Projects Building hot rods from garbage ( non-survivor club)

Very nice work. Please keep us posted as you proceed.

 

another photo, this time all the bits so far laid out in relation to each other but not lined up (just sitting on a 2by4 in the attic) another reason not much gets done on it

 

Here's my narrowed 49 Merc dash that was really rotten, still needs some work but I'm pretty happy with how it fits and looks in the 47.


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That Dash is Great!

 

Really nice! Debating putting this one in my '53 Chevy pickup or maybe the '26 Chevy roadster. It's a '55 Studebaker Speedster dash.

 

I've got an active build thread for my 37. (Not your average 37 Chevy build)

A few more years in the woods and she would have been "gone like desoto's"





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Hey kk, you're among friends, no need to showoff you know....

 

I just read it the other day! I'm glad you chose to save this body ! I will definitely be following your progress!


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...... any more trash to treasure ??

 

I've been working my self up into a nervous wreck thinking about how I'm going to fix the body on my project, but compared to most of these cars I should consider my self pretty lucky.

 

Thought I would revive this thread while every one is home for the holidays!

 

Before & After

 

garbage, oh sweet garbage!

 

Still looks great Charlie!!

 

Thanks Tony

 

My coupe was not that bad but it was rusty, incomplete, dented and twisted.
Was lucky to find nice doors and decklid that saved me alot of job.

This is what i started with.



After rust removal.



How it is today.
Still some work to do but i getting there.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/27-coupe-build.994975/

 

anybody got any junky stuff or links to good threads of cars built from scraps?

 

Oh how I love garbage!

 

It seems all I work with is garbage!, by the way, we fixed that door. It's a 32! So we fixed it.

 

Last one, I promise.

 

Wow those are some beautiful pieces of garbage! nice saves ....don't know why but I often find myself saving something that others have given up on as a lost cause

 

No keep 'em coming... that last one started off as a few chunks of 2 dr sedan? wow!

 

At least 1/2 of the cars on the HAMB are built out of stuff we would no have even looked at in the early 60s. I take my hat off to the se builders with BALLS!

 

That was the largest piece I had. The roof is off of a 5w, door skins are from the sedan, and the cowl was just a cowl I had. Rear quarter tops are actually pieces from fenders, and the body line on the quarter was made by converting a punch press into a makeshift power hammer, and pounding it out of a piece of sheet metal.if you look behind the car there is a pile of left overs from pieces I cut to make it.

 

Rolling in to the new year

 

I'd like to see more of it!

 

Started with some quarters off a river bank, a roof from pinstriper40, a deck lid from mr.chevrolet, some doors from eBay, a mangled 2 door sedan from a field, and a frame from another field.

 

It used to be so much easier. I did not appreciate it then.

 

Bringing up one of the BEST threads on the HAMB!!! Come on - I know there's some more "trash-to-treasure" out there!