anybody have some pics of this incredible 49 chevy?

that 53 looks great, those colors go so well together I love that burnt orange and root beer

 

Im back! I can keep this thread going for a monmth, if I break out all my photo albums!
Requested: (not really belonging to this discussion, though!) \\lee Pratt's LaSabre...not a Riviera!

 

'Nother view.

 

Another Kool Chevy...nice side trim variation!

 

A great Buick from the day. Brian, is this Jerry's?

 

The clone of the Famous custom "The Polanesian".

 

Front view.

 

Nice mild Chevy.

 

Perty nice Merc. Matching DeSoto grill and bumper.

 

Extrememly clean Chevy pick-up!

 

Last one for now...fastback Chevy

 

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Good lookin car, but I think the slanted posts & the moderate chop makes the quarter windows look big...

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it NEEDS drip rails.

 

my favorite,,,



miss ho

 

Thanks for the pics, Chopolds! I never knew that was a LaSabre and not a Riv. Geez, after all these years I'm glad ya cleared that up.

Man, that was a radical custom. I always liked it. What's up with that ride nowadays?

Thanks again.

Joel

 

Peter Pan,

Below is a picture of the car taken at the Detroit Autorama in 2003. (not by me, I found it on the internet) So I think the car is still around today, and in good shape.

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And here are a couple of customs that fit this post a bit better again.

'49 Oldsmobile with some wonderful lines.

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'50 four door mercury wiith Oldsmobile grille, nice round corners and semi gloss paint

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Another four door, '51 this time and not chopped but still ultra cool

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'49 Chevy with nice flowing Buick side trim, rounded corners and wonderfull grille surround and grille.

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A rather small photo, but I really like this 50 Ford convertible with very interesting grille made from 53-54 Ford grille elements. The same year frone wheel opening, great looking bullet hubcaps and perfect stance.

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Another convertible. Great looking 50's styled custom, with very low carson styled top, no skirts and interesting colors

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An in progress chopped 51 Ford HT with very nice flush mounted fender skirts.

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the guy who owns the green and gold shoe box above lives near me.
no air bags, he drives it that low all the time, he drove to Paso from L.A. that low.

BUT! he totaled it a while back. its bad too.
another cool custom gone!

 

Here's a rear shot of Dennis McPhail's Chevy straight outta Koolsville...

 

Hey Dave,
I know I already posted a pic of your Mercury into this topic and there also are many pics elsewhere on these pages,nonetheless I'd like to add one more and also two pics of the Shoebox Ford you chopped some time ago.

This pic exactly shows how a chopped Merc should look ! Great !!!




Here's a pic of the Shoebox.What a great roofline that is...





As many HAMBers know,the Ford now wears some scallops and no skirts.This pic shows how I prefer the car to look.I simply love that chop !
The chop on your buddies '53 Chevy is equally impressive and I again want to let you know how much I dig your work !!!
I hope you don't mind I posted these pics.

 

Hey Happy Hopper, thanks for th info on the green and gold convertible, to bad he totaled the car, it looke dreally good. Do you or anybody else have a picture of the front?

Here are some more pictures of some really nice 49-51 Mercury customs.
Custom made grille from a set of Bumper guards (as seen before in this post) fits perfectly in a new grille suround made from two 49-50 grille surounds. The round corners on the hood are teh perfect radious to fit the grille opening.

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More fantastic body work on the same merc can be seen here. Dip is removed and the caracter line is extendet all the way to the trunk, which has the perfect round corners again matching the hood. The simple spear shaped side trim fits the modifide side so perfeclty. less is more

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The three bar grille fit so perfectly with the ribbed bumpers. the 52-54 wheel opening always look good on the 49-51 Merc.

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54 Ford parts where used for this unique grille. Perfect chop on this 51 Mercury and beautiful flush fit fender skits make this a georgious custom

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btt

 

OK, OK...here's one for now, I gotta go through and pic the best pics again.
One for low springs...another shot of Richard Glymph's chopped 54.

 

This is an awsome post of some awsome cars. I am currently building a chopped '49 Fleetline so I thought I would share it with you guyz. Its not finished yet but I think its gonna turn out pretty cool. Let me know what you guys think......

 

you wanted to know what we think so here we go.

its BITCHIN

but i dont know about the late model cad lights...maybe should have gone with something more of the era of the car? unless youre goin for that new school tech look. also kinda the same with the race steering wheel.

fill up that door handle hole

love the wheels and tires...and the skirts.

late model steering column?

thumbs up

 

i don't know. do you think you could make the pics any larger???

i agree on the taillights, but it is your car. the chop looks GREAT. got any construction pics of the chop???

 

OK, I'm in heaven. Whoever started this is a genius.

Does anyone know what rear glass was used on Rob Fortier's '53?

 

Found another "unpublished" shot of the great Valencia Chevy.



I think this is the perfect view to enjoy the real beauty of this awesome taildraggin' Chevy sled.It really is perfect...

Hey Kustombuilder,any news regarding the Garcia pics ? Thx.

 

Oh shit, such a thread! I have no idea how i could have missed this thread as an owner of ´53 Bel Air. Perhaps it wasn´t shocking subject enough, but now I´m totally messed up! It took me about 2 hours to check out all those incredible pictures! My own Chevrolet definitely has too much doors and way too high top!

 

i agree with everyone else with the tailights and wheel, the rest is on the mark

 

OK, how bout some East Coast stuff from the mid-80's.
Before Gettysbutg, the Sledscene East was held first in Virginia Beach (2 years), then Abbotsville, and Hanover PA. Here's some stuff from Hanover.
First, some weirdo brought a Studebaker!!!!!????!!!!