Features 33-34 coupes...the hamb collection...lets see em

I really dig this one. especially the fact that she's still sportin her fenders and looks like it was drug out of a garage.

 

Deadfast 33, is your car on Tardels Web site, I love it.
Gasser freak, your car car rules too, just needs a running 303 olds.

 

CycloneKevin asked me to post these, hopefully he'll add some info'.

 

Heavenly! Cyclone Kevin's blue '34 on the flats, what a survivor rod, comes with a great story, too.

 

Thank you Kiwi-Kev!!!!!
Here is the story with the Blue 34. back in 96, I was looking for a house and found the one I am in now.
Back on Nov 20, 1993 I made the mistake of selling the Black 3W
that is the station scenes (That station is the same one in The CA.Kid!). Never got paid off on it to the tune of $5k.! My fault though, never should have trusted the a-hole!

Well that deal never sat well in my gut and that was my 2nd 34 3w.
I promissed the wife that she'd get her house,(she almost didn't as another flatty powered 34 3Wmade itself available @ the same time)
She had the house now & I was going through massive 34 3 W withdrawals! I decided to take in a Pomona Swap and wasn't really looking for anything seriously but a 34 3W. Well this guy had a 34 2dr c-dan and on the side of the body was mounted a 3x5" card saying that they also had a 34 3W. Pay Dirt!
I went to look it over & bought it on the spot-(This one is not pictured) It is in need of some serious work Well upon picking it up,
a guy that I sold my 54 Lincoln Capri to had decided to go with me to pick it up. When he saw it, he said the one that his brother had found
was gonna be available as his brother who was now getting a divorce and was not gonna be able to buy it,(This is the blue one in the photo) Well I was on the hook for this basketcase and had a house payment to boot. I decided to sell a 73 RS Camaro that I had to generate some revenue, borrowed from the guy who bought the Capri a couple of thou. The person that actually owned this Blue Barn Fresh Coupe lived in C-C-C-Compton,CA. The car was located in Victorville/Hesperia,CA. It hadn't been moved in years. It still wore 16" bias plys as well as a 56-62 yellow w/blk letters CA. plate.
It had a 39-40 24 stud as well as a 1949 CA title.=Old Hot Rod!
Pay Dirt !
It took 24 phone calls to get the coupe, The guy who turned me onto it also turned all of the well known car people that had a sh*tload more bones than I.
I freaked ! Finally the guy decided to meet me out there, I brought cash. He told me to get there @ 12:00pm which I did. He got there @ 5pm. I handed him the money as fast as I could, swapped out the flat tires for the wheels that are on it now and blew off the front bumper and flat towed that sucker home in the dark=(White knuckled it all the way to Temple City!)
There is alot more to this story, but that is the condensed version.
I thank everybody involved-even the a-hole because Karma stikes!

 

Now this 3W is the Killer edition unit!
I had never seen one of these in person. I knew that they existed,but never saw complete one!
Here is the story.
My brother emails me a "No car progress to report, It's raining. BTW, saw a cool ad in the paper. For Sale 1934 Hupp 3W cpe,Looks like a Ford."
I logged off as quick as I could, got on the phone and rang my bro up.
You gotta go look @ this car!!!!!, His reply was "No Way Bud!-Got things to do" I said cancel em, This is a Murray Built 3W body, same as a Ford 3W." So I thought. He took his 35 MM camera over to the guys place and started to snap some shots, I had to act now & had absolutely no money as usual!
I wired him a Killer down, and said that I'd see him over the weekend.
Meanwhile my brother 1hr photo'd the pics to me-via priortity mail.
They got here after we were on the 500mile ride to Santa Rosa.
We Rolled in around 9:30pm on a Friday night, the guy was playing poker with his buddies. I called him- the game broke up He met me @ his house (Where these pictures were taken inside!) I was in-shock!
Never had seen anything like this! Started to stud the Cowl, Doors, Length of the 1/4s roof.=Come to find out that the tooling for this car is actually the Cabriolet tooling as well as the 3W. They blended the two together to make a more elegant and slightly roomier body
Well at that point I was committed and we had him blow his door casings out in order to get this car out of his house!
I drove up to Arcata to pick/up a B engine and on the way back, rented a uhaul trailer & towed that sucker all the way back home to Temple City. That was nearly 8 yrs ago. I love the style of this car.
It evokes the days of The Great Gatsby or The Miracle Mile.
It is currently powered by a Plymouth Flathead 6 because the previous owner probably couldn't find any replacement parts forthis HUPP W417.

