I like everything about it except the Thunderbird script on the spear. Don't think it have sold that well if they did build it, a little to upscale for a pickup. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
It is indeed a photoshop, I bet if you Google Image Search the pics, you could pin down it's origin. Would be a cool one to make come to life.
yup, it was photoshop. originally posted on a thread here: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1960-t-bird-ranchero.713470/#post-7932933
Here is an interesting.."close but no cigar" for you....work has been done a while back at least.....four doors this one. Enh...... Cali CL post https://sacramento.craigslist.org/cto/4649746940.html
Not in to customs but often wondered why no one ever built one like this. I think it's very cool!!!!!!
There was one on EBay several years ago, bed wasn't finished and rear of the top had been narrowed but still looked good. I have a mild custom 60 T-Bird and would like to see one built into a Ranchero.
Photoshop or not, that is one nice looking ride. It would be interesting to see how the rear is finished. I looked at a lot of Tri-5 conversions before I did my 56 so that I could get the rear window lines to look more factory rather than just added on. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/some-pics-of-my-friends-1956-elcamino.399170/
Geez......that looks great ! I hate these conversions usually....have to rethink that hate now to just dislike......yours is bad ass. Ambitious project, I'll bet. Goes to say that anything can be done though, huh ? Good job.
I do not know if he has still got it,but Rays Classics in San Paulo had one for sale,needed some minor work doing to it.
well thatsd a lot of pictures for a photoshop, go look for your self, craigs list up in nebraska area, omaha is where i saw it
Des Moines, not Omaha, and it's not that car, but a similar one. http://desmoines.craigslist.org/cto/5154055697.html
Gee...I thought it (the white '60) looked like a Richard Lokke custom. His name came right to mind. Cracks me up when some ditz around here sees a nice Ranchero...and calls it an El Camino... There was a restored '57 Ranchero in San Jose that got front-ended in '77... "Crazy George" Hoffman in Campbell was commissioned to fix it. The owner wanted it 'restored to its original state'. Period. George talked to him, and the Ranchero was updated with an Edsel Ranger front sheet metal, some minor frame addition, and was meticulously finished. Many second looks, it was a jewel. One of the best 'phantoms' I have ever seen. I remember several Cadillac 'Flower cars', (East coast Coach retros) thought then to be offerings from GM Cadillac. A few made their way out here to CA., (all of them '63-'65) I wondered if some were body shop 'conversions'...
That's not the same car, the beauty in the O.P,'s post is a '60, the Des Moines car is a '59. Just compare them. Night and day.
the pic in the OP is a photoshop job, not a real car. I'm suprised someone even tried to make a real one, like the add posted Here is the original photo.
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