OK, so this is mostly hypothetical.
I was just letting my addled brain wander and was thinking of the cars I thought were just mean cool when I was a kid. (Let's go with late 60s). One car was a stock height 65 Nova in my neighborhood. Flat black, Grump lump hood scoop, SS Cragars (bicycle front, and had to be 10's on the back), and yeah, radiused rear quarters. Think gasser without the 4x4 ride height. This is probably where I got my unreasonable affection for 29x12.50x15 tires on Cragar SS's.
So, having dispensed with the intro, I have been brain playing with radiusing the 1/4s on my poor Valiant. (just a brain exercise for now). I thought about the SS Dart look, but it is a bit rough, and I'm not thrilled by the shape. I looked at the H.A.M.B. forum and there is a bunch of really cool cars and work in there. It's a fun place to just hang and read. THEN, I got trapped in the wheel and tire combo thread here. I started looking at the Dusters and Demons and liked a lot of the combos there. Knowing that Dusters were born from the Valiant, the body lines at the rear are similar, if not the same. I'm not entirely sure on that one. I was just thinking it would be a cool way to create a radiused rear quarter that looked factory.
Any thoughts? Any photoshop experts wanna take a crack at it? Anyone done it?
I might add, if you don't like radiused rear quarters, I get it, it's not to everyone's taste, but please, don't reply to this thread. I don't care and don't want to hear it.
I was just letting my addled brain wander and was thinking of the cars I thought were just mean cool when I was a kid. (Let's go with late 60s). One car was a stock height 65 Nova in my neighborhood. Flat black, Grump lump hood scoop, SS Cragars (bicycle front, and had to be 10's on the back), and yeah, radiused rear quarters. Think gasser without the 4x4 ride height. This is probably where I got my unreasonable affection for 29x12.50x15 tires on Cragar SS's.
So, having dispensed with the intro, I have been brain playing with radiusing the 1/4s on my poor Valiant. (just a brain exercise for now). I thought about the SS Dart look, but it is a bit rough, and I'm not thrilled by the shape. I looked at the H.A.M.B. forum and there is a bunch of really cool cars and work in there. It's a fun place to just hang and read. THEN, I got trapped in the wheel and tire combo thread here. I started looking at the Dusters and Demons and liked a lot of the combos there. Knowing that Dusters were born from the Valiant, the body lines at the rear are similar, if not the same. I'm not entirely sure on that one. I was just thinking it would be a cool way to create a radiused rear quarter that looked factory.
Any thoughts? Any photoshop experts wanna take a crack at it? Anyone done it?
I might add, if you don't like radiused rear quarters, I get it, it's not to everyone's taste, but please, don't reply to this thread. I don't care and don't want to hear it.
