desertpilgrim

That's what happens when farmers in the northern tier of states do not go to Florida or Arizona for the winter......

John McGraw

Well, just be glad it was a C3 and not a midyear!

Not a resto-mod, but a full custom. different strokes for different folks. Kind of reminds me of the Stutz, which was made from GM A body. I sure some rich person payed a small fortune for that car in the late 70's.


Regards, John McGraw

John McGraw

They built 50 of them. Here is the coach builder that built it;

http://dunhamcoach.com/about-us.htm


The place has been in business since 1957, so there is apparently no shortage of people with lots of money and lack of taste.


Regards, John McGraw

emccomas

I remember when they were being made.

I like it.

dahogan

Mike Terry

Remember one thing, the guy who built it did not build it to please anyone but himself and it probably took as much $$$$ and as long to build as it does to restore or build any other car. One persons trash is another persons treasure. Or is it one persons treasure is another persons trash? I would bet that the car was not cheap to build, like it or not.

StingU2

Rick... a good thing, I would hate to see you ruin a nice camera over a piece of schit, such as that car.

-Bruce

ricks327

chrisdev

Dunham Coach also made this C3 pimpmobile for the James Bond film 'Live and Let Die"
http://www.imcdb.org/i017906.jpg

ricks327

To those who have posted links to the company that builds these turds, thanks for the effort and thought but I can't force myself to open the links. Too close to dinner and have to call 911 for EMS to take me to the hospital. Plus, I saw it in person and I am still recovering.
Rick

KMS396

Since I don't have anything nice to say about that car, I will just say that Kerrmudgeon has the best avatar on this site.

ricks327

No question plus I asked him if any of them happened to be his wife/better half and he responded , "NO". Damn, I was hoping to meet up with him and take a photo of one of the babes in his many posted photo avatars. Kerrmudgeon is my hero!
Rick

sub006

AIR George Barris sold a few C3s that looked a lot like the first picture in this thread for "celebrities", only recipient I can remember was Bo Derek.

Barris was famous for farming out some of "his creations" to other builders while taking full credit. Maybe he used Dunham or one of their former employees?

Poorhousenext

Barris was a designer as well as a builder, but foremost a Designer. To farm out a design to a shop does not mean he doesn't get full credit for it as without a design there is nothing to build in his shop or farmed out to another shop.

The shop that builds car(s) from a design, should recieve credit for having the ability to excute the design. The ability to figure out how to go about excuting design is and art in it'self, either from scratch or when modifing and exsiting design of a car to look like the re-design.

Sample of design


Build skill

vettebuyer6369

I remember when these things were out there in the 70's. It was a time when some people were driving similar styled full kit cars to emulate that era/design of car. They thought it was "classy." It was horrible then and its worse today.

It really is unfortunate that an iconic body platform such as the C3 is the Center of the mind-bogglingly tacky bad custom Universe... although if the other old guys remember the 70's, there were a lot of bad mid year customs rolling around in their crushed velvet interior glory. Those were the cheap cars back then.

MattB

Well that spoiled my appetite...

Mike Smith

I think there are only six or seven cartel bosses - what are they going to do with the other 43?

Vettrocious

My 63's unpainted body is parked about 15 feet from that thing. I hope nothing rubs off

unreel1967

I like how no one's even looking at it.

Railroadman

There is so little of a Corvette left, one wonders why it was needed at all. Start with some other platform and modify the small part of it needed to call a C-3 to mind. Cheaper, easier, and more sensible.