I was in the mood for something a bit out of the ordinary when I was perusing the CC Cohort. And I found it, with these shots of a chopped and otherwise modified 1937 Oldsmobile, posted by William Rubano. How’d you like to see this glaring at you in your rear view mirror?
I’m old enough to remember when cars like this were a common sight. Kids would find an old car behind someone’s barn and take a torch to it, with high hopes of creating a slick and polished hot rod, but that all-too often ended up never fulfilled. Better yet were the ones whose aspirations were more modest and just wanted to have some fun; something to stick in folks faces: “I don’t care what you think!” This one clearly falls into the latter ranks, or at least ended up that way.
Of course, this might also be a very self-conscious contemporary creation. Or at least a revived old one turned into one. It’s cool, in any case. And a lot more so nowadays than the overly-slick and polished rods that it may have once started out to be.
Looks like what the Psychopathic Tanker Truck Driver from the movie Duel would drive if he had a car 🙂
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/115/a/3/duel_truck_meme_by_1vonreich123-d4xlm8e.jpg Hell ya!
I normally hate these kind of cars because a perfectly good antique was trashed to make it.
Something about this car really appeals to me, though.
I know right? It would look great done up right with paint, wheels, interior, and 4 link airbags in the rear. I think its big block chevy material. 😀
An ambitious chop job which looks to be unfinished, judging from the lack of side glass. That paintjob though, ugh. I’ll take the “slick and polished” look over this… like the Caddy next to it appears to be. 🙂
Not my cup of tea,it looks out of proportion with the chopped roof.Unless the seats are lowered it will be too low inside.
The Pharaohs who gave Richard Dreyfuss a hard time in American Graffiti should have been driving this car in exactly the state it is here instead of the immaculate ’51 mercury.
A most excellent film,apart from Harrison Ford’s 55 Chevy gaining an extra set of doors in the crash n burn scene
IIRC it was a two door. The car that rolled was a 150 two door backup car(also from Two Lane Blacktop like the main one) and the burn car was a Bel Air hardtop with blocks of wood simulating B pillars
A four-door with an Indiana dealer’s badge. In a previous life, it was Ralphie’s Old Man’s car.
“Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man…” a very short Oldsmobile man.
This just looks stupid. All I can think is they ruined a car.
This is one mean and scary lookin’ muthaf….. and I want it!
Oh, I dunno, I kinda like it. This is what you would see if someone were to re-boot the Dick Tracy strip as a Manga-type comic. With Mumbles at the wheel. Can’t you just see the cops stopping it and Mumbles trying to explain this?
Reminds me of the old Franki Valli and the Four seasons song “Rag Doll”:
“I’d change her sad rags into glad rags if I could…”
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes. [Knocking]
Open locks,
Whoever knocks!
That car’s been a down a long, long road since the Parker’s ’37 Olds Christmas Story…
Having seen that having the adult narrator in the future and kid in the present works just as well (“Growing Up Fisher”) I’m now convinced the Old Man’s Olds should’ve been an FWD Omega or something with a diesel.
Dreadful. Those call for a max 3″ chop. The only thing which would save it is to ditch the roof altogether and make it into a convertible with a Carson top (as was used in the 1940s and 1950s). Oh, and it wants shiny paint on it as oposed to that new-age pyschadelic nonsense…
…like this:
No lie–I’d be a bit nervous if this pulled up behind me. Something about it is genuinely a little scary. But, in a good way, like a horror movie classic.
I’d love to see who drives (or drove, if it was pulled out of a barn) this thing!