The Iron Orchid '34 Coupe [pics]

[markbognor]

I've been a bit of a fan of an early sixties show rod since spending way too much time as a boy gazing at the '32 on the cover of Little Deuce Coupe.

So when a pic of this newly built (for the 2013 Detroit Autorama) '34 appeared on my news feed I had to go and find some more...
















More and Info:

autoculture.org/?p=4082

www.problemchildkustoms.com/detroit-autorama-2013-first-look.html

www.rodauthority.com/news/event-news/detroit-autorama-sneak-peek-live-from-detroit/

www.facebook.com/GalpinAutoSports

[fannywhacker]

The most talked about car in the states right now and the most important car built in years.

[qwerty]

I love how the nostalgia rods are working through the decades!

[unitybonez]

Not my kind of stuff really, but the attention to detail is mindblowin. If you take a black n white shot and photoshop it on a old small book from the 60s no one is gonna know the diffrence. Rather bad ass i say.

[mylittletony]

that paint job...

stunning

[stealthstylz]

Love that paint. I sold my sidepipes to a guy who's gonna build a bit of a game changer re:nostalgia rods. Can't wait to see it out.

[HoTWire]

Mar 11, 2013 21:06:26 GMT qwerty said:

I love how the nostalgia rods are working through the decades!

I'm looking forward to the resurrection of Mini-trucking*

I do enjoy some show rods, would love to see them driving this around with that firewall though. Interesting stuff.




*yes yes I know it never really died

[Seth]

I've come back to look at this several times. Pretty speechless really.

I never thought I'd see a set of those chrome steel slots on a show car but they and so much of it are just so perfectly suited. Several things are slightly oddball but they work for the period and sort of thing it's representing.

[Dez]

i like the paint, but not on that car. i really don't think paintjob like that work on anything that isnt a chicano lowrider/bomb. and especially not on a rod, 60s show rod or not. it clashes with the lines of the car and is overly fussy, detracting from a lot of the mods going on. the fact the panelwork on the decklid totally ignores the louvers actually really annoys me, makes em look like a total afterthought. paint it plain bright red and itll look a whole load better, esp. with the white chassis. tail lights look curse word as well, even moving them out towards the edge would make em look 100% better. theres some nice touches on the rest of it though.

[unitybonez]

historically speaking, in the late 60s and troughout the 70s and early 80s, hot rods, muscle cars, street machines, street freaks, gassers.....etc...etc...all used to be painted with crazy psychedelic panel paint themes.
60s Kustom cars/early Lowriders, werent the only ones with intricate panel jobs, they simply are the only crowd that kept doin it.

There is a lot of photographic proof out there if for some reason you don't believe me.

[Deleted]

Love it appart from for some reason i think it needs some oddball style of headlights?


Maybe woodlight style? and painted the same way..

[fannywhacker]

Mar 12, 2013 13:38:04 GMT Dez said:

I like the paint, but not on that car. I really don't think paintjob like that work on anything that isnt a chicano lowrider/bomb. and especially not on a rod, 60s show rod or not. it clashes with the lines of the car and is overly fussy, detracting from a lot of the mods going on. the fact the panelwork on the decklid totally ignores the louvers actually really annoys me, makes em look like a total afterthought. paint it plain bright red and itll look a whole load better, esp. with the white chassis. tail lights look curse word as well, even moving them out towards the edge would make em look 100% better. theres some nice touches on the rest of it though.

You disappoint me Dez. Usually me and you see eye to eye and seem to have similar tastes. Couldn't disagree more with that ^^^ though! Ah well, I think it's killer, good to have a car that divides opinion.

[slackerTHEpinstriper]

I really like this specially the paint and as mentioned the style of paint was used on many different vehicles thru the 'crazy paint' era.
I don't like the rear lights.
And the last shot looks like it could be model kit from back in the day

[Rich606]

I really like that. I agree with Dez in that the louvres look like an afterthought and I'm not keen on the rear lights either, but I love the whole OTT show aspect of it and there are some lovely details, especially in the photos in some of the links posted. The paintwork on the underside of the body, the pin striping around the lace and fogged panels and, oddly the narrow red pinstripe on the whitebands are particular favourite bits.
The chrome and diamond pleating everywhere is just lovely

[waveman1500]

I love the blue perspex hood sides! Now that's old-school!

[bortaf]

Mar 12, 2013 13:38:04 GMT Dez said:

I like the paint, but not on that car. I really don't think paintjob like that work on anything that isnt a chicano lowrider/bomb. and especially not on a rod, 60s show rod or not. it clashes with the lines of the car and is overly fussy, detracting from a lot of the mods going on. the fact the panelwork on the decklid totally ignores the louvers actually really annoys me, makes em look like a total afterthought. paint it plain bright red and itll look a whole load better, esp. with the white chassis. tail lights look curse word as well, even moving them out towards the edge would make em look 100% better. theres some nice touches on the rest of it though.

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pretty much word for word
Overly fussy is very apt phrase IMHO i'm affraid

[markbognor]

I'm very much in the - trunk lid and rear lights could work better - camp. But neither can be seen from here:



Which more than makes up for any slight imperfections I may think it has.

[Seth]

You see, I'm sat here pretending its about 1963 and that someone with a '34 coupe race car has decided to build it into a show car for the upcoming winter indoor show season. He's made it all pretty, panelling in the open hood sides with blue plexiglass to match the plastic already in the windows from its C/Gas days. Then he's panel painted it in the current fashionable style to attract the judges attention. Yeah, it had a louvered decklid but that's what he had to work with as it was a race car. He's got to put some tailights on it too and likes the Pontiac ones, knowing that they look best on a street car when there's a pair of them each towards the outside edges of the rear pan. But this is a show car! I'm gonna have four of them all in a line! Ha! The judges won't have seen that before!

[Deleted]

I'm with Seth about that rear end, I actually like that it's not all conventional and perfect but that it has some character and true oddity about it. This is a modern build that doesn't look modern and is 100% LOOK-AT-ME which I absolutely love about hot rods. Paint it plain red and move the rear lights as Dez suggests and I doubt I'd look at it twice, writing it off as just another hot rod Ford.

[unitybonez]

Yeah, Seth pretty much nailed it. And I'm sure thats what the owner had in mind.