Random car pictures

[propayne]

Artwork of mine that I have posted has turned up on watches, t-shirts, decals and trailers without my knowledge or permission and several scans that I have made from my personal collection have been re-posted hundreds of time but what irks me the most is that they have also shown up in well known car magazines and books.

The digital age "sigh"....

- Phillip

[Coralsnake]

I know it cant be stopped, dont even get me started on people that post things just for the sake of posting. Its like answer "I agree" to every thread and never contributing anything of value yourself.

[J_Speegle]

    what were they thinking ?

Have owned three - resold two quickly but kept (at this point) my first one.  Challenge IMHO is doing something to the rest of the car that makes the car look complete and flow with the design of the front of the car. Use to keep a registry of them at one point but with so few originals (reproductions were produced/made in the 90's for a short time) not much goes on with them generally speaking.  Front ends have often been swapped from one body to another over the years.

[honker]

propayne & J _Speegle, if done right they look ok, did they only do a front end kit ?

Here's another one.

[shelbydoug]

    what were they thinking ?

Have owned three - resold two quickly but kept (at this point) my first one.  Challenge IMHO is doing something to the rest of the car that makes the car look complete and flow with the design of the front of the car. Use to keep a registry of them at one point but with so few originals (reproductions were produced/made in the 90's for a short time) not much goes on with them generally speaking.  Front ends have often been swapped from one body to another over the years.

Looks like a  'Superbird' front end.

[Coralsnake]

Hmmm , I think Chun worked on that too?

[J_Speegle]

Looks like a  'Superbird' front end.

People comment on it looking like a 240Z or a stylized GT40 but remember Larry was moon lighting at the time while working on projects like the Makoshark Corvette and other designs at the time for GM

[J_Speegle]

propayne & J _Speegle, if done right they look ok, did they only do a front end kit ?

Here's another one.

Don't know that car.

As far as liking the front end I think we can all agree that allot of 60's era owners like the stock body look to cars rather than the customized look  that was more popular in the 40-50's but there were plenty of people doing so in the 60's - Ford own Caravan traveling road show included allot of customized mid 60's cars from many famous designers.  Like it or not?  It's IMHO a personal thing but it will gather a crowd and get looks

Front ends ended up on allot of different cars. Some K codes, at least one 65 Shelby and even one of the Grand American (Anderson) show cars - which IMHO was a shame

One on a convertible. This front end was originally on a K code fastback




My car from the front



and a side shot



As we discussed on the Forum pre-crash they were available in two version. Conventional hood and tilt front end. They were expensive for the time period and few people wanted to take a new car and replace the whole front end with what was suppose to be an "easy" bolt on replacement

[shelbydoug]

Are those Bill Maier's rear flares?

[J_Speegle]

Are those Bill Maier's rear flares?

Yes

[SFM5S000]

Are those Bill Maier's rear flares?

Yes

In addition to the Maier rear flares, those front ends to The above 3 modified fastback and convertible I believe were made and offered by a company called Fiberfab. If I remember correctly (a lot of rust on the brain, so I could be wrong) Fiberfab was in Emeryville Ca.

Cheers,
~Earl J

[shelbydoug]

propayne & J _Speegle, if done right they look ok, did they only do a front end kit ?

Here's another one.

Don't know that car.

As far as liking the front end I think we can all agree that allot of 60's era owners like the stock body look to cars rather than the customized look  that was more popular in the 40-50's but there were plenty of people doing so in the 60's - Ford own Caravan traveling road show included allot of customized mid 60's cars from many famous designers.  Like it or not?  It's IMHO a personal thing but it will gather a crowd and get looks

Front ends ended up on allot of different cars. Some K codes, at least one 65 Shelby and even one of the Grand American (Anderson) show cars - which IMHO was a shame

One on a convertible. This front end was originally on a K code fastback




My car from the front



and a side shot



As we discussed on the Forum pre-crash they were available in two version. Conventional hood and tilt front end. They were expensive for the time period and few people wanted to take a new car and replace the whole front end with what was suppose to be an "easy" bolt on replacement

Cool car.

[honker]

J_Speegle, your dark red/maroon car looks awesome     rear fenders are subtle, looks like the flip front end ? what were the tail lights ? your second pic, in the background, is that the hill going up to the Corkscrew at laguna Seca ?

Here's another that I have in my files that I think was on the old forum ? id'd as a GT350 ? photo at Indy 1968.

[J_Speegle]

J_Speegle, your dark red/maroon car looks awesome     rear fenders are subtle, looks like the flip front end ? what were the tail lights ? your second pic, in the background, is that the hill going up to the Corkscrew at laguna Seca ?

Choose the color in part because it was the original color of the car though it was silver in the 70's. Also choose it so that the over all look would be subtle sine there were so many things going on with the body

Taillights - wanted something built in so took a 67 GTO taillight panel - narrowed it 6-8" and welded it in. Car as a  Hone-O-driver, custom interior and the engine runs Hilborn injection with an idle circuit built into the engine compartment (two fuel pumps - small fuel bowl and all the routing so the injection will idle - not something a stock Hilborn system does well. 

Car is not so subtle elsewhere Sorry for the poor resolution. Poor scan from the magazine article





In the build we left everything off that we could to provide that smooth - sleek look. No interior or exterior mirrors, wipers, door handles, filled in the rear bumper (the license plate cutout in the stock version). It was my last hot rod .... to get it out of my system

Location of that picture was Sears Point many years ago

And I do have the same pictures (think a couple of more) of the one in your last post. On the old forum we had one thread where we posted a number of different cars as part of the discussion

[427heaven]

Dare to be different..... As long as you love it that's all that matters Nice build Jeff