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As the talent behind the artwork you see on these pages, there’s no doubting that Callum Taylor (Oilslick Custom Art on Facebook) has a good eye. Of course, his artwork portfolio extends way back before he joined our team during 2019, as does his love of custom cars and bikes. Callum’s taste in bikes is predominantly aimed at stripped-back Brats, and his taste in cars is kustom, with a K. His dream machine, as shown here, is a 1950 Ford Spinner, which, as you can see, would undergo a plethora of work if, or when, he can make the dream a reality.

The plan would be to give the car a mild roof chop, not to lose or radically alter the vehicle’s shape but simply to enhance it. Removal of the rear quarter windows would aid the slick side profile, as would the removal of all chrome side trim, exterior badges, and handles. Electronic poppers would need to be fitted, along with a hidden external button underneath so that when the inevitable happened — let’s face it, everyone with shaved handles locks the keys in the car at least once — he could get back in.

The front-end treatment would include frenching the headlights into the guards, putting in the extra effort to remove the chrome bezels in the process. Smoothing in the bumpers and pulling them in closer to the body would help reduce the visual proportions of the car, while removing the overriders would certainly change the look too. The key to getting a kustom to look right isn’t just in the bodywork but in how it’s presented, or, more accurately, how it’s painted. Obviously, with the amount of metalwork going on, there would be only a few parts of the car that hadn’t already been taken back to bare metal before this stage of the build, so the logical step would be to bare metal the rest. Rather than a latemodel or high-tech body colour, Callum’s plan would be to do the opposite, and coat the body in Ford Wimbledon White, a factory 1960s Mustang colour.

In contrast, the roof would be treated to layers of the highly Xirallic Mazda Soul Red from the current-generation Mazda 3. Callum wouldn’t stop there, though. Despite how much the colour pops in its unmodified form, the plan would be to take that to the next level by adding metalflake to the clear coat, before extra layers of traditional clear went over the top, the result being a paint finish that would look as if it had a huge amount of depth to it.