What's up, yo's. Krty from the Waukesha, WI area here. Back in 2011 I stopped working on my project '53 Chevy and it has just been moved into my shop to "finish"...to the degree that it can roll again. This is a long story, and very HAMB-friendly, since much of what has been done so for has been because of what's been learned here...but I am not going to get into it right now. For now, I'm just letting you all know that there's a '53 210 buled starting up...floors, body mounts, trunk floor, and lower body panels need to be replaced. Then body reattached to frame, then.........you know, more stuff. Check photos....enjoy... (quick obligatory history: buy car from Bob Bleed to get over a girl, swap motor and drive car for a while, frame and floor repairs (super half-assed, not experienced version of this), swap in a '54 truck motor, drive more, get beat in a race in downtown Milwaukee by girl in a 240SX, drive to MN for a rolling chassis with Jaker. Lowered front end via HAMB thread, rebuild chassis, Saginaw 4 spd and rear end from a Nova, new rear springs, new brake lines, dual master cylinder Mustang 2 conversion via HAMB thread, put rusty-ass body onto cool-ass new frame, get married, finish helping raise three kids, move to a place with an outbuilding, do woodworking for four years, swap wood shop for hot rod shop, teach the youngest - now 15- to weld, move '53 into outbuilding (or that rusty old Chevy, as the boy child calls it), and here we are......time to buy new EMS body/frame mounts, floor pans, etc.............it's probably been 10 years since I posted here....stay tuned.
Good on you to get back to it . A couple of great lessons you are teaching your son . Resilience and welding.
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