Custom Pininfarina Styled '57 T-Bird

[torinobradley]

Just testing the waters to see if it is track-able. Pininfarina has customize cars such as the 1954 Caddilac and the '58 Eldorado. I was wanting to do a custom 1957 Thunderbird in what I would think Pininfarina would do to make it more of a worldly sports car. Was thinking thinned bumpers and body colored roll pans, laid back covered headlights simular to Ferraris, similar treatment on the taillights, enlongated hood scoop, radiused wheel wells, wires, webbers, wood steering wheel and euro trimmed interior, etc...

Any thoughts?

[RodBurNeR]

from what I saw ....I think they are beautiful cars. I guess as long as it fits the guidelines it's cool with me.
www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=562114

the sports cars wouldn't be a wise choice , they are too hard to distinguish "traditional kustom" styling.

[Bernard Kron]

I think your idea is very cool and exciting and I hope you're able to share it with us. I did a '57 a couple of years ago that I showed here. I "purified" the bodywork to show it's obvious Pinin Farina roots, removing the fake vents and heavy bumpers, running Halibrand kidney bean mags with knockoffs as seen on American sports-racing cars of the era, and inserting fog lights in the corners of the mesh grille. Perhaps not as Italianesque as you are contemplating (I went so far as to make up a gag HRM cover claiming it as a prototype for the road car) but definitely sports-car like. It made it through OK...


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