Art & Inspiration Before and after shots

my track T as bought.

As it is now.

 

When the body was first removed from the frame.


After

 

Wow, what a car!

 

Start
Finish

 

Lloyd, that is beautiful. What are the build details?

 

Any more pics of the Falcon?

 

My sleeper, beater Lark

 

Lumpy, is that the old pink car?

 

Yep

 

WOW!

 

Front suspension was off topic, put ladder bars and coilovers under the rear, 10 bolt with a 3.08 gear, 283 with a 5 speed. Frenched the windshield. Body and paint, acrylic enamel black

 

^^^^Damn! The Football

 

I have a few before, during, and after pics of my 49 Dodge pickup. That frame was hopelessly twisted.

First day in my driveway
Mock up, no drive train, on the "new" frame.

In progress, 1st day it moved under its own power.
11 months after I pulled the mock up onto the driveway and started working on it. The day before it was plated.
11 months after the primer version was plated.

 

I have a few before, during, and after on my 48 Plymouth business coupe as well.
As is, where is, $200, around 2010
Open the door and this is what you saw.
The other side was worse, someone cut the bottom 6" off the bottom of the body sheet metal.
There was about 10" to 12" of inner rocker, outer rocker, floor supports, body mounts, and floor pan missing on both sides. Wasn't any trunk floor either. You could put your hand through the rust holes in the frame and not touch any metal.
On the "new" frame with some assembly required. It was like putting the body shell on the chassis, like we did with model cars.
This was what the car looked like after around 80,000 miles and and 8 years of driving! Getting ready to fix the things I skipped because I expected the car to only be around a year or two.
Proof we drove it. Rocky Mountain National park, Memorial Day weekend, 2016 Two days after they opened the pass that year. This was a 2400 mile vacation.
Had to replace the sheet metal around the rear window, a 37 (or was it a 39?) Ford donated its split rear window and surrounding sheet metal. It fit better then Plymouth's rear window!
Color change in process. 2018.

Spring of 2023, car is still here, guess I'm suppose to keep driving it.

 

Paying homage to those threads that have been here before.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/photos-of-before-restoration-and-after.1192445/

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/before-and-afters.998636/

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/before-after-pics-lets-see-em.233124/

 

The 56 was my dad’s daily driver snow rain or sunshine. With the help of friends we tackled working on it every weekend. It’s not a daily driver anymore but I still run the hell out of it.

 

Lots of them, but not sure what you want to see?
It's a 468 BBC engine with Edelbrock heads, Weiand tunnel ram, twin 600cfm Holleys, Super T10 4 speed, 8.8" Ford with 3.73 gears. 8 point roll cage, and lots of frame work.

 

1932 Ford Sport Coupe

 

^Love the color on that coupe.^

 

Wife's Nova. Still not finished.

 

^^^
Bitchen roadster! Nice someone is brave enough to drive their hot rod to the ski resort.

 

Truly incredible Jim

 

I like your style @JimSibley.
Mine has a ways to go.



here’s what I’m doing with the extras



ever see a Willy’s Bantam?

 

No fair! The body wasn’t pulled out of a river!

Beautiful car. I wish I was smart enough to start with something that nice.

 

Wow

 

Before and during.

First time out of the shop after being brought back to life by droplord49 posted Sep 26, 2008 at 5:08 AM

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