Talk:Custom car

message: Famous professional customizers include George Barris, Pete Chapouris (who collaborated on "The California Kid", a '34 5-window Ford coupe, in film of same name), Troy Trepanier, Boyd Coddington; several Hot Wheels products are based on famous customs; Barris built the '60s TV Batmobile and Green Hornet's Black Beauty. Don't see any of them mentioned....  Trekphiler 04:01, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:BB Graham 04:17, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahh, but WP:RS.... Trekphiler 04:30, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

text: "A consequence is these new "scratch built" vehicles cannot be licensed for street use, as they do not meet the myriad of regulations applying to new cars, and are not exempt as they were if rebuilt from original components fabricated before new rules came into effect."
These cars can be licenced under the same rules applying to kitcars, which is more/less what they are.  Trekphiler 01:07, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
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message: I deleted this:
:"A consequence is these new "scratch built" vehicles cannot be licensed for street use, as they do not meet the myriad of regulations applying to new cars, and are not exempt as they were if rebuilt from original components fabricated before new rules came into effect."
These cars can be licenced under the same rules applying to kitcars, which is more/less what they are.  Trekphiler 01:07, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: It's a KITT?

message: I had added some factual information to the custom car article and it was removed. I would like to know why this happened? How can I re-enter my additions? Thank you  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flyinlow39 (talk • contribs) 05:03, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't find you in the edit history, Fly. What'd you put in? I notice a couple of questionable XT links, maybe considered spam linking, which would get taken out.  Trekphiler (talk) 08:19, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Flyinlow is referring to edits made in February.   These edits were the addition of links to a myspace page and adding a couple of names to section on customizers without real sources to verify there importance.  The edits where reverted almost immediately and shouldn't be readded. --Daniel J. Leivick (talk) 09:00, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Suspected something like that.  Trekphiler (talk) 20:25, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing a page 

message: Should the article contain images  of examples of customised cars in the body of the text? Examples of different page approaches such as   with images  and  without. There is also a question whether the specific images chosen are representative, whether they fairly represent the subject, and if not whether this merits their deletion from the article.
*With images  Why would you not want images?  Martin Hogbin (talk) 23:03, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that images should be relevant and well linked to the text but would add that, in some cases, illustrations cannot depict an entire concept and therefore can only be examples.  This is not a reason not to have images, but they should balanced and representative. Martin Hogbin (talk) 09:40, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for Comment: Should the article have more images in the text? 

message: For anyone wondering, I would call customizing a visual art form, even if it's not generally so considered. And this is a "history of the automobile" & "history of customizing" (or "customizing art"?) subject, too...  TREKphiler hit me ♠  07:42, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Art?

message: In hope of doing a resto on the deleted Hirohata Merc page, can anybody say, & source, if the '53 or '54 Merc windshield would've fit the '51? What was the grille bar from? Any info on the Merc would be appreciated.  TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura  06:53 & 07:22, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
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message: We must be doing something right if we've attracted the attention of a vandal. Bizarre, but at least we know people are reading the article. Scalhotrod (talk) 17:27, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I wish we could claim credit. ;p This is a pretty low-traffic page, so vandalism has been pretty uncommon. Unless we can get it to FA, or get a DYK maybe, I don't expect that to change. There's no anime, Pokemon, Twilight, or Seinfeld links to here... TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura  04:59, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

text: I didn't, & IDK if I'd qualify. As I understand, it's for people in the biz, & I'm not. I expect news coverage will increase traffic some. Seinfeld getting run over by a lead sled would even more. (I can dream, can't I? ;p)  TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura  04:54 & 04:55, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: Trek (and gang),
I was digging through my magazine archives and ran across some 'treasure'. I found an issue of Look magazine (Sept. 21, 1971) that validates my comments about the areas of auto styling about fenders and fins. I also found in the January, 2001 issue of Rod & custom magazine (EMAP-Petersen Publishing, i.e. Hot Rod, Car Craft, Motortrend...) an article titled Everything you need to know to become a Hot Rodder" that is basically an A to Z dictionary of Rodder terms. Plus there's a side article called What makes a Kustom?. So what would be the Wikipediest way to integrate all of this? Scalhotrod (talk) 19:49, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Welcome back. :D Without knowing the content, it's a bit hard to judge how to put it in. First thing I'd suggest is source as many of the terms out of the glossary as you can. (Don't forget hot rod & the "see also" pages, & some may be duplicated at Glossary of motorsport terms & drag racing, so they bears a look, too.) From there, integrate as best you can. If you come across it, there's also Hirohata Merc. Make a start & let me have a look, I'll see if I can offer more advice.  TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura  20:32, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

text: Be glad you are out of my reach. ;p Dang! Don't you know, any time you go to something like that, you shoot anything that might be interesting?! (I've taken to wearing my digital camera all the time, just in case. Take my advice: start. ;p) I just finished here, & it could use sources, so don't forget it, either.  TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura  21:59, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  References from print sources!!! 

message: Hi all im in a bit of pickle im customizing a ford KA into a ford KA pick up i have cut the back end of the roof and got it welded to ceate the pick up look but how do i register it as a pick up do take it through a pre mot first or contact DVLA and how to i tell them the mod  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rednrawmeat (talk • contribs) 08:47, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  custom cars  

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message: This article presents itself as being about customized cars overall as a concept but nearly all of the info is incredibly detailed descriptions of classic Kustoms, later American customs, hot rods, and American cars in general. If the article is meant to be about custom cars as a whole, it needs to be rewritten almost entirely. If its specifically supposed to be about "custom" as a colloquial term to refer to the practice and style of traditional American car customization then it needs to be rewritten, renamed and labeled as such, and a separate article should be written for the term "custom car". ~~ TKOIII (talk) 19:27, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this article supposed to be about custom cars in general or just Kustoms and Hot Rods?