Customs Kustom grille I built for my shoebox...

Looks great!

 

Thanks Alot Dave...Yeah those flames made me throw up in my mouth a little every time I looked at them...Mikeys taking good care of your buddys old Chevy, its a beautiful car...

 

That grille is unreal. Great Job

 

BOB,,,,,,,,,,,,that looks unfrigginbelievable!!
I LOVE IT!,,,,,,,,,,,,,you are really making some nice improvements to that car,,,
keep up the good work,,,,

 

I was going to ask if this was your plan. A rounded surround with that grill will look killer!

 

Coming from you Jim, I must say, I'm honored....

Oh, glad your not going with the skirts...haha

 

Bob it looks amazing....Nice work..Im always truly amazed at your ideas and workmanship!!!!!...The car looks awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

That car is right out of the little pages. Awesome...

 

That looks cool, you have a real eye for stuff.

 

Well, that pretty much makes my day....thats really my goal with this car, I'm trying to put as much original,vintage stuff on it as possible and stay away from repro stuff...

as an example, the front suspension has original speed shop dropped spindles and an original Hurst dropped center link kit...Original 1959 Fenton rippled lake pipes, and tons more stuff like that...........still a few things i'd love to find.....

 

It's got all those parts... but it just has this look to it that most customs now dont have. I can't put my finger on it. If I saw that at a show, I'd swear up and down that it's an old custom. You've clearly done some homework, and it shows.

The shape of the edsel grill works with the shape of the headlights way more than the old grill did, in my humble opinion.

 

That's the cat's ass! I like it.

 

Nice!!

 

Looks like Sam Barris all the way! Most people are scared to go against the grain because there afraid of the out come! Man your car is so right it looks like you tore it out of one of those Restyle your car magazines from the 50's!

 

Bobby vs. Jim in the NJ Radical Kustom Shoebox Showdown!

How's it coming?

 

Funny you should ask Bill. I had planned to post this update tonight, so thanks for the segue...

I stared at the front end for a while and realized that many of you were right, the opening could stand some massaging to better fit the grille...so here's what I did..I thought the hood hugged the grille nicely, so i only rounded the very ends down a little, and since the lower part was pretty flat across, thats where the more significant work was done...huge improvement, i think......

Oh, and I'm pretty sure Jim has beaten me down pretty severely already, even though he dosen't have much shoebox left there...

 

very cool!!

 

Much better....

 

Aww man, that's killer!

 

Looks pretty good for a Bloomfielder

 

SOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo nice!!!
as others said,,,straight from the little pages,,
i think thats my favorite shoebox right now,,,

 

looks great bob car gets better and better all the time

 

Absolutely perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

looks great!

 

This is what I like to see. I can sleep now, assured that people still know how to build awesome cars.

 

Thanks a million Jim....That is one hellava compliment, I appreciate it..

BTW, got all the grinding finished today, and got the bumpers fit...Time for bodywork....

 

that looks so much better!! your definitely make me want to do more with my shoebox

 

any new pics ??? that looks so friggin good!!!!! deef my new favorite shoebox!!!

 

Wow, first i've seen this one. VERY nice! good to see someone building one "the old way"...
inspirational

 

interesting. but now you have some fill work to do around the grill to make it match the body work around the bumpers.