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Man, oh man! Those comparison shots are the bomb! Not radically altered, but drastically changed. What attitude!

I believe you mentioned plexi- for the eyebrows. Would this be the same as the tail lights?

The Buddah Wagon, of course, had grille bars behind the Imperial grille.
I'm not sure, but I wonder how some of your laminated bars might look there, as well?
Maybe white/clear combo?

 

I just went ahead and bought a pair of screens, stock ones, mine were beat, the shape is 3 dimensional, it would be hard to make.
I have a bunch of twisted plexi bars in clear, they might look super nutty running horizontally against the grille. The Buddha Buggy's grille bars are stock Imperial.

 

got a pic of the el camino and the capri next to each other?

 

Did you do any pink hilights on the Batman logo?

 

I think he meant the free standing bars behind it's grill.





IMHO your car looks better without them.

 

No, it's just gonna all be black Raptor bed liner, my wife hates that logo, well not the logo so much, but my rendition of it.

 

LN7, that's what I meant too. My grille didn't have 'em, I don't much like 'em anyway, kinda distracts from the flow of the grille.

But now that I see a close up, I'm not sure they are the original ones.

 

Oh... I wasn't aware they had bars, but I'm with you, looks out of place to me.

 

Rear bumpers on, I tried these treatment for the lens using old vintage drawer pulls.



My pal John's Chevy looking sharp as ever



Made turn signal lenses



Finally, my pal El Shanebo made this beautiful rendition of the El Caholic for me.

 

car looks awesome Nads!..the spinner caps don't look too bad...Supremes are very common on these cars and thats exactly what I'm runnin'...Ditto on the chrome reverses..they would look good as well..are those headlight bezels off the same car as the grille?..

 

IMAO,
Taillight Drawer pulls need to be verticle to mirror the grill. Size might be a problem on the tapering lights so maybe bend stainless tubing into arcs, thread and bolt thru?

 

IMAO,
Taillight Drawer pulls need to be verticle to mirror the grill. Size might be a problem on the tapering lights so maybe bend stainless tubing into arcs, thread and bolt thru?

 

The Supremes may be very popular, but they really fit the era/theme of this car. The taillight accents tilted in look very good. And that artist rendition is perfect. Sign it and auction it off, the bidding fans will pay up big time.

 

I agree, that or have them lean outward at the top to not fight the angle of the fin.

 

"El Caholic"........hahahaha!
Just when I think it can't get any better... Nads, you're a genius

 

All I gotta say on this fine Tuesday evening is, headliners are a total bitch to install.

 

Word.

 

Checked your kidneys on the windshield dogleg yet?

 

All the time.

Here's a picture of my seat done by my buddy Solomon Mills at S & M Upholstery in Kissimmee, he's been doing stuff for me for 25 years, he rules.

 

The man looks serious. And his work shows it! Nice.

 

He's an awesome guy, totally chill, too chill actually, he takes forever, that's why you gotta bring him stuff months in advance.

The cloth is 59 Ford BTW.

 

Sometimes you have to wait for quality!

 

The seat was worth the wait brother, it's "Spot-On"!

 

Seat looks good. does it fold forward or is it fixed?

 

It doesn't fold forward, it's a six way electric out of some GM luxury sedan, it came with the car, it can go all the way forward now that I dumped the floor shifter, you can get behind the seat.

 

The seat looks great!

 

looks like Solomon know his seats, nice look on the colors and style

 

The colors and style were of my picking but Solomon actually got it wrong, the inserts were supposed to taper in as they went to the front but he made them parallel which as it turns out I like better.

 

Is there some speckle coloring on the inserts. It looks like a bit turquoise/light blue. My zoom goes blurry.

 

I'd like to see a close up on those inserts too, it looks close to what I need for my Monarch.