Features 1948-52 New Old Style Kustoms

Hooray! Im so glad this thread is coming a live again.

 

This thread will always survive.

 

Can someone please tell me whose car this is or show me some more pictures of it? Very inspirational for my Fleetline build. I want a different color, a custom grille and plan to extend my skirts to match the bottom of the rear fender, but otherwise very close to what I have planned.

 

Brad Mastersons Chevy.^^^^

 

Hers is Brad and my Chevy from the California Screamin car show yesterday.

 

Really love the green.

 

It was in a issue of Kustoms Illustrated a lil while back.(Brads chevy)

 

Thanks, will go back and look through my old issues.

 

Here are some pics of Brad Masterson's Chevy from Santa Maria a few years ago. He's here on the HAMB as Masterson Kustoms.

I love this Fleetline as well!

 

I really like this green too,Burbank up in here.

 

I love Masterson's chevy. One of my favorites.
I also have a known obsession with bigdaddyslips chevy too.....

Damn my Pontiac with the 6 inch wide chrome going down the hood!!
I can't shave it.. so my car will always be a step away from this wonderful thread

 

Here are a few more photos of Tom Black's 1941 Cadillac.

Tom Black photos

 

YES!!!!!! That thing is so killer ,especially knowing he is running the flat cad and not a S_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ K . He needs my 2x2 Edmunds manifold.

 

A s--------k can be done very nicely if kept traditional in the 2-- cubic inch range

 

Agreed but.......it could NEVER look better then whats under the hood of this Cadillac now.

 

I'd sure love to see the last photo photoshopped, down in the back 2-3". Anyone? Rikster?

 

You did a great job on this one Paul, a groundbreaker out here,

btw, I know curly and crew from up there...

 

Spot on hudson... I love the bubble tailights

 

Bettancourt style tailights...........great lookin Hudson.

 

Tailights on my 48 are from a 1940 Buick Sedan,similar style implant as the Hudson

 

Damn chop, that is tits! Keep us posted on anything you do!

 

Was Betancourt the first to mold this style tailight? Any more info on them in detail?

Once I drop my body back on the chassis this month I'm gonna do something similar but it will be for my 51 so it will follow the extended quarter. Just have to find the sweet spot on the fin and the height of the light itself so it is similar to what Betancourt did.

 

Copied from Rikster's site...

 

Ya.. I think Louie's car was the first to use these lights,I could be wrong though.Ayala brothers were heavy.

 

Can't really talk about this era without at least one picture of this place.

 

Jack Stewart had similar - but not as wide - taillights on his 1941 Ford in 1950.
Bob Hirohata made the lenses for the George Barris created taillights pods.

 

I love Jacks car when it was dressed in white primer and all ready for Balboa.This is my favorite version right here.

 

Is that building still around? Its amazing

Im obsessed with pre 50s architecture.

 

Destroyed by fire in 1989.

 

So Tragic.......what serious shame.