Projects Opps, I bought GM iron

Check the link in my signature. I started with what you had but mine was already in a pile of sheet metal, ha! Feel free to DM if you have any specific questions I can try to answer.

 

After getting in touch with Alex, and negotiating a fair price plus shipping, I am very proud to say, that the vintage reflector "TRAFFICATOR" arrow and bracket, that you see in these pictures, is now in my possession.




I am going to do a minimal clean up on it, and I am contemplating giving it to one of my good friends, that has a vintage Cornbinder COE tilt flatbed truck, that I think it will look great on.






Thanks again to Alex, from Dennis In Seattle.

 

I was just going to comment on the giant semaphore but looks like it's already found a home, that's a really neat piece.

Whatever happens to the white truck, I'm just glad someone bought it and it didn't get scrapped. If it can be rebuilt, awesome. If not, it's certainly got some nice saleable pieces on it yet.

 

I am sorry I somehow missed your comment.
Thanks, I keep going back and forth what I'm going to do with it.
About the only thing I was and am sure on is I wasn't going to let it hit the scrap yard.
I posted it for sale on my local craigslist but I haven't been real serious about selling it I just threw it up to see if somebody would bite So far I've had a million people ask for extra pictures and that's about as far as it's gone. What's the project looks overwhelming when it is a pile of sheet metal. In the 30 years I've been doing cars I've realized presentation is everything when it comes to selling a car 95% of the people don't have the ability to have the "vision".

If I don't end up selling it in the next month or so I actually do have a vision for it, it's going to become a car hauler with a small block and a 5 speed and probably a dually rear end. It's just way down the list for projects I want to take on.
My model a pickup is my number one project because I've never actually owned a Hot Rod even though I've dreamt of them for over 35 years and probably know more about cars that I care to admit, After it is done I worked out a trade with a buddy and ended up with a 1920 Hupmobile and a model A chassis that I want to kind of making TROG/ beach cruiser car with (I don't want to call it a rat rod but it will be not as polished as I want my A pickup, Then in my father's memory I want to put back together the 1973 Lincoln Continental that he bought for me when I was a Teenager, It was supposed to be loan and of course I never paid him back, a year or so later he passed away and being a dumb young adult I beat on that poor car because it was my teens and '20s driver I have a lot of memories in that car I think it deserves some sort of rebuild. It just isn't a hamb friendly car So I probably won't post anything about it on here.
Anyways back to the Chevy truck I dig it absolutely but I can see now why I never see them at Rod runs or rockabilly shows It's because every one of them rotted away 50 years ago and got scrapped.

 

You bet Dennis It was a pleasure to do "business" with you. If it ends up getting hung on a vehicle post a picture to this page I'd like to see it repurposed.

 

I gave a cab for one of those to a guy I worked with and he swore he and his son were going to make a car out of it. Never happened, went to the scrap yard. I haven’t talked to him since.

 

Chevy, International used a lot of wood in building cabs . The wood rotted and the trucks were scrapped. A friend of mine is rebuilding a 36 Chevy sedan for a Lady . The door structures are wood . He got the doors all squared up and painted the wood with a product that is similar to fiberglass rosin. It soaks into the wood making it solid .

 

I drove mine down to Oklahoma a few weeks ago for the Gathering at the Roc.

Someday I may actually finish it?

 

He should have offered you first right of refusal to buy it. I was roped into a father/son Model A truck project that stalled when the boy changed his mind and wanted an OT square body. I had to buy them out after I hung suspensions and did a ton of work on it. Turns out they were out of their depth.
A scrap dealer hauled the rusty remnants of their OT project away 2 months ago. It was replaced by a Boss Mustang. I still have the ModelA truck if any one up here needs a project.

 

I sure do like that truck! Too bad I’m bucks down right now. And a car hauler is exactly what I would do with it if I had it. Just please don’t junk it!

 

Cactus1 I have seen Your truck a couple different times . I love it . I saw it at Joplin a few years ago back when there was HAMB drags

 

Thanks man! I appreciate it!

 

Yeah that would have made me mad. Heck it makes me mad and it isn't even my truck. It could have called you and said hey we are not going to do this project after all come pick it up but no they sold it for the $6- or $7- worth the scrap metal instead. Errrr!
I sold a friend a 1972 Plymouth Fury that I built for an ex-girlfriend because he hounded me for the car. I had a bit of a sentimental attachment to that car but because of the memories attached to it at the time it needed to go. I didn't need the car so I worked out a smoking hot dog deal for him for the car giving it to him for the cost of gas to deliver it to Az. and needless to say I trailered it to Arizona to give to him. I told him if he ever got rid of it just let me know first and give me the opportunity to buy it back.
Fast forward two or three years later (2006ish) and I happen to be going through Arizona so I decide to go by his house and needless to say he no longer has the car, He got desperate for money and he sold it to the local junkyard in this area. The car had new seats, new engine new transmission I had a receipt book that was probably 3 in thick for all the debris I bought for the car It just needed a paint job. That was almost 20 years ago and I am still mad about it. The guy is still my friend but I refuse to give him anything, I am pretty easy going and I would give the shirt off my back if I thought it would help a friend. I would have given him a loan if he needed it or bought the car back since clearly he didn't care about it...
Just thinking about it still makes me mad.
The car wasn't necessarily my style but it was a nice driving fun "boat". That too errrr!

 

I was wondering if there was a way I could make the substructure out of steel without anyone noticing it was all metal.
That is pretty smart of your buddy, he did it like they do stringers on a boat floor.

 

If you decide you want it, I will sell it pretty cheap lol
The one thing you don't have to worry about me is scrapping the truck that will never happen.
Vintage automobiles are pretty much my life. I am passionate for the teens through the early '70s (honestly the late '70s I just don't mess with them because I live in smog-afornia where They are next to impossible to make pass emissions). I will not recycle a car... Heck just to give you an idea about 2 years ago I came across a 1984 Dodge Aries station Wagon K car It took me a year before I found a new home for it But I refused to let it go to the junkyard because when was the last time somebody saw a K car wagon.
If I am being honest I have a hard time parting out cars because I can see the potential in them.

 

Cool truck, have a look for Aussie builds, most of ours get a 'steeled out' to pass engineering to get a hot rod on the road. Even some 'restorer's' do it.

 

While I appreciate the offer, and actually considered it for a split second. I just had my father who has Alzheimer’s had hired someone to bulldoze my shop. I lost all of my tools, 3 cars and equipment and parts. (On paper he owned it, I pay the mortgage.) No, insurance won’t pay anything. I now have a 54’x80’ concrete pad. Due to this setback I doubt I will be able to build anything anymore. Too old and poor to start over acquiring stuff again. Hell I don’t even have a floor jack and lig wrench to change a flat tire.

 

Dang it

 

Wow, I’m truly sorry to hear that.

 

Not as sorry and pissed as I was, almost 50 years of buying tools, equipment (lathe, welders, etc.) parts down the tubes 2 completely rebuilt 327 engines 2 restored ot cars and one in progress and more. It was my retirement savings account. All wiped out with a bulldozer and giant excavator in a few minutes. When I got home from work I was almost to the point of gun play.