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

Cool hauler...

 

Nice Argentine mild custom Ford.

 

What have we here....

 

(Photo: Classic Scene, Hector Ramirez)

 

Hartford, 1958...


(Ol' Skool Rodz)

 

What is this thing? Looks like a 49-52 Chevy coupe roof on a '50 Plymouth maybe? I would really like to know what and how this was done. It looks really good.

 

It’s a Plymouth...

 

It's a Plymouth but it appears to have a GM roof. A radical kustom disguised as a mild kustom...

 

Nope, just a flattering angle of a stock Plymouth coupe roof.

 

Nope, I read somewhere on the HAMB that it does have a Chevy roof. I'm sure someone will chime in with the info.

 

Here's both pictures together

 

Here is his Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/schroederbuilt/?hl=en
50 Plymouth, Chevy roof(slightly chopped), Rear fenders are longer(from a 1950 Chrysler). Plymouth skirts.

 

Construction photos:


Before/after:

 

Those photos help explain my confusion: He kept the Plymouth windshield and forward portion of the roof!

 

@straykatkustoms posted this rear quarter view over on the "Kustom Blues" thread.

 

What a great change!!!



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That is beautifully executed, very well done. Builder did an excellent job. I'm impressed with how well the two roofs melded together, looks like the width was just right.

 

And the boxy Mopar roof is (for good or bad) such an iconic aspect of that design. The early '50s Chevy rear roof almost pushes it to look like a '53-4 Chevy from that angle.

 

Maybe one of the Photoshop guys should do a Chev with a Plymouth roof.



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Swapping a roof should put this in the full custom thread...

 

I want to know how you came up with the idea. I'm jealous of you imagination. Very, very well done.

 

Exceptional car. Really terrific work...congrats!
But like half the other cars in this thread...NOT “MILD”. [emoji85]
Look up the definition gents...

Per Hot Rod Magazine Custom Car Yearbook #1 (published 1963) there are four categories of Customs: Mild, Moderate, Semi, and Full.

“Mild classification, generally speaking, are cars which have been modified by bolt-on items. These can have substitutions, additions, and eliminations of accessories and certain componenents. Almost always, the items that are involved can be purchased from automotive accessory stores throughout the country. Falling into this group would be such things as spotlights, hubcaps, chrome trim exchanges, exterior painting, wire of deeply recessed wheels, radio aerials, chrome or plastic grille changes, outside exhausts, chrome taped strips, etc.”

Sooo...no chopped roofs, no frenched lights, or major chassis mods. Get the picture??

Moderate, Semi, and Full Customs...please for the love of God...move along. LOL

I look forward to seeing some ‘real’ MILD customs in this thread!

 

In 1959, Elmer Stice, our neighbor across the street, bought a new '59 Galaxie 2 door post! I was just 7 years old, but enamored with the car! At that early age my older brother, Harold, had already started tutoring me about the rod 'n custom phenomena that had swept America! Criteria that I remember for a car to be cool was that it needed to be a two door, have a stick transmission, and be a v/8! Elmer's ford met that criteria, being a tudor with a base 292 and standard transmission! Elmer kept the car immaculate, and as his discretionary income permitted, he would customize his new ford. J.C. Whitney was his main, mail-order parts vendor. A tube grill and custom taillight lenses were the first that I noticed. Lake pipes, first flippers and then chrome wheels, were parts of the later orders, plus a bunch of do-dads! Elmer was a hard working bread truck driver with a family to support who needed a home! Those life factors mandated that he be practical. He was not going to destroy perfect factory paint by doing unpractical modifications like removing the door handles and emblems! Cars like these were replete in our community. J.C. Whitney, Honest Charlie and the rest all had a thriving business. The unchallenged perspective was that Elmer and the others like him, that drove their cars on a daily basis, had customized their cars. An accessorized custom was commonplace in the late 50s, early 60s and that era is firmly in the realms of what is established by this site as being represented as traditional. Thank you very much for pointing this out, 32Stoker! Myself, I am puzzled and disappointed when I see a custom car that is being represented as a mild custom, and I do not recognize the original make and/or model of that car! And part of my older brothers tutoring was instructions on being able to recognize every car that went down the pike!