What do you guys think about early style flames? like on the Barris shop woody, The Sein Coupe, or the Hot Rod panel truck. Sorry i can't find any pictures of these cars, but they are all in the Von Dutch Book.
Depends on what kinda car they are goin on. I kinda like the look on Fat fendered Fords But then again Im a big fan of Watson seaweed style flames. If your thinkin bout doin your car with the old style Id probably Photoshop it to get an idea.
They really are more of a hot-rod thing, but check out the barris shop woody on the cover of this book.
I recognize that woody from a '57 or '58 custom car annual magazine I have. Von Dutch did the pinstriping. -Dean
sorry for the O/T vehicle but i painted these Seaweed style flames this past spring for a friend of mine. my first full custom paint job.
O/T vehicle or not, those are some nice licks, kustombuilder. I'm a big fan of the later, Watson-style seaweed licks, but as has been demonstrated by the pics in this thread, all types [early lakes style, crab-claw, and seaweed] can look *****in' if applied to an appropriate rolling canvas. As with everything else, they just have to fit the car and the period you're shooting for [for example, early hot rod style flames would look pretty dumb on a Bellflower-era car].
Thanks Boom Boom, 18 kinda blows, dont get me wrong **** is cool, but i'm still to young to buy booze. as for the flames, sixcarb metioned to me yesterday at the shop that white primer looks cool so I may give the Barris woody paint scheme a try, if I dont like it it's only primer and it could be gone as soon as I get the dough for real paint.
Was that a Dean Jefferies paint job? I recall a ' 55 Mercedes gullwing with a wild single tone flame job done in the mid 50s...very cool.
I can only remember back to the 1950s when us guys in the Midwest were reading all those West Coast magazines. Flames started early -- the Von Dutch trial on the Shoebox and the Mercedes, and others following. By 1957-8 we had McCoy's 1940 sedan. About that time we also had the stylish and flamboyant flame jobs that haunted the show circuits for years to come. But what we didn't have is many flamed Buicks. Buicks were avoided for years until engines got so big that the Buicks reached "roddable" status. A 50s Buick can be customized, and in that state it can be made lethal and get a touch of flame. But to just take an early-1950s Buick and flame it goes against the traditions of the 1950s. Or maybe I';m just full of **** -- if you want a flamed Dynaflow Roadmaster, you go for it. Just know that it would have been laughed out of the drive-in back then unless it had one hell of a motor in it.
You're very right, its going to be a custom. The 53 buick has nice lines, I just think the designers messed up in the chrome department, and i'm going to fix that. and right now I'm working on a "hot" 283 4bbl, power pack heads, rams horn manifolds, mallory dual point dizzy. I love input from guys who were around.
Here is a photchopped version of what my Buick could look like after all the dechroming I want to do. I guess you could try to imagine it white, with red flames following the Barris Woody very closely, and maybe the roof painted red. However with the Red/White paint scheme you run the risk of looking like a Rhiengold beer delivery truck.
i dont know how much photoshopping you did to get the car to look like that, but that is a great car...totally awesome starting point on a buick. go for it...
Just lowerd with alot of chrome taken off and some hubcaps and WWW, no major body mods, like I said before I think Buicks for the most part have great lines, they're just cluttered up with chrome. I still have a ways to go before its time to paint. I all goes well Me and a couple of the injectors are going to pull the straight 8 tommorrow to make room for the SBC I'm building up, and to get a good look at how i'm going to adapt the trans to the new motor.
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