Well,.... not good.... went out and started shaking the body back and forth.... it all most caved in... all the plywood was delammed ... they glued a newer layer of paneling over it.... I was able to just grab handfulls of wood that just crumbled in my hands... none of the uprights were attached.. fire wall rotted through... SO NOW WHAT!!! $#@%%$@???
If it doesn’t run, your first loss is your best loss- ie don’t sink a bunch of resources into a lost cause. If it does run, the world’s your oyster - speedster, lakester, doodle bug, phantom, gow job, bucket …
I'm on the hunt for a "T" tub... or??? the tub just has to be good on the front half... I should have left it alone....yard art for my utah house...but it think a good gust of wind and it would have leveled it
2ff; If there's still enough splinters n pieces to make it look like a body-component, there's slow-setting epoxy that will soak into the rotted/damaged parts, & let you use them. The rotted/dry-rotted wood portion acts like the'glass-fibers in fibreglass. I've used some of the epoxies to water-proof deck joists, but since then, I've found(& lost, but it is available at restoration-parts splsts) names of *really* slow hardening epoxies, that's work so much better, due to the higher-absorbsion-rate involved. Oh, btw - your yard-art is 10 times better than my stuff, & ~1000 times better than my project-material. ;( . Marcus...
there was nothing holding it together at all, I bare handed took all the wood off but one piece of plywood on the floor there were 2 screws holding the seat in that came out when I lift'd the seat up...
Sounds like you mean you would have to pay $$$ for someone to do the work. Just go get some timber and ply and redo it. What it had to start with didn't look like it would be hard to duplicate. It's just a big wooden box........
Ahhhh...no, probably not. But those 6 bodies netted over $20,000 in 1980's money...a lot of "under the table" cash for a couple guys starting a woodworking shop
I built this little roadster with a $400. Speedway body. They are still only around a $1,000? So you could just build ya a cheap, and Fun little Hot Rod
Who knows whats going on here???? it's a 40 ford trans...how is it mounted??? would I have to pull the bell housing to un bolt the trans... that and there is no trans mount????
that was a thought. but , make it more GOW'd.. but I think the 40's trans and 10 bolt rear would not me era proper????
so my idea so far is to come up with the front half of a 1927 tub, that way i get a fire wall and a cab section with doors to work off.. then fab a rear truck bed..???
I guess this is Yard Art. It's an antique shop out side of Leesburg VA. The Chevy in front of the store is cool. Looks like a sedan delivery with the roof raised a bit. I can't believe I didn't get a side shot. Nothing looks hacked up. The Dodge sheet metal in the back looks like it was a bus of some sort. there is a wide board right behind the cab with hand grips for stepping up, but there is nothing left to step up on. Then the Studebaker in the back parking lot looks like it's ready for someone to make a land speed car out of it. I think all Stud's look like land speed cars. She said the Chevy is not for sale at the time. A friend found it in the mountains of WV with one rear tire jacked up off the ground and a belt running to a saw mill. Thought it would look good in front of her store. She didn't know what year it is, neither do I? She has a British Cab, might be a Breedmore, but there were no badges. I think the Stud and Cab are for sale, didn't have time to ask.
If the tires aren’t flat, they should be OK. Local T guy drives his with bald tires…he comes to our cruise night 20 miles from his house! Not like you will be going 80 on the freeway. Use the bad wood as patterns…
You could do a patina type paint job with a few "rust" spots showing and it would stop people tapping on it to see if it's plastic.
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