Customs New Kustom Paint, Old Kustom Flavor Thanks to Finkd for making my car kool

New Kustom Paint, Old Kustom Flavor


I've had my 1963 Ford Galaxie 500 since 2004. When she first entered my life she looked like a 70's cruiser. Stock body, dark tinted windows (80's probably), Cragar S/S wheels and some fairly large raised white letter tires.


A few years went by, after an engine rebuild and upgrading the 352 2bbl to a 390 4bbl, swapping the Cruiseomatic to an AOD and adding some red paint to the roof it was time for a change. Just before Christmas 2012 I took the car to my friend Jeff Myers (Finkd here on the H.A.M.B.) at Premier Body & Paint in Arkansas City, KS for a bit of an update. Earlier in 2012 I had replaced the Cragars and raised white letter tires with some Speedway Motors steel wheels with Coker American Cl***ic tires after having Jeff do some kool fadeaway paint on the wheels. Spider caps finished off the wheel/tire look.




Now, this car is not straight, there are lots of small areas that need work, so I knew this paint job would be nothing more than a very kool bandaid to get the Galaxie by for a few years. The goal is to drive the Galaxie while I work on the 51 Ford until the 51 is up to a daily driver type of reliability then take the Galaxie down to bare metal, fix the sins of the previous owners and do it all again.

Within hours of leaving Jeff's shop the cell phone pics started to come in. I should have bought stock in 3M as world wide tape supplies had to have dropped when Jeff started to lay out the panels, scallops and outlines.


A day or two later the panels/trim outlines on the sides were already in color.


Shaving the trim on the Galaxie was not something that I was financially ready to do at this point, there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 holes per side that need filled. So I asked if Jeff would do a Larry Watson style outline job on the sides.



Above the trim Jeff added some long scallops to tie the hood, roof and deck lid all in.


For the larger flat areas of the car t-shaped scallop were added.




That left entirely too much blank space for Jeff's mind so some panels were added on all 3 surfaces. Fogged in edges, and cobwebbing over them all to keep the flow from front to back.




Soon Jeff was sending me shots of the car done and outside of his shop. I was blown away at the transformation from mullet 70's style to early 60's kustom.


I can't say thanks enough to Jeff for the hard work over the Christmas/New Years week. I am damn proud to have a friend like him devote his time to my ride.





The car will be in the Kustom City display at the 2013 Starbird-Devlin Car show "The Wichita Tradition" in Century II in Wichita, KS Jan. 18-20th where pinstriper Clint Rowe will add his handiwork to outline all of the new paint.


The plan is to upgrade the generator to an alternator as the lights dimmed and the Gen light came on during the return trip from Premier Body & Paint, after that a set of Bellflower tips will be installed to continue with the 60's boulevard cruiser theme. New taillight lenses will be added as well as some headlight jewelry.



Future plans include a new aluminum radiator, and some kustom grille work, oh and driving her all over the midwest this year to shows.

Thanks again Jeff for all of your awesome work on my ride!

See you at a show,

Travis

 

Great transformation

 

Nice!

 

Nice job!

 

very nice!

 

Thanks guys Jeff did a stellar job as always!

 

Man, that looks bad ***!

 

Love the taillights on them cars, nice cobwebbing.

 

Very nice! quick work for sure....hey as an employee of 3M I thank you and Jeff for your business!

 

Thanks folks! And you're welcome!

 

I've been following the transformation on Instagram. I love it. Cant wait to see what the future holds for this car. We have a 64 Merauder in the shop now awaiting a similiar transformation

 

WOW.....Looks great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Looks awesome Travis! Can't wait to see it in person...although I probably won't be any where near you until Dewey.

 

Is that your subtle way of saying I need a breath strip?

Thanks Doc!

 

Fantastic. Jeff does some great work.

 

Will we see it in Salina?

 

Yes! I will be there for sure!

 

Looks great! What about Tulsa? You going to be there with it or do I have to wait until Austin?

 

I really want to show there, but the move in on Thursday would cost me too much of my vacation time. So you'll probably have to wait until Austin. Sorry!

 

Lookin' good Trav...and some pinstriping will only add to its looks...

R-

 

Lookin' good Trav...and some pinstriping will only add to its looks...

R-

 

I was curious on what Jeff was going to do with the paint. He sure aged your Galaxie
with that crazy 60's style. I bet it even runs better. Very kool!

Happy Trails, Mick

 

nice

 

Thanks! Yeah the stripes and bellflowers will help finish out the look!

Well except for the generator finally giving up the ghost! I called Chris down at Chaotic Customs in Mulvane, KS and got a new 100 A alternator ordered up and on the way. Hoping to get it installed before the show!

Then comes the striping at the show, then bellflowers, interior, finally installing the new radiator, replacing the a/c condenser, **** that list is getting long!

 

Like they say; they are never finished.

 

No sir she will never be done.

 

Looks awesome Travis, but I am guessing that the pics don't do it any justice! I can't wait to see it in person, too bad I gotta work the weekend of the Wichita show. Mick says I should use some sick time......hmmmmm......

 

Man that is cool..

 

well, travis , thank you for letting me do this. with out customers that have complete trust in me I wouldn't be able to have free rain to do what ever I wanted on jobs like this. thanks for having the trust and guts to just turn me loose. glad to see anouther kool custom running around.....lets do more. LINE 'em up boys I wanna paint !!!

 

Wow, *****en transformation !
Bellflowers, pinstripes and some Astro Supremes man !