On the east coast a custom was build late fiffties and caused quite a rage with its paint at car shows. Named the Fantasy it was featured in Rodding and Restying June '60. A stand out as a show car. Do you know what happened to it?
Looking at the front screen is that a studebaker or mopar of some sort? I think the customising period it comes from was the baroque custom era, probably meaning it was **** ugly or built beyond good taste. Are you rebuilding it?.
what makes you think it's east coast? A lot of that ugly **** came out of the midwest and west coast as well.
For sure a product of the "I have to do more mods than the other guys" era of customizing which ever coast or no coast it came from. Built with the intent of getting X# of show points for each modification rather than flow and great looks.
Well, the forum has its' share of funny guys.. Must admit, though, that I laughed at the comments. So nobody knows? And it's funny how taste and trends change, This is an example of how a show winning car should look like at the end of the fifties. If you had build a car simmilar to any one of the early fifties customs, you would've been considered "dead". But, the Moose, it originally came from your state so be proud!
Uhmmmmm, no! It's not. It may have been, and may still be that way with some shows, but it's not right. Just ugly. There are lot's of things that are in bad taste that seem to be labled "the way it should be" and that's still wrong.
57 Plymouth--Lark hood and grille--59 rear buick fenders by Bernardo The pic looks like it`s winking at you.
Maybe I should've written "could look like". But nevertheless, it was a show winning custom, more than we could imagine today. And I don't say it's a beauty, but I sure would like to see it with that paint job, pearl base and silver metalflake and a couple of clear layers.
Wow, that is......errr.........well the builder liked it. Question though, you sure thats the front? Caus' it looks like ***! It is however proof that looks were not always the reason to customise. I think Larry Watson just got up and walked away from his grave, turning over just wouldn't do it this time! Doc.
Lars (I suppose "Gene Rator" is you!): If my memory serves me correct, I think I've seen photos of it from the 80s-90s (maybe in Custom Rodder). In that case it ended up in a Jersey junk yard, though I might be wrong...
Yea, it's me on the other side of the pond! So someone s****ped it? Must've been one of the guys here, regarding the posts.
Same reason I did. Rodding and Restyling was an East Coast mag. True, it's an ***umption, but probably a correct one.
The impression I get is that it won because of the paint. I was pretty young back then but I remember seeing cars at the shows that were pretty uh lets say unattractive. The custom scene has always attracted people that did things for show points that just were not necessary and really didn't do much for the car or the onlooker. The Ol' Man called them abortions. Unlike today before Roe V Wade abortion was a pretty uncouthly thing to say. I know nothing of the cars origins or its demise but there is something that we should bear in mind when looking at some of the things found in shows or magazines. They don't necessarily represent the at***ude of the common builder of the time. Yes they are represen***ive of something that has been done but it doesn't reflect what is common or acceptable by the general public. That said too bad it isn't a color shot so we could see the paint that made the little beast a show winner or magazine material.
This is what happens here way too often.All the guy asked is does anybody know what happened to it and he gets a bunch of negative **** from the HAMB *****s.
True. Word up. But in this case, I belive that the builder was in a progress of creating a custom he liked and a smash at shows, and that it would represent his company. It's a form of advertising. Despite of what you consider taste, don't forget that this car is done by men who really know the trade. Craftmanship it's called. It's on the cover of June '60 issue of Rodding and Restyling. If some one has this magazine and a scanner, we probably would see it in colour. But I'm doubtful it would do it justice.
Well it comes with the territory so it's fine to be able to scroll down the page with the small roller on th' mouse. I use it way too often, though. And those views and opinions are expressions and signs of the times too. Important I guess.
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