Custom Cars in the background

[Dave (a.k.a. rodncustomdreams)]

This image just came to me in an email featuring vintage car lot pictures:

 

Dave

Jus' creepin' along..

[Rik Hoving]

I love that photo Dave.
The Ford on the Left is an Valley Custom Shop built coupe for Byron Walton. I did an article on it in 2014.

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[Dave (a.k.a. rodncustomdreams)]

Thanks for the link Rik!  I had missed that article and it’s great to see other angles of the car and to know a bit of it’s history.  I’ve always been amazed at the quality and variety of customs and rods that appeared on the various specialty car lots in the ’50s.  I like to imagine myself as a kid on a bike back then; making regular visits to these lots, wishing I had my licence and dreaming about cruising the high schools and drive-ins..  I would have felt like a King!  Sigh.

 

Dave

Jus' creepin' along..

[Rik Hoving]

Found this one online… Mild Custom 1950 Mercury in black on the left side of the photo.

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[Dave (a.k.a. rodncustomdreams)]

Very nice!  Perhaps they saw “Rebel Without a Cause”..?

 

Dave

Jus' creepin' along..

[Rik Hoving]

Two photos taken at the Kurtis Shop.

Both show the same mildly restyled 1950 Merc in the background.

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[Bert Gustafsson]

Lowered and shaved shoebox on Hollywood blvd 1957. From gettymages drive through video.

[Paul(hombres ruin)]

Does that shaved shoebox have a removable top? Or is it just the pic ?

Respect tradition

[Rik Hoving]

Paul(hombres ruin) wrote:

Does that shaved shoebox have a removable top? Or is it just the pic ?

Convertible.

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[Quentin Hall]

Hey cool, that’s Hollywood and Vine and my signs were on the same corner until 1942 that is.

[Rik Hoving]

Wes Collins / Al Marx 1934 Ford in the background of this 1951 photo.

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[Rik Hoving]

Bill Carr’s 1955 Chevy “Atec” in primer in the background. Plus small section of Custom Studebaker (ebay photo)

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[Dave Tartaglia]

Found this one on the Web-O-Sphere.

[Dave Tartaglia]

Studebaker?

[Dave Tartaglia]

L.A. in the 70s.

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