It always amazes me when a period coerrect build is done, and then smack in the middle of everything is a square cd player, or digital guages...???? that blue one blows my mind , he spent hundreds of hours customizing, and making his car look like a 50's dream car, and then dosen't enginer a simple hidden cd player?? here is a shot of the pink freak, not a 60s build... but done with the 60's in mind:
Time flies. This thread's 3 years old and I only recently got around to starting on my interior on this car. I'm going with a Tbird console and will build a custom piece to integrate it with the stock Buick dash in the front, that's the part that should be fun. Car will have swivel Tbird buckets and the wrap around Tbird rear seat. Nothing too extreme, but I have some ideas for the front of the console. It'll hide all modern components (air ride controls and radio) and have some of the 60's show car stuff. In the mean time, here are a few more vintage interior photos.
These are some awesome pics!!!! Keep them coming some of them are awesome, some are funny, but all are great!
I wanted to put a swan in my interior, even my door panels but I was never sure what it would look like. Now I know.
This is some great stuff! I'm dying to "check out the headliner" in the yellow "Olds?" with the surf board consoles.
Every AMT 3-in-1 kit had a console in it, from the wild original custom interior in the '57 Ford that had a diamond-pleat big console with matching kitchen-chair bucket seats for all 4 places, to the '58 Chevy that gave you a custom dash and an oval speedometer down on the floor in the console. The '49 Merc had a reel-to-reel tapedeck for the back seat. In fact the AMT 58 Chevy must have been inspired by this car, it's just about a perfect match for the original custom interior that came in that kit. I so thought buckets and a console are a part of a custom build, I scrounged a '63 Riviera console and column from the you-pull-it yard before I even had a car to put them in. Console sits in my '50 Chevy with some '64 Pontiac buckets right now. 1960-62 Chryslers have the bubble cluster, called the astra-dome or something like that.
Member vert1940 built a fantastic center console for his 40 mercury convertible from a headlight bucket. I remember seeing construction photos from his build book. Maybe he could post a few photos?
thats an unfinished kustom for the 50s built by romans kustoms out of ohio,,,,VERY cool car....saw the car in ohio back in april
You read my mind, thank you very much for posting the pics. The interior looks krazy kool. Love the Connie kit! Happy Trails, Mick
that's the alexander bros. "golden indian" 60 pontiac. I've never seen the headliner either,,,but i'm borrowing HEAVILY from their interior. floating console, buckets front and rear etc,,,,for my 60 catalina.
Thanks Kustom7777 for the pics, I've felt bad I didn't have anymore It is an crazy, unique interior for sure! At the LA Roadster show there was an awesome small tv (says it worked too!) that I thought would be perfect in a show car console. A couple hours later I saw some guys wearing Starlite Kustoms (?) shirts carrying it. I was happy it appeared to be going to a good home
This car was for sale around a month ago and I believe still is. The original owner/builder is selling it for $21,000. Here's the link to were it's listed. http://www.cruisintimes.org/cruisin...id=1&order=0&expand=0&Itemid=53&limitstart=50
so let me get this straight. flat black is no longer cool, but chrome phones and angel hair is? This **** is like fashion, it comes in then goes back out in cycles. I want to know why no one had covered their interior in chain mail yet. Whats next, GIANT WHEELS and pastel paint jobs?
I think you should go with your gut feeling on this one...... ...and build that pastel donk with a chain mail interior.
I'm still working on getting the 64 Riviera console to work in the confines of an old Ford... cutting off the big end and shaping it to blend into the pinched area of the narrowed Corvair dash is on the agenda the next time I have to play with the evil fibergl*** for another project. it'll be sitting between Tbird buckets.
One nice thing on those is the ashtray door is made for hiding a modern stereo behind. Have to think with the modern DVD players available for cars it wouldn't be hard to hide one in an older style TV case or make a face for it to look vintage and have it still work and be even more trick. Which was kind of the point of that stuff, to make it modern or futuristic for the time. Pimp My Ride, 1962 style, but usually functional, no fish tanks in the back seat.
I lovc this thread, i'm working on a mid eighties one,so have to add the gadgets, going to keep the old nokia cell phone in it,even though they no longer function, being ****og. i used to have a box that plugged into the nokia brain for a limo,that let you hook up a standard push****on phone
well i think it's a particular look that was popular on 60's show cars. fits the style of the car from then.
I think flat black is too "trendy" I think people used to see a lowered stock standard body car in flat black with a mexican blanket on the seat and maltese cross valve caps and believe that was how customs looked in the day, maybe they were just rebelling against the billet/color code/digital guages cars of the 80's and went to far, if you look through some old car craft or custom car magazines from the day you wont see flat black, just candy's, pearls, and lots of coats of clear, maybe people are starting to realise that hi fi, TV's and telephones were more commonly found on custom showcars than flat black in the day.
I've seen a lot of them in old custom magazines before, in those days seeing a tv in a car was probably like seeing the inside of the apollo rockets, these were show cars,they were build to blow your mind, not the same thing as on the streets, but in a totally different catogory, anyone got any pictures of some of Harly Earles stuff from those days? he was the master of the high tech stuff in cars, even if they were factory show cars,not home built,they were unreal.
Just dun dis in da Kart; Using one o' dese; It's called a Novophone, and plugs straight in to your cell phone, and has a call answering ****on on the side. I have my mobile velcro'd on the side of the heater box under the dash of my F100. That way, any p***enger can answer if the phone rings. It's only set up for the p***enger 'cos using a cell phone whilst driving is illegal over here. The handset cradle is an old General Electric spare part that I got off Epay. Paul.
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