View Full Version : pics of the jimmy shine truck
Fastsporty
11-20-2003, 03:17 AM
These are pics I took at the sema show, I felt I should put them in a seperate post because I 'm sure everybody will put in their .02 . This is what I know and or feel, when django came out to L.A. one of our stops was so-cal I think just the tail gate was done and also those little side do-hickeys. Which leads me to believe he probably got that truck a week before at the most. and I believe django showed up maybe two weeks before SEMA, so I don't think he did a bad job in three weeks. so here are the picks from the show. first the leave behind which visualy is ok but the bio thing is totaly gay.
Fastsporty
11-20-2003, 03:18 AM
the truck as a whole.
Fastsporty
11-20-2003, 03:19 AM
shine logo
Fastsporty
11-20-2003, 03:21 AM
the tail gate section, I am not particulary fond of the spacing at the bottom edge, I think it needs to be spaced like the top before the panel ends
Fastsporty
11-20-2003, 03:24 AM
these wheels are nice except for the etched boyd script. but I bet he did it for free and since the center caps already had the v8 logo on them he has to brand them somehow
Fastsporty
11-20-2003, 03:25 AM
and lastly the hood and the phenlom(sp) system
Machinos
11-20-2003, 03:43 AM
With the possible exception of the injector stacks, everything about that truck just looks really, really wrong to me.
Christian
11-20-2003, 03:56 AM
fake patina on a brand new truck?
Machinos
11-20-2003, 04:06 AM
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fake patina on a brand new truck?
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And billet wheels that are sposed to look like wooden spokes... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
jimmie crack corn and I don't care........
Jkustom
11-20-2003, 04:15 AM
wow, I really dont know about that... -J.
Skate Fink
11-20-2003, 04:24 AM
..........trying TOO hard??? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Fastsporty
11-20-2003, 04:28 AM
mrcole your up rather late.one other detail you can not see from the photos is the body appears to be bead blasted but me thinks he just shot small flake and then a clear with a flatner over it.
GAY!
No different from the hillbillys that get ahold of a new dodge and STICK on scoops, antennas, stickers, spoilers... even if those mods function... it "looks" fake. Whatever he was trying to pull off FAILED.
kustombuilder
11-20-2003, 04:31 AM
talk about selling out and going comercial. Jimmy is a talented guy but what were they thinking??? he's become an advertising tool for So Cal Speed Shop. i hated those wheels on his cool truck, should go back to the wires. i bet the old skool wires would look better on that other "thing" too. it's just WRONG!!!
screamindave
11-20-2003, 06:07 AM
I won't accuse Jim of "selling out" or "going commercial" because, frankly, if you're concerned about selling out, you do it the first time you concede to anyone who's paying you to do something you don't want to do. I know the guy well enough to know that he does what he wants and doesn't give much of a rat's ass what other people think. At the point that he became enough of a marketable commodity at So-Cal that he got his own line of shirts and a guitar, he also became the in-house trad-rodder, and with all of So-Cal's OEM connections, he also became their "connection to the youth". I like Chapouris. I like Thacker, I like Shine, and I like what that company's done. They've built a killer brand, they've made some good deals, and they've built a lot of cool cars. As I said in a previous post, at the point that Ford decided they wanted a "Shine F-150", they were trying to capitalize on the history of the Ford truck. Nobody involved with that operation would tell you different. And at the point Shine decided to align himself with that, well, he made his decision. And frankly, at this point in his career, if he felt like he were being exploited, he could go damn near anywhere he pleases, or even start his own shop. Apparently, he's stuck with So-Cal because it works for him.
I liked the wires on Jim's truck, but I also dig the new wheels. And I wouldn't be surprised if Boyd did the wheels for free in exchange for the script on the spokes. After all, the modded Stude wheels on the '34 were jigged up at Boyd's place. Frankly, if you like the F-150 or don't (I personally think it's pretty cool, though I share the opinion that it was probably done pretty quickly--the Lincoln LS So-Cal did for last year's SEMA show was done in nine days), if you were gonna accuse Shine of selling out, you should've done it the moment he stopped building cars for himself.
Quick bit of full disclosure: I write for a magazine in which So-Cal advertises, and they once gave me a car to drive for ten days halfway across the country and back. This post can't help but be informed by those experiences, but those experiences also have led me to believe that, although they charge far too much for their t-shirts, So-Cal's a good company--and independent of that, they've built a number of cars I'm really into. That said, they *do* have their eyes on the dollars, but in a way that I don't feel is unethical or lame. Building cars and exploring ideas about them is what they do. At the core, they're a hot rod shop, and they kick a lot back into the grassroots community; more than most companies their size would. Okay. End of sermon.
