flames or scalops? photochopers welcome

heres another angle of the red n white one...
sweeeeeeeeeeeeet caarrrrrrrrrrrr...

 

Dave from victatt?

If so hello dude!

Maiki here!

=]

 

Or without the door stuff?

 

That red and white scallop job would be "fun" on a '61 Ford or Chevy pickup, maybe with a bull decal in the dingleballed back window and neked chrome ladies on the rhinestone mud flaps, but the Cadillac is a car that in '61 still represented class.
It was a time when doctors and other professional people who had "made it" drove "The Cadillac" or "The Lincoln"...(along with the occasional Harlem pimp or wannabe pimp.)
and if you are at all into the class of the 60's custom and not just making an old jalopy trailer park circus car out of it, please have a little more taste.
Unless you are a big fan of "Pimp my Ride"..

That Lincoln is ok but is already pushing the taste envelope for me.
But it's paint would be quite acceptable on a same year Ford or Mercury.
See where I'm going with this?

The really classy customs are&were done in a solid color, with an iridescent pearl that color flops with the angle of the surface to highlight the body contours.
A good pearl job did, with taste, what the flip flop chameleon paint jobs do with crass overkill today.
With a pearl, no other embellishment is needed on a car with great lines, like that Caddy, working for it to begin with.

Scallops and such are&were used to "fake" those nice body lines on otherwise shapeless cars like early to mid fifties flat sided Chevys and Fords.
Caddys don't need them and look better without them.

Just think about the cars that had factory pin stripes, Model As even. The stripes were deleted when the stainless trim replaced them. The two don't mix well, that's why when a car has chrome/stainless trim the stripes are usually done as scroll work on the remaining flat panels, or where the stainless has been removed, customed away.

(Just another old weirdo's opinion.)

 

The advice in DrJs first post is good stuff.

The red wheels makes a potential spaceship look like a farmtractor (compare with the older pic which actually looks much better).

The last "photochop" scores high on photoshop-skills... but man if it get much "badasser" than this it will look like that dudes bike in "Raising Arizona". This used to be a Cadillac remember? Damn.

 

DrJ. I totally agree. That's why I like Palmer's car so much. simple.

And that's why there's pretty much a zero chance that I'll run anything on my cadi. Stainless up the yang.

 

I'd go with semi-gloss silver paint. Flake the top silver and go with skinny whites and either sombreros or a deep-dish chrome wheel with spyders. What I'd really like to do would be a chrome wheel with a center cap that has an emblem or flatspot in the middle. I'd run a caddy crest in that spot. Lower the car, run some mellow glasspacks and summon all your strength to stop yourself from putting those cheezy bellflower pipes on the back....make it classy!

No indian blankets! No Mexican blankets! Save up your pennies and go with some deep silver OEM metallic leather and tuck&roll the bastige....feel the class on your ass!
Then, you cold ooze around in a nice mild custom withour subscribing to the latest "trick of the week" trend. Caddys are timeless. Did I mention, LOWER THE CAR?

 

.......

 

Panel, definetly panel.
And you really need some wheels or wheel covers...NOW!

 

So Larry Watson was just 'pimping' rides?

Panels jobs are classy in my eye..scallops lass so.

=]

Cheers

MKK

 

Get it arrow straight, dechrome the trim pieces, drop it 2", and paint it a Gene Winfield fade away in pearl, maybe in a mint green. And put some Caddy wire wheels on it.

It might be cute to refer to it as a Rat-allac, but the black primer and red wheels are just WRONG!!!

 

Persian Sand

 

Them red wheels gotta go brotha.

 

mo'

 

yeah its dave from the tattoo shop mikey.... how
ya doin...
as for the caddie bein too sacred to touch... its matt
black to start with for one... and isnt customizing all
about makin the car your own???