Hi all - been semi-lurking for a couple of years. Joined just over a year ago...need to get that HAMB Membership paid. Been into cars for years - started actually working on a friends 51 Chevy when I was 15. Bought my first car in 1981 - a 1965 Malibu SS. Took three years to build it and had it for almost 15 years before finances and family were more important.... Was into my motorcycle for a few years, had a bad accident and decided that I needed to move on from that. Was into VWs and air cooled Porsches for a few years and when I hit 45 kinda decided that it was time to get what I always wanted. No sense being too old to work or enjoy your car. I started looking for an early 30' Chevy. My ideal was an older street rod (the non-billet era) that was in good solid condition and maybe needed to be redone again. I knew I didn't have the money to do a full restoration and build a car from scratch, so my method looked like it might work. I saw way too many cars for sale for $35k where the owners all said that they had 60k to 100k in the build process. I don't have that kind of money to be able to take that kind of loss!!! I looked for a year and half and finally had "the talk" with my wife and started to seriously shop. There were a few strong candidates, but I finally found a 31 5 window coupe with a rumble seat, 327/TH400 combo, PS/PB, A/C (I'm in Florida) and all original steel - no fibregl***, no patch panels and in great solid shape. The car is a driver and I plan to keep it that way. Someday I'll get around to re-doing it... I've tracked the owner ship of the car back two owners so far and have the name of the previous owner/builder. It's someone famous - but I'm gonna confirm that before making that claim. Personally, I'm married, two kids - son 20 and daughter 17. I'm the technical team lead for my local utility company's billing system. My dad has a 1968 Camaro convertible RS/SS 396/M21 car that's just about as close to original as you can get. I have a stake in that so it's coming my way someday...but it's not really a driver - it's just too nice. Anyway, Hi! We have a little cruise in at our local Krispy Kreme every Saturday morning from 7 to 9 - I usually check that out. I'm close to Daytona and have been going to the Spring show/swap meet and the Turkey Run for 5 or 6 years.
Now thats a "proper introduction". Man that coupe is sweet, leave it "as is" and drive the hell out of it! Welcome to the hamb and enjoy...
HEY FROM JACKSONVILLE!! you should try to make it out to the suicide machines cruise-in on the 2nd saturday of the month at stefanos pizza...3333 beach blvd.
Now that's an intro. Welcome to the site. I was shocked to see it was a 31 Chevy. I owned a 32 Chevy sedan for about 20 years, sold it in 98 to finance my 50 Chevy pickup. Continue to enjoy the site.
Really nice Ride,................Great Intro.,...............thanks ! firstnomad www.angelfire.com/jazz/flatlandstudio
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