History Miss Taboo - 56 Chevy custom

Ah, the art of the indoor car show. The books we could write. It's not what you show, it's who you know!

 

thats a fact for most any show that hands out a award of some kind really.

 

After accidentally coming across this car also in a 1960 r and c I'm going to have to say r and c must have had a thing for quad headlight trim fives. Thinking your car was done first though

 

Thats a good looking 56 as well. I think I have pictures of it somewhere before.

Well adding quads was the trend at that point. Taboo had them added around spring/summer of 1959 based on my timeline of photos. I think a couple other tri fives just in the pacific northwest got them around the same time. Madam Fifi (56 Chevy as well) out of Seattle had the Chrysler headlights as well and built around the same time.

 

I actually like quad conversions like yours. But the ones where they used rectangle headlights.....naw lol. But yeah at a glance with the side trim I had to double check your thread lol

 

yeah I was never a fan of that either and the trend never really took off here in the Portland area to my knowledge. Yeah the side trim trick was used on a handful of cars, I think Kustomrama shows at least 5-6 56's doing it. Simple and effective to making something different. At least with the hard top they just needed another set of fronts. Our car started life as a 150 so all the trim had to be sourced, but when it was done in 1958, the original owner/builder just went to the dealer for new stuff.

 

Hard to believe today is the 10 year anniversary since I took these pictures. This was the first time the car came out of the garage under her own power. Car is nowhere near complete. Interior is not done, only had two Chrome wheels at this point. The side you cant see is still on the worn out rollers. Had to get the car outside for pictures to put in indoor show applications. We were scrambling to get the car together for Portland in just 2 months.

 

So to officially answer your question a year later, I finally found the actual location of Golfland. I joined a historic Beaverton facebook group to ask that question and someone dug up a old newspaper clipping. I was way off on where I thought this was, the magazine photo shoot was in Beaverton on Beaverton-Hillsdale hwy in the parking lot of Jesuit High School, Golfland butted up against it on the east side. But now I know where the official photo shoot happened and might try and recreate the photos this summer.

 

Great storey, awesome thread and fantastic car.

 

I like it.

 

Thanks!

I like it too, lol

 

Didnt take any pictures, but cleaned Taboo up and got it back to life from its hibernation today. Going to be loading it up next week and we will be hauling it up for two shows next weekend.