Hot Rods Did You Ever Save A Project From The Jaws Of Death?..

There was a junk-yard located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (Banfield Junkyard) that has a deal for high schools kids to come in and buy a complete car along with everything you could stuff in it. I pulled a 50 Merc with a drive train from a 68 Chevy along with the rearend all for 100 bucks. You could buy any car in there for 100 dollars. Of course this was back in the late 60s.

 

This was pretty far gone when I got it. I literally saved it--the property was bulldozed shortly after.



It's a driver now

 

I didn't know that the Galaxie I'm working on was so far gone, so, yeah, it's just a notch above scrap. Got too much invested in it to give up on it. Time AND money. By inches I go miles, so they say.

 

Depnds how you see death
My t bucket the kid I got it from had been convinced all it needed was the steering column taken out and hooked back up to the steering box...
Steering box was broken and needed replaced, brake MC was full of rust as were all the lines, front axle was bent, front spindle bent, tie rod bent, frame bent 3 directions, battery was about to fall out of the floor (drywall screws arent for automotive use) and the body was held to the frame by a few wires. Pretty sure he would have died if he had done what he thought it needed to be roadworthy again

 

Saved a 36 Cord that had been in a building when it burned down, got a 41 Graham (same) body and grafted on the roof, doors, etc every thing except the cowl, made a nice Cord that is still around today.

 

My c10 was a save from someone else, but it's OT by a few years for the hamb. I got it really cheap, and I saw the guy that sold it to me one day when I was driving it, and I think he was pretty mad at himself. Stuff he thought was far gone actually didn't require that much, and when I sold it I pocketed a good deal of cash...

 

Lou, currently working on an abandoned 32 Ford sport coupe. Some one had cut off the windshield and quarter posts then robbed all the good parts. Have been repairing little by little over the past year. Not the most desirable body style but I could not let it get cut up for the remaining parts. Car is now in primer.

 

Actually I have been accused of it
More than once. The 60 sedan I started off this project with was entirely misrepresented. Although I do wish I had saved the trunk floor. It graced me with enough good parts to get a good start on my 60 Galaxie.

 

Uh...yeah.

 

Excellent Save And They Are Desirable To Me....Your Good Work Is Appreciated..

 

A Friend Turned These Left Overs Into A Show Winning 40 Ford Truck..

 

The End Product From Left Overs...

 

View attachment 4953028 View attachment 4953028 I did a flat fender you could look thru it...got it for free....did a 54 GMC cab (another see thru one too) that I bought every patch panel they made for it before I bored of it and sold it as half done project....it was free but I had to pay for the $250.00 for the doors on on it...
My current money pit (1940 Ford) I have not saved it yet but it currently sits in my dry garage as I throw money at it... not really a parts car...not really sure what it is....

 

All steel 38 willy's coupe, from the fields of montana, to down the road.... 1.5yrs,
Sbc with a 144 blower.

 

Umm, does bringing cars a couple home from the yard, picking & cutting off what l need & sending them back again count?? LoL

 

In 2005 my '57 Chevy was in a dealer auction and a scrapyard had come in and put a minimum bid of $275 on any car, so the starting bid on everything was $300 and if it didn't bring that, the scrap guy got it. I was the only bidder at $300. It was a 4 door at that point, but still.

 

View attachment 4953695 It was setting knee deep in a hog pen.

 

My 33 was bulldozed into a ravine , outside of a small town in northern nevada sometime in the 50's - 60's. They used to have city cleanup days where they'd haul off the junkers for free . I got it in 1981 started building it as a restoration , Divorce stopped progress in 86. it sat until January 99 when I decided to cut it up and put it back together as a different body style.

close to being a Fordor Deluxe in 86

After the transformation , is now a 33 Fordor C400 Vicky

 

Any pics of the Meyers Manx?

 

Amazing what time and patience can do to discarded cars.

 

Lots Of Great $100.00 Cars But Nowhere To Store Them Or Me...

 

Dad and I started with a picked over 1937 Dodge coupe parts car in 2011. When it arrived, the first thing I thought was oh fuck, now what are we going to do with this POS? lol. To this day Dad looks at the before pictures and wonders what he saw in it. She has come a long way in a few years.

 

All but the last one are junkyard rescues. The ‘55 Pontiac went to another home. The ‘55 Chevy is my first car, nearly no body panels are original, nor drivetrain, nor interior. The car theoretically shouldn’t still exist. I believe that it was pulled from a junkyard, pieced together, and then drag raced. The ‘50 Fleetline is my weekend car. The ‘46 Fleetmaster is a driver that needs the last bugs worked out. The ‘52 Special is a work in progress. The last one, a 53 Buick, is a rough beach car that I bought as a donor car that someone else started taking apart, the jury is still out on it.

 

From this:



To this in 11 months:

 

Mine were all pretty much dead but neither has been brought back to life yet!

 

I shipped this one half way around the world

 

One step from the crusher via the local tow company. Friend bought it from him, sold it a short while later to a guy wanting to build it back. He shoots, SAVE!

John

 

Just about everything on this guy was bound for the scrap yard. Good thing my pops and I are tin hoarders. Frame was in a rancher friends field and was going to get scrapped, cowl was found rotting in the Black hills of South Dakota, farm-all gas tank junk for holding fuel but is a perfect track nose and the 50 ford trunk lids were found on the banks of a stock dam used for soil erosion in south central South Dakota.