Check out this crazy coincidence! The only old multicolored TV screen film I could find a photo of was this one with the Wizard of Oz playing! ("I do, I do, I do' --Cowardly Lion)
I think they have it upside down, though
Posted on 06/01/2019 3:58:52 PM PDT by ETL
Streetside Classics
Published on Mar 3, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhK5aVfrlPE
I’m not big on restomod’s. Especially too modern tires and wheels.
The thing that needs to be emphasized are the parallel sloping lines past the A pillar continuing back to the tailgate finished off by the chrome strips. To my eye it’s stunning and original for it’s time.
It doesn’t belong to Leno. It belongs to his friend. If you’re going to mod one of these, you might as well go with the bigger wheels and for me personally, I would want the interior modernized with bucket seats, an upgrade dash and modern small wheel. I remember the surfers in SoCal in the ‘60’s going nuts over these on the used market. You probably could have picked them up for a grand or so apiece.
Remember white wall tires? Rather than have just black tires like we do today, we cash-strapped teens would buy white plastic rings to go on black walls to make them look white.
I like them, as well as standard street rods, straight stock, and, depending on how they're done, (semi-wild) show car customs.
...I don’t like the really low-profile modern wheels on most of these old classics. They look okay on some but totally out of place on others.
Lol!
Like the "low budget" color TV sets, where you placed a semi-transparent multicolored plastic film over the screen. The top 3rd was tinted blue (sky), the middle I think brown?, and the bottom, green (grass). They actually sold this crap in stores, comic books, and mail catalogs.
To fill the wheel wells with low profile tires, the wheel’s have to exceed 20”. It just doesn’t work.
Most of those cars were designed for 14” wheels and big sidewalls. You can’t get around it.
I remember those, I do, I do, I do.
Probably wished we had one. LOL
I like it!!
Check out this crazy coincidence! The only old multicolored TV screen film I could find a photo of was this one with the Wizard of Oz playing! ("I do, I do, I do' --Cowardly Lion)
I think they have it upside down, though
LOL
And a hat tip to Winky Dink.
Hey Where do they put gas NO LID?
Hey Where do they put gas NO LID?
Hey Where do they put gas NO LID?
I believe they hid it behind the taillight.
I remember 1959 Chevrolets with those wild staring taillights.
When the brake lights lit up, they said, “Get off my @zz!!”
If I ponied up the bread for a ride like that, no way would I parallel park it on the street. Best seats I ever had in a car were in my ‘66 GTO convertible. My father bought it for my mother but I took it over after she put 3,500 miles on it. Had a two speed auto shifted on the column with no console and two front buckets. The ace in that hand was the passenger seat which reclined all the way back. I wore that out in summer school after my sophomore year in college.
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