Phil Patterson writes: Pretty cool Nick, will be curious to see this one. I am a
little skeptical about home brew customs though. 30 years ago in my youth, I saw
a fellow cut the roof off of a 58 Belvedere 2 dr hardtop. replace that with a
homemade plywood top, then replaced the front clip with a unit from a 70 GTO.
Needless to say, the patient didn't survive the operation. It was a sad day in
Forward Look land. We also used to have a lot of home made pickups here in West
Virginia. Usually with plywood and clear plastic for the back of the cab.Most of
these didn't fare too well either, but did see one guy finish a 68 Coupe de
Ville off correctly with welded seams and paint. That one didn't look too bad,
but properly done ones are far and few between. Sorry about the rant, just have
seen one too many cars die of a trunkectomie If you think the homemade pickups
are bad, you should have seen all the cars we had around here that were turned
into power units for small local sawmills. Sometimes you can find a good set of
fenders on one of those though. If I see the remnants of an old sawmill, I check
it out for just in case. The last one of these I saw was a 48 Buick. Luckily not
a Mopar. And you haven't seen nothing until you have seen a 58 Impala
tractor.......At least that one wasn't a Mopar either..
Sperduto, Nick wrote:
> I go past a place called the be-bop cafe every couple of weeks and over the
> summer they had a 56 Belvidere 4dr for sale. I looked at it, but didn't need
> it.
> I'm going by the place Saturday and from a distance, i can see the fin point
> of a 56 Plymouth and as I get closer, i say "What the hell is that and I
> slam on the brakes and pull in the driveway" I'm not sure if this car
> wasoriginally the 4 dr, but someone took a 56 Plymouth and made it into a 2
> dr one bench seat el-camino type car. It was different looking. I'm not sure
> if I like it yet or not. It's not done yet. But it has moulded rear bumper
> and the roof was shortened, I think the doors may have been shortened, I'm
> not sure. it was raingin so I couldn't study it. Right behind the seat, was
> the package tray just as if it was behind the back seat. It's like the cut
> the piece out from just in front of the rear windshield all thw way down to
> the trunk lip and moved it forward and then filled in the gaps with sheet
> metal. It doesn't look like the shortened the car.. The front fenders may be
> from something differnet as they weren't pointed in the front. The hood was
> also louvered and what would be the pickup bed was pretty much filled in and
> the car may have been lowered, i'm not sure. I'm going to try and get a pic
> of it next week. If anyone wants to see it, let me know and I'll email it to
> you
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