This one’s been under development for many years. I bought it as a project over 50 years ago. It has been start and stopped worked on some of that time with about 40 of those years tied up in barn/garage storage. Took me a while to work out the y block conversion and bring the other driveline pieces together. The sheet metal was all ‘35 but since I have another ‘35 pickup, I decided to use a ‘37 grill and “hybrid” hood. More time and effort. Needed a bunch of smaller sheet metal repairs but they’re done. There are some other tricks not seen in these pics and you will see them “someday”. Getting close but time moves faster than me.
Got in '84 a week after graduating high school as an original car. Only car all the way through college and dental school, which limited how much I could get done on it. Got wrecked and has been waiting ever since. It's still here and retirement is around the corner.....
The white 62 Cadillac has belonged to my mother since the mid eighties. This car was completely disassembled and painted in 2005. Slowly but surely it has been getting finished up over the years. I acquired my 57 Eldorado from Orange54, here on the Hamb, back in May of 2005. Since then, I've managed to remove the front bumper, get the engine unstuck, and gather up several missing parts. I'll get it inside the shop as soon as I have space for it.
Yes, and my Shop is still full of them. Now that I'm retired, I don't know if I have enough Get-R-Done left in to finish any of them. But I'm still giving it all I have every day, but it's just not the same anymore.
There were a few I should not have ever started on, those are no longer here. Does that count? I feel that I have finished building all of them that I should have.
62 Belair bubbletop. No pics, I was 15 and people didn't have phones in their pocket back then. Hell, I think we still had a 'party' line!
Last few years,have had to look at what I can an can't do more vs,jump into things. Now be 84 yo this Sept. A little over 25 years back,I picked up a garage clean out of hotrod parts. In it was a cowel from a 1917 Huppmobil roadster,with almost no rust. I didn't need or want another hotrod or even one to sell. But like it was a magnet,parts that would work great as a hotrod,kept poping up { Being I'm a nut n bolt case,if they were cheep,I'd buy them= They fit for a little out side the box hotrod !> So in my head I gave the now pile of parts a Name; "Hubba Hubba Hupp". Then more time an more parts,; I have to admitte to my self; To old now to do it. Already too much to do,just keeping my 28A an helping my Son keep his 23T going{ he has no time or want to do a nother rod ether. A lot of parts,I have no pic of,but listed down the right side of drawing of ideas. It needs a new owner.
Haha. My priorities will be ALL of them. A “quick” mild custom job and paint job on the tbird will be close to the top….after a full clean out and organization of the shop. Finish the Merc, redo the Pontiac, finish my dad’s ‘69 Mustang and a full custom 56 F100. That should keep me occupied for a while. Lol
I should have had my 48 done and driving and have already done a road trip to the Lone Star Round up in it while letting my wife get her Texas accent back when she visit her sisters and cousins. Either lame excuses or bunged up and healing up have been an issue. The big issue is not having a good place to work on it though.
Model A Coupe Hello, When my brother told me he wanted us to build a Model A Coupe as a hot rod/drag race coupe, I was flabbergasted. He already had his cool looking yellow 51 Oldsmobile sedan and I could not decide why he wanted to get into another hot rod build. He had been saving up ever since he bought the Oldsmobile sedan, we added a bunch of modifications, but, now he wanted another adventure. But, when our friend came over for a visit in his 1934 Ford 5 window coupe with a big, cool sounding Oldsmobile motor… the reason was sitting in our driveway. A fast coupe to be able to keep up with and perhaps race against his friend. The 1934 Ford with the Oldsmobile motor was already racing in the A/Gas Class and had won several trophies. So, within weeks, I showed him a Model A Coupe sitting under a canvas tarp in the next neighborhood over and we went to look at it. He instantly bought it and now we were partners on our next hot rod adventure. We towed it home and started to get it to run. All of the replacement stuff, new oil, sparkplugs, wiring, gas, belts and other little things actually made the 4 cylinder motor start. Now, we were cruising down the street. I envisioned me driving the Model A Coupe in its current state. A moving car and my brother already had his own teenage car. But, back in my mind, it was going to be his car for daily driving and racing. Oh boy, then I would get his 51 Oldsmobile sedan as my first car. Jnaki As it worked out, within several weeks prior to the start of the engine tear out and replacement of the transmission and new motor, the Model A Coupe disappeared. One day I came home from school and it was gone. All of my visions of the future teenage car driving era closed and now I was stuck back where I was before we got the coupe running with the stock motor. I learned that my brother had recently painted his yellow Oldsmobile sedan and was going to sell it to his friend down the street. But, wait, now he would not have a car!!! Within a week, a new black 58 Chevy Impala was sitting in the driveway and a smiling brother was proud of HIS decision. Wait… where is the Model A Coupe and the 51 Oldsmobile sedan? As a young teen with future dreams strongly implicated in his teeny brain, what was I going to do, now? It was a moment in time that I actually disliked the Model A Coupe I drove last month around the block. I was the caretaker and auto detailer for the 51 Olds since 1956 when it arrived in our driveway. So, what was up with the mystery disappearance? YRMV This is what our vision was going to be, IF we had the chance to start the build... SBC motor with a Paxton supercharged motor. Yikes!
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