No ..it had been shut down for a quite some time.Homeless and riff raff were breaking in and living inside and pretty much destroyed the place and it was punks who started this fire.
That would have been wild. I am a little surprised no one painted their cars white as they looked so good in it.
There is a park there now and they built a little tribute to it.It's pretty good but Disneyland just built a clone for their entrance into California Adventure and it is breathtaking.I nearly lost it when I saw it a couple months ago.
You could be lazy like me and just mask everything off and use a white paint pen to touch up where you missed
I just couldn't ^^^^ Plus I would run into trouble with the black primer thats under my paint now. It really is a shame that there really are no pics of Bal week from this era.It was such a huge event.Jack Stewart told me that not many people had cameras at this time and that is the reason we don't have pictures from those great events.
Man it would be cool to have a picture in front of that. Did it replace the old entrance and therefore is inaccessible with a vehicle?
Yes ...... I was going to disneyland and just happen to look over and I got chills.I took some pictures of it and people were really trippin out on me since most had no clue of what that is.
I never knew the entrance was a re creation of the pans pacific. Their really making an effort now to re create old architecture with the new renovations in california adventure. I love looking at all the old archtecture drawings they have of disney in the early 50s on main street
That is pretty cool. There used to be another little 'tribute' building in Westwood near UCLA as well, but I guess the remodeled it. California adventure nailed it.
Anybody got anything up for sale? Looking for another traditional kustom to haul the family around in. -Fryguy
Still a long way to go and a lot of bodywork left, but it's finally on the road. Hopefully it fits this great thread.
Nice shoebox, Sparky! There's gotta be more cars built in recent years. I wish I had more time to dig in to this, but the REAL cars take lots of time in the REAL world right now. The roadster is just ready for the road, so now it's time to get the LaSalle driveable and through the registration. Hopefully before end of June. Here's a nice new build from Sweden. The builder is just 17 years old and is taking driving lessons with his dad in his fresh new 1952-style mild kustom car. Genuine Appletons and all. Amazing!
I made the tail lights for the Hudson, after ordering a custom set from America and not being totally pleased with what arrived. A compression mould was made from timber to form the lens, and a master and mould was made to produce the light bucket that the lens attached to. At the same time I made a smaller version that would be used for the front indicators This is the back of my light with the globe fittings and wiring, the one beside it is what came from America These are the timber formers The full red len's and assemblies that were made for the Hudson Because of registration requirements, I had to produce a split light that incorperated park and stop, reversing and indicator. These replaced the full red lights
Yep, and I like how the bumper curves back inward around the exhaust tips instead of just a hole cut in the bumper. Very nice details.
Realy nice taillights. I´m about to do something similar for my sons 59 Impala. Gonna keep the cateye form but instead of a flat lens I would like to make it whith a bulbform like yours What kind of plastic did you use and how did you heat it up before putting it in the form? Kenneth.
back in 'jr' high we used a super clean cookie sheet & a large toaster oven,it took 2 people to make the plastics,1 to to flip the pan & 1 to hold the mold & press the plastic in to place before it cooled, i still love the smell of hot plexy glass{fond memories}
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