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Bill Cushenbery (March 22, 1933 – December 12, 1998) was an American car customizer, show car builder, and model kit designer. Cushenbery was a major influence on the look of custom cars and the customizing industry in general. [1]
The Venus Automobile is a one-piece fibreglass-bodied custom car produced in the early to mid-1950s in the United States. The prototype was mounted on a 1949 Ford chassis and powered by a Ford flathead V8 motor with high-performance heads and intake manifold. The car's designer, Kenneth McLoad, received a US Design Patent, number 177,499 in ...
VIN on a Chinese moped VIN on a 1996 Porsche 993 GT2 VIN visible in the windshield VIN recorded on a Chinese vehicle licence. A vehicle identification number (VIN; also called a chassis number or frame number) is a unique code, including a serial number, used by the automotive industry to identify individual motor vehicles, towed vehicles, motorcycles, scooters and mopeds, as defined by the ...
This car featured some new high-tech looking tires that had only a very thin stripe of whitewall rubber. By 1958, [ 2 ] Cadillac starts selling cars with these type of "Skinny Whites" or "Inch walls"; they were an instant hit and all the rage with the Kustom Krowd.
The Beatnik Bandit, built by Ed Roth, one of the most famous Kustom car builders. Kustom Kulture is the artworks, vehicles, hairstyles, and fashions of those who have driven and built custom cars and motorcycles in the United States of America from the 1950s through today. It was born out of the hot rod culture of Southern California of the 1960s.
Some of Coddington's signature innovations were his custom-fabricated alloy wheels, typically machined from a solid aluminium billet, an industry first. Together with John Buttera , [ 3 ] Boyd pioneered this "billet" machined look and applied it not only to wheels, but broadly throughout the car.
An unconventional Foose hot rod project was a custom roadster modeled after the Alfa Romeo Carabo coupe. The Carabo was a wedge-shaped concept car that was exhibited at the 1968 Paris Motor Show. [1] [8] Fabricating a large portion of the car, Foose transformed a crash-damaged 1972 De Tomaso Pantera into a roadster-version of the Carabo. [9]