Customs All time great Kustom Builder...Kelly Puckett

Lately Ive been thinkin about some of the unsung heeros from the Kustom revival that have been building great Kustoms ever since! Wait till this thread gets goin!Kelly jumped on the scene in the early 80s with a chopped brandywine 46 Merc convert.Soon after he did a chopped and sectioned shoebox,and years later ,a chopped 60 Caddy ,not to mention a slew of chopped Mercs,1 of which was a sectioned convert!Although this unsung king uses Cordoba lights on occasion along with aftermarket window trim ,he still rules!I can pick out a Kelly Puckett Kuston from a mile away!
Kelly hails from Stockbridge Georgia by way of Ohio.Feel free to post pics....Im gonna try to start now!

 

Case in point,I know nothing about this car and I can feel that Kelly had something to do with this awesome car ,just by looking at the horrible Cordoba marker lights and the window trim!!lolSee what I mean...its gorgeous!

 

Wonderful sectioned box from 1987 !More Cordoba lights!!!lol

 

Heres a rear view of a cool chopped Merc that Kelly did!It had 56 Olds headlights but guess what!...It had Cordoba parling kights and aftermarket window trim!lol

 

Well thats it for tonight...Tommorow Ill comb the web for more of Kelly Pucketts awesome ,uuuhhhmmm...Chrysler Cordoba lit custom s!lolI hope to show you a beautiful sectioned Merc convert,his chopped 60 Caddy,the beautiful wine colored 46 Merc convert that shocked the world in the early 80 and a few other chopped Mercs!Its time this cat gets the credit he deserves!

 

A few more photos of the Shoebox... I know about the Mercs you mention.. but cant find the pics at the moment. New computer... still need to sort all the stuff.

From the TwoChops collection








And the car won the Harry Bradley Design Award in 1987...

 

AAAH HAAA! My memory failed me!The car above had no Cordoba lights!lol....but it had the faux window trim!Another sign of a Kelly Puckett car is that he always runs "barely whites" ,never wide whites!lol

 

I think the Ford won the Best Of Friends award at a merc duece reunion.

 

That shoe box is awesome....it is right on the money.....

 

Yeah!Now we just need pics of the 60 Caddy.

 

Very Kool Post!! Kelly Pucket has the eye for Kustoms and you never here his
name mentioned very often.... loved his Mercs but his Caddy killed me when I
saw it @ kkoa 20th Wichita . the chop is purrfect.....





Is he still building customs?

Happy Trails,

Mick

 

Still building them to this day! Wish I could tell ya what hes working on but this guy is locked up tighter than skunk works!!!!!

 

00mack, just curious as to why you don't like the cordoba lights? I agree he has done some beautiful work, but what's the deal with the lower trim on the orange shoebox, looks out of place. later shawn

 

Beautiful cars, and now he's a homeboy too! Just sayin'...

 

Just a note about my hero also. I knew him when he lived in Reynoldsburg Ohio. At that time he had a 32 two door. What a beautiful ride. It ran jag front and rear. His brake booster looked better than my ride...Lol I also saw the so called 49 Ford that was actually a 51 but he built it as a 49 in order to go to the NSRA events. At least that's the story I heard.Lol. Any way you guys are right his rides were far ahead of anything I've seen.

 

Because they aint 52 Merc or Ford. Lol If they bothered me that much I wouldnt have started a thread on the guy!LOL

 

OO MACK, I got clearance from Kelly to post a few. Here is the Caddi and a few of the chopped and sectioned Mustang (they are bad phone pics but ill post more later). And hell, NO Cordoba park lights on either one of these.
ETHER

 

Awesome...Now we need the 46 Merc convert !

 

my dad ran around with kelly while i was groing up. awsom builder but you are forgeting the chopped and sectioned 32 ford 2dr sedan he did and the streetrodder tried the same to a 4dr but could reproduce the same skill and proporsions kelly did .
the 32 he did was silver and green two toned in the late 70s and the went porche red in the 80s.maybe some the ohio poeple remember this car.

 

Now that is some impressive work!

 

First I have heard of him but his work is awesome. I really like his style and haven't seen any around here close to it. Thanks for posting .

 

so is he from ohio? still in ohio? never heard of him kinda remember that red merc

 

yes he lived in central ohio for a while but now lives in georgia .

 

Heres the 32 and one of his sectioned droptops

 

looks like the car has made it to the west coast

 

Theres a Cordoba in the scrap pile down the street. Mayby the HAMB should make a trophy out of them for this ruler!

 

I,ve seen all Kellys cars except the 46 convert they are all awsume I was at the merc-duce when his chopped& sectioned merc convert lost king of mercs to a hacked up merc on a vette chassie should never have happened the man does awsume work

 

I know we have a few Cordoba lit mercs still not on this thread! LOL

 

Anymore pics out there for Riksters site?

 

I took some pics of it at the Merc Deuce reunion years ago. I'll try to find them.
If you stufdy the proportions they are just dead on right. Seems like you see more
bad section jobs then good and Kelly knows just the right amount. For example,
Did anyone see the Mustang feature in the latest NSRA magazine? They have a
late 60s Mustang that was chopped and sectioned. I'm not a Mustang fan at all
but the workmanship is out of this world. I'll try to post pictures sometime this
weekend.

Very talented builder that should be mentioned up there with the best of them.

Happy Trails, Mick