Love everything about it....maybe lower the front a tad.Nice set of legs popping out of the front seat,too.Not that I noticed
It sure has Here is another photo of Ken's Ford, courtesy of Wild Child's Custom Shop! The photo was taken at the 1956 NHRA Nationals in Kansas City, Missouri. I guess he's towing his 1931 Model A Roadster in the photo: By 1957, the roadster was owned by Wes Bevly of Corpus Christi, Texas....do anyone know what happened to these historic Texas builds?
Very cool car! The '52-'54 Ford Club Coupes have great proportions. That stance is perfect in combination with the skirts. The legs are perfect in combination with the open door! Am I right: is that a '55-'57 T-bird automatic floor shift? Would he have likely used it with the Cad Hydramatic or the Ford-o-matic?
It does appear to be a 1st gen T bird shifter. I have a '53 2 door sedan, my first car, chopped poorly in high school, and I have a '52 club coupe parts car that was going to donate the roof skin to help fix my poorly executed chop, but cars like this make me think I should just make my car a coupe with a full height roof.
^^ I have that same pic above saved on my computer as well. I also have a gl***top roof and thought of making a gl***top coupe, could be neat.
you can catch up on Wes Bevly IV on facebook, BEVLY-WILSON RACING came in second in the Baja 1000 in 2012............still at it. Now where is that roadster?
371 is a '57 -'58 -'59 Olds cid number, but so is a .030" overbored 365 Caddy. The picture of the engine shows it to be Cad, not Olds.
I like most of the modifications on this mild custom. The one thing that doesn't grab me is that stock '53 grille. Maybe more teeth would help, but I really think that something less readily identifiable would have worked better here. K6
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