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Please Give me your honest and brutal opinion...This is somewhat the direction im going with my elky and i want to know what others thing...Yes i know "18's on a hotrod is ridiculous!"...Of couse, i'd never stray from my morals of rodding with nothing less than a 12 wide cragar on a mickey street tire :)
And this one. Tell me the good, the bad, and the ugly...I want to know honestly what the rodding community thinks about this...to me it's a masterpiece but i'm curious :)
Im talking about stance, color, any techniques that u can pick up on...be brutal!
Hopper, it's beautiful.
Now, having said that, you know that I'm an old guy and I like what I like and I don't like the wheels. If it were mine, it would have steel slotted 'Vette rallys painted body color with caps and rings. Otherwise, I wouldn't change anything. Sorry, can't help it. :)
I agree, the wheels need to go. Now I don't mind 16" wheels because the tires will still be seen. Maybe a 16" X 7" Cragar S/S for the fronts and 16" X 8" for the rears.
masterpiece, well i don't know about that. haha just joking, sits good. looks good, wheels i dont know about, but its what you think anyway. if it runs as good as it looks you're ok. :cool:Quote:
Originally posted by Hopper111
And this one. Tell me the good, the bad, an what you thinkd the ugly...I want to know honestly what the rodding community thinks about this...to me it's a masterpiece but i'm curious :)
Im talking about stance, color, any techniques that u can pick up on...be brutal!
I agree, i hate the wheels. Like, i said, id never leave home without a pair of 12 inch wide cragars on the back and a pair of 7 inch cragars on the front with some nice sticky mickeys.Quote:
I like what I like and I don't like the wheels.
erm, maybe i should clarify a little here...This isn't my el camino, this is the look at i am going for, i want to know what you guys think before i actually do something similar with mine...
My el camino looks much more like this pic here. Except mine is in grey primer. It's very basic and bland right now but its ready for a personality and im just trying to find the right one...That's why i said "be brutally honest". It's not my car, i just want to know what u think. :)
This one is in a little better shape as mine still has floor rust and a lot of just cleaning that needs to be done to it before its ready to start piecing back together. Sorry if my being not quite clear caused any problems...But please, be critical of the ORANGE ONE i want to know what other people think. I personally love the look of the ORANGE ONE and would like to get in touch with the guy that built it and find out what he used and where he got his parts...
gasser it:D
I'm an old guy too, but rally wheels painted body color? I like the stance and the color fits on an elk. The wheels look good. 18 and 20's look good on the big cars. Stop looking to change it enjoy it.
I'm pretty much in agreement with everyone else, I hate wheels like these on a rod or muscle type car. Really hate them on a fenderless roadster or t bucket. Yuck!!!!!!!!!
Ok, so now print out pics of both cars, hang them on the wall in the shop and get to building!!!! You don't have to copy the pics when you build your Elky, but different pics of "the look" you want on the car will serve as a reference and a reminder while you are working on it. Also, they make for great motivation to keep on working when you'd rather be doing other things!!!!! Take your time, and do it right the first time.......JMO
I would put a set of 15 inch polished Torque Thrust II wheels on it. Better than Cragar SS's in my opinion but they look similar. Very nice car--I wouldn't change anything else.
I agree.....Torque thrust II. Also El C's are very color sensitive.There are a lot of colors that just do not look rite. on a El C.
Don
Maybe someone on here can clarify for me...Is that a front rollpan? I can't really tell...
Ok, it’s just me, I have never built an old rod, but I am leaning towards big wheels. I know that the original cars never had them, but so what? I like those wheels on the orange beast. What I don’t like is all the colour, it is too much of the same. I like the way it is broken up with a black stripe across the rear of the car. What I might tend to do is add a complimentary colour across the bottom eight inches of the sides of the car. Hey, that’s just me.
like a two tone type of thing...thats a good idea.
keep them coming, i want to take what this guy did to his car, and twist it up, make it my own style...he just provided a good baseplate to start on.
The reason i don't like the big wheels is that
a) the are more expensive
b) the tires are double that of regular tires
c) the tires that u use for them not only get terrible traction, they don't last very long, and last they don't ride very well, very choppy and rough. The look doesn't matter too much to me on the reason i don't like them. It's also just that i have old fashion morals...Cars weren't made with rubber bands for tires, why should i want to change that?
the rear roll pan does away with the bumper and you fill the hole up with the roll pan. on the front they are caled Air Dams, Valances, bumper Covers, i guess a air dam is about the same thing as a roll pan.Quote:
Originally posted by Hopper111
Maybe someone on here can clarify for me...Is that a front rollpan? I can't really tell...
Hey Hopper, I only mention this because of the colour it is. I find two colors very susceptible to being too much. One is the colour orange and the other is yellow. These two colours alone can be too dark, too light, or just plain too much. If that same car was solid, red, blue, green etc, it would be no problem. At least that’s my opinion.Quote:
Originally posted by Hopper111
like a two tone type of thing...thats a good idea.
So when you use orange or yellow, you need to break it up a little. Even decals can be enough.