 

Just waitin' for better weather here. All glass now installed, now putting door window moldings in.

 

Actually, it was just dug out of a garage, the same one I put it in about fifteen years earlier, just before I left to basic training. The full story is here:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123159

Drew

 

Anyone see these on the hiway back in Fall of '05? They were on the way to me. I sold the red one, building the green one.

 

Here is my 33. The day I bought it and how it sits today in its pre-mockup form. I met one of the previous owners last summer and he said it was already chopped when he bought it in 1956. Some of the work on it was really nice and some was done with a hatchet, literally.

I need to finish some welds and fit the wood before I start doing finishwork. Once I finish the car next to it I'm going to get busy on it.

Dave

 

HAMB drags

 

That blue 3 window rules-

Heres my daily beater... first pic has the kid up the street behind the wheel-
I just added the hood and sides, when I got this car the hood and sides were as flat as a pancake...

I love them even though they cover up the flatty-

 

Wow Tuck, even thought the hood covers the flat motor, I thik it makes the car look way cooler, to me it looks great.

 

Here's mine.

 

I have a 34 3 window, original steel body and frame , chopped in the 50's, runs a 350/350 with a 57 Ford 9 inch rearend. Am building a 33 five window, channelled body, 53 Cadillac 331 backed by a 39 Ford trans and 40 ford rearend. The 33 body was rescued from the oval track.
I do most of the work myself, and am strickly an amateur, but I love working on these coupes!

 

Here's mine.

 

Here's mine, now with gas tank in place and at the height I want

 

Let's see more of these...anyone got pics of the 'bones car?

 

Ow, my EYES! Thats got to be the most fucked up chop on a 34 in history.

 

Wow, I forgot about this post. Here is the story with this one.
This started out as my 1st Steel 3W. I have pics of it when I swapped for it, but it was alot different then.
I had a 68 GTO Rag Top,a 69 Camaro S/S 350, and had bought a 75 Vette Coupe, - Hence I now had some material! Everytime I drove the goat to a cruise night, I just felt outta place.

It's funny how things change
This cruise nite was @ the All American Burger in Westwood CA. If I took my 55 Bird, I'd be ok to park in the lot,but the muscle car was not as welcome. I had a loan on the vette and wanted to take some time off from a job that I worked @ ever since I graduated from school.

I sold the goat on the 4th of July 86=(big mistake=regret). Paid off the vette. Girlfriend drove it daily while I drove the 69 S/S. while @ the cruise nite, I always stared @ Dick Wades 32 Lakes style roadster,and Dan Franco's 32 3W Cpe. Knew that I liked em but never would be to afford one then.

Always dug 33/34's and they were up there in the fave zone as well, so I hit the recycler classifieds every Thursday as well as the paper every weekday/weekend. Found a 34 out in Bellflower. It was a roach, the vette was a driver, so we worked a deal. I did bad! The front stock crossmember was totally blown out on the coupe, but it was disguised with sheet metal blended int the top side of it.

I made many mstakes and listened to many Street Rodders who told me to get rid of the 34 rear end(Still have), Cyclone Chev to 39 box adapter and trans,the chrome reversed wheels (which I also still have),and went about starting a street rod. The body lacked a usable decklid, inside door mounting wood as well as lots of rust out which I described in another of these Coupe posts.

