Projects 1948 Fleetline find, And not a barn for miles

I found it. Sweet talked, and kissed a little ass. (Well alot) 5 months of phone calling, door knocking, and e_mailing pays off. The plan for today is to get it on the road and put as many miles as I can on it . Then once my window of weather closes do a little more work to it. Like paint interior and so on. Here it is. I will keep ya posted on the progress as it happens.
Dude

 

Congrats! That's a good'n. Worth plenty of ass-kissing...lol.

 

Arse kissing basics....
Not on this side and not on the other side but right in the middle!
What a find, jealous much? Me? Hell yeah!!

Doc.

 

Uuuuuweee...
Nice find....really nice..
Good for you.
Cheers............

 

now that you have it you can get some scope to forget the kissing part , and drive it like a boss , great score ,

 

It's good to see they're still out there.

I've had a few '47 and '48' aerosedans. The first one was a '48 that I bought from my wife's Grandmother in 1964 to be my daily driver. She had retired it in favor of a used '60 Falcon. We drove it home the 60 miles and listened to the factory AM push-button radio while we were at it. Picked up a new set of recap wide whites and fixed it up...

Charlie

 

Great score!

 

dam nice car, great score. enjoy it.

 

great score slam it and drive the shit out of it

 

That Dude, is very cool. Im liking your thread title too.........sounds like im kissin ass now! lol.
I once had a 48 Thriftmaster truck, i really miss that truck.

 

leave the outside how it is. great stance and paint. drive the shit out of it!!!! worry about safety things when you cant drive it anymore.

 

cool,cool,cool!

 

Ditto on the thread title. I grinned ear-to-ear before I even saw the car.

Mom had a '47 like this. Brother and I had spare keys made, and we 'borrowed' it from her place of employment. Hit the highway. Pedal to the metal, of course. Brother was 14. I was 12. We went three miles at a breathtaking 85MPH wide open, before it puked its guts out. Turns out it was only water out the radiator. We coasted to a stop at a farmer's horse tank. Such knocking you never heard. (Not the Chebbie.... our knees.) We refilled it and limped it back.

If the dear soul ever knew (Mom, not the Chebbie) she never let on. Of course, if there's HAMB in heaven, now she knows.

Congratulations on your find.

 

Sweet ride! well worth all the ass kissing it took to buy that ride. I have been looking for a 47-48 fleetline in that shape. I'm jealous. Fix what it needs to be safe and drive the shit out of it.

 

I kinda left out the part about it being a one family car. Guy I picked it up froms Grandfather bought it new. Went threw the brakes yesterday. Put 200 miles on it today. Smiles all around. I'll post a pic or two soon.

 

WOW what a find. I was wanting one of those but gave up looking and bought my 51..

 

Aerosedans look great from any angle. congrats!

 

Strange, I was looking for a 51

 

Be still beating (real damn hard) heart. Love these babies and that looks super fine. Congrats bro. ~sololobo~

 

Super sweet score! lots of luck!!!

 

So I pulled the Engine, re-gasketed it and picked up a set of tires. For today I'm just gonna drive it as is.

 

Nice score.
How is the little 216 for power?

 

Love the 48! The chevy twin to my pontiac. I wish I could have drivin mine with just a little work!

 

She runs just fine. The 3 speed gearing is great for in town crusing.

 

tight ride

 

There is one like that (only not as good condition)sitting in the side yard of an old,old colored man here in my town.been sitting there with no wheels and tires...I stopped and knocked on his door(bless his heart)told me it wasnt for sale as he might need to go to the grocery store in it..This was 10 years ago,,It is still sitting in same spot today

 

Those whites look fab on there bro. it looks soooo great! I can tell you are having some sweet moments drivin this beauty around. Way to go kids. ~sololobo~

 

we stopped at that old mans house a few years back heading out there to pick up a different vehicle. we had an empty trailer going out there and turned back to ask him about that car. told us the same thing so we kept going towards our destination talking about how it would have been nice to go back home with that car.

 

Id like to have the car in your avatar also

 

Did you find that in Olympia? I've always got my eye out for cars in the rural parts of Oly town when I'm through there.
Great score and it looks sharp with the wide whites!!!