I curious as to how some of you guys got your rod? I will eventually get one and after I finish my truck I know here is a good place to start. Swapmeets are good and of course friends are better to buy these projects from. I guess what I am saying is I would love to find a workable Tudor in a barn or a field some where and strike a deal of $500 bucks for it from some old farmers wife. But you know and I know that is a hard pressed pissin in the wind type scenario to have happen. Shar your stories and/or pics. Thanks
Actually both of my current projects and my current daily I got right here. Over the years I've found projects through friend, and in new papers, and driveing around and asking about stuff, and in wrecking yards. The last driver i sold I found languishing away in a shed on the back of an old wrecking yard up the orad here. We were at a swap meet and there was a guy there with a stack of tires (used and abused) and there was a 3x5 note card stuck to one of the tires that said, '65 Galaxie, 390 auto, needs radiator, carb and dist. Interior stock and a little worn, body solid. That was a saturday, we talked to him and met him at the yard Sudany evening at dusk. looked at the car with a flashlight, and bought it on the spot. He loaded it up and brought it by on Monday, along with a carb a broken dizzy and a radiator. A good waxin, some topend work and I started driveing it.
Got mine from my aunt's father. It had been sitting in his driveway for the last 6-10 years. My uncle asked if I wanted it. I said okay, and $750 later it was mine. My aunt's grandparents were the original owners, making me the third owner of a 50 year old car. Thread with pics........ http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95726
I got my '30 A Roadster body dumped under a railroad overpass in 1969. Eventually I found the brother of the previous owner. He said it had been used as a drop over body for a rail style drag racer. If I had to start over now I'd buy a stock '30 coupe. I had a chance to get a running one for $5800 a couple of years ago. I saw an ad for one the other day for $6000. A little frame boxing, x-member, front & rear end swap and a late V6 or V8 engine and I'd be on the road for less than about $12000 from my quick calculating!
drug mine out of a field in reno Tx, 1994. Guy i bought it from told me it quit running in 1953 in west Texas...sat out there until 1983, when he bought it & drug it here. sat in his field for 11 years, used and abused by a lovesick bull, but thats a whole other story.
I got my '33 tudor in Austin Tx and my '50 Chvy pu in Wellington Tx from Flattop Bob (aka White Devil )
I got mine the old fashioned way. I inherited it. I can't really recommend my method, though. I'd rather have my dad back.... Slonaker
I bought mine as a running project car at the Carlisle,PA swap meet. Paid more than I wanted, but it had a lot of things I knew I wanted and a very nice chop, which I can't to yet,so I bought it,drove it home and started tearing it apart.
Guy on here said he found a '52 Mercury wagon and a "59 2dr Suburban" on someone else's property. Everyone called dibs on the Merc but apparently didn't know that a Suburban is a Plymouth station wagon. Either that or they hate Mopars. Called the guy, he says it's a '58, when he sends pics, it's a '57. Go figure. Cost me more to get it here from Florida than it did to buy it. And it's rusty as you would expect. But, it's mine.
Well, I got my 47 Chevy from a friend.....he gave it to me. Found my 66 Chevelle from a flyer at a swap meet Found my 56 Studebaker wagon from an ad in the newspaper My 62 Dodge found me, the landlord of my office asked if Id be interested in an old Dodge, and I bought it when I saw it. Found my 71 Chevy Pickup parked next to an auto parts store in a small town with a for sale sign in its window, wish I'd bought the 46 Hudson pickup that was next to it, too.
18 years ago I traded an old body grinder and an adjustable body file for the WZ JUNK truck. It is the one in my avatar.
I drooled over it at the Portland Swap Meet and didn't have the cash he wanted and after the show I called him a couple times trying to trade him out of it and finally he gave me a real steal rock bottom price if I could come get it right away cause the County was on his back to clean up the place so I did.
Speedway/Pick and Pull for one, Craigslist for another and Model T Haven for the other 2. Here's a cautionary word of advice- DON'T BUY ANYTHING YOU CAN'T INSPECT IN PERSON! I travelled 1500 miles for my A coupe but it was well worth it to make sure it was as advertised
I was doing a cabinet job for a guy that had an old project car in his garage. I traded my work for the car,,,,,,,,,,,,
I got mine while working at a prison in southern Nevada. They have a restoration shop there and a customer got it as a parts car for a Woody being built but didn't use much of it. I picked up the pieces for next to nothing. Brick
Answered an ad on a Model A site. Drove to Minnesota to pick up a 29 Coupe. Got there, A was rough as a cob, so I bought a 46 Coupe instead. Hauled it all the way home and wheeled it on the garage, started to gather up some parts (good flatty, T5, good fender, etc...). This summer I saw another ad, on the same Model A site, for another 29 Coupe, this one in Indianapolis, which is much closer to central KY. I made a few calls, and looked at some pictures, loaded up the trailer and went to Indy. Well worth the drive, and the wait. It worked out well because I now have a good flatty and a T5 for it. Now I have an extra car anyone need a 46 coupe
i seen a freind that i had not talked to in awhile and mentioned what i was looking for and a previous boss of his had it setting in a ware house and had just listed it on ebay, went to look at it and went home and clicked the buy it now price of $350 before someone else did
I bought mine through a paper called "old autos" 6 years ago when i was 18 in a canadian town called Pickering. I paid $1700 canadian for a fordor which was poorly wacked into a pick-up (it looks much much better now). Tin is expensive and sparce up here.
stopped in a salvage yard for some parts, made a friend. ends up he knows all of the hotrodders in the area. from projects to the finished product. 'A" models to the 60's.
my dad first baught the 53 20 years ago. just a body off the frame. the body sat in one spot, the frame in another spot for i think about 13 years. then i got it with a little arm twisting, and spent 5 years rounding up parts and building it all by my self, with alot of input from dad.and about four other parts cars.
54 truck from father in law $800.00 stuck valve and wiring issues. 53 truck from salvage yard before yard owner went to prison $0.00 46 Ford #1 HAMB trade 46 Ford #2 local trade for a 54 chevy that I had traded for a 68 plymouth 4 door. 68 plymouth bought from a man who bought it at an auction.
I got my 61 comet from a guy that works with my mom he knows im into cars and so is he so he always lets her know what he finds he also found me a 89 mustang lx with a bad 2.3 for $100 that is getting a 347 stroker this summer. but in my spare time i like to drive around on good ol iowa gravel roads and look for old cars found 65f-1, 50s? jeep few VW bugs a 54 mg lots of old stuff found a 27 t body in a cow pasture that im goin to dig up i know the guy with the f-1 so ill probly get that cheep but i just nock on the door and ask if the old _________ is for sale. just a just let peopel know your a car guy/girl every once on a great while somthing will fall into your hands
Bought my '57 on the HAMB and sold it on the HAMB, then bought my current '32 peekup on here also. It's a great place. Mootz
E-bay, $460, car was local and sitting for years, the last ny state inspection sticker is still on the windsheild dated 1977. Its a 50 fordor,wifey was happy its was a 4 door kids were super happy
found it in a local paper with another 54 real rat told me he had another he was askin 1500 for both went too rt street rodz checked it out bought it for 500 had looked like it was sittin there for like 10 yrs and it was the owner of the shop was gittin ready to scrap it still holdin out for the int out of the junker but i got the nose for 150
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