Projects 59 chevy wagon in progress

unbelieveable talent and vision! very very cool car! reminds me of the 59 brookwood i owned a few years back,still kicking myself for selling.......

 

I love motorcycles. The one you ride is neat too (although I can't remember what motor it has..) I like pretty much any bike aside from newer Harleys because everyone has one.

Most bikes are pretty ugly until you start stripping them off and modifying them. Honda CBs particularly. Board racers, cafe racers, bobbers, I like them all.. Except choppers. Especially the OCC kind with overstretched front forks.

A couple pictures of the Moto shouldn't hurt as long as we don't get too off topic about motorcycles and get your thread shut down. Unless you have a thread on these bikes elsewhere, JockeyJournal perhaps?

But you picked the wagon. Good choice. Gotta let the family (or friends) have some fun with you as well. The board racer can come after.


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I wouldn't hold it against ya if you threw a couple of pics up of the bike........

 

Hey Cody, I agree let's see a couple of the bike.....Jim

 

I love those caps!! Slick, really. And the exhaust makes me feel ashamed of the crap I cobled together on mine this afternoon!! Although, I just did it so I could fix the leaks, I swear!! haha! Good stuff as always! The color looks cool as well. I've been looking at greens for the bel air and am undecided. I can see why it took so long for you to pic a color. I've been looking at paint, carpet and headliner samples so much all I see are green and gold!

 

I just had a huge Homer Simpson "D'Oh!" moment.. I got you confused with Chris from Salt Flats Speed Shop. I don't even know if you have any other bikes let alone ride them.

Maybe it's because I envy both your and Chris' metalworking skills. That discombobulates me. Yeah.. That's gotta be it.


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So some of u guys wanted to see my cobled together so called bike project well here it is sorry I didn't respond to this aney earyler I have been working on the wagon late the last couple of night so by the time I got home I didn't even get a chance to go out in my home garage to shoot some pics , o yah don't mind the vice grips holding the seat up

 

I like it! You don't see too many board track racers with driveshafts instead of chains. It'll be different for sure but in a very good way.


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Nice, should look wild when you get it done......Jim

 

Thank you verry much , i here that a lot from people who sell there wagon

THanks , when i first put thoes caps on i was kinda up in the air about how they looked but the more i see them on there there growiing on me to the point now i really like them , with the color i knew what i wanted in my mind but actually comming up with the colors in actually it was driving me crazy , what color green are u looking at?

Im glad u like it ,i know its not 100 % traditional but different in a good way is i guess my owne style

Thanks Jim , im looking forward to getting back on it when the wagon is finished just with the bike build i wont be in such a hurry to get it finished

 

I'm going a candy green over pearls with candy gold scallops over pearl.........or candy gold with candy green scallops............or.........you know, decisions are hard when it comes to paint! At least I know what colors and skeem I want, just not exact color or dominant color! My girl likes green beter for dominant and I like gold. It is her car though, so it will be her decision in the end.

 

Monday update time so today I worked on the exhaust , I went threw a lot of stainless u bends and tubing today trying to route both exhaust pipes threw the driver sider of the car .

 

Every day, every addition, every modification is bitchin'. Excellent car Cody. I can't wait to see the finished product, although every modification is so cool I hate to see it end.......much like Jay and Nads posts........Mike

 

Love that header photo..

 

I lost rack of this build...soooo cool!
@wolfex1...your chevy coupe is too awesome! 39? or 40? It looks to me like a 39 from the avatar pic.

 

@wolfex1...your chevy coupe is too awesome! 39? or 40? It looks to me like a 39 from the avatar pic.
Tks. _ '39

 

So today I spent the entire day on laying my back, working on the exhaust system again , I know some of you might say wow that's a lot of time just on the exhaust system well yah it is but I guess I can't do aneything easy , and two there such tight bend and areas where a normal tubing bender couldn't do in the quility I wanted so I went threw lots of u bends and cutoff wheels aneyways here are some more pics. .






I know the exhaust looks really close to the tire which it is, I'm going to have to space the wheels out a little bit and also this pic is when the car is completely aired out .

 

funny.. thats how close the exhaust is to the rear tires on my 40 wagon.. its worked fine.. and yours will too!

 

Cool thanks that's good to know , I was kinda worried about it but that's the only place I had room for both pipes to go .

 

A rear sway bar wouldn't be a bad idea for keeping things in place.

 

Sway bar won't keep the rear-end in place. He'd need a Watt's link to keep everything centered throughout the range of travel.

 

I was talking body roll not the rear end moving side to side.

 

Another round if the Monday updats , today I spent most of the day working on the exhaust again , Yah I know it's taking Forever but finally got to the point where I'm finished with the system on the car now I can take it home and make it look real nice by smoothing out all of the welds .


i also made my own hangers from scratch out of stainless and a old mud flap

 

Almost to nice to put under the car man. Great work

 

Very nice Cody.....Jim

 

Their worth every penny. Ingenuity abounds Cody, flat-out killer.

 

Thank you , i was organially going to make the exhause system out of steel and get it cermic coated black so no one would see it but i came across stainless for the same price as i would have bought steel ,so there it is, im not going to polish it ill just dress the welds and leave it raw

Thanks guys

 

So just some more Monday updates of things I got done tonight in the home garage , I've been thinking for a while now that I wanted to change up the fined side motor covers , also since I can't leave aneything alone here is what I came up with to match the mc gurk valve cover ,

So I took out everyother fin I now I'm finally happy
well for the moment,

 

With all that dairy tubing, the thing will smell like burnt cheese when you first fire it up.

 

^^ so what your saying ^^ is not only is this shaping up to be the sickest 59 custom wagon ever but it will also smell of melty cheese!? diabolical sir simply diabolical!