54 chevy and eyebrowes on the headlights

seen the one foosey (custom rodder ?march 07)did and I liked the look-- I have limited bodywork experience BUT - I'm not one that is afraid So my question is What is involved, whom has done/or doing - and can i get a overview of How its done correctly - It looks to me as if it blends back into the fender a good 8" and with those compound curves -- whooo lol

 

someone help him out, i would like to know how too

 

Do you mean the 55 Chevy eyebrow look, like in this pic?
You can buy aftermarket eyebrows (or whatever they call them) and weld em in. I bought mine for about $100, but never got around to installing them.

 

where do you buy them at?

 

Hey Punkabilly, I have a pair of eyebrows here that I pulled off an old car at one time or another. These are diff from the ones you see on the '54 there because they are more hooded and they screw on the headlight door. You could have them screwed on and held strongly in place while you do the welding necessary to blend them in. Then you could cut off the part that goes around the headlight and you're good to go. I was keeping these to put eyebrows on a '54 Ford Kustom, but instead I bought a '55 Plymouth Belvedere and it came from the factory with eyebrows..........LOL. I'll let you have these for $50. plus shipping {my zip is 37764, so you can figure the cost of shipping}. Let me know your e-mail address and I can send you some pics of them {there's not much to see..lol}. You can e-mail me at hotrod52@bellsouth.net . Take 'er easy bud.

Jerry

 

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thanks man you rock...looking forward to pics

 

I'm also interested in where to find the aftermarket weld on ones. Anybody?

 

Not trying to take a sale away from olklunker, but I have this set with the bezels (need to be re chromed). If anyone is interested, I would sell the set for $80 US plus shipping. PM me, thanks Mike.

 

what are those off?

 

and where did you get them...car? or supplier?

 

the '55 chevy eyebrows can be bought from Danchuck. they are very common to rusting out in the eye brows cause road grime and sludge get stuck up in their and rot them away. good thing is they sell the eye brows. try Danchuck.com

 

They are 55 Chevy, got em from a local shop here in Vancouver, Canada.

 

Nice....Will try Danchuck. I, too have been looking for some....Ole Pork

 

I just made 'em!

 

how do you plan on getting rid of that gap from the top of the "brow" to where the actual car starts?

 

This is by no means finshed, I made some pieces on the shrinker to fill this area. Here is the end result.

 

Holy **** That Car Is Awesome...can I Get More Pics!!!

 

Check out cover car on March '07 (last issue) of Custom Rodder.
'54 done by Foose.

 

march 07' ? is that supposed to be 06'?

 

where did you get those welding clip things

 

No, he is correct. The magazine date is March of 07. Magazines are always printed & released a few months ahead of the cover date. Just like car dealers start selling the next model year's vehicle during the middle of the current year.

 

ok so its out now then? cool i have to look for it

 

The welding clips are called Clecos. They are wicked useful for sheetmetal work. The best (cheapest) place I found them was www.aircraft-tool.com

Todd

 

i just checked out foose's 54' from custom rodder and honestly it didn't do anything for me...don't get me wrong the craftmanship is top notch as usual but for some reason i didn't get the same reaction as i did when looking at the 54' on page 1...i dunno maybe its the lack of wide whites lol

 

Heh,heh, thats the same reaction I have with all those type of high craftmanship cars that are 'tastless'. Hats off to the quality but I'll walk right on by that ****, and stare at something that is simple and has cl***.

 

i think alot of it had to do with the rims they chose and the WAY overdone interior...i dunno...anyone else have any other pics of cool 53-54's?

 

I have to dig around for more photos but here is one, the headlight surround was handformed using tubing and sheetmetal.

 

they just keep getting better...i love how they opened the grille area to swallow the grille...very nice!!

 

Not the headlight treatment you are looking for, but definitly a cool car.

 

those are called , pardon my spelling, clet-co

mainly an airframe sheetmetal tool. but alot of body shot as them. you can get them from that mail order metal working body shop catalog, cant think of name but get the catalog every month.