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Since I got good response from my last Olde Kustom rebuild, here's a '61 Ranchero custom that a friend gave me. Note that both a pillars are shattered as was the body as you can see over the rear wheel. Someone stripped the paint down and made a mess of it, scraping the body in places, leaving a lot of clean up work.
Again, the goal of the Old Kustom Kollection is to bring 'em back to their glory, and make them look like they were in the day. So we don't use any modern parts or techniques. I hand sanded the body because there was no way I was going to chance destroying the putty in this body. There is enough and it weighs a ton!
This one may have lived several lives since it had several colors on it. Bottom was light blue paint and the gold underlay for the candy purple. I did change the color of the car because I feared the dark purple would hide the body lines.
The original interior was complete and in good enough condition to simply dust and put back in the body. Gotta love the fur!
And here she is complete. The custom nose was off either the Ranchero customizing kit or a Falcon of the era. It's just priceless. All the original parts, including the tires and wheels were cleaned up and reused.
Top view - I cut down a bed cover from a new kit since I imagined that it had one back in the day. A new kit body was sacrificed to replace the A pillars. The two concessions I made on this one were cleaning up the putty on the nose to flow better and I scribed the front hood edge.
Rear view- The original builder shortened the bed and added on one of the customizing rear ends. The back flow is compromised as it suddenly tilts backward, but it is what it is. I wasn't going to fix it.
Side view - Imagine this one on a contest table in 1962. This one was fun and it was rewarding to bring her back from the dead. Now she's ready for the next 50 years on my shelf.
