I've pretty much decided to use the Stude motor in the modified, but that leaves the wagon without power, I have a bunch of left over BBC stuff and was thinking tunnel ram, fenderwells and tilt front with early Ford 9" on leaves in the rear and tube axle up front. the problem is the poor ole gal is severly rusted, needs a floor, front fenders and doors, I have a pair of NOS quarters, front panel and hood. is the two door wagon worth saving? are they that rare? should I (as the wife says) "SHUT UP AND DO IT THEN!" ? or sell the heap?
How hard would it be to graft a '53-thru Hawk era front end on it? The doors look at least similar, if not the same. Yes, build it, street cruiser/custom style, (unless you're actually gong to make a racing race car out of it, and not a street poser race car.)
[ QUOTE ] Yes, build it, street cruiser/custom style, (unless you're actually gong to make a racing race car out of it, and not a street poser race car.) [/ QUOTE ] yeah, kinda thinkin' brutish street machine with gobs of power, not so much custom. Paul
It will still be a Lark wagon when youre done. If you can get it on the road cheap go ahead, if it's going to involve a lot of work and $$$ don't bother. Don't get me wrong, I am a S2D fan and own one myself. I would be inclined get the S2D powered modified on the road before messing with the Lark. Just an opinion. TZ
If you gotta bunch o' rat motors and parts lying around, I'd say do it 70s Style, Man! Tunnel ram...side pipes...deep dish slots...white letter tires...funkadellic paint...fun fur... Groovy, Man...fuckin' GROOVY!!!
[ QUOTE ] It will still be a Lark wagon when youre done. If you can g get it on the road cheap go ahead, if it's going to involve a lot of work and $$$ don't bother. [/ QUOTE ] I like having more then one iron in the fire, it may take longer to get done but I like the variety. the coupe is and always? will be the number one project, (and will get most attention) done 60's Style, the modified is the current No.2 project and will be done 50's Style and I am thinking the Stude here will be project No.3 done in a 70's Style. Paul
GASSER, i'll 2nd that vote but run the pipes straight up through the hood for your '70's influence. yeah,
I was just at the magazine rack and picked up a copy of Super Rod and there was a 2 door Lark wagon in it, I put it down and pick up a copy of Rod and Custom and there's a '26 or '27 T on an A frame with an A bed being pieced together out of old***** what the hell.. I had to walk away, I was afraid in the next magazine I'd see somebody building a fenderless '36 Plymouth Coupe with a big Chev motor, in primer gray! you try to do something just a little different and you look around and somebody is promoting the same*****! maybe that's it, if you want to be differrent you can't be a little different, you gotta be a lot different Paul
[ QUOTE ] if you want to be differrent you can't be a little different, you gotta be a lot different [/ QUOTE ] Not a problem here!!! I've long wondered how long it would take for "70s Style" to work it's way back into vouge! (Been biding my time for about 25 years now! ) I know alot of OLDER dudes get nostalgic for the 40s or 50s, but I grew up in the 70s (and 80s), so that's my time. It was the cars of the day, and the heavily family oriented 'rod runs' of the Disco Decade that turned me on to rods and customs in the first place! The cars ran the gamut from gaudy, psychadellic street freaks, to 'resto rods' with chrome wires, full fenders and small block Fords with water injection! It was an awkward age...for Man and Machine, but truly an interesting one! Yeah...I'm happy to see it sneaking back...maybe we'll see some new 'rod runs' being organized...that put the emphasis on DRIVING and family FUN with hot rods! "Spear the hay bale" rodeos where one guy drives his heap as his passenger attempts to peg hay bales, or shoot baskets, or retrieve flags...things that make the most out of skilled drivers and builders who can screw together reliable machines and handle them perfectly! We're almost certain to see higher gas prices and tougher attitudes towards reckless contests of speed...the insurance companies are now voiding the insurance policies of anyone with a front wheel drive compact who modifies it in ANY way in reaction to the escalating 'street racers' inspired by the "Fast & The Furious" lifestyle. We have the makings of a political turnover after a short span of GOP control that's seen the economy stumble and jobs grow scarce. Young men are dying daily in a "police action" on foreign soil. Music is gravitating more towards power pop and bubblegum once again...displacing 'grunge' and 'alternative' acts that ruled the roost for ten years. It's the early 70s all over again! "That's the long and short, that's all there is to it... We got no choice, we got to live through it!" -Jerry Reed I'm ready to groove!
Time is like the surface of a pond, every effect is like the pebble breaking the surface, the resultant ripple moves away from the effect in waves. The Seventies were like one of those waves, just another crest in absurdity. Not the first, and as you point out not the last either. Paul
Put the Rat in, leave the wheels and stance just as they are. (Well, you MIGHT finish the radius job on the rear wheelwells.) You won't need a tunnel ram, just a hood. What a******'n sleeper.
[ QUOTE ] Just like the 70s, Bro! [/ QUOTE ] hahaha funny! 62buford, that's it, I like the rootbeer too! Paul
62Buford did it AGAIN! Almost exactly what I was picturing...'cept the roof should be done in the rootbeer, as well, and maybe some cobweb action in it? Then the side needs the vehicle's name in some cool lettering on an arc, complete with drop shade and airbrush sparkles and....somebody make the vision STOP!!!
Paul, If you're going to do the Stude as a gasser, do it as a GASSER. Set the engine back (distributer under the dash), seat behind the front door post, straight axle, radius the rear wheel wells (slicks sticking out about 3-4 inches), loose the front bumper, Moon tank in the grille, you get the idea. I'd do the modified first (I need some inspiration) as it should be the quickest build and use the gasser as a frustration project (work on it when things aren't going your way on the modified). That way you will have time to get the gasser details right as they are going to take the most time. If you haven't got all the period correct gasser parts that will givbe you time to locate them. Sound like a plan? Frank
Just went back and looked at the pictures. I can see it now with the injection stacks coming through the cowl and the notched windshield. Oh yea! E.T.III's on the rear and 10 spokes on the front. Frank
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