rocky,29ehv8,hakerbill,anyoelse curious heres the pics!

i was into 4x4s before this. didnt think you wanted to see them... this car was the start of the illness.... torwards the end of highschool this one was started..., kinda miss this one!

 

the next one was an old hotrod from duluth, finishin that up right now,... heres before....

 

check out the parking permit.... couldnt get any info on car, i know it was channeled about 12'' from the way things looked , was yellow ,metallic blue,lastly black with chevy orange garnish, decided to leave it that way...

 

heres the car now i figure i got about 15 real days left

 

thirtytwo,
I like your style man....I think we must have watched the same movies as kids.LOL.
first car was a '57 chevy, was also into 4x4's and i have a tin '32 5 window waiting for me to put it back together..
cool car's....


Rat...

 

this was my beater before i started on the 5-w heres the pic at b-ville 1rst time. went on a 10,000 mile trip through the west US... it was an old 70s rod that i cleand up a bit. from what i understand it had the beer keg oak flat bed thing goin on, and was green metal flake the bed was t remains i got from a local junkyard it got dug out of the ground and replaced lots of metal , i whacked a couple inches out of the roof, should have went three more... belive it or not the think was channeled 6''... this car started my hatered for channeled cars after being stuck 10k in the heat,especially in the az desert with those stupid looking side pipes cookin me!!!

 

heres the next 5-w "keeper" it will look just like the first just 4'' less of roof a 4spd and q.c. hopefully

 

Ok man...yer scarin me now!!!
I have a chopped and channeled '33 pick up too!
wierd..
Really though..nice stuff.

here's my 'project'


Rat..

 

Thanks for the photos...good lookin stuff, alright. Here's a photo of my old 5 window....

 

heres the driver... i cant take credit for anything on it... all i did this year was freshen the motor and paint it... all in the week of paso and made it too.... it was a busy week!... not to bad for army surplus gloss black enamel(35.00 gal)and painted out side on a dirt driveway?

 

32, you just gave me a great idea. I've been thinking over and over what I would paint mine once built and just the mention of ARMY got my mind pumping. Thanks for the inspiration.

 

this was the one i was askin you about rocky , shouldnt of sold it... wish i had it back orig came from so-cal in the forties i got it in tex. with registration back to 45...i even found doors that wern't cut up just needed the mech. for the glass so much for barry lobecks cutting edge new idea this one was done in the early forties

 

..............and doesn't everybody have a chopped and channeled 33 pickup with a T-box? Actually, I sold this one to T-man about a year and a half ago

 

that's a killer pick-up, Rocky.

32, how many freakin' cars are you/have you built? I feel so inadequate.

 

Thirty Two.....I don't believe I've ever seen that cabriolet around here.........sorry. I'll keep an eye out for it, though.......

 

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Holy shit! I've never seen that much rust on one car. Still, I'm jealous.

Cool stuff.

JH

 

heres a rat i built with cast off parts.... its fairly low but, i made sure it would clear speed bumps with no problem and when i got a flat it wouldnt tear the oil pan off.. it was thrown together in about 3 months of free time while i was waiting for my friend to finish the bondo work on the 5-w ,as im not very good at the "bodymans touch" and everything takes me 3 times as long, plus im allergic to the dust , i need to sell but its just a roller right now ,i'll probely put it in the classifieds with more pics if anyone is intrested ...

 

hey rocky i saw that pick-up somewhere before, my first one , the one you see pics of was kinda hokey,stance was all wrong, like i said it was an old 70s rod i tried to make the best of what i had, you should see the before pics!!! wow was it an ugly baby, but yours is just plain bitchin, your a lucky guy t-man... im jelous, that thing has got attitude, i started a 34 back in MN cause i missed the 32 even though it was a bastard, had to sell that one too, but a friends got it and i have to help finish i think i want to find another cab and start over agian, fenders this time!!!

 

Cool pics, Thirtytwo! Nice job on the dirt driveway paint job, too! Where ya located? Nice post, man.

 

santa rosa... the guy whos house it was was pissed ,"you know anything about the epa" i pled igrorrance , you can do that in minnesota, i didnt know, not even an hvlp, oops!

 

Thirty Two..........talk about stance being all wrong? This was what my 33 looked like when I dragged it's sorry ass home [except for the T-box...it wasn't on the truck when I bought it] Someone had cobbled a 42-48 front axle and "spring in front" setup under it. Had a siezed 34 steering box and water pipe tie rod...X had been hogged out of the frame to accomodate an allison engine, it looked like. took lotsa work to get it in the sad shape it was when I was driving it.... I changed it to magnum axle and posies spring with 40 spindles and brakes and split model A bones...

 

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the guy whos house it was was pissed ,"you know anything about the epa" i pled igrorrance , you can do that in minnesota, i didnt know, not even an hvlp, oops

[/ QUOTE ] Dang, hadn't thought of that, even when I started primering w/ the Sucky Air Compressor in the neighbor's driveway earlier this week. Hell, I thought I was pushing my luck with all the ruckus that compressor was making.
Really nice history of rods you have, bud. Lemme know when yer headed up the coast, I'll treat you to a brew or some java while we bench race.

 

i love the trucks.

 

sounds good H.C. look me up if you get down this way too.... HEY ROCKY... PRETTY FUNNY THAT 32 HAD A 48 AXLE AND BONES WITH SPRING IN FRONT THAT MOON TANK COVERED UP MOST THE UGLY... I WAS A LITTLE EMBARASSED WHEN A GUY POINTED OUT THE FRONT CROSSMEMBER WAS ACTUALLY A TRANS CROSS OFF A 60S CATALINA... I LOOKED AT THAT DAMN THING.... THE GUY WAS RIGHT!!!!!!! LIKE I SAID 70s garage rodding ...it worked i guess ,thats what mattered ILL HAVE TO SHOW YOU SOME PICS OF THE 34 IT WAS ON A 37 CHEVY FRAME ....THING LOOKED LIKE A LUMBER HAULER! after i chopped 4 feet out of it it came around!

 

This post has some of THE BEST photo's Ive seen in H.A.M.B. career. I'm sweating looking at all those unchopped 5 windows.

 

Nice pedigree man! I got all those PMs BTW

Rocky, I verbally bought that 33 about a year? ago. And took it home last May? Anyway, my time with her was too short, my Touring needed my love.

 

eric, you have too many projects going...you should give me one

 

T-individual.........time flies when you're having fun...besides; [in a shaky, thin voice] "I'm just an ooooooold man....."
Hahahahaaha.
Here's what my 5 window looked like whan I found it next to the fence at a buddy's house in Iowa.

 

nice stuff thirty-two,real nice!

 

One thing struck me looking at this thread. Have any of you encountered a restorer who bemoans the fact that HOT RODDERS just ruin old cars? Take a look at some of the photos here. Do you think a restorer would bother with some of this JUNK? NO!! I still believe that if it weren't for rodders a lot of the old cars that survived would be just a memory.

Frank