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Just the right custom touches!
Ryan, you continue to remind me of how awesome my childhood was with your insiteful and timely postings. Saturday afternoons and The Wide World of...
At the top of our street lived a family with an only child. I was around 13 yrs old and car crazy. One day their son came home with a new orange...
The Deora was the first hot wheels car I bought. (Not mine) [ATTACH] I had a 1963 Ford van that was as close to the Deora as I would get. I...
Straycacustoms, loved your frenched antenna and tail light medley! Everyone should build a custom with these modifications. You will always...
Here’s how I do something simple like your request. Print out a full size photo of your car. Using an exacto knife, cut out the roof outline and...
My son made a copy of his grandfathers car, a 1928 Ford model A. It was full fendered with sheetmetal fenders, kind of an H shape and screwed...
It’s a shame to define that cool car by just the engine. It will make a great custom and the majority of the time with the hood closed no one will...
Looks plenty nice to me!
That is really nice! Hope you have many years of enjoyment with it.
I just sprayed my Avitar Chrysler 300 overall this past fall. Amazingly I was able to rent a local body shops paint booth. It was warm in there,...
A 55 Olds 88 brought me home from the hospital when I was manufactured. We had it for the next 27 years. I’m sure it’s the reason I am still in...
The designer is definitely some sort of sculptor.
Thanks Bandit Billy for this thread! This is a good summer 2025 project for both of our convertibles, especially the Mrs. 1970 MGB. That car is so...
Mack J, that is one beautiful Chevy convertible. It looks low enough to me to be a problem on bumpy roads, especially with a load of people in it....
I have to disagree, I would say your images are museum quality. I have been to many a museum exhibit looking at black and white images of famous...
Well Ryan, you really know your audience! That show (new to me) was like many I watched as a kid and teenager. I went every year to the indoor car...
Talk about a “hand built” car! I don’t think you have had the luxury of one purchased item just bolting on without some extensive tinkering to get...
Growing up my neighbor owned a 48 four door of this model. The lines of this car from every angle is burned into my memory after a million trips...
I love the fender mount mirrors! That first ride is great isn’t it! My own car isn’t roadworthy from my fall paint job because I am redoing the...
I brought our MGB home from the storage garage the other week and the same thing. It was missing when accelerating. I took it to be too cold out...
I’d get me a gallon of black lacquer and finish up those primer spots and paint it all black again (not black primer, they never would have...
If you like art, the Detroit Museum of Art is world class and underrated. There was much money in Detroit during the auto manufacturing heyday and...
[ Most people I've talked to don't care for this car, but I'd drive it. Imagine owning a custom built and owned by the late Leadslinger, Bill...
Your fabrication skills are amazing! Thanks for creating this super interesting post about your cars. You will have two great cars to drive around in.
I have really liked the speed hut speedo I put in my 1979 MGB. I combined it with a gas gauge and turn signal indicator model. The font matches...
Great job with your students Anthony! After thinking about it I drove a car with a roll cage to high school too. It was only a Baja bug, but...
If you have enough undamaged sheetmetal in the door surrounds maybe a “convertible” style could be accomplished like this old Steve Stanford...
If you can spray in a covered area it will be more controlled. The sun heats your vehicle up very fast and a car as big as your Impala will take...
Dragonwagen, you are from Ohio as I am. A few years ago the Mrs and I attended an “enameling” workshop here in Cincinnati. I don’t think it...
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