July art contest theme...
 

Alright, so we've covered the Wagon base, I'm thinking we may roll with the utility vehicle theme again...

Another noteworthy and often forgot about basis for a hot rod project is a car, or maybe it's a truck, no a car... Anyways, this one is inspired by my Bro-in-law who buys older homes outside the KC , MO area, renovates them and re-sells. One he bought a couple years back happened to have a worn but mostly original 69 396/4 speed SS El Camino in the garage. As a motorhead himself he managed to get the car thrown in the deal. What a find!

To all those elky and ranchero fans this one's for you. I'd like to put a twist on it though, I call that not only can you use the ones that really existed, but how about making one out of a car that never was an elky? Hmmmm, how about a 62 Impala based Elky, or an early Ford Thunderbolt Ranchero, or get even more nuts like our hero Steve Stanford and make one out of a 70's Duster. Original body or not, have a blast with one!

Here's some inspiration...

Sweet Elky recently seen at a show...
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...ovars/elky.jpg

Check this out, a shelby front bumper section...
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l.../1965-Ford.jpg

Master Steve's hand at work...
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...l_dustero1.jpg

Get out your pens and mice and let's see what you got! :thumbsup:

This might fit with your theme, I did this about a year ago for a private client.

The client wanted a 2009 Cadillac front end (with a few revisions) on an early '80s El Camino body.
One version of the project was the idea of making it a 'dually', with a monster twin turbo Banks diesel motor!

Chris

http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv3/CG3D/comp.jpg

Very Cool! Make sure you post up when the contest thread gets started on this coming Friday...

Here is a different thought on a utility the Rampside... if anyone wants to work it up that would be cool.

Wow I love the Caddy is it a Caddimeno