hey just go with the flow. these cars aren't rare, they're not hard to find. what's rare and hard to find is the cash to buy one. if you have the cash "Build it the way you want it!" if you don't have the cash "Just keep whinning about it!" Jim
Added the ch***is pictures finally, follow the link. http://www.angelfire.com/retro/ericskars/survivor/?i=15
Oh just when you thought it could not get worse. You are going to the "Hot Rod Hell" for watching this and expecially taking pictures of it.
After seeing the ch***is pics, I gotta say, there were a lot of things I would have fixed, if it were mine. The look was really great, but the under pinnings needed some serious rework in some areas. There was definitely some room for improvement, but that could be done without destroying the character of the car.
He did worse. They switched wagons and crushed a regular 2dr wagon instead of one of those ostentatious over rated gold chainer icon Nomads. (I prefer the regular 2dr, and quit watching that show at that instant.)
Yeah, I know. But I hope I'll be shown some mercy...the ch***is is most likely being p***ed on to a Hamber where it will go on to live out the rest of it's life as a hot rod. I met the owner and he's a pretty cool guy. Had the car sitting in his garage since '69 and never got around to working on it. Him and his wife came out and took some pictures of it, and said "the kids are never going to believe this!" He's happy with his car. I guess thats all that matters.
as a shop owner, I can see where this kind of build happens. I know it ****s (how do you think I felt about putting a 383 chevy motor where a 455 olds motor was supposed to live? talk about a crisis of consience.) But there are befifits here, and they have nothing to do with Barret Jackson. #1- the "cool parts" are still avalible- at least these folks know someone wants them, and they didn't get torched off and thrown into a s**** barrel. #2- when this feller drives the car, reguardless of guts, at the end of the day, it's still the real deal. it's a steel Ford, and though it might live out it's days inside his garage or trailer, some day, mabey one of our kids will end up with it. and at that point, he will have the chance to re-rebuild it. (Hey, it's better than 40 years of rusting away.) #3- and someone already touched on this- Figiter gets to eat for a few more weeks. and we know that in his hands, he is gonna do his best to change as little about the body as possible. I know this because he drives an oldsmobile, and therefore he is o.b.k.b. whoever crushed the street rod should have his nuts handed to him in a little basket. yeah, it was a street rod, but dammit, steel is freakin hard to find these days.
Well technically...I work in the parts department which doesn't have much to do with the build shop...but the point is valid and it does put food in the mouths of those guys out back. But I do still drive an Olds and am therefore a ruler The crushed Anglia was from monster garage. Jesse James did it.
I've had a change of mind. What the hell, I'm glad the Fidgiter has a job. And the rest of the guys too but...........it's just to bad not everyone has the "HAMB" sense. LOL Thing is if everyone did then everything would be the same. That wouldn't be any fun.
I think that's the Anglia Jesse James was building on "Monster Garage". They didn't meet the deadline so, sadly, that's what they did to the car,--- shoulda crushed the screw ups who were building it instead. As far as the thread goes I agree with those who say it's funny to listen to everyone whine. At first it hit me in the gut too, then I realized that I was acting like all the antiquers who put down what I do. I know that this site is for traditional hot rodders (the meaning of which could be debated forever) so it's natural to hate to see a nice old car lose it's "soul", but someone was thinking the same thing the first time it got "modernized", and probably will the next time too. I have always been a little "put off" by the at***ude of some car guys that their way is the only right way, and everyone else is wrong. My first love is old hot rods, but I enjoy damned near anything with wheels. I wouldn't change much on that car, but that's me, and it ain't my car. I hope the owner gets what he wants, and drives the hell out of it, beats sittin' in a garage.
A couple of years ago the exact same situation occured at a hot rod shop north of Detroit. Roadstar was able to purchase the rolling ch***is for a very fair/low amount. A few months later, after the new ch***is was built for the car, the owner had a change of heart and wanted to take the build in more of a traditional direction and wanted the old ch***is back from Roadstar.......at just about any cost. Roadstar made a VERY nice chunk of change PLUS felt good about the orignal ch***is making it was BACK UNDER THE CAR.
What do you know about it being "SOLD?" It WAS sold to Brant aka Kikkinrods...who was going to pick it up today or tomorrow and bring cash. Someone came last night and got it from Frank who we all thought to be aware of this. I'm told the new owner was supposed to bring payment today...but I never saw him......
DITTO, one of the reasons I don't watch TV anymore, Besides who has the time for it? I couldn't believe it when I saw the Tim Allen show ruin that 55 wagon, and the fact that it wasn't a Nomad didn't make it OK, I was also pissed when they crashed that subs***ute 55 in American Graffiti, (do they think car guys don't notice when they change the cars at the last moment?) I'm glad they didn't ruin the originals, but it bothered my that they ruined cars I would have liked to have. Dan
When I pieced my 31 A Coupe together in 98...(26 cars donated something)...I ended up chopping it 2" to save the smashed and rusted out door frames...I never did get around to re-skinning the doors...rusted up about 8"...inside and out...I just put it on the ch***is and ran it.... I got more than my share of (_Y_) chewings from "the restorers" who said that I butchered a "perfectly good Model A Coupe".... I just turned it around to them...(I started out as a restorer myself)...and told them that they could have ahd this car for what I paid for it...(for free)....but everyone turned it down because it was "too rough"... Face it people, today we have the junk that everyone else p***ed over in the 60's and 70's... And thankfully, with the good patch panels that we have today, and the very affordable 110volt MIG welders, us hot rodders save them every day....
I remember when they squashed the 55 "Nomad"...it was really a common 210 Wagon, (not a Nomad)....but it was a total derelict that was basically junk and unusable...it was cherried out for TV.... Amazing what a good body man can do....remember, they only fixed the part that "showed".... Then they crushed that ****er flat.... And it happened so fast that you'd swear it was a Real Nomad.... If you really want one of them, I can show you where they buried cars like that in the old dump on Beaver Island when I was a kid....... Same thing happened to the 55 in American Grafitti...... That wreck launched Harrison Ford's career, so something good came out of it....that car was a junker also..... I learned this a long time ago... You just can't save 'em all...
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