Features Kustoms blues? I need to see some kustoms....

Looks like Lacey Covey posing with Gord's old Ford...
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What a kool project, Ace fabrication is building one bad coupe..

 

wow that is beautiful Great workmanship.

 

I find it interesting that the signature fender flares on this Doug Thompson-built Beauty
were the result of a front-end swap to a (wider) Nova sub-frame.

 

Lemons into lemonade, for sure!

 

All I have to say is WOW !!!


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This one was in a magazine I looked through and a question of what's with the top..?? Maybe it's the seem in the magazine but something is off....then I noticed the B-piller ......are they trying to pass that off as a slanted B - Piller ? There's no reference to it as being that in the description of the car....just me I guess...reason I was looking through the mag is I was doing a little research for a 49 Merc model that I'm doing it came already chopped and it has the same look to its top as the magazine car ... I don't know ... I thinking of slanting the Piller on the model thinking it might help it flow a little better...just saying ....sorry I know this isn't the modelers thread ... I will quit sniveling now..moving on....

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Here's some Kool stuff...try to make up for that last post... I have always liked seeing old Kustoms or new/old in there more natural state of actually being driven, under construction, or just being normal transportation, or just driving down the road as the sun is coming up after a long night of Kruizin ......

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Not sure about the pillar, but the (very round) top shape must be somewhat related to the back-slanted windshield&frame... Not commonly done on these mercs, I think? After raking the front glass, they must have used a different-than-usual technique to put the roof pieces back together... And the b-pillar was probably an afterthought. Nonetheless, interesting to see such an approach... A 49-51 merc deserves a flatter roof though, this one breaks the 'flow'. Maybe it would work with a bumperless + rolled pan + hot rod rake treatment... Pancaked hood, or hoodless...

 

A Chevy and a Pontiac.

 

The model you posted lacks flow because it has no rearward taper to the top.
Chop the back and you're home. (No need to cut the A pillars or catwalk, as they will keep everything square.)
Additionally, the car pictured in your post appears to have a more severely raked windshield.










Here is another, but with drip rail and slanted B pillars.
(The rear window has also been moved forward,)

 

Holy Crap....a Desoto grill.....on a Desoto....I bet Fonzie wouldn’t bag on Ritchie if the old man had this in the garage

 

Thanks for the input on that guy's .. I thought maybe it was just me...it was late or very early morning figured I was just being a bitch about it...who am I to judge...but there is this thing I have about chopped cars ..if it's going to be chopped it's got to have flooowww or flooohh ....and Mo the model tip's are great and I definitely got to say the second one has got it.... I'm a big fan of the slanted B Piller it just makes it right......Thanks
Terry (aka) Rudestude

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Voilet Fantasy


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One of my favorite customs.

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I was always intrigued by the "Golden Penny", considering the car was actually pink!
(And displayed by a model with matching pink hair.)

Owner Tom Leichty later bought the Clarkaiser built "Utopia", and finished it off in similar fashion.

 

I'm a fan of the earlier build, personally.

 

I’m always amazed this was a Michigan car..our roads are horrible...and I mean horrible...

 

Some more interesting shots I run across while doing some online research.......

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