" ALMOST " too rough to save

I am always amazed at the dedication and skill some of the HAMB members have saving cars that " others " have passed over as too rough.

Like these cars ... Rough but ... some HAMB guys could give them a new life.

 

Both of those look like they are in better shape than one that is being redone on the Hamb now. The chop on the gold one looks pretty nice too.

 

those look good to me...

 

I helped a friend in the '90s save a '56 2 door hard top. He bought it and it looked pretty solid, had it media blasted and it was pretty much a roof.

I would be pretty proud to own either of th coupes. It would be work but if I was in cheap either one could be a class act.

My now deceased business partner and I used to save totals that we either bought from the insurance company or the salvage yard. That pretty much kept our doors open. He had a hard fast rule never take a before picture. A lot of people were afraid to buy a wreck.

I ment to say that if those are yours the roof on the gold one is perfect.

 

It's no deuce but i'm hoping to do this one proud!

Progress is slow. I keep finding other projects that seem to butt in line. One of these days.

 

I am building a 33 that started as nothing but a cowl, I then bought a hood, then a pair of doors, its a Johnny Cash car, one piece at a time, I have the floor section and lower 1/4's from a coupe that sat burried in a creek and the top of it rusted completly away, so now I just need the scraps of the top of a 33 or 34 coupe and I will have enough to start my jigsaw puzzle! Jim

 

None of mine even start out in one piece!

 

Hell, most of my stuff starts out as scraps every sane person throws away...

 

Nice thread Randy, who's projects are these? Maybe they wouldn't mind bringing us up to speed as far as progression from " the rough "

 

Those don't look that bad to me!!! Since most of the old good tin has already been rebuilt we are having to get worse starting points. It's not a bad thing because the days of just hanging aftermarket parts on good tin is gone and real talent is starting to show on these builds.

 

If they were not in that condition i'd never be able to buy em.

Tony

 

That gold chopped 32 Body was actually in decent shape, just needed a few patch panels at the bottom...it was an old hot rod ....Littleman's old body

 

Not mine ... just ones I have seen on the web

 

ppppffft...

I'm still looking.

 

It doesn't need to be a deuce to be be worth saving, I was told I was crazy for buying these and attempting to build a car. Chevy roadsters are rarer after all

 

I'll help out and take the gold one for free...

 

Jimmy B, I love your roadster. I am trying to round up some parts to build something along the same lines as yours.

 

If those two were in Wisconsin, they would be PRIME SHEET METAL !!!
Cheers.......

 

those are only rough to very spoiled people.

 

What he said.

 

Those don't look all that bad

 

The talent on the HAMB is unbelievable, Randy. What's more impressive is that most of them are willing to share the "how to" part so that the rest do us can learn to do it , too.

Happy New Year to you, Buster and Steve!

 

here's my coupe

 

Mine has gone from a POS to a reasonable driver

 

Both the coupes are better than what I started with. I've got about 40lbs of sanded off plastic filler if you need some, its still in all my tool box drawers and the perimeter of the shop!

 

Anyone ever seen Mark Ford's Model A before it became the legend that it is???



And now it looks like this...



Like Tony said, if it weren't for rough bodies I would have never been able to afford the one I have.

 

left nut for trade ?

 

one i saved. it was burnt from the cowl back and beat all to hell from the cowl forward.

 

This thread is for ALL old neat saves ... not just a DEUCE

 

Boy the thing people do for fun mine was on the critical list but its off life support now