Is posting photos of kustoms worth the time?

Yup, ok, now were getting somewhere.

How about some detail info on what we're looking at?

That'll help the post last because people can provide more comments. Otherwise after a few people post the usual "nice, cool, neato" the post starts to die off 'cause no one can think of more to say about photos that they don't know much about (but you do).

Keep it coming

 

This FORD was on the cover of POPULAR CUSTOMS mag----------I took the
at BILL HINE shop when it was at MARTINEZ shop in about 97----------------
They said it was going to be restored -------check with someone from
Calif if it was.--------------------------------TWOCHOPS

 

There was a poll recently on the HAMB. Simple question, Hot Rods or Customs. I don't know when the poll closed, but I voted after 3-4 pages of comments and customs was ahead by like 58/42 or something. So I'm not sure where the lack of love came from???
I agree you should find some place to host them if you have that many.

 

Go! Man, go! Let's see them kustom pics!

 

Twochops - Somewhere, somehow you have got to post those pics! We need to see them to with supplying our habit. We don't get enough from the Rikster, although he has the bst collection of historically correct old shit I have ever seen. And let's not forget the Frenz, his stuff is super.

Soooo, forget all this whining stuff and get going on posting some pics, including shots of your chopped '57 Buick, if I remember correctly.

 

I think I could spare some webspace for those pics and set up some kind of gallery if desired. Got some "Gig's" left on my server. Shoot me a PM if interested.
Getting more and more curious by the minute 'bout those pics...

 

When I was at Bill Hines shop he was cloning his first BAT .Also there was a old 59 EL CAMINO that he had built (around 1960)-- he was then
restoring.--------------------------------------------TWOCHOPS

 

More please, I'm a Kustom nut.

 

Have talked with Rikster but nothing can happen until I get back to
Michigan----------------------------------------TWOCHOPS

 

Read through threads Ive started. Ill do the commentary if youll post the pics. As a matter of fact I read all of yuour material last night. Lets see that 57 you had. Im sure Ill know it.Thanks again I have pics of that 58 Ford under the show lights.

 

By the way,When I get home Ill give you a treat and post pics of Dick Baileys A Bros built chopped merc.

 

I never liked this picture of my old 57(maybe the angle that I shot it )
but this is only one I have in Florida. Looked much better under the lights at Cobo Hall.--------------------------TWOCHOPS

 

I love to look at kustoms-especially the old stuff! They are not my personal "cup of tea" but I like to look at and can appreciate all vehicle types. Bring em on!!!!

 

Is that a '57 retractable...or a '58??? Looks like '58 front fenders or did you change the headlights...???

Friend of mine just did a '57 Kustom retractable (shown below)...

R-

 

Definatly post some pics. This site is just as much about customs as it is about hot rods. If you don't believe me, you must not have looked at the home page today about the Westergard style http://www.jalopyjournal.com/

 

So if you leave for Michigan right now, you can probably have some of that "old stuff" posted for us by tomorrow night, right??

 

R---It's a 57 retractable, I bought it in 1957, put on electric doors, lowered it , added a tube grille and lake pipes. Then when the 58's came out, I added the quad headlights, a 54 Chevy grille with extra teeth, and tunneled in 53 Ford and 54 Olds taillights. After that things got wild -- dual Studebaker pans, with 59 Chevy bumpers front and rear were installed. Will post more photos from my "New pictures old Stuff" album tomorrow evening. ---------------------- TWOCHOPS

 

Im sitting here like a fuckin moron trying to get a beautiful photo of Johnny Taylors 58 on to my desk top

 

Yeah, what he said.

 

someone p,m, me an e-mail adress who can resize a cool pic of the 58 ford

 

Cool memories from the picture of Bill Hines Coupe. When I was sixteen I saw the same sight in his shop in Lincoln Park MI and that was the original "Lil Bat". Enjoyed seeing these two cars, the coupe and the El Camino, at last years Autorama.

 

picture resized for anthony

 

Thanks for posting that for me Slag.This car was Johnny Taylors metal flake 58 Ford and the pic was taken in Long Beach California on July 4th weekend,1963.

 

Even though I don't really like the retractables, I think your looked great! Hope to see more of it.

 

I wasn't lucky enough to see the first "Lil Bat" being built, but did take some photos of it at shows before Bill took it to California.
If you saved your "Custom Rodder" magazines (when Jerry was editor) in an article about KKOA ---- there's a photo at the bottom of the page of me showing Bill my first photo album. They don't come any nicer than Bill Hines. --------------------------TWOCHOPS