Rock.
Dave.
gonowhere
11-20-2003, 06:14 AM
Looks like hotrodding finally has there own "Jesse James". I wonder when he will have a show on Discovery Channel?
Zodoff
11-20-2003, 07:19 AM
WHY?
slacker_53
11-20-2003, 07:38 AM
Next thing they'll get him to do is spray bomb a Focus and it'll be just as cool.
What a lame idea.......and you still couldn't afford it.
Flatheads forever http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
RocketDaemon
11-20-2003, 07:40 AM
his hotrod kicks ass totally a real cool car
that f150 is not...
i dont really mind newer cars modern pickups can be made quite cool, so its not about that...
slacker_53
11-20-2003, 07:49 AM
I really like Shine's projects, for the most part. I just think this truck goes in the wrong direction, it just doesn't work for me. I guess it's all a matter of taste, thank God we don't all like the same things or the world would be boring.
Flatheads forever http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
modernbeat
11-20-2003, 08:36 AM
Truck sucks.
Jimmie is a tool and he knows it and doesn't let that bother him. Still does his own thing, but lets the old white men use his name.
Watch the homegrown movie "The Target Shoots First".
roadstar
11-20-2003, 08:36 AM
Well Screamindave I like So-cal too. And I like Shine, hell we hung out and drank beer for awhile in the hotel parking lot in bonniville and him and my son hit it off really well.(me and his father-in-law laughed at them). HIS 34 pick-up is one of the coolest hot rods ever built.
Butt......That late model F-100 looks like something HATCH would photoshop for a good laugh here on the HAMB. The louvers are ok in the tailgate but the wheels are stupid looking as well as the hood treatment. And FAKE zoomies,Whats up with that?
Just MY opinion. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
hatch
11-20-2003, 08:45 AM
I'm not sure if I would've wasted THAT much time photoshopping a new F150...(well, maybe a photoshopped confederate flag)....The truck sure looks like a "KmartKustom" to me!!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
colorado51
11-20-2003, 08:55 AM
Looks like nothing but a bunch of fake bolt-on stuff to me.
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Kind of like what the kids are doing with imports these days. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
fab32
11-20-2003, 09:07 AM
Next time anyone sees him ask to see his bank balance. I'm betting its HUGE compared to before he got recognition with So-Cal. Its seems lately anyone who "Sells out" is a target. When you're all alone and no one can read your mind ask yourself, WOULD I DO THE SAME? There are about 98% who would and the other 2% are the REAL PEOPLE. Just my opinon.
Frank
Antibilly
11-20-2003, 09:14 AM
BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!! keep it on the west coast please http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
Fat Hack
11-20-2003, 09:17 AM
Available at your local Ford dealer right next to the Harley Davidson model this coming Fall...
Ha Ha Ha...that'd be gay even in MICHIGAN! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Harrison
11-20-2003, 09:49 AM
Hell, I'm not scared, I like it. ESPECIALLY the wheels.
Could live without the signs on the doors though.
JH
SamIyam
11-20-2003, 11:46 AM
Except for the zoomies and the fake injector stacks... it's a pretty col truck.
Sam.
Smokin Joe
11-20-2003, 12:25 PM
Hell, add on the mudflaps with the chrome nekkid wimmins, some Pep Boys cup holders, a sheepskin steering wheel cover, Calvin pissing on something in the back window and one of those PVC pipe roll/light bars with some KC's and this puppy's done! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I hope he likes it.
Boones
11-20-2003, 12:26 PM
Dont minde the wheels (are they red?) and the louvers but the zoomies are wrong... Needs to be lowered also.. I mean alot.. couldn't they find a suspension shop to sponser them.. What is up with the "Outlaw Division" statement... I was at So-Cal a few months back and they had a good looking Linclon LS (?) in the parking I liked some nice tricks done to it..
FrameDragger
11-20-2003, 12:44 PM
Oof... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
It's not his talent, It's just that after doing an old truck like he did, It's very hard to piss backwards on something like that.Theres just not much of a statement anyone can make to a new truck. He should of just cleaned it up with a nice paint job and wheels insted of trying to hard to be cute.--TV http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Kilroy
11-20-2003, 01:20 PM
I don't think he intended it to be a late-model version of his extreme hot rod truck. I think it's an experiment aimed at the same old men that employ him. I think he wanted to build a nice truck with some interesting mods.
I'm not interested...
I think it is kinda cool but in a boring, why bother sort of way. He could have taken a bone stock silver f150, put those wheels and tires on it and lowered it and impressed me just as little.
