"Desperate Rock'N'Roll" Vol. 9

This was Barris' chopped and channeled period...
... Mercuries were his favourite. All the kids knew the Barris styling and he was getting a lot of buisiness. What he was really doing, in a formal sense, was trying to achieve the kind of streamlining that Detroit, for all intents and purposes, had abandoned. When modified, some of the old Mercuries were more streamlined than any standard model that Detroit has put out to this day. Many of the coupes he modified had a very sleek slope to the back window that has been picked up just this year in the "fastback" look of the Rivieras, Sting Rays, and a few other cars. At this point Barris and the other customizers didn't really have enough capital to do many completely original cars, but they were getting more and more radical in modifying Detroit cars. They were doing things Detroit didn't do until years later - tailfins, bubbletops, twin headlights, concealed headlights, "Frenched" headlights, the low-slung body itself. They lifted some twenty designs from him alone. One, for example, is the way cars now have the exhaust pipes exit through the rear bumper or fender. Another is the bullet-shaped, or breast-shaped if you'd rather, front bumpers on the Cadillac... (excerpt from "the candy kolored tangerine flake streamline baby" by Tom Wolfe to be continued...)
traxfromwax:
1 JOHN ASHLEY: Little Lou 2 LATTIE MOORE: Why Did You Lie To Me 3 NICKI REDMAN: Cops Rock 4 THE NOTES: G.I. Blues 5 THE VICE-ROYS: Don't Let Go 6 GENE STACKS: I Know My Baby Loves Me 7 LOS BOPPERS: Treen Solitario 8 JIMMY FRANKLIN: Long Tall Lou 9 TONY HARRIS: Try This Lil' Ole' Heart 10 LEWIS LINDSEY: The Push 11 EDDIE RIFF: My Baby's Gone Away 12 RAY SAWYER: I'm Gonna Leave 13 WILD CHILD GIPSON: Kool 14 AUGIE RIOS: Linda Lou 15 CHUCK TYLER: She's All Mine 16 STEVE ALAIMO: Should I Care 17 LONESOME LEE: Cry Over Me 18 BOBBY PAGE: Hippy-Ti-Yo 19 RON & ELLIE JAYE: Road Runner 20 SHAKEY JAKE: Roll Your Money Maker
ripped from vinyl in glorious monoloudarama!