It must've been some time in the '90s; it was looking like hot rods based on larger cars might be becoming a thing, but despite a few cars getting built in a short period of time it never really happened. A very few of them came close to nailing it, by using tall wheels and tyres. I seem to recall a full-fendered c.1928 Buick, black I think, though I might be imagining things. Others suc***bed to the misapprehension that the Lincoln Town Car's Regency-sideboard-on-tiny-wheels approach was appropriate to an automobile of breeding and substance, and turned out looking horrible. Does anyone else remember this?
Not quite the same thing, but it reminds me of a Photoshop project from a while back. It occurred to me that modern SUVs are really the successors to the full-size sedan, as large sedans have become too low and sports-car-like for what they're supposed to be. I didn't do much to these except add modern off-road tyres. 1928 Nash: 1928 Oakland: (not really too garish for 1928, I think?) But that just by the way.
On the main board there was a guy from Brazil who built a fantastic special from, I think, a La France
Larry Wood's cl***ic Nash is my ground zero on big, resto rods. I've learned from the HAMB, that during the era of "The Untouchables" tv series, '59-'63 I think, gangster sleepers were being built from old Packards and other huge cars. I can recall a Terraplane sleeper in an issue of "Rod Builder and Customizer", that I can't find, but was quite "resto" looking. As far as early nineties builds, Billy Gibbon's "Cadzilla" certainly got a few started. Didn't he/ZZ TOP have a Pontiac limo as well?
There was a guy from TX that would show up at the Pawnee OK steam and gas engine show driving a fenderless speedster built from a semi . Single wheels , inline six ***mins it was a beast . That was in the late 70’s early 80’s
I don't remember this in the 90s, but I remember a flamed Rolls-Royce (I remember it as a Phantom III with a 427 Chev) on the cover of one of the rod magazines in the mid 70s. I tried to find it today in the magazine covers @ 99WSpeedShop.com, but couldn't.
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