praisethelowered
09-04-2003, 05:57 PM
This is really a second intro since some computer trouble caused Ryan to have to re-start my count. But since my first intro sucked and had no photos and I am starting a new project I thought I should step up with a new one. I live in Los Angeles. For style I am into lowriders for the horizontal lines and paint patterns, rods for the form follows function stripped down attitude, and customs for the details and sculptural thing. In my cars I usually end up mixing aspects of them all which I guess makes me “multi-traditional “–TM but not by the little book traditional in any case.
I have been working on my third ’56 f-100 for about 6 years. First I subframed it, built up the engine and drove it for a few years. Then I decided that it needed to be bagged and painted so I pulled it off the road and bought a rusty as hell ’65 ranchero for a daily driver. Well, the sickness works in mysterious ways and I ended up giving the full treatment to the Ranchero which is now shaved and slammed on steelies with spyders and painted off-white with a silver flake top (by the HAMB’s own lownslow) and runs a tweaked as possible inline six through shorty pipes. . . anyway all I have are some older in-progress photos of that since I am still waiting for some chrome that has disappeared into the vortex of BumperBoyz Hell (but that is another topic). Here is a photo- more to come when I get “finished”.
So now I am working on a lowrider ’54 Chevy COE delivery truck to be used for a business. I bought this monster last week in the desert. It used to be a Schlitz beer truck. I need to keep it’s weight capacity up so I can’t just frame swap to a 3/4ton like a lot of guys have done. I plan on channeling the whole cab and box over the frame, moving the engine back a few feet and down between the frame rails (to let the cab drop down), bagging it and removing a few leaves from the parallel leaf springs front and rear, but I have to blow it apart first to see if that idea will work. Then I’m thinking a gold and orange flake paint job (gold cab and box sides and orange fenders and top sort of where the orange is now) and maroon pinstripes. Here is a shitty photoshop job that I used to picture the stance- but you get the idea.
Anyway, here is my question-
I need to get this thing going pretty quick since it isn’t just my personal ride. I figure I can do it in 6-8 months with some outside help on the paint and bag setup. I plan to tow this thing down to LA as soon as I can but I don’t have anywhere to work on it. So I am putting the word out that I need to rest some yard space. I have always worked outside and this thing is huge so I don’t need shop space- just a few parking spaces outside in a fenced area where I can pull this thing apart and put it back together. I can pay $50-$100 per month rent depending on the space and I need something pretty close to Echo Park / Glendale / Burbank so I can hop over after work and on weekend sand pound this thing out. Does anyone know anyone who knows anyone that might be able to help me out?
http://photo.starblvd.net/~praisethelowered/t1-1-2.jpg
I have been working on my third ’56 f-100 for about 6 years. First I subframed it, built up the engine and drove it for a few years. Then I decided that it needed to be bagged and painted so I pulled it off the road and bought a rusty as hell ’65 ranchero for a daily driver. Well, the sickness works in mysterious ways and I ended up giving the full treatment to the Ranchero which is now shaved and slammed on steelies with spyders and painted off-white with a silver flake top (by the HAMB’s own lownslow) and runs a tweaked as possible inline six through shorty pipes. . . anyway all I have are some older in-progress photos of that since I am still waiting for some chrome that has disappeared into the vortex of BumperBoyz Hell (but that is another topic). Here is a photo- more to come when I get “finished”.
So now I am working on a lowrider ’54 Chevy COE delivery truck to be used for a business. I bought this monster last week in the desert. It used to be a Schlitz beer truck. I need to keep it’s weight capacity up so I can’t just frame swap to a 3/4ton like a lot of guys have done. I plan on channeling the whole cab and box over the frame, moving the engine back a few feet and down between the frame rails (to let the cab drop down), bagging it and removing a few leaves from the parallel leaf springs front and rear, but I have to blow it apart first to see if that idea will work. Then I’m thinking a gold and orange flake paint job (gold cab and box sides and orange fenders and top sort of where the orange is now) and maroon pinstripes. Here is a shitty photoshop job that I used to picture the stance- but you get the idea.
Anyway, here is my question-
I need to get this thing going pretty quick since it isn’t just my personal ride. I figure I can do it in 6-8 months with some outside help on the paint and bag setup. I plan to tow this thing down to LA as soon as I can but I don’t have anywhere to work on it. So I am putting the word out that I need to rest some yard space. I have always worked outside and this thing is huge so I don’t need shop space- just a few parking spaces outside in a fenced area where I can pull this thing apart and put it back together. I can pay $50-$100 per month rent depending on the space and I need something pretty close to Echo Park / Glendale / Burbank so I can hop over after work and on weekend sand pound this thing out. Does anyone know anyone who knows anyone that might be able to help me out?
http://photo.starblvd.net/~praisethelowered/t1-1-2.jpg