My friend Brent finally went back to Oregon and brought his 38 Chrysler home. This was his high school car and was crushed some years back. He's still thinking about overall direction with the car, but I think it has to be a taildragger! Once the roof is fixed, we'll see what he wants to do.
Hmmmm.....except for the roof, that car doesn't look bad at all. Appears fixable. There are some taildragger coupes on here to look as examples. At least his car fared better than mine................ Just get after it with a portapower..... Not quite "as new", but far better than it was......... (that top has now been cut off and replaced with an un-damaged one, replacement doors, etc) Still has a long way to go.
Nice job 47plym. Most guys would walk away from that. We have a donor for the top. It won't be bad. Brent is a top notch bodyman, so all I'm doing is helping out on this one. No chop. But who knows what might happen to the Plymouth roof donor. I could see it with a chopped carson!
I have seen a lot of methods of chopping tops, but that one has to be the worst. Just ribbing ya, I think it will be ok.
I like that the rear gl*** wasn't broken. So all he has to do is pop it back up, get some windshield gl***, and polish it out! LOL
That looks like a real test for someone who's good with a porta power. It would have to be pretty well straightened back out and squared away including the kink in the left quarter before a guy chopped it or changed the top on it. I'm another thinking that would make one hell of a good looking tail dragger.
Yep Mr48 she's tweaked a bit! Had it gone much more it would have been really ugly. The car was backed in under a loft. Even though the loft collapsed one wall and part of it held enough to save the car. The 58 ford retractable in front of the 38 wasn't so lucky. Not a simple fix by any means, but well worth it.
Hey Tin, Talk 'bout a great shop cl*** project on the use of that " CAR-O-LINER ''!! Two towers pulling at the Cant Rails, two towers making tension pulls with solder type pull plates at each side of the major buckle, portable 10 ton pushing up at the HedderRail, some powerhammer (old Milwalkee or Watervelete) work once the rails are back in alignment, plenty of instruction on shrinking & bumping metal, maybe even some metalfinishing. Talk 'bout a dream skill demo project??!! The students will learn things on that job the'll never learn R&Rin' tin on a damn Tyota " There is in manufacturing a creative joy that only poets are supposed to know. Someday I'd like to show a poet how it feels to design and build a locomotive.'' -Walter P. Chrysler-
Pimpin my friend you are a profit.....you see where this is going! We also have a great set up for upper body measurement. Old meets new..................... nothing changes......everything changes.............
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