more updates to the old dodge....

link to my update (available at the dodge link) and for you cut and paster types:
http://benjamin_simons.tripod.com/css/64d100Resto/index.html

sneak peak photo:

looking good man. cant tell from the pics, but did you run the drain pipe for that inside unit?? going to be messy if you didnt

Yep, coming along! I'm kinda partial to 64's, love the retro styling.

As I mentioned here long ago, that frontend design takes its styling cues [Jean Daninos] from the French built Facel Vega, at the Dodge link. This was an ultra-luxury sports car of the 50's-60's powered by Chrysler, sort of like a Maserati with a Hemi and an attitude. Also not that far from some of Briggs Cunningham's efforts in the same direction.

They were stunning and only Chrysler would dare to interpret that styling & panache into a pick-em-up truck!

At the Dodge link some more info on the Facel Vega. Brasseur is credited with the style but some of it pre-dated his designs.

Note the mention of aircraft styled lever controls, and compare to the dashboard lever shifted Torqueflites? Surely Chrysler had collaborated with
Daninos in his sports car development & design so it was not outright theft but shared technology.

[Allpar's Jack Nerard info isn't entirely correct, but close enough. For example the Panhards were not called Dyana, but Dyna, and did quite well in their area of influence.]

JimmieD,

nice looking car but i am having a hard time finding the similarity between the truck and facal vega. the cars have stacked headlights and three port grill whereas the truck has a long horn grill and horizontal headlights.

i think the trucks were a mimic of late exner influenced chrysler design with clean lines, purposeful and sedate ornamentation and elegant color choices. but that is pure speculation on my part...

Ben

Wasn't Exner the one who designed the trucks?

The HPP is coming along nicely.

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Replying to:

JimmieD,

nice looking car but i am having a hard time finding the similarity between the truck and facal vega. the cars have stacked headlights and three port grill whereas the truck has a long horn grill and horizontal headlights.

i think the trucks were a mimic of late exner influenced chrysler design with clean lines, purposeful and sedate ornamentation and elegant color choices. but that is pure speculation on my part...

Ben

thanks Trey.

i have not run the drain hoses out yet but there is a hole where the old man cut into the tunnel cover that i left in it for that very purpose!



i am going to take all the AC stuff out and box it while i work on the body - i don't want it to get full of dust!

Ben

You're sneaking up on it Ben!

Looking Good!

Ron