Projects SHOEBOX UPDATE: yes,,i've lost my miind

cool,,thanks,,,,i shouldnt need one,,,,unless i f#$%^& up this one (which is very possible,,hahaha

 

hahaha,,,,,i know "final design decisions",,,right after i typed that, i actually laughed myself,,,,seriously,,,i am actually mostly happy with the main design..

 

the tape line will be the new shape of the door,,,,,,front fender line is a go...
trim mock up is a go as well....(for today anyway,,hahah),

i want this car to be right,,,i dont want to look at it when its done and say "i shoulda done this,,,or i shouldn't have done that"...thats why its constantly changing,,,there are a bunch of things im actually very happy with at this point..

 

Jim Foose...

 

Wow, that's one wild ride very cool looking lines, the flow from front to rear is very clean. Looks something like a cross between a '55 Merc, Lincoln and '53 Studebacker. The work is fantastic and can't wait to see the next step. Please put a top on it, which one will you use?

CRUISER

 

windshield will most likely be a chopped 55 buick,,,
the rest of the roof will be custom made..........

 

duuuude its looking soo awesome haha. i wasnt to sure, but after this last update, i dunno what you exactly did, but it just really came together... Awesome work, this thing is definatly gonna go in the books, as pretty much the most bad ass custom to come outa jersey in a while haha.

 

hey,,,,come down and see it in person sometime,,,,
basically all i did today was to get rid of the severe taper in the quarter,,,
flows so much better now,,other than that just tightened up a few things.......

 

and i thought my brain was fucked up when a welder and grinder was present. keep at in man its gonna be crazzzzy!!!

 

I've got to start following your posts more closely...seems like only a few months ago I was admiring the mild chop thread...

This incarnation is going to be unbelievable...very impressive vision.

Todd

 

thats soo cool those skirts look great

 

You'll have to watch closely. My favorite is that his "It's Almost One Piece Again" thread was started just TWO DAYS before he cut the top off!

 

Yeah! Here's one of my favorite lines too......

this is my newly acquired daily driver,,it'll be a mild kustom

GO JIM, GO!

 

Superb - you did exactly the right thing with the "un-taper" on the rear fenders.

If I can add a little constructive criticism... I think you have a little too much height over the front wheel with the new lower wheel house. It somehow manages to make the body look even taller than before it was sectioned and the trim line doesn´t look like it lines up with the bottom of the headlight. Well, what am I talking about - you got everything else right so far!

 

Two words....Huevos Grandes! Man, that looks incredible. Nicely done lines. Where's Larry Watson when you need him? That jumped right outta the little pages. Killer!

 

Everybody gave me such a hard time for saying I didn't like it with that tapered section . . .

 

the tapered section would have worked if i was going with ther fins,,because the fin would have brought the top of the quarter up to where it is now...but with the lincoln quarters,,it just didnt work,,,gave it too much of a slope..

 

you have a good eye,,,ive been thinking the exact same thing for the past few days,,havent done anything about it yet,,,easy to fix though,,because its only done in cardboard and tape at this point,,,,,,,,,

 

Now I know why there is a strange glow at the other end of the building!!!!!

 

from today,,,,,,,,,playing around with roof ideas,,,kinda hard to see some of the steel rod in the pics,,but if you look close,,you can see it...the windshield frame for the wraparound window will be a chopped 55 buick,,,i will most likely build a fiberglass removeable top,,,the car will be a two-seater,,,still working out the shape, details, etc..

and my shifter knob,,,this thing is an cast aluminum inline air filter from an old 1950s dupli-color touch up gun,,,,i really like the finned look it has, and thought it would make an absolutely kick ass space age lookng shifter knob,,,,there was a little nipple on the end,,so i ground/sanded it off and, added a little chrome bullet i had laying around the shop,,,and now have my shifter knob,,,,,,

 

fucking ruler

 

hey lou,,,that was the martians landing at the shop to give me some styling advice..............

 

Holy crap Jim. I wander away for a few months, come back & all hells broke loose!!
Last I knew this was a driver with sombreros & Packard spears..

Freakin' Sweet.

 

yeah,,its gotten way out of hand,,,,,,,,,,,
im having a blast though,,,

im moving along pretty good on it at this point,,,

 

this must have been the car Bill Hines used to design his style of fins on

 

drove over to the shops in the woods. were NERNER and KUSTOM7777 have the shops I would die for. Saw EARTH ANGEL being transformed into the love of jim's life. looks better in person. like the console, its rat-rod ish
joe

 

glad you stopped by joe,,,,


EARTH ANGEL,,,hmmmm,,,not bad,,,,,but this thing is from anywhere BUT earth,,,

i am actually trying to come up with a name,,,NOT as easy as it sounds,,,

so far ive been able to think of only two i actually like,,,,

HYPNOTIQUE
or
MYSTIQUE

 

wow!!!!! makes my cuts look easy.

you goin to hershey?

 

You COULD call it the "Odyssey".

 

hahah,,,i knew someone would say something like that,,, (its true though,,,been quite an adventure so far)