Man thats the way I want m,y 47 whacked but with more of a teardrop rake in the chop from front to rear so that the roof floes more smoothly inot the rear deck. Is that the black 41 that was chopped by Paul Garland? Rat
Ooooo, dat's nice right there! Handled the door opening issue nicely by moving the seam forward on the fadeaway.. Cool car! -Dave
Must have been a weird reflection as Jeff mentioned Bill DeCarr was one of the best body man at the Barris shop. And when he built this car for himself he made sure it would show he was the best.
i dont have photoshop but i thought it would look good with the quarter windows deleted, so i went into microsoft paint and did my best
On DeCarr's Merc I would say the body was perfectly straight but that the nitrocellulose lacquer needed to be rubbed out alittle bit.
1972 Aneheim Cars of the Stars Movie World swap meet. Any idea where this one ended up and which car it was.
No idea... and also not sure if it was in fact a Valley Custom Shop car. But there have been a few from these cars around for some time. So perhaps one of those is this car. Very interesting to see though. btw have you seen who did the article.... Thats Jack Stewart - of 1941 Ford fame - and Neal East.
Rik thats cool...i always wondered what those two guys where doing back then LOL Neal photo, and Jack put the words on paper!? i talked to Neal East a couple of months ago..and he said they had a good time! no doubt if Jack was involved!! -palle fantastic thread! thanks! btw have you seen who did the article.... Thats Jack Stewart - of 1941 Ford fame - and Neal East.[/QUOTE]
Wasnt this car up for sale a few years back? I thought i saw it at the Big 3 swap meet. If it was the same one i was just standing there drooling. It needed to be completely restored. I didnt care!! i was in love!
Not sure about that... The current owner who has had it for many years is in the process of restoring it how it used to look when Bill first finished it. Which means he had to un-section the body. A longtime ago the car was sectioned, and "updated" over the original look.
I love this car. The only thing i dont like on it is how high the rear window sits. Thats just me being me.
It's almost a sun roof for the back seat ... I'm sure the driver couldn't see anything but sky when he looked in the rearview mirror.
It looks like it's in the stock location, just laid back WAY too much. And with that heavy of a chop, looks out of place
I hope you guys don't forget that this car was built in 1947-48, and that these guys where still experimenting. They did not have internet sites with hundreds of photos to look at and hundreds of people to ask to share their experience. You did not see this happening on the cars they built later on.. so they learned... but they had to learn it from doing something!
Thank you Rik,I wanted to say that exact thing,this was a car that was done pretty early for the style that it was and these guys just went for it.I can appreciate this car to the fullest,I love it. I think the internet is good for people building cars but I think it spoils the shit out of everyone.I built my car before I had ever heard of the Hamb or I didnt have a computer or even a email account.I went off of books and old magazines to decide what details I wanted to go with. I think it is kind of funny how people are talking about the placement of the back window.There are plenty of mercs that are being built today that have the same style where the window is shoved way up into the roof and it loses the detail between the bottom of the rear window and the top of the decklid.It is replaced with a flat piece of metal.To me that is no different then what people are talking about on this old custom.Like Rik said the window placement was corrected on cars after this.
Jeff i totally agree with you on a lot of things. Bill De Carr's 1941 mercury was one of the 1st. they had to just jump in and start doing things. At the time it probably didnt look all that bad. Shit i still love this car no matter what. It is a thing of beauty. Its a piece of art on wheel. As for these mercury's or other makes. I still dont know how so many get F@cked up. There is so much resource out there and still people over chop cars. To me they just ruined a car that could have been bitching looking. That whole adding a big piece of flat metal from the bottom of the window to the deck lid ruins the lines. Its like all those door stopper wedge chops out there. What happened to making things flow? making them smoother and making them look more expense? The past few years have been all about look at how hard my chop is. Its not hard to look at resources and make great choices for a car. For my 51chevy 2dr sedan it was hard to find any that looked good and flowed right. do i had studied photos of other 2dr sedans to find how i wanted to make it flow. It was on of the hardest things. Sorry for all the ranting.
WOW!!!! This car must be taking off at the light. Oh wait its just parked. Perfect stance!!! This is what wet dreams are made of.
Verne's car is bad ass and is a period correct 40s full custom built during a special time before the Internet age of modern early style hot rod and custom builds. I totally agree with a few of the above posts about how there is an over abundance of research material today that is more than easily accessible. This is an amazing thread that I have looked at since it was started. The title has always bugged me though because this thread is mainly old photos of old customs! Thanks for posting up the pic of Verne in front of the Safari Inn! -Aaron
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