I've been thinking about sectioning and bagging a shoebox for quite a while. The post on the Olds Polynesian and how it was sectioned got the juices flowing again. Anyone have any pic.'s of sectioned shoeboxes? Chopped and dropped ones are OK for inspiration too.
This is probably THE nicest section job I've seen on a shoebox - retained stock rear wheel openings (skirted instead of radiused, as seemed to be popular in the '50's) and sliced everything to keep it all proportional. Pretty much perfect in my opinion...
Actually, someone apparently photoshopped the skirts onto that picture. The car DOES have radiused wheel openings...and it was built by Paul Bragg for his wife. It's extremely well done...I've seen it in person. It's pretty much based on a similar car built in the mid-50's by Valley Custom (I think for Ron Dunn... off the top of my head(?)).
Really? Damn...I love the way it looks. I was never into the radiused rear wheel openings. To me they took away from the lines on the rear quarter heading back toward the taillights. The car looks straight as a pin though...it'd just look better with skirts!
This one has really nice proportions, too...not sectioned, but one of the cleanest hardtops I've seen... sucka...
Love em', just love em'. I could go either way. The sectioned cars w/ out chops are just so, so clean looking. The last pic. w/ the severe chop and black primer is killer. That car is just evil looking...which is kind of what I'd probably go for. Maybe a little more roundon the roof though. One thing is for sure. Big section + big chop = weird look
[ QUOTE ] It's pretty much based on a similar car built in the mid-50's by Valley Custom (I think for Ron Dunn... off the top of my head(?)). [/ QUOTE ] I think Ron Dunn's sectioned Ford showed up at Paso one time. I'll look for pics. Here's another sectioned shoebox, a famous one. One of the few successful ones to integrate the fins. If you section, you gotta chop the seats. The one odd thing I saw once in a sectioned car was the way the driver looked. I guess the seats were stock so it looked like the driver's head was buried up in the headliner, and his shoulder looked like it was touching the driprail of the top.
love the one of weesners red shoebox....looks cartoonesque just like one of his paintings i like this one as well monkey
My old coupe and my old vicky parked with each other in DesMoines....'93. Hiboy 32 has the engine outa the Vicky in his 32, 5 window now. The vicky has now got the bodywork done and it's painted orange flake...
Mytlo56, there in a dark purple one around here. 51 Ford Coupe, mild chop and section. Back glass upside down. Nailhead motor. Built by Kenny Riggs of Street Machines Unlimited. Without a doubt one on the finest shoebox Fords ever built, I saw the car in bare metal, was a shame to paint it..................OLDBEET
This is my brothers 1951. A little too low for me. 4 link rear with bags and fatman co. front with bags. http://photo.starblvd.net/59ford/1-3-2-1073405268?m=0&pg=0&ro=2&co=1 http://photo.starblvd.net/59ford/1-3-1-1073385652?m=0&pg=0&ro=2&co=0
This is a hambers car, Gunner is his name, talked to him at pleasanton really nice guy. And gunner if you see this I still wanna trade you that ford for my "A" Sedan!! -Bigdaddy
Love the lights on the pastel green one above, but damn! It looks like someone stepped on it Further proves my point about chopping and sectioning being a weird combo.
actuly idont know if that green quad headlighted on is in fact sectioned. the long looking trunk gives it that effect but i think its becasue it is a realy chopped coupe, not a sedan. just my thoughts any body got pix of the quad headlight/tube grill green shoe box from the early 60s late fifites, some famouse builder put it together had funny looking concave flares behind the wheels?? some one posted it a while back and i was trying to find a good shot of the front end. tahnx tim
tim that green coupe is sectioned look at the rear quarters the space from the tail light spear to the bottom of the quarter... its missing 3" at least
Tuck's right about the green car...it is fairly heavily sectioned. That is actually a local Baltimore car - it belongs to Ron Borkoski. Check out the first issue of CK Deluxe with Blazing Haley on the cover...I wrote an article about that car (it was flat black at the time)...there are more details on it in there. Curt
yeah i see it now that you mention it, looks way trunk long still. any pix of canted quads on shoeboxes?
Not canted, but here's Scary Larry's old sedan...vertical quads and a nice, even section and hardtop chop.
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