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My Rivers summer sandals that I bought at a sale for $30 had no arch supports for my fallen arches. So I found an old pair of arch supports and glued them onto the sole of the sandals. Problem solved. To buy shoes with arch supports built in is either impossible or horribly expensive ($240).
Oops ... I see there is a spot of red paint on the right shoe from a previous paint job. These shoes love to creak so I can't creep up on people at work in them, as they squeak like battle leather sandals worn by roman soldiers.
Entry for Scavenge Challenge February 2013: #12. Show something which has been customized (example: Rob's zimmer frame).
Customised Chevy stepside.
1/64 diecast by Hot Wheels
Part of the 'HW Hot Trucks 2020' range
The Custom '69 Chevy is a Hot Wheels casting based on a customized version of a 1969 Chevy C/K pickup truck. The tool was debuted in the 2002 First Editions.
The casting was retooled in 2020, with the grill and lower bumper now being part of the base.
How about one of these.........
www.showrods.com/showrod_pages/calfornian.html
This is how Lino likes to supply me 'By Random Appointment' - which means, "Hey build on of these cars, and there is only one or two pictures, and about a paragraph of info."
So, here we go.
The Bradley Californian appears to be a customising kit for a scale-model car. The car base to customised appears to be a late-1960s Oldsmobile Toronado - this is indicated in part by the shape (including some detail formwork) and the mention of front-wheel-drive. The original car was designed by vehicle-customiser Harry Bradley. From my research it is not clear whether this car was ever built as a full-size concept - but you'd have to imagine so, given the existence of the model kit.
What else can I add?
I really like the nose - very period Pontiac, and quite aggressive. The free-standing headlamps - a motif used at a similar time as the ultra-exclusive Stutz Motor Corporation product - looks less weird than it sounds. I really like the bladed fender fronts - a design element I went to great trouble to work into the design.
Along the side, I don't mind the side window treatment and the side-mount exhaust. The triple-bladed red glass treatment is distinctive, but seems to not sit ideally with the rest of the design - so I haven't made up my mind yet.
Then we get to the back.
Boomerang tail lamps are ok. But these small rear wings are a big fail. Not only do they not add any function, but they would likely be damaged very easily, are likely to slice your stomach when putting things in the trunk, and plain look weird.
Overall though - quite a solid effort, and generally quite restrained (aside from the wings).
A customised old Dodge car with roll cage and Highway Patrol livery. Cruise Division - Safety & Service.
Car 09. Opening Bonnet (Hood), Boot and doors. Twin exhausts. Lowered suspension with deep dish alloys. Light Bar.
Disc Brakes front & rear.
Maisto Diecast 1/24 Scale.
A 2nd hand jacket that I have customised with bits of fabric and yarn, and finished off with my own handmade buttons.
A customised Capri Mk1 in a Grovebury Road car park in Leighton Buzzard c1988. Note the handmade front spoiler, Wolfrace Supaslots, tinted windows and aerofoils on the windscreen wipers. Plus, of course, the obligatory RS3100-style ducktail rear spoiler. Groovy!
Customised to within an inch of its life, this Hillman Minx was photographed in Chalton Street, London NW1. ULC705 first took to the road in July 1957, by which date this boxy design had already been superseded by a more stylish Raymond Loewy-inspired model.
A customised 1994 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 coupe spotted late at night in a supermarket car park outside the town of York, North Yorkshire, U.K. Fitted W/ a 5.7-litre V8. Registration “L803 PTO”, imported in 2005.
Mildly customised Škoda Rapid - once dubbed the poor man's Porsche 911 buy Autocar, here seen at "Red October", 20th October 2013. This annual event, held at the National Tramway Museum at Crich in Derbyshire, is for Eastern-Bloc classic vehicles and re-enactors. No political statement is intended or implied.
Camera: Nikon F5
Lens: Nikkor 28-80mm
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
For more of my photographs, see here
Customised 1977 Kawasaki z650 at the Thruxton Kickback custom classic bike show at Thruxton circuit, Hampshire
Customised Ford Mustang fastback that was at the show and pulled the crowds all day.
Taken at the Krank It Motor Expo, Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW in 2013
Customised 1977 Kawasaki 650 on display at the Thruxton Kickback custom classic bike show at Thruxton circuit, Hampshire
For my nephews first birthday. I already had the vintage iron on figures (from ebay last year) but I added a few extra details.
A 1930 Ford Model A Coupe Customised Hot Rod, powered by a 1950s De Soto (Chrysler) ‘Firedome’ V8. Registration: “BF 6917”, imported to the UK in 2014. I decided to include both photos of the front and rear of this car, as this Ford was one of my most favourite cars of the event. This is a superb Hot Rod which is representative of a true “of-the-period” custom and reflects what these cars would’ve typically looked like in the 1950s through early ‘60s. This example is not ‘Billet’, nor is it a trailer queen, not overly polished, no blindingly bright paintwork, no cliché flame graphics, no crazy expensive gizmos, no too-fancy wheels, and on the other hand - not a slammed, fake patina’d, cobbled-together Rat Rod, either. A few of the guys at the show agreed on the exact same thing - “not too flash, not so rat”. This ‘rod is just about perfect!”. Seen at the annual ‘Race The Waves’ hot rod racing event opening/registration/scrutineering pre-race gathering on Church Green, Old Town, Bridlington, Yorkshire, UK, 13/06/25.
a 2nd hand jacket which i have customised using applique, couching, and adding my own handmade buttons by McAnaraks
A customised Canadian 1989 Ford F-250 pickup truck W/ 351 V8, registration “F543 YEF”, imported to the U.K. in 2001, sits outside one of the warehouses of the famous Mathewson’s auction houses, Pickering, North Yorkshire, U.K. Green Chevy Blazer RHD export model in the background.