very nice kustom if you can see through the chicken ****,id buy it amd clean it up to drive that car defines AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Troy
That is AWESOME!! That will be a cool car with a cool story behind it! C'mon.........Did you steal it?!??!? Do tell, do tell!!
I like the wheels it's got on it, are they the original wheels or from something else? Was looking some more at them, looks like the fronts and backs are different or maybe it's a trick of the dirt.
Those are the same wheels front to back, I just put a hubcap on the right front. Does anyone know anything about this convertible top? Is it even a factory framework? Like I mentioned earlier, the frame work that spans the window openings actually folds in toward eachother. The car didn't come with a header board, but I ***ume it had to have had one. If it did, it must have been removable. Does anyone have some pics of '39 tops?
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! congratulations,,,,glad to see you ended up with the car.... i recently bought an old kustom 40 merc convt in similar conditon (mine is chopped)
Man,what a find n what a lovely car....... Really liking the rear end treatment too,didnt like the sound of the filled lid but it lends a smoothness of form,if not being particularly practical i guess! I'm with Sled on liking the exhausts poking outta the fenders.....i say keep the bumpers tho! Any pics of your ride in the background here? Oh,and if you ever get bored n fancy selling the vert,put me down for joining the loooong list huh lol just cant go buy a car with style like that. Good luck to you dude n keep with the updates
COOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL !!!!!!! If you get it I would have someone video the whole event. Pulling out of the barn till you get it on the trailer! Can't wait to see more on this barn find!
Frickin killer find!!! I'd leave it as is and drive it. The only thing I'd do to the car in the future is chop it and drive it some more. Do the uphulstery some day and just keep it alive and drive it! -Shiny
Great find....... not many like that around. A question..I thought 39's had the windshiled wipers on top of the windshiled and the 40's from the bottom. I could be wrong, but could it be a 40 with 39 parts?
'39 convertibles had them down below, at least from all the pictures I have seen. The body is definitely a '39 because it had a rumble seat, and '39 was the last year with it.
Loggy, here's a link to a couple of pictures of the truck that's in the background: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=250396
wow ya found Bud's car from the" Felsen" book street rod"! i have another of them hen's teeth plymoth bumpers if ya want to go back to matching ..
The center section with three ribs looks identical to the one on my stock '54 Pontiac....and so does the rear bumper.
Cory does nice work & I'm sure he'll do a GREAT job bringing this old girl back to life! He's shown me pics of this car for weeks now & it still gives me steaming fits of "green eyed jealousy"!!
I think I might have figured out the top, but I want to see if anyone of you can confirm it. Like I mentioned earlier, it's missing the header board and the top has been welding on some. It looks like the framework that spans the window openings folds in towards the center of the car. Then, it folds back onto itself so that the header board basically just slides back. It's pretty much just a scissor action. Can anyone confirm this?
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