RESTYLING 1957 Chevy Pick Up

RESTYLING 1957 CHEVY PICK UP

For a client I did a series of quick Digital Restyling proposals to give him some ideas what he could do with his 1957 Chevy Pick-Up Truck.



The idea for this Digital Restyling project was to create a custom truck that looked like it could have been built in the later part of the 1950’s. A truck with a lot of custom work done to it, but which all needed to be done in a classic style, enhancing the looks of the truck.

The client, a well experienced craftsman, planned to spend a lot of time customizing the truck, so the amount of restyling was basically un-limited. This article shows just a few of the Restyling proposals. All basically rough design studies to figure out the final direction the client wanted to go. The captions below each version below, tells a little more about that specific version. Enjoy.



Original photo I started with. A nice late 1950’s photo I found on the internet. The car and photo had the look and feel we were after. The white wall tires and hubcaps were already perfect for the them. 

Version 1. First thing to do was remove the lettering and shave the body of its handles and emblems. The while car was lowered with a little more in the front for a nice rake that suits this ind of pick up truck really well.

Version 2. Next up was a pie cut sectioning of the hood, and sectioning of the top and cutting down the windshield to match. This relieved the top from the heavy hat feel. The grille was cleaned up and the car was lowered a bit more.

Version 3. Next up was a much more elaborate version The top was chopped, the body was sectioned above the belt line. The bumper was removed and replaced with a slightly v-ed 1957 DeSoto bumper/grille. The lower part of the front was reshaped with a roll pan below the new bumper/grille unit. The front wheel opening was reduced in hight and the opening reshaped to for the DeSoto bumper/grille unit. Fender skirts were added to the rear, and for this version the rear was lowered a bit more.

Version 4. Same as above, but now with no skirts and the same rake as before.

Version 5. For this version the De Soto bumper/grille was lowered a bit, and an extra floating grille bar was added. The front fenders were reshaped around a set of 1958 Lincoln quad headlight.) The new headlights were canted forward to the same angle as the A-Pillars. The pick up bed was modified with a different model center section.

Version 6. Nearly the same as above, but now with 3, smaller diameter, floating grille bars, a smoothed pick up bed sides with modified 1958 Chevy side trim.

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[box_light]Want to see more? Take a look at some other Digital Restyling projects by Rik Hoving Kustoms on the Custom Car Chronicle site.[/box_light]

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Are you day dreaming about your own perfect dream custom?

• Do you wonder what your precious car would (or could!) look like, even before you start cutting on it?
• Would you like to see different paint variations and styled on your custom car before you even start to mask the car, or order that expensive new paint? 
• Or would you like to see the difference of a 2, 3 or 4 inch chop and see the impact it will have on the rest of the car?
• Maybe you want to see any other modification done to your custom car, without having to actually perform that modification and find out a different modification would have worked better with the rest of your car?

Do you suddenly see all the possibilities? Perhaps now is a good time to contact Rik Hoving and ask him about the possibilities of his digital Restyling options. Request are free of any obligations.

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