Photo album ---Kustoms

hellisterrodder........ WOW! I really like that car

 

This post is more about old photos of custom cars... rather than showing your recently built custom cars. Although the cars shown here are nice, there are other post here on the Hamb for that.
Lets keep this post reserved for the old photos... lets say from the 80's and older. The stuff that you can drool over and wish you could have been there. Or perhaps you where there and it brings back those wonderful memories...


Here is an oldy. 1947, base ball player with his mildy customized 39 Ford. Slightly lowered, Skirts, Appleton spots, and Single bar ripple disk flippers... A perfect sample of how a lot of people customized their own daily driver.

 

sup rik? I think I still have some old photos of the limlighter,when i did it,also havesome old photos of the 50 chevy of frank livingstons,in the late 5os,when i built the clone he let me have them,if you want i post them when i get time-----------0z

 

Hi Oz.. doing good, how about yourself.

Yes please post them would love to see both.


Here are a few more... bit more radical customs done in Hawaii...

Photos from:http://www.honolulustreetsmagazine.com/hilohotrodlegends1_june09.htm

 

Have a question for you East Coasters,what was the name of Sonny Venuti's 56 Merc,I'm talking about the car he showed back in the 50's?

 

Thanks Rik this thread was starting to lose direction.

 

i believe it was the" beach comber..". and i think christy masios biult it for him but not sure i know he was starting the clone a long time agao , but it went in a differant direction

 

Thanks Dave.I will have to ask Sonny about that.

 

Does anyone have any photos of the Don Tognotti "Green Voodoo" 56 Ford Thundebird custom?
I am looking particularly for color shots but would love to see any.

 

There is a photo of that car in the book "Custom Cars of the 1950s" by Andy Southard...

 

Andy Southard Photo...

EDITED
This photo has been removed by request of the copyright holder.

Different paint job...


George Barris Photo

 

I just got this four-door ´52 Chevy. Chopped and welded but still some work left. Should be finished in few years...
--mika

 

Here are a few more... bit more radical customs done in Hawaii...

Just as a matter of interest, My Brother was in the army, and in 1956 bought a new Ford in North Carolina. He was then transfered to Hawaii, and drove accross the US to San Diego where he shipped his new car to Hawaii. on the way thru the desert he got hit with a sand-storm so when he reached Hawaii, he had the car painted.
There the Japanese craftsmen painted the car by hand brushing and rubbing Lacquer
in numerous coats. The result was an amazing paint job, close to being as good as anything today.

 

Rik, 1st off, WOW. Bill-twochops OH BROTHER. Thanks you guys BIG TIME. There should be a test after all these history lessons. Regarding, Frank Kurtis. How does he fit in with all this KUSTOM work? I just picked up a book, (Kurtis-Kraft: Masterworks of Speed and Style by Gordon White), which is a great book by the way. There is a shot of one of his cars with custom white cloth top, swooped back, I was very surprised. Have a good one you guys. Its Friday in Jersey! Slim

 

I call this one Bullets and bugseyes,the photos show why.
BILL

 

NO!!! It'is a '57

 

Nice ass ford!!

 

Thankyou Thankyou thankyou

 

I stand corrected.

I didn't remember any 57 cars having quad headlights. Were there any others?

 

Thank you Rikster for posting the two photos of the Green Voodoo. I have seen these pictures previously. I was hoping someone may have pictures of the Green Voodoo , particularly color shots of the car in it's final format when it was selected for Car Craft's TOP TEN in Feb 1961.
I am eager to find any photos of the Green Voodoo and any history of past owners between 1961 through to the mid 1990's.

Thanks, Mike

 

Green Voodoo

Perhaps you have more luck if you open a new post for the Tognotto T-Bird.


Here is another old photo. 1937 Ford Convertible, or Phaeton with chopped windshield and possible Padded top. 17 DeSoto bumpers, Sealed beam aftermarket headlights, and barely visible a set of Ripple Disk singe bar flipper hubcaps on black wall tires.
Perhaps a last photo of the sailor/owner with his car before he was drafted for WWII?

 

Other then some Mercs there were some Lincolns, some Chryslers, DeSotos, Imperials, and Some '57 Nashs.

 

I came across a photo album of Nitro-Marty, and besides having some great Black and White photo from his father, he also has some great photos form Custom car shows in from the 80's and early 90's...
These sure bring back some great memories to me.

All photos from the Nitro Marty Collection.

KKOA 1982...

Posies 1936 Ford Cabriolet



Donn Lowe's Shoebox




Lee's Buick




Cecil Profit's 51 Merc

 

rikster, I would like to see a full size pic of your new avatar....

 

Check out the cover of The Rodder's Journal issue 42.
I kolorized a black and white photo for it.


Original black and white photo




Kolorized photo




And the magazine cover




For my avatar I cropped the image and moved the top and bottom photo borders closer to the center.

 

That thing has a wicked stance... has it been widened?

 

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no

 

Hey Rik, have any more of the green '57 Ford in the pic of the Donny Lowe shoebox? I'm sure you probably would've posted it, but its worth a shot.

 

Just shot this one today in Putnam, CT...... clean and simple, it looked to be an older build.