The Ugliest Custom(no K)???

[safariknut]

Going thru some old stuff yesterday and came up with this one.How far we've come!

[safariknut]

the front

[StylinDylan]

DAMN! it's not even that low either!

Dylan

[safariknut]

I hope Butchie forgives me for posting this one.In front of his shop in the early 70's.The 34 he just sold last year after owning it for nearly 30 years.

[tinyelvis]

OUCH! MAN that thing is UUUU-GLY!

[Bruce Lancaster]

Look at all the useful space the Merc owner wasted--there's EASILY enough space there for two more of everything!

[52Chief]

They coulda put at least two more headlights and two more fins! Why not make it a dually, since they were doubling everything?

ICK!!!

[Machinos]

That reminds me of those drawings in the Kanter Auto Parts catalogue...except those are amusing, this one's just...upsetting

[DrJ]

I wonder... Is it a trend?
That metalflake T-bird with similar idea four tail lights that came out of a garage a couple years ago comes to mind.
No I didn't waste any film on it, so I can't show and tell...

I vaguely remember seeing pictures of that '55 Merc
Was it by chance a East coast car?
(Continental kits were more popular there is my hint...)

I'd like to see some more shots of that pot belly pig on wheels in the middle of the other shot, that looks like FUN!
(Drug induced concept?)

[safariknut]

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I wonder... Is it a trend?
That metalflake T-bird with similar idea four tail lights that came out of a garage a couple years ago comes to mind.
No I didn't waste any film on it, so I can't show and tell...

I vaguely remember seeing pictures of that '55 Merc
Was it by chance a East coast car?
(Continental kits were more popular there is my hint...)

I'd like to see some more shots of that pot belly pig on wheels in the middle of the other shot, that looks like FUN!
(Drug induced concept?)

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Yeah Doc that was an east coast car;from New Jersey if I remember right.
The other pic was taken in front of a friend of mine that I went to school with and we are still friends! The Great Pumpkin is still in a garage in Billerica MA( at least it was 10 years ago and I don't think it has moved).I have no idea who owned the VW with the 40 Ford nose or it's whereabouts. I'll call Butchie and see if he has any more pics of it.He did the glass work on it.
Ray

[Revhead]

That last one looks like a crime-fighting vehicle for The Tick.

[cleatus]

Man, I REALLY want to add a third fin on the back, but the darn conti kit is in the way....hey, I know....I'll just stick it on there off to one side....yeah, that looks sharp! The chicks are gonna dig me now!

[Sancho]

It really has four rear fins. In the first pic the rear quarter hides it. If you look at the second pic, you can see it.

[raven]

Now that's a Homer-mo-bile...

[cleatus]

No prob...I found the perfect solution!

[Nads]

Damn man, it's 1:45 p.m and I know I haven't been drinking, but I swear I'm seeing double.

Cleatus yer' killing me.

[DrJ]

Here's another classic love it or hate it car. It was featured in the December '61 R&C if you'r looking for info.
http://www.museumoftransport.org/images/darincar.jpg

That's probably the most flattering shot I've ever seen of it too....

(Stolen from; http://www.museumoftransport.org/roads-2.htm )

[Nads]

Not so much "The Shape of Things to Come" as much as "Come to the Shape of Things."

[metalshapes]

Cars like that are to easy and to obvious to pick on.
The worst crime ever commited by a customiser was the rehash of the Chrisman Coupe, not somuch because of the end result, but because that car was so perfect in its original form...
Fortunately it got brought back to its former glory.

[haring]

Go big or go home, I say ...

http://fedora.net/falconaut/various/uglymerc3.jpg

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Those double headlights make my eyes hurt http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[Action Girl]

Don,

That's fucking perfect!

Who's gonna build it?

[RPW]

</font><blockquote><font class="small">Svar till:</font><hr />
Here's another classic love it or hate it car. It was featured in the December '61 R&amp;C if you'r looking for info.


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Maybe the design of it got a bit carried away... BUT this car, The Di Dia 500 was designed early (if I remember right it was in 1954) and built by ClarKaiser with superior workmanship. To build it took 6 1/2 years, and did cost $150.000. The body is aluminum over a tube frame, all windows special made and so on. Red pearl paint in 30 coats...
About the look: Not a traditional custom, more of a dream car and very futuristic to be drawn in 54. The front looks OK and the fender cut-a-way do match the grille nice. (. Though, the upward pointing part of the rear is not that pretty (maybe with Buck Rogers eyes?). And when it was finished fins were already out of fashion...

About the four eyed Merc: Plain ugly. Not a custom as I see it, only a car with a lot of parts added (seen it before in an old Custom Cars Annual and I know its not a Californian custom...)

[Smokin Joe]

Haring, that looks like something the marines would use to assault the beach. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

As for the 40 Ford/VW, those used to be pretty popular kits. There was a company that made the 40 front end and the ever popular Rolls Royce front end. I wanted to stick a willys front on one and make it a Stone Woods &amp; Cooke/ baby brother gasser. Just no way to stuff big tires in the back tho... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

And that last custom reminds me of when we used to bottom fish off the back of the ship when I was in the NAVY:
Hey guys, what the hell is this thing.
Damned if I know, ugly bastard, 'spose it's edible?
Nothing that looks like that could possibly be edible.
Throw it back...Kill it first...One of those is enough! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Kevin Lee]

I want to see the effed up version of the Chrisman car. I think I may have seen it in hotwheel form or some Johnny lightning SURF ROD? Looked like the Chrisman A only with differnet paint and wheelpants I think?

[DrJ]

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I want to see the effed up version of the Chrisman car. I think I may have seen it in hotwheel form or some Johnny lightning SURF ROD? Looked like the Chrisman A only with differnet paint and wheelpants I think?

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That's it, gull wing doors and "streamlined" fairings behind the wheels.

[Sancho]

Here it is Grimlok, the hammered up version Barris did that was used on an episode of 'The many loves of Dobie Gillis'

[Nads]

RPW, in IMHO, the Di Dia is not so much a 'dream car' as it is a 'bad dream car.'

[JimC]

Slow day on the Hokey Ass Message Board, guys?

Jim

[52Chief]

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Go big or go home, I say ...

http://fedora.net/falconaut/various/uglymerc3.jpg

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Thank you, you made my day! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[lurker mick]

Here's a pic of the "Pumpkinrod" taken at the 1977 NSRA street rod nationals in St Paul.
Musta been a pre 48 pumpkin!
Mick

[Action Girl]

That thing is great... It's totally hideous, but so is the weinermobile!

[littledeucecoupe427]

Hell that car got a SERIOUS beating with the ugly stick.

[Colonel Ingus]

Go big or go home, I say ...

http://fedora.net/falconaut/various/uglymerc3.jpg

Holy hell I shit my pants laughing at your post!
Sorry for the threadsurection but what happened to the photos? and what happened to this thread: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110240&&showall=1 ?

[ROADRAT EDDIE]

Go big or go home, I say ...

http://fedora.net/falconaut/various/uglymerc3.jpg

Now that should've been "Christine"

[Chopper Demon]

It kinda makes you dizzy when you look at it too long.:eek:

[sojerscraper]

i have a ton of hot rod, car craft & poplular hot rodding mags from the late 50s through the 60s. in a few of them there are sections where the editors take pictures of cars & cut them all up & add parts or shrink the length down. even copy/reverse parts like that pic above. just fooling around kind stuff. i think they also give you a picture of a car to cut up on your own. it was a cool section of the mag that was just for laughs & to encourage you to cut up pics on your own & have fun with it.