Undecided until it's further along...maybe a bumper with a center drop like a step bumper, or a hide-a-way underneath, or flush in the right door...possibilities...the more I look at it, I think the oval exhaust tips will go away also, in favor of turn-downs.

Thanks Mark, that means alot!

Here's a front rendering for now...

 

That looks awesome Jeff
Just e-mailed Chip Foose to swipe your ride.

 

Thanks! That's the only way it would ever get done in a timely fashion!

 

Jeff it will be done so or LATER.

 

Can't wait to see the final product.

 

Looken good.
See ya down the road
Bud-Harvey

 

not sure how i feel about the Mini Cooper headlights, but other than that your sketches look fantastic! i really love what you're after with the car, and can't wait to see you complete it! hopefully some day i'll have a career where i make enough money to take on such an intensive project. i come up with off the wall stuff like this all the time, and most of it will never be seen, because i just don't have the money to make anything out of my ideas. hence why i want to learn all the custom fab stuff.

 

The shaved tails are sick. I also like the look of the body mounted mirrors.

 

Chris, the mini headlights do look weird in the sketch...kinda buggy, but I think "in the flesh" they'll look good. Want to regain that "roundish" headlight look like the old 47-53 chevy trucks. You don't need much cash to take on a project like this...if you have the tools & can do the work yourself, it's basically all time & labor. Paint supplies and all of the cool wheels, interior stuff, etc. gets expensive though.

 

yeah, that's the sad part...i don't know how to do most of the work...yet. i do have a clever plan to widebody my Camaro though...very simple process too. talked it over with my old auto body instructor. i know how to do simple body work, fillers, mostly just fixing a dent, not really modifying anything. and i really need to learn how to MIG weld. i took a class that i hoped would have some MIG stuff, but alas, it was all arc and gas. if i can ever decipher that dumb class schedule for the CC and figure out what class focuses on MIG, i'd be all over it.

as far as the Mini headlights, i knew right away what you were going for with it, but the sketch just looks funny to me, just like the headlights actually ON a Mini look funny to me lol. it's an interesting concept, that unfortunately you won't really be able to tell if it really is going to look good until you're well into the work to get it done.