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In 1958, Doug had Joe Bailon mildly customize my 1957 DeSoto. When Doug finished that project, Clif Inman started to have Joe Wilhelm begin a more radical customizing project on his newly purchased ...more

1957 Chrysler. They shared some of the same ideas on our projects. Both Clif and Doug showed our cars at the 1960 San Jose Autorama. George Barris attended this show and also took some pictures of both of our cars and they were later used in a Trend publication "Restyle Your Car" which was printed in 1961. Doug's DeSoto was on the bottom of page 107

The color photos shown are some old 35mm pictures of my '57 DeSoto taken where Clif and Doug used to work together......

Joe Bailon removed the gas door from the rear fin and shaved the hood and trunk as well. Bailon then applied about 13 coats of his Candy Apple Red over a gold underbase. The car was lowered 5" in the rear and 6" in the front. I made up the wheels using Plymouth centers mounted on 8" Mercury wheels to fit the DeSoto lug pattern. Upholstery was white and red tuck and roll and an RCA 45 rpm record player complimented the sound system.