An ugly custom - 1960 Chrysler
04-19-2010, 01:56 PM
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An ugly custom - 1960 Chrysler
04-19-2010, 01:57 PM
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hey!!.....it's a split window.....
04-19-2010, 01:58 PM
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There's a blind spot in the right rear panel.
04-19-2010, 02:22 PM
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Yeah...seeing past those wings must be a pain......
04-19-2010, 02:54 PM
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I threw up in my mouth a little.
04-19-2010, 03:36 PM
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It can stay out of the country.
04-19-2010, 04:08 PM
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I threw up in my mouth a little.
Ya, well I threw up in my mouth, a lot!
Maybe if he chromed the rear bumper it would make it all better. All that time an effort and it is just plain fugly.
04-19-2010, 04:17 PM
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Virgil Exner must be rolling his grave........
04-19-2010, 04:19 PM
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it is just plain fugly.
The builder/designer must have worked in the International Harvester design studios on their pickup truck line.
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04-19-2010, 04:27 PM
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04-19-2010, 04:40 PM
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I threw up in my mouth a little.
C'mon now - although they could have paid a little more attention to the front fascia (looks a little bulldozerish), they were obviously a fan of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. One of my idols - I applaud the effort, but they failed in the execution....
04-19-2010, 05:15 PM
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04-19-2010, 05:21 PM
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Might make a nice Batmobile
04-19-2010, 06:06 PM
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why?
There was way too much beer involved in this project.
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04-19-2010, 06:11 PM
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I'd give it an animated face and it would look like one of the cars in the "Cars" movie.
04-19-2010, 06:28 PM
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Kind of makes me want to
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04-19-2010, 06:43 PM
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Thought it looked like Tommy the train, or truck, or what ever the hell he was.
That was one U G L Y custom . Bill
04-19-2010, 06:45 PM
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Might make a nice Batmobile
That was my first thought when I looked at it ( eyes half open)
04-19-2010, 06:56 PM
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I wish you whould have taken some interior shots as well. I wonder what kind of f/u that was.
04-19-2010, 07:09 PM
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I don't have to like the end product to appreciate the hard work that someone put into their own vision.