Hot Rods "You want a mattress with that 32??"

For you guys wanting to split hairs lets get down to the facts then................ONLY THE DOORS were STOLEN! Go ahead and build the car with fresh doors!

You act like fuel pump stole the whole damn thing yesterday!@ And once again, it is only a story, nothing more, nothing less. Do I condone stealing*****? No! But condemning the guy for relaying a colorfull story about his car that happened before he even found it? Chill out you glass house living******s.

 

Ok, So Airforce guy stole the doors to con the owner out of the remaining Coupe body, what happened to him? Did a door fall of a plane in flight and the karma gods***** him out? Has to be some reason he never built the car.

 

You guys are funny
Like I said it’s an old story that’s been told here now two times that I know of and no telling how many times over time everywhere. the last time it was in one of those hoarder threads.
Fuel pump and his friends are probably laughing there**** off at your expense. I know am

 

I'm vaguely familiar with this tale (and the car) and for those who mentioned about it being a "story", congrats. I used to own that car and there are just a couple of questionable elements to that story and we'll leave it at that.

Frank

 

Frank was told one story and I was told another. The truth may be somewhere in between. Who knows. Neither of us know for sure.

 

I agree. I dont know if Ive read similar stories here, but I have heard the same general story before, about different cars.

Kinda like the veteran that died in the war, years later the mother listed the old chevy for sale that turned out to be a pristine corvette.

File it under urban legends.

 

Settle down man...it happened in the 70's. Pretty cool story.

 

Ed Roth stole parts all over California junkyards to build OUTLAW and BEATNICK BANDIT

 

***** dude, Im coming out to help you! That would be just like the old days panning for gold!

 

Now THAT is a cool story. As for the story that started this thread, well, whatever, history is history. Heck, one of my ancestors burned Lawrence Kansas to the ground, I don't feel guilty about that.

 

The guy that owned the junk yard must have had bad karma. Otherwise this would never have happened. Under that karma myth nonsense, nothing bad can happen to good people. I wonder what he had done.

 

Dont worry bout it u did not steel the doors the jelous cry babies just wish they had a ride like that but since their so perfect i say F%^K um have fun with ur build and drive it like u stole it hahahahaha.

 

....fact....I bought the car after knowing about it for thirty five years. The story was told to me by the friend I bought it from. He's dead now, after 40 years of friendship. Never in my life had he ever lied to me before, so I have no reason to doubt him. Yes, stealing is wrong......most of us know that. Fuelpump didn't steal anything....neither did I....and Dennis never got to drive the car.

What a bunch of stone throwers......watch out for falling glass.....

 

I don't put on my yogi turban very often, but Fuel Pump's karma, or carma, in this case is pure as driven snow.
The crime was committed by a previous owner and is the previous owner's cross to bear, NOT Fuel Pump's.

We all romanticize our imagined histories of the cars we own because most of us have no clue whatsoever. Who the***** knows what really transpired in our car's lifetime, for most of them, that's 70-80 YEARS being passed around from owner to owner. There could have been some godawful***** surrounding your car, but it doesn't affect you, does it? I mean, I haven't heard any good Christine stories lately that held any water. The spiritualist/superstitious lot on here is funny as hell. Like any one of you wouldn't be proud to own that car knowing that little bit of history that might or might not be true.

If Fuel Pump was the fearful superstitious type, he would make a vintage stock car out of it. And besides that, if the original junkyard owner was worth a damn as a stock car dude he'd have cobbled together his own damned doors out of something else in the first place!

p.s. DeSoto, you're the*****in' man, man.

 

It could have been worse. The young felon could have killed the junk yard owner, and through trickery and deceit, taken over the junk yard. Then in a fit of remorse over what he had done, crushed all the cars in the yard so that some future felon wouldn't be tempted.
Now, just taking those doors might have actually saved the owners life.

