they are making cool cars in Argentina. This recreation of Brutus (if I translate correctly) is powered by a Packard v12, marine engine, and rolls on Boeing 737 wheels

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10246975765394335&set=gm.4038723836421513&idorvanity=1530498137244108

interesting custom '37 Plymouth built by Mike Bowe

https://www.facebook.com/john.zolot/posts/pfbid02VpX7RmFaPhL7ZtUy7d7P16VXQYKuWGgqV8NK9MCnmX1AZbbNBCYrKuJZAbhcu6zjl

there are two toy sewing machines,  A rotary dial toy telephone,  A railroad spike, A meat grinder,  An antique clothes iron, A vintage hair dryer, Two horse saddles, Rebar, An Electrolux vacuum cleaner, A Singer sewing machine, Scissors, and Two pipe wrenches 

a "Jeem Smeeth" (Jimmy Smith) cartoonish drawing from the cover of Rod N Custom some +16 years ago finally came to life courtesy of Sqeeg's Kustoms! !!!

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2018022462092447

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1580241081026.66168.1685655614

the Ford Fairmont Durango, wasn't a factory-built machine. National Coach - a custom-car builder based in Gardena, California - built about 212 of them, and this one Mercury Zephyr was made into this Mercury Durango

https://fordauthority.com/2026/03/extremely-unique-1979-mercury-durango-heading-to-auction

great use of woodlights, they set off this fat fender custom perfectly

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1301793408666020&set=gm.1413892970149276&idorvanity=1035365568002020

Wow, Walmart made a great Grinch and Max commercial using the 51 Studebaker Manta Ray. Coolest thing you'll see today, and it's great to see Walton Goggins in a light hearted role for a change, 1st I've seen him do easy going since Worlds Fastest Indian

for photos and info on the the original Manta Ray, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/07/1952-studebaker-manta-ray-concept-car.html

VooDoo Larry’s VooDoo Sahara was built from a 1954 Kaiser Manhattan, it’s Larry’s bold tribute to George Barris’ Golden Sahara

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1227741512731560&set=pcb.1227741549398223

never seen this one before! It was in the Oct 73 Hot Rod, built by Mark McManus in Massachusetts

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1412810857521326&set=a.445121280956960

Rick Dore is still building cool cars!

if you don't remember his cars, he builds customs, and might be most famous for making cars that look like the 1938 Figoni and Falashi coachbuilt Delahaye cars for James Hetfield  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/01/james-hetfield-has-had-rick-dore-create.html

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-black-pearl-newest-from-rick-dore.html

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/metallicas-lead-singer-james-hetfields.html

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/04/body-by-marcel-design-by-rick-dore.html

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/11/rick-dores-shangri-la-metal-work-by.html

1926 Lincoln Panel Van, no cost was spared in the build. Oval windows, a second windshield up top, clearance lights, carriage lights, dual-sidemounts, and wire wheels were some of the extras. The chassis without the body cost $3,900.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10237011003480435&set=gm.1802651033630609&idorvanity=108645673031162 

Tom built a copy of the famous but long-lost 1935 Kurtis-DuVall Southern California Plating Co.

https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/replacing-history-famous-lost-1935-ford-custom-replicated

a real no-shit 60s custom is coming to auction, and it's getting really rare to read those words. Joe Bailon's Barber Shop Custom from 1969 (charter member of National Rod & Custom Car Hall of Fame, inventor of Candy Apple Red)

Joe also built the Olds Toronado-powered Pink Panther car

https://www.mecum.com/lots/1151357/1969-joe-bailon-barber-shop-custom/?aa_id=703964-0

not bad at all... custom T Bird heading to Mecum auction

 

https://www.mecum.com/lots/1151495/1963-ford-thunderbird-custom-roadster/

I just realized I have seen enough, and posted enough, cool customs from Dick Dean (Barris partnered with him in the late 60s) that he deserves his own tag to link them all together

George Barris main body man was Dick Dean, who did the scroll work on both Munster Koach#1 and built the car. He had helped the Barris crew, and 1984 built Munster Koach#2. He built 4 Dragulas.

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Dick%20Dean for the variety of his customs I've posted before 

BMW converted a pair of 1800 TI sedans into pickups in the '60s for use as service vehicles by a BMW dealership in France.

 https://www.carandclassic.com/auctions/1965-bmw-1800-ti-pick-up-nP20a8
https://www.thedrive.com/news/bmw-supposedly-built-2-of-these-little-pickups-60-years-ago-one-is-for-sale

Thank you Larry W for letting me know about this video! Bryan Fuller enlisted a bunch of experts (25) in the body build/coach build crafts, and they worked on making the body for a full size version of a Hot Wheels car!

https://fullermoto.com/blog/metal-shaping-technology

It's not flyable, more a "sculpture", but it's a great look at the cool idea of what a helicopter with a VW van body would have looked like.. I think Chuck calls it he Frankenchopper

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10160668325981901&set=a.10150983663426901

https://www.instagram.com/chuckteschke/

https://carbuzz.com/this-vw-bus-helicopter-is-neither-of-those-things-anymore/

in 1967, a couple guys got a couple vending machine doors, and 55 years later the Coca Cola hot rod is selling for 1/3rd a million dollars if anyone with that much moolah needs this museum piece that much.

Glen Yeary and Steve Tansy made this custom creation, and Yeary is selling it.  

 Yeary and Tansy were provided the two real Coca-Cola vending machine doors, used a bottle crate for the kick board, a pair of bottles for the tail lights, and a lot of polish on the engine. Strange that they didn't use a cooler for the gas tank trunk. The fountain spigot for the radiator ornament is a nice touch though

https://www.racingjunk.com/1960-1979/184453573/1967-chevrolet-coupe-coca-cola-vending-machine-street-rod.html

12 month custom build of a 53 Chevy truck that came from a junkyard