The Iron Orchid '34 Coupe [pics]

The most talked about car in the states right now and the most important car built in years.

Not my kind of stuff really, but the attention to detail is mindblowin. If you take a black n white shot and photoshop it on a old small book from the 60s no one is gonna know the diffrence. Rather bad ass i say.

Love that paint. I sold my sidepipes to a guy who's gonna build a bit of a game changer re:nostalgia rods. Can't wait to see it out.

I've come back to look at this several times. Pretty speechless really.

I never thought I'd see a set of those chrome steel slots on a show car but they and so much of it are just so perfectly suited. Several things are slightly oddball but they work for the period and sort of thing it's representing.

historically speaking, in the late 60s and troughout the 70s and early 80s, hot rods, muscle cars, street machines, street freaks, gassers.....etc...etc...all used to be painted with crazy psychedelic panel paint themes.
60s Kustom cars/early Lowriders, werent the only ones with intricate panel jobs, they simply are the only crowd that kept doin it.

There is a lot of photographic proof out there if for some reason you don't believe me.

You disappoint me Dez. Usually me and you see eye to eye and seem to have similar tastes. Couldn't disagree more with that ^^^ though! Ah well, I think it's killer, good to have a car that divides opinion.

I really like that. I agree with Dez in that the louvres look like an afterthought and I'm not keen on the rear lights either, but I love the whole OTT show aspect of it and there are some lovely details, especially in the photos in some of the links posted. The paintwork on the underside of the body, the pin striping around the lace and fogged panels and, oddly the narrow red pinstripe on the whitebands are particular favourite bits.
The chrome and diamond pleating everywhere is just lovely

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Overly fussy is very apt phrase IMHO i'm affraid

You see, I'm sat here pretending its about 1963 and that someone with a '34 coupe race car has decided to build it into a show car for the upcoming winter indoor show season. He's made it all pretty, panelling in the open hood sides with blue plexiglass to match the plastic already in the windows from its C/Gas days. Then he's panel painted it in the current fashionable style to attract the judges attention. Yeah, it had a louvered decklid but that's what he had to work with as it was a race car. He's got to put some tailights on it too and likes the Pontiac ones, knowing that they look best on a street car when there's a pair of them each towards the outside edges of the rear pan. But this is a show car! I'm gonna have four of them all in a line! Ha! The judges won't have seen that before!