 

Here is a story with a more positive history! In 1973 I was teaching auto mechanics in a high school and driving a '32 5 W. One of my students told me he knew where there was a car exactly like mine that a frined of his owned. I told him "I doubt it" but lets go look at it. I had been down this road before and most of the time it was a beat up model A. Anyhow this time it turned out to be a channeled 32 5- window that had a 409 and a 4 speed. The 17 year old kid had bought the car in Kalmazoo, Michigan and was burning the tires off it. It wasnt for sale!
Jump now to 1978. This same kid calls me up and asks me if I will update his chassis with better brakes and a new engine /trans comb. He brings me the car w/o the 409 (blew it up I was told) along with a 1969 DZ 302 small block, trans and 12-bolt rear axle. I pull the body off and he comes and gets it. I update the chassis, chrome the dropped axle and split bones, install Vovlo(?) disc brakes, and his 69 camaro engine, trans, and rear axle. He comes to my house and picks up the chassis and I never see it again.
Now jump to 1999. My boys are out of college and I decide to build another '32. I complete the 32 chassis and go looking for a body. My wife says "Why dont you call that guy who had that 5W you built a chassis for? I think I kept his phone number". I said I will call, but that car is probably long gone. I call the guy and to my surprise...#1 the phone number is still his, #2 he still has the car, and #3 he wasn't really trying to sell it but would sell it to me!. Turns out he never put the body back on the car after I gave it back to him. It had been sitting cross-wise on the chassis I updated since 1978. The motor had siezed up, the chrome rusted up, but the body was still the same except for a rust hole in the drivers door. (He had layed a sack of fertilizer up against the drivers door years ago!)
I decide I don't want the car for myself but my son says he cannot live without it! So I pay the guy the $6500 for the car and take it home. The car stayed in my garage like you see it until 2005 when Scott (finally) paid me for it. Oh, we didnt get the DZ Camaro motor but got everything else. This is a picture of it on the day we brought it home, slicks and all!

 

Now that's a good story! Glad to see it back to where it's appreciated!

 

If it was my car and the guy came back to buy it i woulda beat the***** outta him regardless of the "20". Thieves piss me off, period.

 

You wanna sell it?

No?

Soooooooooooooooooooo, where is is stored? I know I still have my Black Counter Terrorism Fatigues and Balaclava somewhere.....

Doc.

 

i was just about to say it, the thread drama is what gets good threads closed, thats why i'm not starting any more threads, the guy didn't have anything to do with the doors being stolen, it's part of the history of the car,

 

Here is what it looks like now. Almost ready for the road and no I don't feel bad at all about what may or may not have happened to the car in the past.

 

Looks good man. Enjoy it.

 

bought a 31 A,years back that the owner was going to restore someday,well,he passed on and it sat under tree for years.well a freind[his son in law]gave me the widows number and i snapped it up for a song and did it up traditional.felt a little guilty[not].hey ya cant change the past.as long as you didnt steal it,who gives a*****.the car looks happy now

 

Just think... legally if that story is true the doors belong to the person they were stolen from or his heirs.

That being said your car is really nice.

 

Great story.........................Half the 'do-gooders' on here are still looking for "legal" paperwork to get their cars regestered!
By the way, I want the land back you stole from me....................

 

Damn... I've seen some 32s on here I don't much care for, but that one looks slick as hell!

 

Youve missed the point. Lets try THIS angle......... what if the car was your grandfathers BEFORE the doors were stolen from it while it sat on private property.
Your property is YOUR property to do with as you see fit. You CANNOT qualify a thieving "stance" because the car "needed to be saved" deserved better" or any other********* excuse. Theft is theft, and trying to minimilize it is what is wrong with this country.
Married? Is your wife attractive? What if every guy that thought she was attractive hauled her into the next room for an hour cuz she deserved better?
Sorry...... rant off.

 

where's the mattress?i wanted to hear the story on the mattress????!!!!!!!!!!

 

Me too..... who knows .. George Washington may have slept on it

 

Wonder if the outcome would have been different if the car in question had been a roadster or 3wd?

Still, I'm proud of you Randy.

JH