Saturday, some friends and I were enjoying watching my wife race our 31 coupe at the spam drags when my phone alarm went off to remind me that an ebay auction on an old roadster that I had bid on was about to close. I won the bid of $224 so Sunday I headed to pick it up and brought it home. The gentleman that sold it to me said that his father had built it in the early 50's and at some point had lost interest in it and parked it in their field and never wanted to work on it again. After his father p***ed a few years ago, he pulled the remains of the old roadster out and set it by the barn to decide what to do with it and eventually decided it was beyond fixing, especially for him. The old girl had run a flathead that was long gone, but I was pleasantly surprised to find out it was channeled over a 32 frame and it had a 32 closed car dash tacked in place. I'm pulling it apart and deciding what parts can be saved and putting it all away piece at a time.
Tempting... but I happen to still have a borrowed 32 frame jig that a friend loaned me and I would like to see if I can put that old frame back together and Ospho the inside and box it with extra reinforcement in the front and put it under an old coupe that I'm playing with that was made out of a 31 slant windshield sedan and some sport coupe quarters. The rusty finish will match it well.
That's pretty damn cool, and a real bargain too. Anything that can be saved, should be. Would be neat if that frame can be fixed and go under a hotrod again, and even those rough body panels could likely get sold and used to patch someone else's car back together. The old picture you got with it is priceless, shame it wasted away so far from that point.
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