Customs my 1957 oldsmobile chopped custom..

bought this like 2 months ago or something like that, hadnt even seen it in person when i picked it up, liked it alot more in real life then on pics...

bearing felt like dying ... one wheel fell off trailer.... outside the garage when i just made an uturn to place the car better to unload it.. talk about luck?

car was located in the "village" of Älvdalen 5½ hours from me, bought the car from former vallejo resident Willie Svensson/swanx...

 

I like it!

 

Very cooool!!!

 

Wow! Good score.
What are your plans?

 

very nice! i think i rember seeing in in the north bay years ago
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very nice custom you going to finish it

 

love the car.love to see more pic's

 

that baby is going to look real nice.

 

Very cool. Will be a great car in the future. What are some of your plans for it?

 

man thats gonna be sweet..keep us updated on it.

 

I like it, do you have plans for the front end? It looks kind of "blocky" right now.

 

GREAT CAR MAN!!!..........is it an old kustom with some history?...that's gonna be a real beauty....

 

kustom7777: no idea about history except that it was built in california and .. shouldt say anything until i talk to willie, (just meaning as i dont know shit except for that it was built in cali. anything else i would just make assumptions..)

Strange agent: i kinda liked it more in real life then on picture, my first thoughts is to see if the licence plate opening could be smoothed out to make it look better, maybe remove the top of it so the opening goes all around instead or something like that...



hell yeah i wanna finish it, have alot of ideas here and there that flies around in my head
anything from redlines with keystones to thing white walls with chromereverse or cragar starwires reverse, car just screams wild 60ies, so no big whitewalls and hubcaps on this one, going to be chrome wheels of some sort...

the interior is already sown up, black with guld flake tuck n rolll,
seats that is.. and side covers in the rear..

thinking i will do this car right, go through everything, feeel just so dar tempted to get it rolling and drive it as is for a while, my head is like an big white paper right now, or atleast an big white paper with tons of ideas , red candy paint with some shadings, panel paint, flake, gaah so much possible things to do its really hard just to make up my mind right now, feels just kinda wierd that i own this car and its all mine and its in my garage... i loved olds 57's for a long time, and this car takes the best ouf of the 57 and makes it even more likable to me, it might look like an gold fish

heck maybe i should jsut call it the gold fish and paint it gold flake, or something

first car i actually looked forward to do brake work on and tear rear end off and paint it and so on, it's just usually necessary evils to do brake stuff, recently i started to think of my self as an oldsmobile engine freak, started to wonder if i even liked anything else then oldsmobile engines

 

maybe that sets the colour then
gold candy with tangerine candy shadings?
maybe some sort of panel paint on top with fishshells

alot of people have said there is something fishy going around with that grill, maybe i just should embrace that hahah
fish or no fish, some colour like that would be nice...

 

I can actually see that..should get one of the guys to photo shop it !

 

interior looks like this both back and sitting

 

Do you have all the glass and window trim? I chopped a 57 Buick
and had much more time in doing the windows and trim than
in bodywork on the top.----------TwoChops

 

Cool car.I kind of like the gold fish idea with the colors.the seat looks pretty cool too

 

That car is already sick

 

Very sweet. Has inspired me to make a post of my chopped '56 Olds Project!!!!

 

Nice. There's a lot of potential in that car. It could make a really beautiful custom.

 

Real bad PAINT test with removing licence plate opening in front

 

Way cool car! I love Oldsmobiles! How is the windshield issue delt with? Dropped into the cowl? Good karma with the trailer wheel, God looks out for car guys (this is why I'm still alive!)

 

A quick idea...

 

now you made it look like it should be in CARS with lightning mcqueen and DOC.........he he he


looks frigin awsome

 

Wow nice custom, very 1963 looking. How about a nice candy paint job, chrome reverse wheels with spider caps and rings, thin whites, that car would be killer

 

Sorry James, hate to rain on your parade (photochop) but that grille now makes it look like something out of the movie "Cars"...oh wait, that's "Brenda Buick"...LOL...it simply looked better without the license plate...and the paint (fish scales...???) that's right out of the late '70's/early '80's...I don't think you want to go there...plain old gold and tangerine would be killer tho...!!! That's just my 16 cents worth, take it or leave it...!!!

BTW, nice find Rocket...that's going to be outstanding...

R-

 

A '57 Corvette grill (backed by mesh?) might work well in the modified opening.

But if you decide to leave the plate holder, a '59 Buick grille might be the ticket.

 

Great looking custom... Lots of potential

I would leave the License plate surround where it is.. but I would thin it down, and round the edges of so it will fit the grille opening much better.

Like this... quicky...



with a home made grille bar.