New guy from California

Hey guys. This is my kind of place. I'm really diggin' the scene here.

My current project (for about the last three years) is a hot rod fenderless '32 Ford pickup. I did all the work on it myself. I started out with a beat-to-hell rusted out cab and a ***le and found lots of parts I needed at swap meets. I made the frame using American Stamping rails and homebuilt crossmembers. I Z'd the frame in back and notched it up front to get it down nice and low. I channeled the cab 6". I chopped the top 4-1/2". I can barely fit in it now. I spent tons of time making and welding patch panels and doing tons of hammer and dolly work. The '32 bed I found for it had been cut up and turned into a trailer. I patched the bed back together and shortened it 17" and channeled the bed about 4" with a custom floor that steps up over the rear suspension to get the bed down under the beltline of the cab. I just recentlyl painted the cab candy tangerine -- did it all myself. If I'm lucky, I might have it on the road in another 6 months.

My previous project was a fenderless '31 Plymouth Sedan. That car took me 5 years to build and I did it all myself. I painted it a real obnoxious purple and stuck a big block Chevy in it. It's scary fast. I sewed the pleated white interior myself. I originally had some monster 31"x16.5" Mickey Thompsons on it, but now it has chrome smoothies with skinny bias ply whitewalls.

Before my Plymouth, I made a custom '54 Chevy pickup that was slammed down with the front fenders 2" off the pavement. Other cars I had long ago that I did lots of work on were a '69 Camaro, a '70 Corvette, a '61 T-Bird, a '61 Galaxy, a '67 Impala, and a '64 MG Midget. They were all low-budget "fixer-uppers" that needed tons of work.

Lookin' forward to learning new stuff and sharing some stuff I've learned over the past 30 years working on my own heaps. I love seeing all the pictures of "in progress" cars.

See ya

 

Hey Rusty,
Welcome aboard -
There are tons of guys from the bay area here.
I'm in Antioch myself.
Maybe see you around the roads....
Justin