Need some help... soon, I will finally have in my possession, my 60 Impala More-Door. My goal plan goes like this.... I'm planning on WWW tires (car has 15 rally wheels on it) and I'd like to put tri-bar spinners on it too. Also want lake pipes, fender skirts, bump the front up a bit too, and of course some fuzzy dice. period wise... do you think the WWW tires would be right? how wide? if not, open to suggestions... In my head this is right. But considering this car is 8 years older than I am... I'm not 100% sure on how it should go...
A '60 can still pull off the wide whitewall look in my mind, but consider going back to a stock sized 14x5.5" sized rim first. You can put caps on over the rally wheels, but they're still going to be awfully wide and tall for a '60 Chevy, if you want to keep it period correct looking. Also, this is probably more personal opinion, but I'd rather see bellflower-type pipes on this car rather than the full length lakes that run down the rocker panels. I say that because I feel like the full lakes make the bottom of the rocker look too low compared to the height of the bottom of the bumpers (ramp angle) where the bellflowers (essentially short lake pipes that run from behind the wheel to the end of the rear bumper along the sides, if you're not familiar with them) actually seem to reduce that. Full lakes also reduce how much you can lower a car before it'll scrape over a bump. Lastly, I like skirts, and I like flipper caps, but some of those caps will stick out too far to clear fender skirts. Depending on the cap, with the narrow stock wheels you'd probably be fine, but on a wider, modern rim, you could have issues. Something to consider.
Sorry but I will say NO on all your accesories,I dont like the look that way. Have a great day Gary PS I like your 60 chev
DID THE SKIRTS & CAPS on 14s ON MY GALAXIE.(skip the whites) MY OLE LADY HATES IT SO I KNOW ITS CORRECT. B.B.
yes on the WWW.... they just look right on these chevys... '60 is the cutoff though in my mind... then the skinnys look best......
Nice car!! No on the wide whites in my opinion. Stay with skinnys. Also, bellflowertips will look better than lakes pipes. Skirts would look good if you lower it some. Sorry but no comment on the fuzzy dice. Todd
IMHO, the car sets too high with the 15's on it...find some 14's and put the whites on them, along with some sort of hubcap, stock, preferably on a four door. The Lakers, no, as well as the fuzzy dice...it's been done to death. The skirts, uhm...ok but only IF you run the 14's... Bump up the front...??? Why...??? Most kustom cruisers in my day were level all around, but then again, most four doors were Dad's car and the young drivers were just borrowing it for the nite. I realize that four doors are about the only way to get into the '60's these days, but please don't gook up a nice four door with that stuff. Best bet is to keep it stock looking. R-
I use 4" WWW's on my 1960 Buick, it's not correct for the year but since I can only afford 2 at a time it's what I go with, yes on skirts and twin rear antennas, no on dice..
No skirts, thin whites, 14s with caps, level stance, and bellflowers. That combo would look the best in my opinion.
Another 'no-comment' on the dice... Wide-Whites look great on thse cars, but only when the car is low, very low, in my opinion. That said, all the 59-60 Chevies and Ponchos look best lowered, not raised in front as you said before. These are big, wide, full-sized cars, not gassers. Again, my opinion. The spinner caps are cool, but try looking into a period set of full-wheel covers, think Buick, Caddy, Lincoln... The car looks like a great candidate though.
interesting, I'm planning on running 15" WWW on my 59 galaxie, with olds spinner caps and possibily fender skirts. thoughts?
Yep, Four door sedans need to be kept simple and clean without a bunch of Pep Boys add on customizing on them. Leave the fuzzy dice to the lost in the 50's poodle skirt and duck tail haircut brigade. The long side pipes look like a stuck on afterthought on almost everything but East LA Bomb lowriders. On that Chevy they would look as out of place as a set of Autozone stick on portholes. 14 inch rims, some of the narrow whitewalls that have a bit wider white part and a set of flippers and you are done along with either Bellflowers or some 4 ft chrome scavenger pipes that run from where the pipe straightens out behind the axle to the back of the back bumper. Adding on all the extras is not customizing.
Works for me as long as you have the right skirts for the car. It doesn't matter what car you are working on everything on the car has to flow together from the front license plate to the tail pipe tips in one complete package without anything overpowering the rest of the car. If you look at a car and one thing commands your attention before you take in the whole car it is probably wrong for the car. Remember when you opened that "bare metal or paint over the old paint" thread with the little Yellow F100 in it this morning and all you saw was those big ugly wheels and rubber band tires before you looked at the truck it's self? That's what I'm talking about when I say don't put something on the vehicle that overpowers it.
Actually, it just means "more than 2 doors." 4 doors are the most common but 3 door (2 door station wagon), 5 door (4 door station wagon) and 6 door (limos) would also fall into this category.
When I bought my 60 Chevy 4dr, I had to find/buy a 60 Merc grill and '59 Bonneville tail lights. Everything else is just more gravy. I was running 14" smoothies. Kool project, good luck.
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