1st and 2nd gen body parts swapping

[PTmanboy]

I like your Tangerine PT, the flame make it look cool. I build traditional customs and hot rods, not much pearls amd kandys back then. My 59 Dodge aka The Great Pumpkin has been up and down the east coast for 2 years winning many shows and been in many magazines. I was realy puashing for a old skool hot rod look with the PT but the more my daughter sees the PTs here, I can see goodbye old skool PT. I can`t believe the prices for the custom aftermarkets so I can definately see myself doing alot of bodywork to make something. CM talk about paint/body, I`m Dupont, Spies, PPG, Sherwin Williams, and 3M certified. I love to paint! Here is some of my past rides. As you can see, I like big cars but then again I`m 6'3".

[Candyman]

Hey their PTmanboy,

Way cool man, and some sick old school rides you have done there for sure.

Too bad you couldn't pull something like this off as the PT can look pretty sweet as an old school rat if set up right. First one is real, and second is a model but has some potential to be cool I recon.




Or if you really wanted to get down with doing some serious body work, I am still seriously wanting to build this one of these days as to me, I think it would be one of the sickest PT's out their.



Or another interesting look that I have yet to see anyone even attempt would be to shave the fenders and either go fenderless completely, or go with like fenders off a Prowler. Not the best of chops but you kinda sorta get the idea.



Or the hard top version. Again just a quickie and crude chop to get the idea:



Or a more refined fenderless rod: (This one isn't mine but cool nonetheless)



And I hear ya on the love for painting. I have had some health problems which have limited my ability to do anywhere close to what I used to but I still really try my hardest to jump back in the booth every chance I can, if nothing else to at least lay down some flames or murals, or some kind of air brush graphics which I don't need to move around too much with. Its a great release for me and I big time love nothing more than to hit the booth late at night with kind of an idea of some graphics i am gonna lay down and just see where the paint takes me. I can literally spend hours and hours laying down a design till its the way I want it and its just got that cool factor to it. Not much beats that feeling! Am I right?

I am also Certified through Dupont, and BASF though I almost exclusively love using House of Kolor for most of my art work. As you already guessed, I use a lot of Kandy's, and Pearls with the bright colors that pop when doing graphics work and BASF for the more traditional refined classic colors including a lot off the color pallet from Foose Design to do the older rods and customs the shop I get to play in from time to time is mostly known for around here. I mostly now just do a lot of design and specialty jobs like flames, and custom graphics work along with some custom upholstery work here and there for both my buddies rod shop, as well as an old friend who is a private collector and investor in mostly higher end antique automobiles from the early 20's and 30's like Packard, Cord, Duesenberg, Bentley, and so on who makes his living off of buying, rebuilding, and selling at the big auction like RM. I handle a lot of the overall design as far as color pallet for both interior and exterior to better compliment the car, and do a lot of cosmetic restoration of old parts as well as repair, restoration, and careful preservation often with the goal of trying as hard as humanly possible to retain as much of the original materials, character, and patina of the original paint and interior as as I can whenever possible, and for the vehicles that need full restoration form the ground up, I have managed several full restorations having done the initial concept including color and layout to paint, interior, and outsourced everything else like chrome and powder coating, and so on per a strict schedule and deadline usually to meet an upcoming auction, or show or something along those lines. I love working at both shops as they are such a vast contrast to each other, and makes so I rarely ever not come home having learned something totally new I didn't know before. The only downside like I say is that do to my health and an old spinal injury, I kinda have to work at my own pace when I feel up to it rather than just be in the booth banging out car after car like I wish I could. In the end its all good though as both of my friends allow me the ability to do what I love absolutely love to do, and do it when I feel good enough to do it, so I am very lucky big time, and so appreciative as it never feels like I am working as its just what I love to do!

Anyways, sorry to go carrying on like that. Ya know how it is.

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[Candyman]

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Here is a couple pic's of my buddies shop I do most of my air brush and graphics work at, followed by a few cars I have done as well. I wish I could show you the other shop as it is really a neat place but that gentleman is an extremely private individual and makes it very clear that he does not want any photos of either him, his shop, or his vehicles or you will be fired so I am not allowed to show any of those photo's or I would. Just not worth the risk as it is a cool job, and he is a good long time friend, so sad to say but no pic's of his place or cool rides at least for now. Anyways, here is the rod shop for ya.




