Features Sweet & Low

I wonder if Bernie ever ran skirts on it? I notice the front and rear caps don't match.

 

I was thinking the same thing. There's no stainless trim on the rear window, just magnify the photo and it's easy to tell.

 

It is kinda cool, but mismatched caps bug me and the Merc beltline trim seeems like it's in the wrong place. Needs to move forward. Fortunately we have Photoshop...



Skirts might help the flow. First, the factory skirts...


Then we'll try the deeper, flared aftermarket jobs...


Maybe an eyeball section job to adjust the roof-to-body proportions and really get the flow going...

 

nice work froghawk, now get that front end down about 1 1/2"

 

All of the above. However, I've always preferred the Packard taillights over the Lincolns. The grill area has too much open space and would look nicer with a '54 Chev bar with additional "teeth". Nice touch on the sectioning; '52 to '54s had way too much sheet metal above the wheel arches.
Had a '52 coupe I wanted to chop; that was 15 - 20 years ago. Did numerous photo copies (before photoshop), cut and paste, and came up with similar profiles. Even tried a forward slant on the 'B' pillar with radiused corners, but the quarter windows ended up looking like "54 Studebaker sedan quarters!
I really think these cars are still under rated as desirable candidates for mild customs.

Met a fella at Back to the Fifties about a decade ago --- was showing a chopped '54 tudor, tastefully done. Said he chopped his windshield in a snowbank using layers of duct tape and thick cardboard, then sandblasting the excess glass away, alternating front to back etc. He had to recess his rear window to make it appear lower. Has anyone tried the sandblasting method on rear glass?

 

Von Dyck

there are a few threads about cutting glass, and this one was just posted this week:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=865394

 

I like the chop.

 

Maybe a bit more than 1 1/2"?...

 

Looks like the back window has been changed when the did the chop, that's not a 52 to 54 back window, they sort of a wrap around on the stock fords

 

"Bernie tried cutting and shaping a windshield to fit the gaping hole out back. Incredibly it worked"

 

Perfectamundo

 

Clean car. The flared skirts and front lowering make that ride damn near perfect!

 

Sweet & Low was the name of a mini truck club in the town I grew up in.

 

Hmm,,, maybe froghawk could change the paint to black or another dark color.

 

Like it.