^Those buicks are bitchin'! Can't decide whether or not mine counts as a "60's" custom or not.....you tell me. More pics in the classifieds (shameless plug).
so far about half the listed are wrong. WIDE WHITES WERE OUT as far as 60s style cars go. i know people have the right to do what they want but it just don't fit the era. skinny whites, redlines, goldlines, blackwall, double or triple pinstripe whites all could be right. WIDE WHITES ARE NOT. they were dead by then. lots of stuff left out wheel wise to. yes i run supremes on the buick(not for much longer), but lets see some of the other 60s wheels used some. buick mags, skylark wires, caddy wires, any wires(haha), raders, fentons, slots(sometimes). flake is great but what about other paint tricks like diamond dust(crushed glass),TRUE pearls, acetylene smoke. forget scallops and flames(or worse yet sclames). lets see some panels and fades. better yet panel fades. i honestly have left the buick dormant for a while waiting for this next fad to die. fuck it. i move the shop over to the new house in 3 weeks. once settled it's on. get the drivetrain problems straight and then it's total redo time. it's getting alot of the things i mentioned above. the diamond dust i've been saving for years will be used. real pearls for pearl fades. not sure if i'm sold on doing a complete panel of the body or just paneling the roof. full tbird interior is already there. black bitch black. mopar square wheel. it will sit on some sort of wires. skylarks, tru spokes, something and it will sit a bit better than current. it's not gonna be a quick turn around i'm sure but i don't care. anyhow i hope something new pops up in on here this time. here's the buick as she's sat for the last 5 or 6 years i guess and a photoshop of what we were thinking if i do panel it...ken.... oh and justin a set of spokes or cragars would set that car on a much higher level. AND of course i think those buicks are bitchin', but i am biased to the buicks...
Your such a cock about 60's stuff ken! The 53 DEFINATELY needs some new wheels, but it needs to get me some money, not take more!
Some nice shots, I'm diggin' those Buicks! I'll be dropping some good cash into my car in the next few weeks, so we'll see how she gets with that. I'm mixed on wheels right now... between putting the cash out on some astros or just going with trim rings and spiders, I don't know. We'll see!
[/QUOTE]so far about half the listed are wrong. WIDE WHITES WERE OUT as far as 60s style cars go[/QUOTE] Wrong or not, this buick is fuckin cool. L
I think you need to be more specific. '60s cars that are customs or cars that are customized '60s style? There's a big difference. If it's the first, then you're looking for '60-'69, pretty limited. If it's the latter, then you've opend up a big window.
Hey bro, I'd love to see some pics of the Tbird interior, yah got any ? Also another thing - and i often hate these posts when they go this way [ i'd rather just see pics of cars ], but there is a difference from a "60's custom" to a "60's style custom" is there not ? A 60's custom is simply a 60's car that is a custom... . . . . right ? But a "60's style" custom is a little more specific in terms of wheel style, pinner whites, maybe some bellflowers, etc. Any comments ? .[/QUOTE] I think you need to be more specific. '60s cars that are customs or cars that are customized '60s style? There's a big difference. If it's the first, then you're looking for '60-'69, pretty limited. If it's the latter, then you've opend up a big window..[/QUOTE] Either way bro, i just like seeing them all, i know there is a difference. I guess some people have different interpretation of what it is. There are some 60's cars i've seen with WWW's on them and they look like shit and some that look great. i wasn't specific about it because then the post would have been just one "look/style". Which is a style i love, but im always down to see more cars. L
Now ya see, lucky...that's where YOU ARE wrong! Depends on where in the country you were at the time...and what type of " '60's style" you're talking about...as for new cars, narrow whites made their appearance, on new showroom cars in '61, I think, yet you could order wide whites on anything the dealer offered...and wide whites were a staple of tire dealers...as for kustom cars...most guys opted for the "new" look and chose the narrow whites...looking for "show-car points" from the judges, but as anything else, there were always hold-overs that preferred the wide whites...and like everything else, there was a great mixture at car shows...chromed reversed wheels dominated with narrow whites...hubcaps with wide whites...and somewhere in there, mag wheels came out...I had a set of five-spoke gray centers, on blakwalls, on my '64 Chevy in 1965/'66...by then, the "look" of narrow whites had become passe...and most guys were doing red-lines and mag wheels...hubcaps had also become a "thing of the past" ... So, there's always "bleed-over" in any fad or style...wide whites were simply a part of it...so were narrow whites and anything else that followed...don't be so critical of those guys that show you pix of wide white cars...they are just as correct in their style! R-
all-righty then, mags and blackwalls, red pearl over pale orange, circa 91-92. with the front seat bolted to the floor, it was my junkyard runner, long distance hauler and daily driver for about a year. the one thing i'd do different nowadays, is rechrome the bumpers. still no smoothies, tho'
Color is cool, stance is right and the car is oh so pretty, Just think how much better it would look without the ww's... right?
My '62-bullet caps for the babymoons and fenderskirts are in the mail! Next up-shaved handles, smooth out the dents, and shoot some Caddy Pearl Silver
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