And a few cars I have done over the years starting off with my old Dually. It was a 1980 with an updated 91 front clip grafted on, body dropped 2", C Notched, and riding on bags so it would lay frame. I did a lot of learning what to do and not do with body and paint work on this old beast. I was getting ready to shoot it 2 tone Cobalt Blue over Charcoal gray with micro flake with a solar yellow thin flame to break the two colors. Unfortunately I never got the chance to re-shoot it before I sold it to a good friend and moved on to my next project. Loved that old truck though.



Next is a good friends 74 VW Bug which was completely junk having sat for years and was destine for the crusher at the salvage yard when one night we were sitting around having a few cold ones when I bet him I could make something cool out of it. Next thing ya know I had sketched up a rough idea of making a Cali style roadster out of it. And after cutting the roof off, shaving everything including the fenders and a lot of body, and smoothing in with fiberglass over the better part of an entire year, this was what came of it. I did everything from the concept to the paint and body, and my friend did all the mechanics of it. The original design was intended to have a functional scoop which was to be mounted on the hand formed rear fiberglass cover to allow more forced air into the engine but was later scrapped by my friend for a more cleaner look. This is one of those very rare times when I broke my own rule on going with a 2 tone with two light colors as I always try to follow the light color over dark as it just flows better. The colors I chose are 3 stage Cadillac Pearl White over Mitsubishi Silver, both OEM colors which in this case worked pretty well overall.




Though I thought a great deal about this build for a long time after as I wanted to achieve a totally different look as these fenderless bugs are already around here and there out here on the west coast and I always want to try something totally new and different so I later came up with this concept which if I had the chance to build another one, I would do it like this.



This was a friends Suburban that I suicided the rear doors, did a col induction hood, phantom grille, and laid out the final paint and graphics including matching color on the handles. Colors were HOK Limetime Green, HOK Solar Yellow for the graphic over a titanium base. I also did the drop and wheels on this one as well.



My buddy Steve's Nova. He is the owner of the Rod Shop I get to hang out and play in on occasion. I did the full concept, and shot the entire thing. Pic's. This was one of my early projects I did.



Another project I did from concept through completion, from perfecting the body lines to painting that flawless black mirror finish to the custom interior, to the custom air ride system, I am very proud to say that I had a big hand in this build of a semi mild custom.



And last but not least out of everything I have ever been involved in building, this was by a mile the longest, most epic build I have ever, or will ever tackle no question about it! My friend wanted a truck to haul multiple cars in an enclosed trailer to and from shows like SEMA and so on, but the catch was he wanted the truck to also show off what we could do at the shop. I have been around big trucks for a long time as my father drove a truck for many years, and in fact at one time I also drove long haul so after much discussion we opted for an old Peterbelt day cab which had been beat to all hell and was retired from a life of hauling gravel trailers around locally. We started by stretching the frame, adding a coffin sleeper wich I chopped 8" out of, extended the front fenders down, made some custom filler panels to make it look like it is sitting lower than it actually is, shaved the handles, did a full one off air ride system using air bags from a trailer to get it to drop down to the tires up front, added the chrome full rear fenders, 8" stacks, Texas front Bumper, Custom Grille, Visor, and the list goes on, and on. Painted it BASF Basic Black Poly. The original plan was to do some purple lightning graphics on it but never got around to finishing it up which it still looked pretty cool, and big time always got attention everywhere we went so mission accomplished. I also did the interior rat rod style using an old freeway sign to cover part of the floor, then a speed limit sign on both front floor boards, and misc signs and old license plates throughout the entire interior. It really came out pretty cool looking. Anyways, here is the only pic I have left of it. It was eventually sold after having driven it to and from shows for years. Sadly I lost all of the photos I had of it including the build log once after my computer decided to give out on me losing everything. So this is the only pic I have of it. It was a blast to build, but given the huge amount of work involved, and just the hassle of working with something that huge and bulky, this one was most definitely the first and last time I ever take on a project of that size ever again.



So anyways, that's a few of my projects I have accomplished. Of course their are always more in the works though for sure! Just a matter of time.

Anyways you go easy, and keep up the sick work man!