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I thought this could be fun, old school or restro rod...be it mild or wild sweet or sour, Beauty is in the eye, ...yada yada yada,
Post your favorite custom and or your least favorite....
Disclaimer: Please leave thin skin at the door...
I will get the ball rolling with what I believe is the all time most known Custom Corvette ever,
Love it or hate, you know of it and remember it...
Several years ago some fellow spent tall money making molds to sell replicas of this creature, he thought they would be really sought after, seems he sold like one, his prices were as I recall really high, guess he needed to break even on that one sale,
I would love to have the front clip, loose the scoop, paint the thing black and
Could be worse it could be yellow... jk
you didn't mention the twin turbo hood, I think the most over used hood on a c3, and 99.9% do not even have one turbo in there,
Then again how many L-88's are under L-88 scoops...
The recessed lights happened to give a cheap fix to balky vacuum factory lights, seldom people rewired them to work with the square bulbs so they blame the mod....
Could be worse it could be yellow... jk
you didn't mention the twin turbo hood, I think the most over used hood on a c3, and 99.9% do not even have one turbo in there,
Then again how many L-88's are under L-88 scoops...
The recessed lights happened to give a cheap fix to balky vacuum factory lights, seldom people rewired them to work with the square bulbs so they blame the mod....
the thing that tripped me out was it was a 72. But I really like his seats
the thing that tripped me out was it was a 72. But I really like his seats
It has potentinal but I think it's overpriced for what it is, but perhaps being a 72 helps,
The seats are nice but what's with the rear window and huge kid racer import tuner wing?
Originally Posted by 3JsVette
Sorry Bats add me to the hate list. I'm all about customs but I didn't like it back in the day and hate it even more now.
It's nothing to me either way, I didn't design it, build it and don't own it, the issue I see with it even from a radical custom stand point is it's made to flash and catch the eye not really flow with thought out design,
I like lowriders
Especially a six-fow.
Saw my first one in San Jose back in the late '70's and the quality of craftsmanship and over the top paintwork pushed the right buttons for me.
Must be part of getting old, going from showing customs in the 70s to pretty much disliking almost all of them today. But some stuff is just hideous, and there's always someone who likes them:
I recall seeing that yellow c3 car before, seems it's overseas but I never liked pro street scoops and the car has too many scoop and vents in general for me,
The death race car isn't really a corvette it's a smaller dune buggy, I always wanted one,
You can Google it for more info it was a creation by Dick Dean.
The car you posted has rumor and myth around it, it was in a auto museum and said to be the movie car, savvy gear heads knew the movie car looked a bit different and didn't have the big blower motor,
The movie car only had a corvair engine,
Death Race car , I'll pass on ... Same thing on a vette with VW engine .
Scorpion car , super nice work....just not my cup of tea .
Would love to do a '63 window Conversion to my '82....
A lot of these are great creations , someone's vision . I could grab ideas from all of them .
Take the very bottom " spoiler " off this car and I could dig it
I like my VW stuff and love my vette stuff but not mixed.
I recall both the scorpion and that multi blue wide body, seems the builder of the wide body called it his smiles mobile,
I loved the idea of the Scorpion but it doesn't really look much like a vette anymore,
But it's so darn radical it just screams coolness.
I doubt you could even drive it, 4 turbos feeding a v8 off likely a modded 'vair tranny...
I was so disillusioned when I first learned in my teens that some customs are for looking at not driving,
That chevy 2 that was in all the mags back in the late 70's had twin turbos feeding a blower, how we had day dreams of 200 plus mph runs on the salt and sub 10's on the 1320
Then about 20-30 years later I read in CC or HR how the builder said they could never get it to run right and it couldn't be driven....all hype.
Last edited by The13Bats; Oct 21, 2014 at 01:36 PM.
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