Another New Old Guy in Ohio

Hello! I have been reading the HAMB forever - picking up info on my various projects and I figure that it was time that I stepped out of the shadows and did a little posting. My old car interests are expansive - British sports cars, solid axle Corvettes, 80's turbo cars - but more germane to the HAMB, I started with Model A Fords and I've gotten interested in early fibergl*** cars that were offered by small-time manufacturers before the Corvette came out. These are not kit cars, as there was no "kit", typically just a single page of instructions which came with the body.

These cars were typically built using late 40's-early 50's American cars, for the mechanical underpinnings, often significantly modified. My Lancer is going on a 1951 Studebaker ch***is, the Victress Coupe is on a 1954 Chrysler New Yorker, and the Victress roadster is a Frankenstein consisting of a DeSoto Hemi through a custom adaptor to a LaSalle transmission and then to a Ford F1 rear end, in a 1947 Plymouth frame. The newly-acquired Meteor (not Mercury) sits on a 40's Ford frame that has been Z'ed, with a shortened torque tube and a bunch of non-Ford parts that I am still struggling to ID. The Forgotten Fibergl***/Undiscovered Cl***ics website caters to the history of these cars and the custom bodies, but not to the mechanical details needed to restore them.

I will let the HAMB powers-that-be decide if these projects fall within the scope of interest for the other members. Hopefully they will - I have a lot of research and restoration to do.

Barry in Ohio

 

Here are pictures of the cars. It is clear that none are ready for the road, but work is progressing.

 

Welcome to the HAMB from Illinois.

 

Thanks, Phil! I posted a parts ID question in the Technical section and got an answer very shortly thereafter. I like how this board works!

 

Welcome to the HAMB Barry,

A great bunch of guys with a wealth of knowledge here!

If you don't mind me asking...What part of Ohio? I am in New London Twp, just southeast of Summit Motorsport Park (Norwalk Raceway Park to us who raced there from years back)

God Bless
Bill
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ar-transport-hauling-open-or-enclosed.614419/

 

Hi Bill! My apologies - I missed this when you posted. I am just north of Columbus Ohio. I make frequent trips up east of Cleveland to visit my 95-year-old dad so you woudn't be TOO far out of the way...