Ugly ass customs, post pics here.

This actually was an Ian Roussel car. Someone submitted footage of it that I had to cut when Yahoo! Current Driver was still in operation:

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?&...b.50d24f31802b062f4104f8816a7cd3fd&ex=2&b=131

Rightfully, I titled it: "Plymouth From Hell"

 

Jerry Weasner wrote an art. for Custom Rodder yeas ago I wish I had. It said You Can't discribe bad taste to someone who has it.

 

Ha, ha, ha, ha...........

 

Was that BEFORE or AFTER Weesner put Harry Bradleys Infiniti on the cover? You know,the gayass one with the cute little fin on it?

Dig deep,folks,keep 'em coming...or are these the only ugly ass customs out there?

Post some of the early ones..

 

This is a Volvo 544 made to look like a smal 46-48 Ford. My friend eriks is much more nice looking and this one

 

your a funny fucker! that is the biggest pile i've seen!

 

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

that thing looks like a nurse shark with leprosy.

Bryan

 

Sorry everyone...this question is a little off thread...
Mick,

What are the dates for your shows this year???

 

This looks like someone tried to turn a 48 Buick Convertible into a 53 Buick Skylark. What did it look like when "new"?



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Comic book fantasy. Was this trip really necessary? Some drawings and mockups before actual production would have said "No".


This 58 Chev isn't really "bad". It wears almost every customizing cliche, idiom, note, meme, idea or whatever you want to call them of the 1958-1962 era. It's over the top by 2007 tastes but is an honest and fully realized representation of one "school" of customising. I'm not sure what name this style goes by but there is a lot of thought involved. I can't vouch for the level of sanity of the creators but I like these cars.

 

It looks like the "homer" from the simpsons cartoon show

 

I'd drive that. It's so ugly it's good.

 

"We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine!"

 

It looks like a giant hot wheel. If it were lime green, then I'd be sold, for 12 dollars.

 

That's the family truckster from national lampoon's Vacation! I love that car!

 

Why?

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Is it just me or did they put a hell of alot more work into customs back then?!? That things certainly over done but also bloody impressive.

 

I thinks its retarded how alot of people are starting to think VANS are HOT RODS.....GAY!!!

 

whatfuckness.. i think is a better word for it

 

Let's be fair to some of the customizers, like Barris and Bailon. When a customer showed up with a stock car and gave them free reign to design and build the cars, most turned out pretty decent.

But when the customers asked to have their cars restyled for the third and fourth time, they had to build the car to the customer's specs. It's hard to be in business and turn away ready money.

Everyone picks on Barris's "The Grecian," but they usually have only seen the final product, the yellow and green beast, re-named "The Modern Grecian." The original, while not perfect was much more subdued. They goofy headlights, butterfly fins, and garish paint were added later at the request of the owner. Here is a pic of the original; not perfect , but a fairly nice restyling of a difficult car.

Bailon's first restyling of the '58 Chevy that became "Scoopy-Do" was also quite nice. Anyone have a pic of the original car?

 

Hey Dave, I totally agree, ugly and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But sometimes, guys should leave well enough alone. Too many cars looked good in the first iteration, then when everybody got caught up in the "change for the sake of change" 60's, they went overboard.

And then there are some that just never got it, or never pulled the car out of the garage and stood back.-MIKE

 

all this is further proof that just because its custom, doesn't make it right.
Stance and proportion is everything....
Bizmon - that yellow and black thing is a bad nightmare in broad daylight.... YIKES!!

 

This is how Charles Durso's 1948 Buick looked like in the early 60's






Restored in the 80's-90's






And the recent "update"... not

 

youre probably right. but to me it seems that the more work that looks obvious in a car usually winds up making the car look crummy. most of these cars on this thread in fact seem like a lot of work and not so much thought. customs i always thought should look clean and understated, not just different. my two cent donation for the day.

 

I agree with you. When you went to a car show back then, you knew you were really going to see something. You would see a rolling sculpture that was so unlike anything you saw before.

Those over the top cars made such an impression that we still can recall them 40 years later.

But now our tastes have become very refined and the most popular customs don't go to far from their original Detroit shapes. That is progress I guess.

ProEnfo,
Awesome show photo, thanks for posting.

 

Rikster, what the hell is the matter with some of these people?

 

I was thinking the same thing. It's one thing to screw up a recently built rod or custom. It's just stupid to me to take a restored original custom and do that to it. It's not like the Duroso car is a thing of beauty to start with, but it looks worse now! The same thing was done to the sectioned candy red 55 buick (Loren Sharp car?) a few years ago too. A tweek here or there to improve the lines is one thing, but the high tech look sucks! I guess it's up the the current owner to do as he wishes.

 

Believe it or not that car has been restored. The owner supposedly spent $150,000 to restore it. I even think it's crazy and I love 58 Plymouths, in fact I currently have one. I don't know if the car is actually a custom since it was a Plymouth concept car, but it certainly fits the ugly part.

Here are a couple of restored pics