Customs 8 day wonder the "santa maria special" chopped 57 chrysler

this years west coast customs cruzin nationals @ santa maria marked the beatniks 2oth anerversary and since we didnt have anything new to bring we desided to pull the chrysler out of hibernation and thrash on it the only catch was we had only 8 days and 3 guys to get a long list of things done
body work
prime
wet sand
seal
sand
paint
re locate gas tank and mount inside of trunk ( hung to low )
make new filler neck
lower rear of car sits to high
make door panels , package try panel & rear panels
apollstery above panels
clean & die rear t bird seat
paint inside garnish moldings
install rear glass
so with the lilttle bit of time we had it was only naterial to have time limetts on things like body work and time spent on the interior we gave our selves 2 days to get as much of the body work done as we could
the paint was going to have to be done by wensday so we would have all day thursday to put the car together that ment i was going top have to do a 20 hr or more paint job in 12 hrs
so fasten your seat belts folks enjoy the ride

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And you have time to make movies!
Ambitious project, Hope you make it.
Good Luck, KK

 

I like it...

 

I like the proportions.

This one gets the "Attaboy"!

 

white sealer



then i did a fade with silver sealer

 

brought to you by H of K




then we did a lil nib action

 

Rad!

 

all nibed ready for kolor

 

lets get this party started
a lil bit of passion peral action mixed with peral white 8 to 1

 

love it

 

It's tough to tell in pictures but that color appears to be real close to a color Pontiac had in '65 & '66 called Iris Mist.

 

thanxs we did make it

 

ok now its time for the real fad i tried something i never have before i layed down H of K white sealer then did a fad with silver Hof K ko seal then mixed my light purple and shot the whole car this is the result above now we will go with the darker purple!


this segment brought to you by lil daddy roth flake

 

Very nice!

 

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Holy Shit Alex!!!!!!

If this were an 80s movie, I'd be starting a slow clap right now!

 

Sweet stuff!
I'm digging the paint on that car.

Looks so much better than the 'blunt' purple on my own '57. My heap has just too much purple going on on it..




Been thinking of lacing the roof or do a good scallop-job with gold/bronze orso.

How much is that Chrysler chopped? About 2 or 3" I would guess?

 

Very Cool car, would like to see more photos that shows the fading.

 

too cool love them chryslers...the first start with the silver fade looked very cool also..thank for pics

 

damn that is sexxxy beyond sexxxy...

 

I think you should be thinking about the next tech week and be ready for it with a paint fade tech.

That's pretty damn cool.

 

Lookin' better with every new post.

Is that going to stay with a satin finish or is it getting a deep coat of clear for depth?

Either way it'll look cool.

Now, I'm waiting for those parking lot burnouts you promised!

 

2 inch strait down i think

 

Awesome!

I saw this car on craigslist a few months back and then REALLY noticed it in folks' Santa Maria pics... so were you selling it then, or did you just recently buy it?

 

door panels

package try

door panel

 

ok now to relocate the filler neck and gas tank
\old filler neck

gas tank hung down way to low cant beleve they instaled it like that
wish i had a better pic


ok while dan was working on the tank and filler neck it was time to lower the back of this car YES now bags!

i got rid of a leaf put made a spacer out of it

 

get er done
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