Hot Rods pics of cars you built before you were 20

just turned 17 and am currently in the process of building a 1936 chevy truck.
pics in the profile.

 

I was 16 when I started this one .

 

Picked this 68 Javelin up when I was 15.Finished it when I was 19,then traded it.This car taught me a lot about rust!!

 

speak for yourself man!

havent really "built" anything, but ive done almost everything else to a 69 chevy pickup (first vehicle, daily driver) and i'm also in the middle of getting my '55 buick on the road, doing a trans swap, brakes and plenty of bodywork. got a pile of model A parts that will be a cool little hot rod after the buick is drivable.

also a '55 chevy bel air that both my dad and i share, its my favorite car out of the bunch.

 

Kennedy started this when he was 16. Finished it up during his senior year.

 

About 1991

 

I'm assuming Kennedy is your son, if he built this between the ages of 16 and 18 he needs to be doing this for a living, very nice ride and would like to see more, are there any pics in the archives?

 

My first car bought in my senior year 1965. Still have it today.

 

Kennedy is my cousin. He has a few pics in an album on his profile page.

A few more are here: http://www.kennedyshotrodshop.com/

JH

 

My high school ride

 

Hey Cyclone... I noticed that your "Suzie the little blue coupe" avitar got augmented!

 

Bought this at 13. Learned alot about building cars and dealing with shops. I got burned by 3 paint shops. The total of the 3 woulda paid for the show qulilty shop's estimate that I thought was outrageous. Needed al new floors and found lots of other rigs in the process. Definately worth spending a few thousand more next time to get a more solid shell. But still was fun.

 

I really don't fit in here... No real builds before 20, though I did convert my RX-7 from automatic to manual, rework the complicated sequential turbo system and fix several factory shortcomings.



Presently I'm restoring an 87 VW Scirocco for my wife, again, not really the flavor of this forum, but most can appreciate them anyways. One of these days I'm hoping to find a 30's Ford project to build a budget rat rod with.

 

I built this in my late teens. I grew up in the sticks or northern Michigan and my dad isnt much of a car guy so it was a lot of trial and error. Built back in the early 2000's long before the "rat rod" craze.

 

And then I completely re-did the car in college during my Welding Engineering degree to what it is now.

 

started working on my truck when I was 16 years old. Only bigger and better things follow after your first hot rod. 32 Ford 5 window I will be starting on very shortly. Oh I am 20 years old btw.

 

redid this car three times before i was 20 did the chop and body when i was 18

 

bought wen i was 15 finished at 17, 429 caddy motor.




bought this one at 17 was done and driving when i was 19

 

1959/60,,i was 17 ,a Jr in Hi-School ,,the car ,a Alpine White '51 VickieDeluxe , frenched headlites,,nosed n decked ,Flat Head with mild cam ,two '97's ,dual Smitty Glass Pcs ,three speed overdive,,after this pic was taken ,it got a louvered hood ,shaved door handles ,,dummy Appleton spots and lowered to a pac a Luckies laying on its side under the cross member under the radiator ,,
not to kool crossing those rail road tracks in central Iowa ,,

 

Bought this 50 crestliner on my 16th b'day in central Oregon...yanked the cracked 239 flathead and built a 255 flalthead from a 53 Merc...installed headers, Offy 4 barrel and a Rochester carb...ran great.
The day I brought it home in '64...cost 50 bux and another 15 for the motor...and another 36 bucks for rings, bearings, gaskets. I was making 75 cents an hour bussing dishes at a chinese food joint.

 

The '59 was my first car when I was 15. The chevelle was an on going project since I was about 17. Sold it just a few years back, basically finished.

 

Got this done when I was 19.

 

My 58 Dodge. Bought it for $35 when I was barely 15. Worked on it till I had installed a 313 with a fourbarrel carb and an Ansen Posi shift conversion, 4.10 gears and United tire wide street retreads. Raced it at Old Ceders Drags strip. Sold it then bought it back again and abused it some more. First ran it July 1966. I was 16 then.
Don

 

the truck in my avatar was built when I was 13-18

 

built when i was 15 im 24 now shes still scootin down the road!

 

Sorry, no f-ing way am I going t post that crap!

 

see avatar <---------------bought it when i was 13,finished it when i was 16 drove it for 3 years all over the northeast,still have her,,,sold my 1967 mustang coupe that i bought when i was 11 for it,,now i am 36,,,did help that dad had a resto shop to play in

 

39 Chevy with Dodge Hemi. Started it at 15 finished it at 19 and sold it when I got drafted(Damn)

 

here's my project started it a few yrs ago and did most of the fab before I was 18. not finished yet, been sidelined cause I am going back to school in a couple months. pic of how it sits now and then a photo shop of it finished. its a '56 willys