Dang it guys, I was going to fling some flames on my roadster, but now I'm thinkin' that perching some roughy scallallops all oarfish that thang would be noice...
I hope that it's o.k. to post a couple picture's of my '56 even though my scallop's are kind of shrimpy! Maybe I need to get a side order...
The top photo in this set is the original Madame FiFi I believe. A clone of which should be finished and on the road by now.
We were fortunate to pick up this truck at the beginning of the year. The original owner builder Darryl was big fan of HAMB as it's got several HAMB plates on it - including the shift knob. The scallops make the truck.
Hello, In high school, our friend bought his first car, a 1951 White Pontiac two door sedan. He wanted a fast car like our other friend’s 57 Bel Air Hardtop and my 58 Impala. But, he settled on a very nice Pontiac sedan. At least, he got a two door so as not to allow comments about driving your dad’s 4 door sedan. Ha! He knew his Pontiac Sedan was not the fastest, but it was a clean sedan, while very reliable for daily use for school and work. But, he always wanted something different. In our auto shop/metal shop classes, we decided to make a floor shift mechanism for his Pontiac transmission. We had access to an old used Hydramatic Transmission and used it in class to get our designs down pat, before we cut into the real car floorboard. He was happy with the design, functionality and being able to put on any curved/straight or combination of lever designs as we made the base interchangeable. Now that he had the only sedan with a floor shift mechanism and, it was different. So hanging around tossing ideas around was something teenagers always came up with for further modifications to their cars. He knew I drew tons of flames on everything from notebooks, class assignments and drawing papers. Our old wagon and bicycles had pinstriped flames that looked ok for a beginner. He wanted to know if we could apply a flame design on his big Pontiac sedan. At first, it was a pinstriped version, and if it looked good, then a full faded paint color job was in the works. The flames looked good on paper, but in real life surfaces, awful. The striping flames stopped at the first fender. Ideas were free and they grew... Jnaki In the end, he did not want to mess up his pristine white paint that he carefully detailed and left it stock. So the only thing we did was the stick shift lever. But the idea of scallops instead of flames seemed easier and a more simplistic design. YRMV A similar look for a friend's 1951 Pontiac Sedan...his first car in high school.
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