Projects Hypothetical build question: will I go to hell if I do this...

one vote for that, I like where your head is!

 

Yessssssssss, 4-place Vanden Plas LeMans!........ Bitchn', if you don't build this car you have no hair on your............(you know what!)

 

knock yerself out dude, and dont forget to make a place for the dog to sit.

 

Lengthening it just to improve the driving position sounds rather drastic, I doubt you'd go to hell for it and if you did you'd be well back in the queue.

 

I think it's just missing a pickup bed - or maybe a hose and ladder?

 

fur biscuit!

 

Man, that is already at a point where it needs to be cut up and just dying for someone with vision to come along and make that car all it could ever hope to be. You can give it a new lease on life. You can slice and dice to your heart's content ... I don't hear any saws or grinders.

 

were I to go with the vanden plas, it would all be saws and files: going to be a carpenter!

 

Do it, but you'll have to wear a derby when you drive it!!

 

Go with the vanden plas! Want some pointers on "period correct"? Check out the downloads on Google Books. Go to the automotive section and then look at the full version only titles. There are a couple of complete, very nice books on early coachbuilding that just might come in handy on a project like that.

Do it!

Tim D.

 

I like the turtle-deck look...

 

So just "DO IT".Get out your can opener & get started.Leno will probably help you to.

 

Putting a coachbuild body on a 1920s chassis? They were all at it back then. Yours would just be a bit newer than those built at the time. Whats the problem?

 

I don't think you will go to Hell for it, but we will demand you do a wild pass in front of it's gates!

 

I like the decked style, but I also like the Bentley look too. I feel your pain. I have a Packard race car in my head from the early 20s and even have a chassis and cowl to get started. My problem is time and $$$$.

I'd definately study all the long distance euro rally cars from the day. Add a bit of "Indy" style seasoned with all the road going needs and there certainly is some realistic potential there. Going to hell? Yeah just for thinkin it...but that's where you get laid!!

 

You lucky S.O.B, I always wanted a Fedex van , hideous doors or no!

 

maybe with an old sprint car tail section you could build a 3.5 litre , probably to new for you though.......

 

Are you that Slammed Dog Millionaire?

 

Cut it up-looks like you already chopped. bobbed and sectioned the dog! Slam dog-ha!

 

Nah, the dog is just lowered, that's all

 

even the dhag's come kustom. keep'em real short like that, so they can walk underneath the car and knock off all the dirt and grim from driving.

 

Strangely enough, the car was pulled out of a field on Black Mountain Road in San Diego. It had a big industrial motor welded to the back of it and was being used as a well pump. The front part of the body was a left over in the barn.

 

see the pain.

 

dude...you washed your dog in hot water and put him in the dryer too long.....he shrunk!

 

Look back on your life ,you may be going there anyway .So the only question should be plasma or sawall.

 

sawzall and oxy-acetelene...appparently you can bend wood too.

 

I think that you have a much better opportunity getting laid if you cut that thing up....lol...and that's what you want...so??

 

I can add nothing constructive or funny to this, I will say thanks for a great thread!

 

not so much, the radiator makes for a really small head board and the frame is about the width of a twin. though, have done more with smaller establishments than that.

 

actually it ate a box full of those little dehumifier packs that you find when shipping electronics.