Features The Definitive "MILD CUSTOM" Photo Thread....

Mick Tully's "Golden Galleon" Chevy is one of my all-time favorites.
It still exists, but in much modified form.

Personally, I think it is just perfect as seen here.
Check the custom grille-work around the headlights (fortunately, still on the car.)

(From Kustomrama)

 

Correct, that is what he told me. Johnny is a KooL dude!

 

Hello,

In high school, there were a group of us that each owned cars: 53 mild custom Chevy Bel Air 2 door hardtop, a 56 custom silver Chevy with white, tuck and roll, chromies, duals and a floor shift. A fast 57 Chevy Bel Air, lowered rake, 2x4 quads, headers, and a custom 4 speed with traction bars. A 55 2 door post Chevy lowered rake, custom accessories and a floor shifter. Finally, my 58 Impala with all of its go fast goodies, different rims/wheels, C&O Stick Hydro, Racer Brown cam, solids, chrome stuff, etc. An all Chevy group that just happened, because our car repairs and mods could be interchanged easily.

One of our friends always rode around in each of those Chevy sedans. He did not have a car, but was working on getting one that was different. One day, he drove up in a 53 white Pontiac. It was his pride and joy. It was an automatic, 6 cylinder, cool looking Pontiac Sedan. It was similar to a 52 Chevy sedan that we would see cruising around our high school area.

He knew it was as stock as it could be, but like all other high school kids, it was his first real car that he bought on his own. If he put in a big v8 and stick shift, that would cost a ton of more money, despite all of us doing the work for free…(well, the cost would be a lunch at Russell’s Restaurant in Bixby Knolls.)

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...own-floor-shifter.660223/page-2#post-11953690

While other cars were fast hot rods, his was a cruiser, to do nothing else but to get to school and job, on time, daily. So, small mods were the order of the day. We were all in the metal shop and auto shop for two years. I was asked to make a floor shifter for this Pontiac. A floor shifter? In a stock, Pontiac Sedan?

Well, we needed a project for the auto shop and this looked like fun. My friend told us that he saw a roadster cruising around with a tall floor shifter handle sticking up as high as the dashboard. He wanted one of those for his “stock, but custom, Pontiac.” It was to be something different than "speed stuff" for his car.

Jnaki

So, yes, it ended up being a mild custom, with only a few custom touches. But, no one in Long Beach had a 53 Pontiac 2 door sedan with a floor shifter lever (and custom round ball) sticking up above the dash. (with just the right amount of curvature to not hit the dash when shifting.) High School Auto Shop creativity and hot rod/custom car individuality at its finest, for us hot rod minded teenagers.

 

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Limbo lower now....

Dick Mandonca, 1958...




Limbo lower now...






How LOW can you go!

The man hisself!
Larry is reputed to have once lost his driver's license for life, for driving cars too low!

 

A few from the 2018 Salina KKOA spectacular

 

That is Toby Halicki's '56 Buick coupe. A really sharp car! Those scallops were TERRIFIC.

The same car eventually was customized with a simpler candy paint job, quad headlights, and a '57 Desoto bumper. As you can see it was a real trophy catcher.

You might remember Toby Halicki as the guy that made the original Gone in 60 Seconds...

 

MIDNIGHT MASS, Woodland, CA 7/28/2018

 

Crazy how much flake is on his fleetline. The cameras never really pick it up well, but when the light from the sun hits it just right the thing lights up.

 

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I hesitate to say that any car is 'perfect' but Jean-Daniel "Momo" Mottier's '58 Impala might be.











Photos courtesy lowtechblog: http://lowtechblog.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-legacy-of-larry-watson.html

 

I'm right there with you. This is just perfect in every way possible.
These 58's always look better with a California rake to them.

 

Different, but kool!

 

I really like those strips, nice touch to the car.

 

Super nice.

 

Particularly nice is how they extend through the interior.

 

A thing of beauty...

 

Jan and I are leaving at 5:00 tomorrow morning and heading to Michigan to pick up our "Project" '55 Mercury. We should be loaded by Noon Monday and if all goes well we will be back to the house between Midnite and 2:00am Tuesday. Old Truckers never die, they just get a new Peterbilt!!

 

We'll be wanting pics, of course!

 

More than mild, but a beauty! Riley Collins'...

 

A sneak preview!!

 

One of the only photos i have ever seen of this 57, it doesn't seem to be any others of it in circulation at present. Would like to see more photos if they exist and learn any history on it.


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