Saw this at Pate - 64/98 custom

[SuperWho]

Thoughts???

[spr85gmc]

[fryer1979]

Not a fan. I know the automotive world is heavy in personal taste, but to me these hybrids destroy the lines that make the classics so beautiful.

[markeb01]

It’s interesting, but seems like a lot of work and money to create something that’s neither fish nor fowl. Kind of like the VW beetles with the Rolls Royce front ends years ago.

[K-TEN]

Woof! I suppose that imitation is the highest form of flattery, but I own a 90 Sportside which I really like and have owned since new. The Sportside look is ruined and the target isn't hit for the 60's look. The roof is particularly heinous. The front fender is just weird. It's something, and I'm sure the owner is proud. but Golly.....it's UUUUgleeee!

[aerotruk63]

Smile and nod!

[Slow Build]

Originally Posted by spr85gmc

x2

[andyspinstriping]

I couldn't have said it any better...

Originally Posted by fryer1979

Not a fan. I know the automotive world is heavy in personal taste, but to me these hybrids destroy the lines that make the classics so beautiful.

[Vernski]

To each his own but it just weird's me out nothing seems to look good together and nothing flows I know it's just a bad dream and I will wake up sooner or latter and i hope it's soon. JMO....Vernski

[protrash64]

.....one of these things rears it's ugly head again.

[SuperWho]

It had a big SOLD sign in the window. Someone liked it. Not me. The lines were all wrong. To each his own though.

[andyh1956]

several years ago at pate i saw an 88 chevy pickup with a 57 chevy car "kit" on it. looked it up & read about it. like yall say it was a marriage of incompatible styles. in the early 70s a local body guy bought a 60 caddy that had been rear ended. he was waiting on a front wrecked caddy to turn up so he could put the two together. meanwhile his obnoxious son run his pickup off in the river & lost it so he needed a truck. so he cut the caddy & put a 63 dodge lwb bed on the caddy. he mated the caddy lines to the dodge bed & beleive it or not it looked good. even had a slider in the back glass. i spose the reason might have been both ends had roughly the same era of style. anyway it looked a lot better than this hybrid here.
andy

[fryer1979]

Hybrids between vehicles of a relatively similar era often times turn out really cool. I just don't like blending old with new (another current example would be those '53 Corvette body kits one can get for the C-5 cars, ugh). The only one I have seen that I kind of like is the '88 to '98 stepside bed on a '67 to '72 cab. Again I said KIND OF like, it is still not for me.

[66Freak]

Not a fan!

[LILRED66]

Hideous!

[lakeroadster]

It's got a bad case of "hobo" hair.

What a lot of work! IMHO if the cab would have been left alone (stock 98 roof profile) it would look pretty good. Hell, I would drive it!

But then people have always said I am about a half bubble off plumb

It would be interesting to see under the hood, inside the fenders, etc. where all the mod's were made..... just to see the quality (or lack there of?) of the mod's.

[Rich 5150 69]

Not a fan of it....

[markeb01]

Originally Posted by lakeroadster

It's got a bad case of "hobo" hair.

It really is the roof that doesn't work, almost like a badly fitting toupee. The rest of the truck looks like a lot of design thought went into it, and then everyone got tired and wanted to go home so they just plopped something on top and called it quits.

[Bears63]

I appreciate all the work that went into it, but the lines are just all wrong. It just looks goofy.

[Winola73]

I can appreciate the work they put into it but as someone posted above, "just because you can doesn't mean you should".

[Doogie]

what an abortion, would rather walk................ wast of a 64 parts

[GMCMG]

I respect the amount of thought and work that had to go into making that abomination. Past that, I love the 60-66s AS THEY ARE because they are just d*mn sexy (wish my wife had lines like my truck)!!! This is right there with defacing art. Why is it that the more money someone has (that project couldn't have been cheap), the less taste they have???

[McC_65_91]

I personally would drive it...but never buy or build it. cool concept, but wow, its ugly. still respect to the work that it took though

[Rogue]

Vomit!

[63 & 64 Bowties]

I can't tell from the pic, is that a S-10? If so, I've seen that done before. I think there's a kit that someone makes.
Not my cup-o-tea either.