I'd change the stupid hood and pipes and drive it...
Unkl Ian
11-20-2003, 02:03 PM
It's a late model.Enough said.
Gook Wagon.
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metalshapes
11-20-2003, 02:51 PM
Compared to his real Truck that thing is as gay looking as the Village People Leather Boy, but I'm sure building it was worth his while, so he wins.
Kids driving around in theyr Nissans and Toyotas feel like bad asses wearing his T shirts, so they win too.
And some hardcore Hot Rodders get to spend some quality time bitching about it on the HAMB, so everybody wins.
What was the problem again?
4t64rd
11-20-2003, 03:24 PM
Ford will build them, as tow vehicles for billet 350/350 '32 roadsters. Just like the HD F-150. I can see the ads in Street Rodder now.
And for the cherry on top... they will have to build the 4 door version! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
<font color="green"> what an inspiration that fame and\or fortune isn't automatically cool </font>
<font color="blue"> at least put a gun rack on there </font>
tp AKA ZIBO
mytlo56
11-20-2003, 05:06 PM
Man, I love his rod...but for a guy w/ a lot of talent the new truck is kind of, um, shoddy. I've seen plenty of stylistacly challenged rednecks throw something together that looked just as good if not better.
haring
11-20-2003, 05:27 PM
My prophecy of GIANT CONESTOGA WAGON WHEELS making a comeback is one step closer to reality! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
http://fedora.net/falconaut/various/bigwheels.jpg
(I'm getting as much mileage out of this photoslopped image as I can ... and it's sitting on my server so it's not eating up any HAMBwidth.) http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Kojack
11-20-2003, 05:29 PM
It's not THAT bad... I've seen Mexicans do worse. The only thing I really dig are the stacks out of the hood and the louvers are kinda cool.
Django
11-20-2003, 05:54 PM
Had I not seen him working on it in person, there is no way I would believe that was built by Jimmy Shine.
The drawing looked WAY better. What happened? I'm guessing his hands were tied as to what could and couldn't be done to it since Ford was sponsoring it. Can't have the new model promo piece too unrecognizable from the standard F150. Too bad they didn't let him chop the top. And I've got So-Cal Speedshop Tshirts that are designed better than that crap they put on the door...
http://www.mdesignstudio.com/chad/socal/socalspeedshop/images/IMG_1671.jpg
praisethelowered
11-20-2003, 06:18 PM
I turn down weak projects in my field. A lot of other people turn down weak projects in a lot of other fields.
Money isn't an excuse at that level. If you need the money for subsistence it is a valid excuse to do just about anything. Hungry people are desperate and rightly so. But if it's just to raise your income from upper middle class to upper class it's not a valid excuse.
That thing just reaks of cynical sell-out bullshit. I don't know how much $ he made but I would say he lost more in the long run.
Deyomatic
11-20-2003, 06:35 PM
I see where you are going, Praisethelowered, and I agree, but after this, now all the people wanting gawdy "retro styled" and bling bling junk know who he is, and will more than likely kick up a few bucks for Shine merchandise, so while he may not have as many traditionalists honking his horn, his name is now known in the other end of the hobby.
oldandkrusty
11-20-2003, 07:49 PM
Well now, I see that someone has opened this can of worms so I guess can add my 2 cents worth. I saw this truck at SEMA and was really confused by what Jimmy S. was trying to depict. The spoke wheels were just plain wrong and ugly to boot. I looked and looked at them and they just shouted out "UGLY"! Then I looked at the thingies poking out of the hood. I couldn't determine if they were supposed to be simulations of the old Autolite inline 4-bbls or if they were supposed to be zoomies. In either case, just wrong. I was so put off by the hood thingies and the spoke wheels that I never really got around to the back of the truck to check out the louvered tailgate. I like it! There, I said something goods about the thing. I do wish that Jimmy S. would have done something more in line with what he has kind of made his bones with but, with Ford spending the dollars and a limited time frame in which to turn things around, I can see where things don't always turn out the way you want them. Such is life.
hatch
11-20-2003, 07:55 PM
I think some people are just out of their element. Jimmy knows great hotrod design and fabrication...not so on the late model shit. Now Chip Foose...thats another guy who knows design and fabrication and doesn't seem to step outside of his area of expertise.....both making money, but only one who seems to stay with what he is great at.
born2late
11-20-2003, 09:30 PM
What is the bullshit excuse that he did not have time to do a decent job because of the deadline? Ford has had those test mules on the road for a year or better. If you only have time to do a half assed job don't take on the work!! The thing is ugly as shit. Tough job he had cuz the stock truck is ugly as shit to. God, pick a theme and stick with it. Look's like he just threw a bunch of ideas at it in hopes someone would find one of them to be a statement. Dumb!! Boyd was involved with something ugly--shocker!!
daddylama
11-20-2003, 09:53 PM
Ive seen trucks south of the border with less tackiness...
no offence, of course.
badpat
11-21-2003, 02:09 AM
"outlaw division" nuff said
badpat
11-21-2003, 02:21 AM
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Harrison
11-21-2003, 09:51 AM
Hell, I still like it. ESPECIALLY the wheels.