I sold the Camaro S/S to fund the welding up of the chassis (by Dessert Head Dave Gorges) and bought a complete set wheels & tires ribbed rings/caps. Had Hollywood spring/axle co. do me up 3 springs. 1 for the transverse leaf front 2 for a semi elliptic set up for a 1957 Ford 9" rear end asy that I came up with while building the purple 34 roadster when it was the bosses project @ the Rod Shop where I then worked. That rear spring setup hid the springs when one looked @ it from the side. It worked even better with fenders

My pal Oscar took off to Vegas so my then girlriend Suzanne and I muscled the engine/trans in by jackng the engine asy up higher than the mounts and lowered the frame over it-no wheels/tires mounted .
I'm telling you=learning curve and excitement along with killer depression.
I wanted that sucker on the road,but I was very impatient and made many mistakes,(Should've bought a runner).

Bought a really mis-represented interior/body wood kit that totally didn't fit!
Spent days working on it! Finally fit the doors after the car was @ Cal's Vintage Hammer and Kolor in San Gabe. Sold a V8 CJ5 to pay for that work as well as my pay checks from the shop. Very expensive=great work!
Now I was down to doing the doors which needed inners/outer patches.
I took em to Birdman(Billy Stewart), he gave me a price, I had the bones-dropped off the doors, He really didn't want to do the work Again impatient and I now didn't have a way to repair the doors. Depressed
@ this point and just wanted a rod on the road. I consulted P-Wood.

His advice was to sell the steel body and buy a glass one which would put me $'s ahead. I did sell the body only as a deal had come up on roadster body (that deal fell through right then,but I eventually got it)
I ended having a complete rolling chassis but enough $ to either get a chopped steel 3W body that had shaved handles,hidden hinges filled roof and cowl vent.(looked like a glass body- even had the mods for glue in windsheild). Decided against that one and bought a 30 rdstr p/u project.

I robbed many of the parts from the 34 chassis and built it within a month.
It was a great 1st rod and I eventually turned it into a 30 Chopped closed cab that had been chopped back in the 50's (still had the lead for the fill).
My cousin saw me cruising around in it and I made him a family deal on it.
I can use it anytime that I'd like, still get to make changes to it and have 1st right of refusal if it were ever to be sold.

I never felt right about never finishing the 34 3W, Going through the recycler again,found a good candidate in Ramona,CA. Bought it even though it was glass, It had every character line that a model 40 has.
Robert Williams always thought it was steel,but gave me a hard time when I told him that it was tupperware.It was the very best damn glass body that I have ever seen, in fact it had so much steel in it, I could barely lift it. used stock latches,windsheild chopped/filled top.

Finished that car up as much as I wanted and drove the wheels off of it, It had been to Bonneville,Americruise, El Mirage, Up/Down the coast more tmes than I care to remember and in few movies.

By November of 93, ws asked if I wanted to sell it, wasn't really ready to sell,but I was getting married in Dec and promissed the wife a house-(That took another couple of years). I reluctantly agreed to a deal of the devil. Took in a 54 Capri in trade (ok car,but not my scene) and some cash, and he'd owe me the balance which was very large. After he had the car, he talked shit about me and it, but drove it and took compliments on it while it sat outside of his place of employ.

He had put on wide whites which to me made the car and was my suggestion and drove it to the Broiler. That night was weird, and he was very cold, so I knew I was gonna get screwed on my balance.
Chalked it up to experience. Dusted myself off and built the purple roadster. Driven the wheels off that and I still love it, but now have no more space in the yard.

3 yrs later 2 steel coupes find their way to me and I recognize Karma!
So there you have it. The story of the black coupe.

 

-Lee
Atomic Radio
www.atomicpinup.com

 

Not my pics but this must be the one you are talking about.

I will have some of my pics after next week!

 

Can someone explain what going on with the quarter windows? Might this be a German built Gerber body?

 

I think it's a fiberglass 'Sport Sedan' body. There's a company in England (Rodline) who makes this body style. Check:

http://www.rodline.co.uk/34_Sport_Sedan.htm

 

Here's mine. In the family since 1958...
Still running a '36 flathead with 2 dueces, a 3/4 cam and aluminum flywheel... this winters project will be to put on my Eddie Meyer finned heads...

 

Here's mine
Currently on a ship on it's way downunder -
One that got away from Canada

chris

 

Not sure how I missed this post !