30 dodge DA beware of lipstick on a pig

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Beware of lipstick on a pig
30 Dodge Brother DA looks great from a distance
When you remove the lipstick , it true colors show up
Lucky for me , a little money and a lot of time



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Beware of lipstick on a pig
30 Dodge Brother DA looks great from a distance
When you remove the lipstick , it true colors show up
Lucky for me , a little money and a lot of time

 

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Beware of lipstick on a pig
30 Dodge Brother DA looks great from a distance
When you remove the lipstick , it true colors show up
Lucky for me , a little money and a lot of time

 

Painful, dude

 

Well once I got lipstick off, no major sheet metal cancer, cleaning and primeing
And black paint,
Top ready to go back on, More to come, still need new wiring



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Beware of lipstick on a pig
30 Dodge Brother DA looks great from a distance
When you remove the lipstick , it true colors show up
Lucky for me , a little money and a lot of time

 

Perhaps I'm missing something but it looks pretty solid to me.

 

That's what I was thinking

 

Paint was put over rust and mud dobber nest,
The outside paint is good, once is pulled interior it wasn't pretty,
I have restored worst , getting older don't like messing with lead anymore,
When I did 35 dodge truck, I had to put 10 lbs of let in cab and fenders,

Well taking a brake for the week , getting ready for crusin the coast


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Beware of lipstick on a pig
30 Dodge Brother DA looks great from a distance
When you remove the lipstick , it true colors show up
Lucky for me , a little money and a lot of time

 

I wondered what that was!

 

Down along the coast these cars and trucks rust out
Once rust starts they rot from the inside
Metals needs to be clean and protected



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It's a Lousy Anna thing. The truck is nice too BTW, I've seen it up close and personal.

 

I thought that was a bullet hole filled with Great Stuff foam.

 

LOL, I just thought it was a big lump of bondo, pluggin' up a big hole.

 

I get a little testy about cars and trucks , when you see them from the outside , they look fantastic, beautiful paint, Then they open the hood , Yuk!!!!
Car might run good , but lipstick on a pig.

 

So, you cleaned the mud dobber out of the inside, and primed and painted it? Seems to me your the guy that added the lipstick to the pig. It was merely original, with a mother nature addition, and you removed mother nature's addition, and put on the lipstick.

If you really want to see lipstick on a pig, come up here and I'll show you my junk. I prefer to call the process "buying time" before its gone forever. Gene

 

No thanks , I got some off that myself , takes a rake to gather it up, or I can wait a little longer and it returns to nature on its own.

 

You should be gratefull thats all it was..easy fix to clean and paint. Mine was rotted all accros where back and floor meet and had to repair where someone drilled a mess of holes in back to mount 58 chevy tailights on body..yikes!!

 

We'll taking a break for the week
At crusin the coast should reach 8000 registered vehicle
Weather is great




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Here a few pictures from crusin the coast
It doesn't start till Thursday but there were over 1000 vehicles at cruse central hanging out from 11 till 5
Picking up registration packets
Lot of customs , muscle, antiques and Rat Rods


I will post more tomorrow
We having tribute to veterans block party a cruise central



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I have been working on the 1930 dodge brother DA , I have include a few more pictures of why I mis-judge this car , it was suppose to be good restoration back 12 years ago.

But when , I took a closer look at seams and edges, I decided to disassemble

Well there was 70 year old mud between frame and cab,
Lucky it was in a dry state for most of it's life,
It has been in Louisiana for the last 12 years, don't know history of car prior to this.

No major rust , don't have to replace panels.
Just a lot of blasting, and cleaning , treated and painting
Thanks to DBracer out of California for having a rolling chassis,
It saved me a lot of work on chassis
Plus I got a lot of spares, engine, transmission, brakes and rearend.



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These are pictures after cleaning , prep and paint


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Nice work!

 

Progress on restoration

The engine reassembled , and painted
Steering gearbox rebuilt and painted reinstalled,
Hopefully this will fix the problems I had with old gearbox,
Cleaned back panel and luggage rack , painted and reinstalled



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this is the kind of circus shit I walk past and dont even make eye contact, I dont want to give them the idea I am liking that heap o' shit.

 

Re : "Cruisn' to the Coast". I see one Jeep, one Camaro, two r** r***, two street rods, and one close to on-topic car. I sure hope that wasn't representative of the types of cars that were there! Nice work on Dodge, though.

 

No it wasn't
I kind of gets to me , you can spend all a lot of time and money and be parked next to a rusty rod , The people swarm the rusty pile and hardly give your car a second look.

I respect there work they usually put in engine and getting car road ready. They are using parts that would normally be crushed .

It is what it is!,,




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If that parked next to me I'd move far away.

 

Nice car, what are your plans?
Chop, V8?

 

That RR thing with all the shit hung on it makes my stomach queasy .....it's one thing to build a rusty car with no interior and sloppy worksmanship etc. if that's the best you can do,well your trying but hanging shit on just to be ignorant is like walking around with your pants down around your knees and your ass stickin out , my only consolation is people this stupid may get weeded out by natural selection........


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I am kind of a traditional guy
I like putting things back they way they were delivered , if possible on the older pre WWII

I working on a 1972 Chevelle with a 454 and Muncie 4 speed to satisfy the hotrod in me.



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Love the car. I like pork too.