Thread: What is a custom?

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But hey, I'm gonna build something radical one of these days, it's on my round-to-it list!!!!! I want to build one with an English wheel and a planishing hammer instead of Detroit built leftovers!!!!!

Dave that is a good idea with your talent . When i ran body shops an adjuster for SF was doing just that. His was based more on 30s style sheet metal . Maybe it was clos to a 50's MG also but i still wonder after all these years if he ever did get it going .

Uh no, Dave. Keep trying, you must have one mild one in there someplace.


Don

It truly is in the eyes of the beholder (and the judge sometimes). There are mild customs and radical customs and I have seen a lot of both. My 57 Olds is a mild custom. It has been nosed, decked, smoothed, shaved, frenched and customed painted. It has the custom goodies like a customed interior, lakes, skirts, wire wheels, etc. It is not chopped, but if you are familiar with a 57 Olds, it looks like a factory chop. In any case it suits me just fine.

I went to an all Olds show years ago and was put in the Custom category. For most of the show mine was the only one in the category. About an hour from the end of the show a guy and his wife showed up with a 442 convertible and was put in as a custom because he had new wheels. He was also a member of the club who put on the show. Needless to say he took the Custom Class trophy. He and his wife acted the entire time as if there were no doubt that they would win. I am not a trophy hound but I do support fairness, told that to the organizers and told them I would not support their events in the future and would let others know of their short sightedness and bias.

I'm like you, not a trophy hound (when we moved from our old shop to our new one I put about 10 of them in the dumpster) but fair is fair. My '27 was at a show one time, and I had it in the unfinished category. The car that took the trophy was a '48 Ford coupe that was black primered with a spray can (and not good at that) There were rust holes everywhere, and the engine compartment looked like the one on the Tulsa '57 Plymouth.

People kept walking up to me later and saying "that POS won a trophy??? ) But what I think the judges were trying to do was encourage a young builder to keep going with his project by giving him a trophy. That's cool with me.

But I have seen the same car win at every show when there are obviously much better cars there. It's all who you know.................


Don

Hotroddaddy,I did not ever notice you were in J- ville. i picked up my 31 from Altantic Beach! If ever down Orlando way give us a call we will treat to dinner!

Thanks 31, i`ll remember that. Same to you.

I was at a local fathers day show at the zoo, there was about 25 cars, not real big, mostly guys i knew , but we were trying to support the show, so they will have it again, well they had three classes for trophies,fathers choice,kids choice, and wildest car, the choice was made by filling out a card, and putting it in a box, well i was told that i had the wildest trophy, so i stuck around till the drawing, my boy was tired long before this, but i told him we had to wait, cause we were gonna get a prize, well time came and i got beat by a stock c-cab, then i had to explain to my crying boy why we did not get our prize. ill never do that again.