Two talented hot-rodders are taking a rather innovative and lovely approach to the restoration of this 1960(?) Ford Galaxy Starliner.

Using two unique patterns of dressmakers lace as a sort of stencil, they’ve laid down four major blocks of pattern that run the length of the car. The combination of the lacey effect in a type of robin’s egg blue, overlaid later with candy gloss and metalflake, is making for a sophisticated hot rod.

Not that we have any real problem with flames and pin-striping, but the Starliner project feels like a dose of freshness in a medium that often falls back on the conventional.

Check out our gallery of images showing bits of the project as it progresses, then tell us how you like it in comments.

+ BoingBoing: Hot rod painted using dressmaker's lace stencil

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