got this 36 coupe on the trailer today. She is pretty rough having sat in a holler/drainage ditch for years. She was on her side. An older friend of mine raced it in 61-64 in Arkansas. He gave it to me. Now I don't know whether to start beating on it or not. It's pretty rough. The frame and stuff is still good though. A nostalgia circle track car would be cool, but the body is so bad! I haven't planned on spending major bucks, either. I am a pretty good fabricator, but would need lots of vintage metal.
Was it a circle track car? Looks to be... If you have the room trow it aside for a bit and see if you can use it to help build something else. Sometimes it can be just as cool to see a piece of the original car continue on, rather than trying to rebuild the entire car. -Dean
Good idea. I'll probably stow it and show it to friends and stuff. Whew, that saved me a lot of work. I did enjoy listening to a few stories when I ran it by the owner's house so he could look at it. He said it was a running driver when he got it. They gutted it with a match and a bunch of lighter fluid. It ran a 110 hp flathead and they used half race gas and half lighter fluid. I guess lighter fluid was cheap then? He also once rolled it end over end three times but you can't tell it by the frame...
WOW that's rough. If it were mine ( and I'd sure like it to be ) I'd cut the back half off it and use it to build a coupe from a sedan like the Norwegian Blacksmith did. Well, I'd try to at least. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=222004&highlight=norwegian+blacksmith
hmm... depends how much time and skill you have.. if you've got lots of both.. f*ck it.. if it was mine it would sit for many a years before I knew were to begin... Good luck to you my friend.. good luck.. -Anthony
well I think it should make good yard art. no crusher. little gone for the money. sorry. sniff,sniff,
Dont back down just yet,show us what it looks like after a little thrashing. I have seen some pretty rough stuff straightened out and peaced together on here. If you are thinking of making a nostalgic circle track car out of it,and you are a fabricator. This looks like the car for you.
Id just take a weekend with a hammer and see how far you can get. It's like unfolding a crumpled up piece of paper. Who knows, you may get to the point where it looks like a car again and you'll sit back and think, wow I might be able to do something with this thing.
If you have the room, set it aside. I have seen several bodies without a frame now and then. It might be ugly underneath, but it's authentic. That's counting for points these days.
Take it to Maco and see if they will fix it up and paint it for $299. Then a motor and trans, some wiring and brakes and your done!
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