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I remember the Seventies

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Cheshire Auto Promotions Indoor Classic Car Show 2011

And so did the builder of this car it would seem. It’s very retro, though I think the metalflake paint has been augmented with the colour shift stuff found on TVRs (and Nissan Micras, for some reason).

Cheshire Auto Promotions Indoor Classic Car Show 2011

I doubt it goes to many shows in Germany.

It makes me want to buy some old issues of Custom Car or Street Machine.

Most o0f the pictures I took at the indoor classic car show on Sunday are quite noisy because I didn’t use the flash or think to go to full manual and tinker with ISO, aperture etc.. However, there are a few of them in this Flickr set.

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March 30th, 2011 | Category: custom car, flickr, Reference | Comments are closed

If Morse were American- Drag Jag

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Dragster Jaguar Mk2

Another image from Butch Pate’s Fotki galleries, which gave us the hot rodded prison bus last week. A Mk2 Jaguar dragster (or possibly even Pro Street car, it has the headlamps and indicators as a nod to street legality, and it looks like there’s a number plate on the rear and the Oklahoma equivalent of a tax disc in the window). I can’t imagine Morse piloting this through the sleepy country roads around Oxford. Unless he really needed to get to the pub, which was a quarter of a mile away, in about 12 seconds.

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August 18th, 2010 | Category: 1:1, custom car, inspiration, Jaguar, Reference | Comments are closed

Billetproof

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Hot rod modellers, or builders, looking for inspiration should definitely check out some of the machinery which turns up at Billetproof shows. A lot of it straddles the old genius/insane line then bleeds the air bags and sits on it defiantly. What can I say, I want a lowrider Rolls.

Jalopnik has quite a few Billetproof posts.

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May 22nd, 2010 | Category: 1:1, custom car, Hot Rod, inspiration, rat rod, Reference | Comments are closed

Someone squashed that Beetle good

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The Woodruff Special, awesome meets silly. via Jalopnik

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May 20th, 2010 | Category: 1:1, custom car, inspiration, VW Beetle, YouTube | Comments are closed

Some inspiration for French customs

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I linked to the full size bike designs of Olli Erkilla on Two Wheels Good. But if you look at his website you’ll find lots of other cool stuff. The Digital Art section has lots of cool customs, mostly based on the good old 2CV.  I’m a fan of the Traction Avant coupe shown above, and I have an old Matchbox kit I can make up like it.

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September 30th, 2009 | Category: custom car, Hot Rod, inspiration, model car | Comments are closed

Hot Rods and Custom Stuff

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This professional customising shop has build photos of many of its projects online. If you know how it’s done in real life you can better replicate it in scale.

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May 29th, 2009 | Category: 1:1, custom car, Hot Rod, inspiration, Reference | Comments are closed

The Jalopy Journal

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The Jalopy Journal is an online car magazine specialising in more traditional rods and customs. It also has a busy forum for you to dive into, so you shouldn’t be lacking inspiration.

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May 27th, 2009 | Category: custom car, Hot Rod, inspiration, model car, Reference | Comments are closed