Friday Art Show......Enter Here

[mlomaka]

I just thought I would go ahead and get this started. My computer here at work broke Tuesday & I just got my replacement, so here is my entry.

My first thought to "lets see something that hasn't been done", was, what havent they put wood on?! At first I was just going to do some kind of Merc wagon. I thought about it for a while, and maybe because I was getting info together for a shop doing a 51 panel van, I had an idea. Since everybody is taking new things and making them look like old things (retro), I thought, why not take something new and take it back (neo-retro)? So, thinking about a Lincoln Blackwood, I thought about taking a 56 panel van, cutting the top off and putting a big window pick up top and back on it (slight chop- more at the base than the window, remove some of the bulge out of the top). I then went with the Blackwood style of wood around the back. The part I like about this is, by using a panel van, the rear fenders are not ultra wide looking like a PU. Back to the wood, I wrapped it around the rear, but removed almost all verticle boards. There are a lot of subtle body mods like moving the front wheels (with updated independant suspension) forward to reduce the nose heavy look of these years of trucks, slightly re-angled the rear fenders and back to get a more consistant angle throughout the side and taking a wedge section out of the hood. I tried to use some big Jason Rushforth wheels (Super Spoke), that I originally wanted the centers (along with the Merc grill) anodized a burnt platinum color, but did not have time to go back & redo them. I also was thinking about going a little different on motorvation. I thought why not use a hopped up Ford V-10?1 I am not real good at naming projects, but with the influence of this one, I dubbed this one Redwood. All in all, I had fun with this project. Thanks for the theme!



OK guys, lets see some other great stuff.

Mike