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39 minutes ago, espo said:

The more times I see the picture of this car the more I think someone is pulling our chain so to speak.  

I kinda think it's real.

There's no shortage of '90s-2000s pickups around here sporting exactly the same kinds of visual "enhancements". 

Like this. Honest.   CDN media

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Just now, Ace-Garageguy said:

I kinda think it's real.

There's no shortage of '90s-2000s pickups around here sporting exactly the same kinds of visual "enhancements". 

Honest. Like this.    CDN media

I guess the beauty is in the eye of the beholder on this sort of style. Looks too busy to me and doesn't really add to the overall appearance. 

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1 minute ago, espo said:

I guess the beauty is in the eye of the beholder on this sort of style. Looks too busy to me and doesn't really add to the overall appearance. 

Yeah, and they can do anything they want to their vehicles. I don't care.

But I certainly don't have to praise the results, and I'm still free to laugh at and criticise this stuff...for now.  ;)

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If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then we have some legally blind drivers out there sharing the road with the rest of us.

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On 10/27/2024 at 4:31 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Ever hear of an increasingly obscure concept called "taste"?

Then there's the horrible fit of the wonky front sheetmetal and the paint mismatch...but hey, it's covered in garish stick-on stuff, so don't pay attention to the incompetent workmanship.

And "stands out from the rest" isn't always...well, let's just say "an aesthetic improvement".

 

Relax.  It's just one car, built to the owner's taste.  It wasn't built for us.  Customized cars used to be called "personalized".  Somehow that got lost along the way.  An "aesthetic improvement" ?  I'm not sure if that might have been the goal, but he sure made it unique.  ?

Funny you guys get hung up on cars like this, when at a car show I'd pay more attention to this one than all the stock Fords of its type on the field.   Conformity can be boring.  ?

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And then there are these two from the Thunderbirds TV series.  They used those chrome drawer pulls on everything it seems. (Episode: City of Fire)

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10 hours ago, Brian Austin said:

...Funny you guys get hung up on cars like this

They're ugly.

If you prefer ugliness and incompetent workmanship, that's your right.

And in that case, the good news is that there's an inexhaustible supply of both.  :)

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Even some of the "name" customizers sometimes lost sight of the fact that the car was supposed to look better after all of the alterations were done.  Sometimes they were just chasing show points for each change, other times they were making the alterations to the customer's  vision.  As to the latter, it was a menswear designer that said "when it comes to matters of taste, the customer is always right"...

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1 hour ago, Mark said:

Even some of the "name" customizers sometimes lost sight of the fact that the car was supposed to look better after all of the alterations were done.  Sometimes they were just chasing show points for each change, other times they were making the alterations to the customer's  vision.  As to the latter, it was a menswear designer that said "when it comes to matters of taste, the customer is always right"...

Amen to the idea that customizing "was supposed to look better " part.

Far as "a menswear designer" goes (I don't recall which one, though I'm sure I can find it) one of the big names back in the late '60s or early '70s designed a "sports car" that looked for all the world like a shrunken mutant Wienermobile with a big toothy grille.

I could never take his aesthetic judgement on anything seriously after seeing that.

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1 hour ago, Mark said:

Even some of the "name" customizers sometimes lost sight of the fact that the car was supposed to look better after all of the alterations were done.  Sometimes they were just chasing show points for each change, other times they were making the alterations to the customer's  vision.  As to the latter, it was a menswear designer that said "when it comes to matters of taste, the customer is always right"...

it wasn't a fashion designer, it was harry selfridge from selfridges department store in london

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On 10/29/2024 at 1:31 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Far as "a menswear designer" goes (I don't recall which one, though I'm sure I can find it) one of the big names back in the late '60s or early '70s designed a "sports car" that looked for all the world like a shrunken mutant Wienermobile with a big toothy grille.

I could never take his aesthetic judgement on anything seriously after seeing that.

Looks like I got the date wrong, apparently it was '79, and it was John Weitz. Just goes to show that even talented designers in one field don't necessarily have what it takes to do cars.

And hey...if you like it, that's OK. You do you. But I think it stinks. Horrible. Beat with the ugly-stick, etc.   B)

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