Here's a mystery for all you HAMB sleuths...I found this picture on Fakebook...with no indication of the original source or location. Have any of you seen it before? Real or fake (another AI generation?)? Where would this be? And, what would you do if you came across it? What if the owner gave you the "I'm going to restore it one day"?
When I was a teen, there was a car tarped up on a driveway in a nearby town that a friend lived in. The friend told me it was a Model A. Fast forward many years and it turns out my wife knows the person who owns the "Model A" because her father and this guy went to school together. The car under the tarp had been this dudes high school hot rod and it wasn't a Model A it was actually a 1933-34 3 window coupe. This guy would have been in high school in the early-mid 50's and still lives in the same house he grew up in. After DECADES of sitting on his driveway, in 2006 the guy actually DID finally do something with it ... he had a new frame built (the old one still sits on his driveway), he had a shop redo the body and build a hot rod out of it. The interesting thing is, he apparently hardly ever drove it "back in the day" and I myself have only seen it out ONCE since it was finished. Bottom line though, even after decades of neglect, sitting under a tarp ... this one DID get built. Below are links to some pics of the car and work being done. http://www.lowdownhotrods.com/cars/proj cars/black/black1.htm https://lowdownhotrods.smugmug.com/What-weve-done/Complete-Turn-Key-Projects/34-Ford/
google image search found this: https://www.charliesclassiccars.com/news/Old-School-1932-Ford-California-Hot-Rod-Barn-Find
Someone’s been snooping in my garage. There’s a chopped 32 5-window sitting next to a 27 touring in there.
^ That...and why all the crap to begin with. 99% of that should have been in the dump long ago. The other 1% needs to be in my garage
If they ever had to do the metal work to fix it afterward, they would stop doing it!!! God Bless Bill https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ar-transport-hauling-open-or-enclosed.614419/
It's Handy... I was shooting the shit with some fellow Hotrodder's my way recently and one of them was building a Deuce 2dr and he said when he bought it the guy had a 28 roadster body sitting on top of it crushing in the roof......but it's in many ways a wrecking yard mentality when hoarding them ole cars eh... That aside quite the Capsule...pretty dry too...hope it gets some love...it needs it...
Wow, that screams potential. Try to buy it, refresh the mechanicals, knock the big chunks down and drive that baby. Take the seller for a ride, mission accomplished. Heading over to marketplace now.
My late friend Tim used to say he had "flat spot syndrome". Basically, any flat area in the workshop would quickly become a table, to the point that soon there were no flat spots left to set anything down.
My shop tends to be like that. I think it runs in the family. In the early 70s, my wood deck Stevens Flatbottom was stored in my Dad’s garage. I opened the door one time and he had all kinds of junk piled on the deck. Irritated, I pulled my boat out, took it to my place and resigned myself to doing my side work in the driveway. Come to think about it, I think his subtle hint had the desired effect. Never having found a Barn Find, and assuming that the owner was interested in selling, how would you go about making an offer on something like that 5W? Being outside I’m sure that there’s considerable rust. The body and frame alone are big ticket items. A flipper would have it on eBay that night for 30k+. But what would you think would be a fair offer?
30 miles from my home there's a 1964 Impala SS under a tarp, no frame, sitting on the ground. When I went to inquire about it the guy's wife came to the door and said he doesn't want to talk about it, and closed the door. Sad. Larry
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