This is not as horrible as it could have been:
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Dec. 19, 2011 7:58 a.m. Woody SuperDork
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Dec. 19, 2011 8:04 a.m. Gearheadotaku Dork
The cover's not so hot, but the rest of it is pretty cool!
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Dec. 19, 2011 8:16 a.m. Woody SuperDork
Gearheadotaku wrote:
The cover's not so hot, but the rest of it is pretty cool!
I'm willing to cut him some slack on the bed cover, especially considering that he was smart enough to make it out of two trunk lids when vinyl and snaps would have been much easier.
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Dec. 19, 2011 8:23 a.m. HappyAndy HalfDork
I've seen worse
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Dec. 19, 2011 8:27 a.m. RossD SuperDork
If I didn't know better, and I don't, I'd say that was factory made in Detroit.
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Dec. 19, 2011 8:50 a.m. pres589 Dork
The "check-mark" roof style of the hardtop probably would have been better looking around the B/C pillar. Station wagon tailgate would have allowed for a lower lift-over height.
Not bad though.
Edit: After further examination of pictures of 1963 B-body cars with the check-mark top, I have decided that it would have been a bad idea.
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Dec. 19, 2011 8:53 a.m. jrw1621 SuperDork
I have never seen the car but the article says that it is located in the town next door to me.
The background of this pictures looks familiar but I can not quite put my finger on the intersection.
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Dec. 19, 2011 8:57 a.m. Woody SuperDork
That looks like a firehouse in the background, if that helps.
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Dec. 19, 2011 9:03 a.m. N Sperlo SuperDork
Woody wrote:
That looks like a firehouse in the background, if that helps.
Theres a firehouse for sale by my house. I can't afford 450,000xx, but that would be one mean garage. As for the ca... Tru.... Whatever it is, it looks decent. The trunk needs some grinding.
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Dec. 19, 2011 9:04 a.m. jrw1621 SuperDork
The firehouse has words on the brick of the house portion but I can not make them out.
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Dec. 19, 2011 10:01 a.m. ArthurDent Reader
Surely being a Mopar is should be Belvedage instead of Belvedereamino. Reasonably well done IMO.
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Dec. 19, 2011 11:51 a.m. Gearheadotaku Dork
Woody wrote:
Gearheadotaku wrote:
The cover's not so hot, but the rest of it is pretty cool!
I'm willing to cut him some slack on the bed cover, especially considering that he was smart enough to make it out of two trunk lids when vinyl and snaps would have been much easier.
I would have just left the bed open. The first pic looks older, the cover may have been in better shape then.
I like the station wagon tailgate idea.
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Dec. 19, 2011 12:27 p.m. DrBoost SuperDork
Woody wrote:
This is not as horrible as it could have been:
But it's every bit as horrible as I expected.
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Dec. 19, 2011 1:15 p.m. neon4891 SuperDork
I like it.
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Dec. 20, 2011 2:21 a.m. Appleseed SuperDork
Australians like it.
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Dec. 20, 2011 4:21 a.m. jrw1621 SuperDork
My guess is that the cover was made because it is easier than finishing the bed properly. I envision that if you look under the cover you will see some combination of trunk floor and rear seat floor.
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Dec. 20, 2011 5:54 a.m. 914Driver SuperDork
I've seen that done with a Volvo wagon, very similar roof line.
Dan
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Dec. 20, 2011 1:51 p.m. patgizz SuperDork
aw crap now i want to go buy a volvo wagon and do that.
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Dec. 20, 2011 2:50 p.m. ultraclyde HalfDork
Hmm. I approve of both designs, but I'm highly attracted to the Belvaderamino.
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Dec. 21, 2011 8:41 a.m. MadScientistMatt SuperDork
Woody wrote:
Gearheadotaku wrote:
The cover's not so hot, but the rest of it is pretty cool!
I'm willing to cut him some slack on the bed cover, especially considering that he was smart enough to make it out of two trunk lids when vinyl and snaps would have been much easier.
Also, the conversion is over 20 years old; it may have looked better when he'd finished it.
Other than the bed cover, it looks factory. Very impressive.
