Features The Definitive "MILD CUSTOM" Photo Thread....

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Thanks Mark for sharing the pics, I hadn't seen a lot of these before..

 

This is perfection.

 

Couple nice clean ones...

 

Where did the pictures come from. This one is from Davenport Iowa.

 

I love the old show photos too! Check out these from April 1960 Custom Cars magazine featuring the Seattle Rod & Custom Show. I now own the 37 Coupe which won “Best Rod in Show”...bottom of page 14.

 

Here’s the same car in September 1960 Rod & Custom...

 

And again in May 1961 Hot Rod...

 

They build them in the 21 century traditional build style these days. I do like the truly 50`s build style. There are still a few of us left.

 

Paint is by far the biggest difference IMO. Modern paints do not look anything like lacquer and to some extent enamel and it stands out like a sore thumb on modern builds. Second for me it the perfection that everything is built to these days that was not present in the past. It is subtle but I think it is something the eye picks up even if it doesn't register outside our subconscious. I always remember the article Harry Bradley did pointing out all the flaws in the Burgarin Merc that unless you really looked for them you probably wouldn't have noticed but your eye picks those types of anomalies up and it registers in the brain. And finally old pictures just look different than what we have become accustomed to looking at with modern digital pictures especially black and white pictures.

 

Restyled Jag XK 120 of Dennis Eyron. Sexy!!!

(Tony Brown photo)