Showing posts with label Kustom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kustom. Show all posts

Monday, November 8, 2010

Ed Roth's Mysterion had inherent build quality problem that caused it's scrappage about 1974, but Dave Shuten built a new one!













The second interesting thing about these gauges is that there are two of each, because they are early power boat gauges from a boat with two engines.



That little tv set took a year to find on Ebay, they are very rare, and might be the hardest thing to replace when making one of these "1960's car show crazy kustoms"



Dave might not be familiar by name, but he is by his actions... he restored Orbitron, built Mysterion, and might be the best sole authority on Ed Roth's creations
http://www.theorbitron.com/ in the "crew" tab

Sunday, June 20, 2010

1966 kustom built by Barris, the Tastee Big "T" found in the parking lot at the LA Roadster show!

Above: Bubble gum card showing the original, and it was brought back to the Barris shop in the early 70's and they made a few changes. They built a new body, dropped the front end, took off 2 of the fake blowers and put on a windshield http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4460174













Bangshift did a short story on it when it came up on Ebay in March of 2010 http://www.bangshift.com/blog/eBay-Find-The-Barris-Tastee-Freez-T.html

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Bitchin cool rat rod I found at El Mirage, some cool custom pieces added to it like the practice bombs













Just above the axle tubes are some lights off a military vehicle, cool use here, maybe as reverse or turn signal lights
The coolest "made" gas tanks I've seen