Features 1940's period correct customs

Thanks Kevin.We are a small group but we're still here.I really like your avatar picture,I cant get enough of your Merc.....one of the best ever.

 

Thanks Rik! Do you have a fair amount of Tom's pics that you will be able to keep entertaining us with ? (I hope !) Some awesome pics !

 

x4!!

 

x5!!!!!

Hopefully my new project will fit in this thread in time...

 

back to top, any good pic's of the Dan post custom books

 

Here is a scan of the back page of his Blue book of Custom Restyling

 

^^^ That would make a great poster!!

 

COMPLETE INSPIRATION. What do the Dan Posts books usually run, I have to pry one away from one of my buddies. He never heard of him until he bought a book. And he`s been a kustom guy for a LONG time.

 

It's a custom orgy!

 

thanks Rik, lots of good ideas for grilles that wasnt the norm in the 40's Iam thinking 46 kaiser rather than a 47 cad for my 41 ford? thanks

 

Sorry to bring this back up with a quoted photo,

but what wheel covers is he running?

 

Oldsoul......please dont be sorry about bringing up a great looking Buick Custom.I Fu**ing love that car.I think it is a Studebaker cap.

 

Yeah looks like a '53 Stude cap to me as well.

 

Ok, I take it back

Thanks! But wait... if those are 50's cap, how can that be a 40's custom? Time travel?? (kidding)

Thanks for your help guys, appreciate it.

 

lets see some taillights in and on some bumpers 40's style! back up please

 

After staying up a couple of late nights these beauties slipped through my hands on eBay...doh! A trio of really nice cars...do anyone recognize any of them? It would have been great to know some more about these old customs!

 

This may be a stupid question, but did, or does anyone make 16" wheel covers? I want to run them but I don't want to use 15" rims. Any info would be great and thanks in advance.

Rick

 

Lyons wheel covers still turn up occasionally.
Check this thread:http://jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=445362

 

Thanks 'Mo.

 

This good looking coupe....also running Lyon's hubcaps...was built by famed race car builder Chuck Manning in the late 1940s or early 1950s. This rare photo comes from his personal album, and it was provided by his son John Manning. A killer custom...that could also be seen racing! I have another great photo of the car in a 1951 hill climb without a hood I will share later on! If anyone have any more info on this car, or knows wether or not Chuck built any other customs, please fill us in. A bigger version of the photo can be found here: http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Chuck_Manning%27s_1939_Ford

 

Can't wait to see this!

 

Here you go Enbloc...as promised! Pretty cool to see customs being driven hard too

 

Hell Yeah!

 

Fantastic photos Sondre.

 

This car was posted on face book a couple of days ago. And old cutom built in the early 1950's by Clarence Patterson based on a 1939 Ford Convertible.

The plan is to restore it back to how it looked in the early 1950's...

Very interesting early Custom that despite being built in the early 1950's still has this 1940's feel to it. More than likely it was started in the later part of the 1940's.









And this is how it looks now.






Interesting detail is the thru the rear fenders exhaust and the small opening for the set in license plate.

 

...Rik,a friend of mine, who grew up in Richmond, told me about going by the body shop when this custom was being redone sometime in late 50's, do you know who own's it today...

 

Hey, I think I recognize those bucket seats:
Corvair Monza - later addition, no doubt!

 

the Nash grille looks kinda strange, but it works

 

Very cool car Rik.....thanks for posting this.

 

Cool! But why no deck lid?