Picked this car up a little over a month ago, already chopped and sectioned by Jesse Padgett (a short lived member on the HAMB.) He had some pretty wild ideas for this car that are expressed by the artwork on the roof but I think they're a little out of my league and above my skill level. The plans so far entail, well, a whole lot of welding, cutting, bending and shaping. Once the car is solid I'll be fabbing up my crossmember to accept airbags (thanks to rustypipes' thread on how to bag stock suspension; http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=152076) and i've been toying with the idea of channelling the floor as well.
Lots of work ahead of you. I made a car look like that 15 years ago when I first started chopping tops and shaping sheet metal. I also fixed a car that looked like that last year.
Yea it's quite a project, still gotta cut the roof off to fix the pillars in the rear and sleeve the front pillars I talked to a glass shop in town and they said worst case scenario, it's $600 for a mould and $600 for the glass. I might as well insure just the windshield on its own! I dont have any pics of the roof at the moment, however jesse posted some back in 2010 here http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5011233#post5011233
Wow, the art work on the roof is awsome. That would be one wild ride if you built it that way. Very cool vision for the car
Wow, that´s one hell of a project.I couldn´t pull it of! But I dig the vision you have for your Chevy.
Interesting Project. Lots of time to think about it/start it over the winter. Actually, the stock front end would look just fine as it is with all of the other mods taking the "Main Focus". Good luck ! Jonnie King www.legends.thewwbc.net
omg that is one cool roof....i want to clear it and hang it on my wall as art.....that is the mind of a customizer spilled out on the roof....so cool and rare to see it like that!!!
That thing is wicked. I love the look of it. And the roof is amazing. lol. cant wait to see this build
A little too radical for my tastes, but i can appreciate the amount of work that goes into these type of customs.
The roof art is like a puzzle to me.... the more I look at it the more clues I find on what he has done and what he was planning. I've had this thing over a month and just now figured out that the radius drawn on the roof is a template for the peaked headlights, which suddenly makes me want to give it a shot. I'll have a couple spare fenders soon that i can practice on too!
Jesse was a long time member on the Flat Black Board. There was a post about this car he put on there with all his ideas. Most were very on the limits but a cool exercise. I wondered what happened to that car or him for that matter? heres the post. http://waybackgarage.com/flatblack/...s=0&postorder=asc&highlight=sectioned&start=0
I cant seem to register for the flat black board because "my email address has been banned," I've tried 2 different emails.... I wonder what happened to him too... He is on a pile of blogger sites right up until April-June 2010, right around the time he made his last post on the HAMB. I'd like to pick his brain and find out what made him give up on this project, as he seems to have the skills judging by the other projects he's built.
Got my mordoor the other day, using a tape measure on the door i found that my '53 is actually sectioned 4", not the 2-3" that i had thought. Badass!
That thing's flat as a pancake!...lol. Looks cool. I like radical. Not radical, as in fins all over...radical, as in flat!...squashed!...slinky. "Tasteful and restrained" is great...seriously. But sometimes, I get a yen/hankerin'/need for a radical custom like your car.
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