Customs What are the top 20 best custom shoe boxs out there.

I'm looking for inspiration, and what better way to get it, by looking at the top 20 shoe boxs..lets see what your favorite ones are. Hope to see some I've never seen before..enjoy

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I will kick it off. Since I love shoebox fords and the proud owner of one ,here are my top three..1) weesners shoebox. 2) junior Conway's..master piece .3) Buster littons panoramic ford ,beautiful kustom..

 

here are the pics

 

Billy Gibbon's Kopperhead coupe. Designed by Steve Stanford. Awesome.

 

Royalshifters Victoria

 

I second that.

 

Any others from years ago with photos,
Seeing that there are so many shoebox fords on the h.a.m.b.love these cars
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i like this one.

 

These are kick ass, anymore out there.

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Royalshifters vic has to be my favorite recent build...

 

always been a fan of this one.my freind owns it but doesnt take her out much.

 

For chopped cars, I would have to say Buster Litton's '49 coupe, Royalshifter's '51 Victoria, or this convertible (I don't know who owned it).







For unchopped cars, I would have to go with Junior Conway's '50 coupe, Leroy Goulart's '51 coupe, or Tad Hirari's '50.







For sectioned cars, gotta go with the Ron Dunn '50, either version, or this unidentified car.

 

For style,[and keeping good taste]Royalshifters wife's car wins hands down.....most older customs look cluttered up with too many modifications to look their best.
A local car that is cool is my friend Geri's shoebox done mostly by her husband Bob[spidercoupe here].....
It was selected top 25 at Salina.

 

GOTGAS; Quote(For chopped cars, I would have to say Buster Litton's '49 coupe, Royalshifter's '51 Victoria, or this convertible (I don't know who owned it).

That 50 Vert you posted belonged to Roger Cunningham of Portland Oregon. It was on the cover of November 1956 Rod&Custom. I have been searching for Verifyabol information on that car for many years. I think it needs to be parked in my Garage next to my 51 Vicky.
The Wizzard

 

For me, it's always been the Jim Karcher/Ray Soff Connecticut Yankee 50 convertible..

 

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Wow very nice cars....any older styled shoe box photos out there

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Victoria's Secret, Hombres Ruin's, and 50Fraud's ride are three current Fords that look pretty darned good to me.

Here's 50Fraud's ...

 

Pretty sweet ..

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Hey Ed thanks for the shout out, much appreciated for sure

 

I enthusiastically agree with all of these:









(Paul Bragg)


(Thanks, Ed -- I like it too!)

I would add these:






...and I recommend reviewing this thread, which has a good number of cool shoeboxes in it:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=512524

 

Sorry but I can't seem to post pix--Not really a HAMB-friendly as it was built by Sam Foose and updated by Chip, but still beautiful!!

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I'm sure there's a ton I didn't think of, but those are some that came to mind.

With shoeboxes its really easy to make them look like you just threw a bunch of stuff on them hoping to make them extravagant like a '59 Cadillac.

Its best to just accept them for the simple smooth styling they are and make a tasteful custom.

 

That's a very cool car; an ingenious design, a huge amount of work, and impeccable detailing. But I don't think its radicalness has aged as well as some other less extreme customs.

BTW I think it's completely HAMB friendly. Every bit of it could have been done in the '50s; just nobody thought to do it.

 

Sellers shoebox always did it for me


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I been meaning to bump this for a while, anyone know its where abouts?

 

Casny's was pretty sweet

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Some real beauties. .

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