JH
bigron
11-21-2003, 10:20 AM
i geuss i fit in the jealous catagory. i wish i could have something everyone would copy so could make millions of it.
just keep buying dam lottery tickets and driving my junk in stead.
hotrodladycrusr
11-21-2003, 10:40 AM
Yikes! Gay looking for sure http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
36couper
11-21-2003, 12:15 PM
The new truck? Brutal. 'nuff said.
Brush's '32 p.u is going to put Shine's p/u to shame.
redoxide
11-21-2003, 09:18 PM
Pass a bucket I think im gonna be sick!!! that is a complete sell out .. and i dont think by doing that piece of crap so cal (never mind "shine" ) have done themselves any favours .. If you put your name to a product it shoud be class not crass. Cheep Tacky Tasteless garbage.. Had a friend watch shine do his stuff.. he wasnt impressed! maybee it was an "off day"? I think he musta did this truck in an "off week" maybee he realy aint as good, but hes marketed well. most things that come from so cal despite being costly are usualy prety neat, this effie has what appears to be $100 of bolt ons.. geez even the corny maltese cross is squint, did they take it down to the local junior school to be done.. ? and any one with an eye for ballance could tell you that the last two lower rows of louvres shoulda been left out.. imho.. cant believe that Ford even showed it .. man that is horrible .nothing a match and a gallon of gas could'nt cure though..
MoFoMOD
11-21-2003, 10:12 PM
I hope he makes a million!
MoFoMOD
11-21-2003, 10:16 PM
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BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!! keep it on the west coast please http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
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isn't ford made in detroit...
ramrod
11-21-2003, 10:18 PM
No fucking good!!!!!
4eva4banger
11-21-2003, 10:37 PM
I agree with screamindave. I have got to know the guys at SO-CAL a little and I think they do a great job - traditional rodding, hot rod restoration, OEM concepts, clothing and apparel, marketing and branding. They have the market covered in every possible way. When ever someone is in the limelight people are very quick to knock them at their success and how much money they have or dont have. Good on them I say and I like the F-150, I think you will find that they arent fake zoomies.
briggs&strattonChev
11-22-2003, 12:24 AM
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BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!! keep it on the west coast please
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isn't ford made in detroit...
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yeah, but I believe the "SO-CAL" (!!!!!) speed shop is like somewhere in california, south maybe???? lol just given ya shit
I like the ford harley trucks, and hate this one
the 2004 truck bodies SUCK more than the last style did!
Shines 34 pu is sweet, but still isnt as sweet as the Rocky 33,
those rims SUCK, it was a bad concept and then they painted them red, making it worse
D Picasso
11-22-2003, 12:38 AM
where's the beef?
**DONOTDELETE**
11-22-2003, 12:44 AM
what the hell was he smokin http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
"Today it takes a unique rodder to squirt a couple of gallons of non-reflective,dull gray on his multi-louvered, stock-hinged car and stand out in the midst of th multitude. He might even bemuse himself with the thought, "The money I save on the paint job can be spent o the motor.) Look out street rodders, hot rodders are creeping back in the ranks!"
Anyone know when and by who that was written?
slacker_53
11-22-2003, 10:07 AM
The new F-150s are built in Kansas City. I like'em better than the old style, but this truck sucks. None of the rod tricks work. I know he did it for the money, so what, it's the same reason you get outta bed everyday. Shine's made a name for himself and I hope he's making lots of green, there's nothing wrong with that.
Flatheads forever http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
OK, I'll tell ya...
It was Bill Burnham in Bill's Eye View November 1987 Street Rodder.
(This has been a public service post for those young readers who hadn't learned to by 1987)
Mai Ki-Ki
11-22-2003, 08:39 PM
Putting on red spoked wheels...not dissimilar to the 32PU.
Putting on rear 1/4 louvers....not dissimilar to the 32PU.
Painting it to look like steel.not dissimilar to the 32PU.
Just a shit modern version of the 32.
"Hand me the gas can..."
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