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49 coronet

 

Getting ready to start this project 1940 Lasalle.
Have my ideas, what would you do?
Will be a Custom.

 

Oooh, I can't wait to see what the crew comes up with!

 

Can someone extend the roof to possibly make it look more proportional to the car

 

@Flamed48

 

Similar to my wife's first car
Hello,

When I met my wife in college in Long Beach, she had purchased this light Silver Blue 1962 Corvair from a neighbor and was her first car. She drove it to her job during high school as a long distance operator for several years until I met her in college.

If you ever called long distance from the a So Cal telephone company from 1963 to 1966, you probably got her on the connection choice. The Corvair was inexpensive, started up instantly and got great gas mileage. It did not need any repairs until much later.
Similar to our Blue/Silver Corvair

So, after college, we got married and our two cars were the 65 El Camino and the 62 Corvair. We each had our own cars as daily drivers and our El Camino, was the workhorse, as far as long distance road trips and vacations. It was pretty simple, when it was dry, she drove her Corvair. When it rained, the little car seemed to drift, like hydroplaning, even with those stock small, narrow tires. So, that she did not like it and she wanted to drive the El Camino for all of her driving.

When we got our 327 powered 1940 Ford Sedan Delivery, it was the number 1 choice for both of us to drive it anywhere we went. But, only after we spent months getting it to drive well and be safe. It had lots of power, comfortable seating and the A/C made it perfect for us. Initially it was an ill-handling project.

Jnaki

At the end, the 1965 El Camino was still around, the 40 sedan delivery with the 327 took up the other garage space. The poor 62 Corvair had to suffer the afternoon and nighttime salt air fog that rolled in every day. I did like the odd design Corvair, in the end, came to dislike it for what it did when we had to drive it. After all, it was designated as the American Porsche… ha!

We tried to keep it running well and used it when necessary, but when it rained, my wife drove the 65 El Camino. When it got hot, she had first dibs on the A/C from the 40 Ford Sedan Delivery. So, I was stuck driving the 62 Corvair. What a choice.


One of the reasons we came to dislike the Corvair after being my wife’s first car, was that when it rained. I drove through a deep puddle or a flooded street, water came in the closed vents and flooded the low floor to be trapped/sloshing around.

It took forever to dry out and not have it smell like mildew. Eventually, we gave the Corvair to my wife’s uncle, who was in desperate need of anything that moved and the Corvair fit the bill. It moved, but that was as far as we liked the automobile.

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But, if the later version styling of the Corvair was done earlier, it would have made us look again at more horsepower and a funky little, low to the ground automobile.

 

That's a classic style so I wouldn't do too much to change it.Shaved door handles clean front bumper wire wheels with wide whites and a bright paint job...

 

Oh...sorry. Guess I misunderstood "What would you do?"

 

Pretty funny. That’s just about what we have into it. Got a call to come and get this off the property. Going to start project and start cutting.
Looking at 2 dr Coach built Roadster look

 

What would I do? I'd go custom, too, but lean more European coach-built.
Something like the period Delages and Delahayes.
This one is lowered, sectioned and chopped to get that style.

 

@Scrapin’Metal

Welded the rear doors shut, moved the back of the roof/window forward and added metal to fill the gap between it and the trunk. Lowered the rear and raised the front, added skirts, removed the fake chrome grilles on the hood and kept it 40's custom.

 

Actually did a sort of coupe sedan mash up the other day and then managed to delete it, so i started over. Removed the headlights, as they kind of stick out as being something that they had to have, rather than something the designer wanted to have. I feel like it makes more of a feature of the 'ships prow' grille as well. Made a Carson style top. Lowered, skirts.

 

How about a Corvair panel delivery...

 

Got an easy one, at least I think it is but don’t know squat about photoshop. Can you make the wheels black with just the chrome center caps and then with moon discs please?

 

If you guys are still looking for "what if's", I have one. I may have mentioned it before but I don't know that I ever saw it.

There was a rumor that after Packard and Studebaker merged, the new company had planned to buy the tooling for the 1956 Lincoln from Ford and base a new senior series '57 Packard on that tooling, but apparently the deal fell through.

I'd like to see what that may have looked like. Packard was pretty strapped for cash at that point, so I have to think a lot of the Lincoln tooling would have been used, but I feel like it would be more than just a '56 Premier with a Packard 2 bullet front bumper and Clipper tail lights to differentiate it from last year's Lincoln.

 

Thats badass!

 

I know they were still doing a lot of chassis work right up to the end. A new, truer-to-concept generation of the Torsion-Level was pretty much production ready. It's tragic that that never saw the light of day.

 

For sure. I'd heard they spent a ton of money engineering the Ultramatic from scratch, along with the new V8 engine, and it really cut into the budget for the body redesign. Not sure how true that is. But I'd love to see a what-if design, let's say Packard cut a deal to put the Hydramatic behind their new V8 and took the engineering money for the transmission to seal the body tooling deal with Ford. It would be Packard powered, on the Packard suspension, and I assume restyled enough that it wouldn't be too obvious where the tooling came from.

Since Ford re-used a lot of that tooling on the '57 models, I have to assume the new senior Packard would be a '58 and have quad headlights.

 

The year before Packard and Studebaker merged, Packard was in the black. They had just turned their first profit in several years. They expected to continue making high-priced Packards and have Studebaker as in middle class line. But Studebaker executives concealed their woeful financial state until it was too late.

I took the Continental as a base for a new Caribbean. Main changes were to the front and back and lowered rear wheel well. I tried to add Packard design cues as they might have done, but keep the basic tooling. This probably wasn't what you had in mind as I reread your request. Oh well.

 

'49 Chevy coupe with a lot of reshaping (curved the front fenders and hood downwards) and a stretched wheelbase at the front.

 

I’m struggling to get a visual of this car….with these rocket rims. Could someone please help me with a little photoshop magic?
Thanks so much.

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@RockyMtnWay

Ta Dah!

 

Thank you.

 

What if...for you Pshop Experts, the bumper guards were removed, the Vertical bar on the upper grille removed, and the hood ornament removed, the headlights frenched ...and/or could this end up being a face anybody other than a Mother could love?

 

@southerncad Did you mean the vertical bar on the upper grill?

 

34 Ply. In Mt. photo by my daughter.

 

YUP...The Vertical bar...my bad! now I'll edit it....

 

@southerncad

Here's a quick version.