I am wanting to build a sedan that is 60's style anyone got some pics of any cars but 60's style? cutoms or hot rods, maybe can get some ideas from them. -Bigdaddy
60s style is a guy named Paul with a very wicked coupe and a few other secret projects... ...tends to favor big block Chevys and has been known to court 394 Olds mills as well... Mr Big spoke of him in song...."Green Tinted Sixties Mind"!!!
A dude here on the HAMB that has one of THE BADDEST cars around... he's had it for years... Seriously though... next time you're at a swap meet... invest in some of the magazines from that era... they are usually pretty cheap and will help you decide which part of the 60's you want to pattern your car after. Sam!
[ QUOTE ] Early 60's, Mid 60's or late 60's? [/ QUOTE ] East coast 60s, Mid-West 60s or West Coast 60s? Seattle, Portland or Nor Cal 60s, Salinas Valley 60s, or "Bellflower" 60s?
If you are serious, go to my link of my Chevy before I got my Pontiac. http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4063319&a=30416971&pw=
So-called 60s style probably actually got started around '57. It's Identified by custom wheels instead of Hubcaps, skinny whitwalls instead of WWWs. More Semi Customs with really extravagant paint graphics Ala Larry Watson style. Rear wheel openings were opened up to show off the custom chrome wheels and for a sportier look rather than ground dragging full skirts. Fender wells got tuck & Roll covers in them with colored lights lighting them up when cruising. MetalFlake was new and BIG, but usually it was used on the roof and the rest of the body would be a candy or pearl. Cars were lowered as low as the local roads (and cops) would allow and a few custom cars had hydraulics to be able to slide into a parking lot shooting colored sparks off the titanium skid plates. Hydraulics weren't just for "Lowriders" yet. A lowrider was the driver, who sat slouched down in the seat real cool, not a type of car then. The 60's style got corrupted around the time the GTO and R/Ts and Roadrunners came out, and the style got changed to a more hotrod, "muscle car" influenced multipurpose car. It might have been customized but it could also have "hotrod" perforance wheels and tires instead of "look cool" wheels and whitewalls. Those muscle cars pretty much stagnated a lot of peoples desire to build rods too, because a GTO would be cheaper (by the month) and a lot of guys got drafted in the mid 60's and that brought the whole street culture to a nap, for lack of participants. So 60s style is probably from '57 to around '65, then it starts changing into what continues into the 70s style.
to something like this: [thanks DRJ, your post helped. (if you really want to get a topic going ask the difference between 60's style and bellflower customs...) also check out books like hot rods and customs of the 1960's by Southard (he also did one on the 50's)]
Speaking of Watson, I have always loved the seaweed flamed 55 he did......I know niether one is it, but you get the idea I love seaweed flames!
i knew it was somebodys... but i got the pic post-photoshopping (i don't have those skills). just so happens the roof matches 8 yards of zodiac vinyl i have so it looks like i'll go with those colors... (chrome reversed wheels, different trim and grille treatment for me though)
[ QUOTE ] I like them all, but does someone have pics of hot rods done in any kinda 60's style -Bigdaddy [/ QUOTE ] If you mean street rod type of hotrods, then look to the sculpted grill shell twin lights etc. '59 cad lights were cool in the '60s. See lots of "50s style" rods running Cad lights. Only out one year then it was the '60s you do the math. Also narrow pleats as opposed to wide pleats. Diamond tuck was popular in some places. Chrome, chrome, chrome, the full on chromed to the max motors were really popular in the '60s. Cal custom stuff was cool. Barefoot gas pedals, 3 spoked wheels (especially metal flake) ribbed rocker covers etc. Chromed axles, rearends, in the '60s there was more money to be had and it was getting spent.
That 60 Chevy is one of THE coolest 60 Chevy's I have ever seen. The warpig 54 look is what I'm trying to talk my Dad into for his 54 Ford. He doesn't appreciate the flake though.
Here is a picture of the rear, They redid it in 1964 looks about like the chopped coupe bobbleed posted
Later in the 60's the Jefferson Airplane and Cream psychadelic influence hit. Lots of experimentation on the paintjobs influenced by guys like Art Himsel. Paint really got complicated. Lots of lace, 3D banners and scrolls, spiderweb, diamond dust, candy over gold or silver, sometimes all on the same car. Then the airbrushed murals started. Interiors had shag carpets and polar bear fur everywhere. Crushed velvet became popular. Fuzzy dice got replaced by roach clips with beads and feathers hanging from mirrors. I'm talking high school cars on the street here now. Not show cars. Butt Reynolds' Chevy would have fit right in at my high school if he had smoothies on it. But it wouldn't have been the wildest paint job. The Hot Rod guys were doing what they did on the drag strip. Biggest tires you could get on the back, jacked up with Hijackers and long shackles in the rear. Weak springs and 90/10 shocks in the front. Slappers or ladder bars. Hurst shifters. The car had to have that nose down/ass in the air stance. Hot Rods were where you saw primer patches. We broke shit so often we never had the time or money to finish the paint or interiors. Then the Van thing hit and everything went to shit from there... The van was like a clean slate. You could do anything to a van except make it go fast... Keep On Truckin!
Interesting post. I would like to see more photos. If I had a scanner I would scan all my late 50's and early 60's magazines for ya.
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