Art & Inspiration Sitting and Rotting.............picture thread

Looks like they stopped just in time

 

Testing out the waters.

 

That's luxury... you can fish right out the front window of your camper.

 

I took apart my first car to restore it at age 19, then went on to serve for 2 years, got married, got a kid, moved overseas for 10 years, then lack of funds and/or time, restore a home, build a business, restore a farm. At 52 my car is still on wooden blocks but has been dried stored all of this time.
That's how : life sometimes gets in the way.

 

Took me 30 years to finish my first one. Life got in the way.

 

Sometimes, they sit. My 53 Monarch I first bought when I was 15, in 1992. My friend from high school convinced me I was a restoration expert at that age. Tore it apart in a bazillion pieces. Lost most of the parts and all interest for awhile. I realized how hard it was to find parts for a 53 Monarch, so I was in my mid-20's before I found a parts car. Been collecting ever since. I'm 47 now, have built a few vehicles since, but it's still dear to my heart. I have just over a decade to go until retirement, then I will finish the build I started 32 years ago...

 

Millbrook Alabama

 

37 Chev. JW

 

I went out to do three things: first was to buy some citric acid (magic stuff) from a food wholesaler - Aus$18 [US$15?] for a bit less than 2 kg; I forgot to do the second thing ... ... ... ; third was the following pics in a northern suburb of Melbourne. Land Rover was at one house; second pic (FB or EK Holden) at another house; third and fourth pics (another FB/EK Holden) at another place not far away.

 

This bonnet is probably from an FX or FJ Holden; same place as the blue & white FB/EK.

 

Millbrook Alabama

 

LaGrange Texas. Yes THAT one

 

Dagnabbit, would one of youse hoodlums please save the dadgum roadster from the dadgum scrap pile.

 

About the same patina as my '57.

 

Millbrook Alabama

 

@j hansen do you personally find all these cars or are you just grabbing images off the internet? Just wondering.

 

nobody can find that many locally,...but you can on the internet....still, I like seein em.

 

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