarification. I have always thought the term "pancake" had a self-explanatory meaning! Like when a big Offensive lineman pancaked a defensive end, or a rushing linebacker: he flattened him, took him to ground level, pancaked him!

 

Here’s a really nice merc I photographed back in ‘09.


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Sorry to leave anyone hanging on that King Kustom piece ...this is the rest of the story.....also a page that got left out on the previous post....

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Here are some more pictures and pages from the good book....

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Continued........

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No explanations needed here.....

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Been on here before, to kool not to do it again.

 

Sorry another duplicate post, love this Olds......