And I made it my desktop background:
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This one does too:
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And I made it my desktop background:
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This one does too:
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"One man with courage makes a majority." ~ Andrew Jackson
Steve KA9MOT
Macomb, IL
I really like the first one. I love the "Hidden wheel" design in the back.
Ah yes! Back from the days when the women and the cars wore skirts! To me, the car looks like a candy drop. It creates an emotional response from me. I don't know why that is..... Yes, I am a car guy, but it is just a car. BTW, it's a 49 Mercury Lead Sled. I think it has that old Art Deco look.Originally Posted by KC2UGV
The Chevy is a 1956 2 door post.
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"One man with courage makes a majority." ~ Andrew Jackson
Steve KA9MOT
Macomb, IL
I'm not a car guy, and it invoked an emotional response. That's why it's "art" :)
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
Something about those skirts... I must really like skirts :P
'49 Merc, coolest base for a custom rod ever! And that's a particularly nice job.
I've always wanted to see the process involved in chopping one like that; must be a real trick to get it all to fit back together right.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
When I was a teenager I helped my Cousin Mike chop his 46 Ford. It was a major bitch and we made plenty of mistakes along the way before his brother Richard and Jr (another cousin) came and rescued us. It was allot of work, and required allot of thought and thousands of measurements. Cutting 4 inches out was easy. Putting it all back together again was a killer. After 6 months, lots of Rock and Roll and dozens of cases of PBR, we had her done. It looked good and at that point we decided if we had it to do again, we would because it was worth it. That was just the top. These guys chop, cut and channel a car to make it look like that. A true custom.
"One man with courage makes a majority." ~ Andrew Jackson
Steve KA9MOT
Macomb, IL
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