shoebox50
FULL CUSTOM
A 1950 Ford full custom owned by Stu, a friend of mine. Stu has been a body man his entire career and is now close to 80, you would never know it though. Stu has owned this car since the late '50's and it was the only family car for a long time, his kids grew up riding in it, they took it from home, Victoria BC Canada, to California many times for holidays, then he decided to build a house so he took the trunk off, took the back seat out and used it as a 'truck', to haul the lumber in, he still lives in that house, sadly his wife died five years ago. Finally after all the years flew by, Stu had started to customize the car but he was too busy working so the car sat for a few years, eventually he decided to finish it. He chopped the top, put a custom DeSoto grille in it, molded the parking lights, frenched the headlights and put '55 Pontiac 'brows' over them, rounded the hood corners front and back, louvered the hood, took the chrome off of it, removed the door handles and put in electric switches to open them, molded lake pipes along the bottom, shortened the side chrome, put a '58 Chev Impala 'fake' roof scoop at the back of the roof line, he carried peaks along the trunk to match the roof scoop, tunneled the licence plate, frenched the rear tail lights, lowered it, reupholstered it and put a Chev V8 engine in it with an automatic transmission, he topped it all off with a Candy Apple Red paint job. He's still doing bodywork for the hot rod fraternity and drives this gem quite often. I've know Stu for probably 50 years. My 'stock' bodied '50 Ford is 7 photo's down from this one, compare the two, you will see a major difference.
FULL CUSTOM
A 1950 Ford full custom owned by Stu, a friend of mine. Stu has been a body man his entire career and is now close to 80, you would never know it though. Stu has owned this car since the late '50's and it was the only family car for a long time, his kids grew up riding in it, they took it from home, Victoria BC Canada, to California many times for holidays, then he decided to build a house so he took the trunk off, took the back seat out and used it as a 'truck', to haul the lumber in, he still lives in that house, sadly his wife died five years ago. Finally after all the years flew by, Stu had started to customize the car but he was too busy working so the car sat for a few years, eventually he decided to finish it. He chopped the top, put a custom DeSoto grille in it, molded the parking lights, frenched the headlights and put '55 Pontiac 'brows' over them, rounded the hood corners front and back, louvered the hood, took the chrome off of it, removed the door handles and put in electric switches to open them, molded lake pipes along the bottom, shortened the side chrome, put a '58 Chev Impala 'fake' roof scoop at the back of the roof line, he carried peaks along the trunk to match the roof scoop, tunneled the licence plate, frenched the rear tail lights, lowered it, reupholstered it and put a Chev V8 engine in it with an automatic transmission, he topped it all off with a Candy Apple Red paint job. He's still doing bodywork for the hot rod fraternity and drives this gem quite often. I've know Stu for probably 50 years. My 'stock' bodied '50 Ford is 7 photo's down from this one, compare the two, you will see a major difference.