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

This car has been discussed on here before. So Fine. It was originally built by Bob Johnson from Iowa. It won the first Merc Duce Reunion in Kansas City. Sold to someone in Ohio. Met his son at the Custom Car Revival this past summer. He had the Studebaker with a Carson like top. Then it was sold to someone in Kentucky. Had a fender bender and was repainted.

 

Here`s a pic from 82. Ray Grimm.

 

I kinda hid it in the middle Sorry Lol! It could be fixed and I bet it is today...

 

Kool background info on the Merc. It's name fit it, it was "So Fine"

 

Man... If I had all the money and time and talent in the world, I'd build me one of these. Mr. Rice did GOOD!

 

I dunno if this is traditional but this was my last mild kustom 1960 Chevy pick up I built.

 

I really like this DeSoto, especially the way they extended the skirts onto the door. Any more photos of it?

 

Bob Johnson also owned the '40 Merc seen here with his "So Fine" Fifty.
(From Pat Ganahl's)

 

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Come on ...that's all..you can't really appreciate this car until you see the whole thing from front to rear.

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I posted this once quite some time ago. I can't get enough of it. I found where it lives and tried trading my 34 or out and out buying it some time ago also. Not for sale. If I owned it I'd move my bed into my garage and live there full time.

 

@34Larry That is way too kool! Thanks for posting the pics, I don't remember seeing it before.

 

DeSoto

 

Ooops, Fixed it, thanks

 

Can you imagine seeing these two cars sitting next to each other when you are 10 years old. It leaves a mark on you that you just can`t shake off. I knew Bob. These two cars are on my top 20 favorite customs. Larry`s Purcell`s 41 in the background is on the list as well.

 

I love that song.

 

And in the early Eighties, to boot! (Like seeing penguins in the desert. )

 

I don't think I have ever found a color picture of this car...

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Signature Pratt colors.


New coat...Wow!

 

From Working Class Kustoms...

 

Much better version before it was sold and repainted. Maybe someone has a better picture. I took this in 82.

 

Kool ...thanks Mo...I like that purple , blue what ever it is I like it ..but I do prefer the hardtop over the later version..
I used to get these two cars mixed up, thinking they were the same car just different modifications through the years..the Huffman car I thought looked better before the t-tops...just my opinion.
Well I will see what else I can dig up..literally, I had a magazine incident the other night...while doing some reorganizing and transferring about 8 stacks waiste high of loose magazines, mostly Rod Action, Rod&Custom, Street Rodder 78 through mid 80's, tipped over like domino's and shot across the room...crap..so as I'm picking them up I got to flip threw them..finding alot of them with there covers ripped off...Again Thanks

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Another random FB pic

 

That`s the color.

 

My taste has changed over the years but I use to really love this chopped Chevy. I'd add some chrome bumpers and it would still be kool to own it.