Customs Telstar Update,,,sectioned another two inches,,,,

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How happy am I to see this thing back on the HAMB!
Crazy stuff - and looking very good indeed!!

 

So....... just what IS in the water there? Man your dedication to the project is staggering, I wish I had just a touch of that for life!

 

When you get done with that I have a stack of penny's and a little refridgerator and my neighbors john boat. ((he doesn't know I have it but...shhh)))


Ok so what I'm thinking is something along the lines of a ledsled but longer. Finish height to be around 38" off the ground. Powered by a 392 Hemi with 4 strombergs around a carter afb in the middle....co**** we'll have to build the intake. I got some aluminum we can melt down for that. Now I saw on ebay 59 caddy taillights but I think we oughtta go with about six of them across the bottom lip of the trunk lid, now while I'm on the trunk lid do you think we can bring back the rumble seat idea?


ok ok ok I'm just teasin!! Anyone who can do that much cutting and welding and reworking and actually end up with a car out of it amazes me.
I cut the roof off my toyota truck.....THEN read the part about bracing the floors so the cab wouldn't buckle. Bought it and sent it to the junk yard in one week!!
keep it up!!

Great job

 

This picture hints at more wild changes up front, too? WOW!

I'm guessing that you never really get nervous about cutting into a car anymore...you need an apprentice?

 

Man Jim that is looking really nice. The 2 more inches really made it..I hope when you get done you can bring it out to the west coast for us to see in person...

 

a productive day today,,,,,,,,,,,,
sectioned the front fender, grafted the 56 olds wheel opening on, sunk the deck area down,,,,mocked up the roof outline with conduit,,mocked up the headlight pod,,,,lowered the lift to check ride height, stance,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,really beginning to look like the picture in my warped mind,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

Cool

 

Oh. My. Gawd. . .

You never cease to amaze me. . .

 

Do tell about the headlight buckets. Enquiring minds want to know.

 

ok,,the idea on the headlight buckets:
im thinking of using them as pods to cover the headlights during the day,,
they will be removable for night driving,,will be the same color as the car, which will give it a more streamlined look,,,also thought of possibly making a pair out of clear acrylic, and just permanently mounting them that way,,but i like the painted idea better

 

The Forcasta look?

 

Wow...this thing gets better and crazier with every update!

 

You sir are one sick individual.

 

Just a thought, but if you used some of those small projector headlights in the end of the headlight buckets, then they´d match the taillights almost perfectly.

 

what are those?...........tell me more,,sounds cool...

 

wow,,,,,,yeah..kinda like that,,,,but i want to try to figure out how to make mine as more of a headlight cover that conceals the headlight,,,,but yes,,,very similar........

 

thats the ultimate compliment,,,metz ruled,,,in fact he is my kustom idol..

 

Man I dig it. Ver y cool.

 

The very small round lights found in a lot of new cars.
I would normally say they´re too modern, but you aren´t going to see anything but the lens anyway and it could be such a prefect match for the taillights.



Some people fit them into these E and J style headlights.

http://images.google.de/imgres?imgu...x-a&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&sa=N&start=36

 

Wow, big changes has happend here since the last time I checked your build thread! it's looking great! When I see it now I begin to think about a coupe of Detroit factory customs...









Keep up the good work

 

HAHAHA I knew you couldn't leave it alone and you would make more changes. I knew it! Looks great Jim!! It is awsome that every time you make a change it improves the overall look of the car so dramatically.

 

With all the techniques for making wide whitewalls, it should be possible to make a set of these slotted whitewall tires on this concept car. I like it, very spacey.

The projector headlight in the tip of the dome, or regular bulbs behind a plastic dome are both ideas I really would like to see. The headlight covers would look cool during the day but be impractical at night if you had to take them off manually.

If the headlight buckets were chromed and had the little projectors in it, they would match the taillights really well. And I would guess there is some kind of period aircraft light equivalent in the same size if a timeline needs to be justified.

 

Hey Jim,

Many guys on this board can build "safe-kustoms"! A like and kind rendition of an idea that's been done over and under, for the last fifty or sixty years is cool, but safe. It's when someone chucks "safe" overboard, and truley builds their version of their vision that real kustoms are built. Summers, Valley Custom, Metz & Clark Kaiser didn't do "safe"!
" warped mind", nah, ya jus' look out a different window than most.

S****ey Devils C.C.
" Spending A Nation Into Generational Debt Is Not An Act Of Comp***ion! "

 

i like the idea of chrome plating the headlights,,hadn't thought of that one,,,,,one of the reasons i enjoy posting progress pics here is that you guys have really come up with some great ideas,,,,,thanks everyone for the great and inspiring feedback,,,,,,,,,,

 

Bob Tugeon 57 T-bird built by Darryl Starbird

 

LOVE those cars,,

 

got the other fender sectioned today....i think i figured out my hood and deck areas,,,53/54 chevy hood grafted to the existing sheetmetal..really liking the way it comes to a blunt point,,,flows well with the rest of the car,,,,got some wild grille ideas,,,will reveal later........now i need to FIND two hoods and possibly the upper cowl section that the hood lines up against,,,anyone have a parts car for sale???

 

You are a mad man!

 

hey,,thanks a lot,,,,,
appreciate that very much..