I don't usually ever find stuff like this either. I feel the same way watching everyone else on the HAMB it seems pulling old hot rods or buildable material from barns.
Drag the '40 out, then go thru the entire ravine with a leaf blower and a rake, see what else pops up.
I have a '40 chassis, it's a complete roller with '40 wheels- FH engine, Trans, & most of it still wears it's factory paint plus it has a '40 title. Unlike you though I had to pay for it. Now only because my First wedding anniversary is next month I'll offer it up if you want. Once my anniversary gets close , selling it does me no good so I'm keeping it after that.
25 years ago I spent 3 hard weekends digging and dragging a 53 Ford convertible out of a ravine for my brother in law. After that a bunch of time helping him rebuild that rusty pos. Often thought we were nuts but he's still driving it today, been a great car and we've had a bunch of good times in it. 40 Ford Deluxe coupe, now that one would be a no brainer.
Well by look for a chassis I meant one I could have for free or almost free lol. Just kidding man, if I wasn't getting married myself in a few months I'd take that chassis off your hands even though I don't have the car yet. It remains to be seen how much it's going to cost me.
I have 2 more 35-41 frames, they are in that price range of a bottle of tequila to pizza. But you can't be afraid of metal work
I thought of that thread too. Those were good times. Vt Junk I support retrieving that thing and build it using this thread as your foundation for a build thread. Nothing like the whole story in one place. I'm still waiting for someone to top the Hippo paddle wheeler story.
VT, you can find info on both the "shit grinder" and the "hippo" thread here. Both of them are high water marks for the HAMB, gives you an idea of what it used to be like on here. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/i-wonder-how-many-people-remember-this.1054277/
The legendary "shit grinder". on 01-24-2002 @ 06:46 PM You know that feeling 'cause you tinker with cars you think you can fix anything? Well sometimes you better not try, here's why: I live in an old house from the twenties with originally just one toilet, outside, where you take a crap right into the sceptic tank, somewhere down the line whoever lived here got sick of his ass freezing to the toilet seat in winter and they installed a bathroom on the second floor. Unfortunately they cut a few corners and instead of running a big pipe up to the second floor to dispose of turds they installed a 'brouilleur": one of those big blenders behind the toilet bowl so they can run the chopped turds down the little sink-drain pipes. Dunno if you have those things over there, they're kinda comparable to those blenders you Americans have in your kitchen sinks. Anyway, our "brouilleur" has been acting up for months, it just kept on going, normally it shuts itself off 30 seconds after you flushed, first it became a minute, then it just wouldn't shut off at all. So what we do is take a crap, flush, wait 30 seconds then pull the plug. Been going on like that for weeks, so today I finally get my courage together to do the dreaded job of checking out the shit-caked brouilleur box. It's a white plastic box that sits right behind the toilet bowl and out the top comes a small pipe that dissapears into the wall. It only took a couple of minutes to unhook it, and without getting too much shit on my hands. I take the lid of to be greeted by the most horendous sight ever, tubes and mechanisms with a nice old layer of shit in all shades of brown over 'em. Take the thing downstairs and outside and pour it's contents over the fence (no neighbours) then take it into the garage and put it in the sink. I can't see anything, first of all 'cause I can only look at it why holding my breath (me, a smoker, 10 seconds), secondly 'cause you can't see anything other then shit in the shape of machinery. Logic tells me the mechanism probably shuts off and on with the level of water/piss/sheit in the box. So I decide to plug it in and run water from the tap in it to see what happens. It fills up, and up, and up when all of a sudden the thing starts mixing, and, remember the pipe coming OUT THE TOP, and THE LID BEING OFF????? There was a fountain of shit coming out of that thing all the way to the ceiling!!!! Of course most of it caught me on it's way back down, it was horrendous, I was shitman, the white T-shirt didn't help either, in my hair, fuck, everywhere... The missus is still laughing, and I've just spent two hours in bath, changing the water 3 times.....
Theres a link to the Hippo Boat thread down the page on the shit grinder thread. Scroll down and you'll see it.
lots of good stuff here: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/ot-funniest-stuff-on-the-hamb.125460/ star wars thread was good.
I sold a '40 4 door sedan that was pretty complete and solid for $1800 two years ago, something like that would have been perfect to combine with what's left of this coupe to make a complete car again. I wouldn't want to have to piece it back together from scratch, but with a donor 4 door it could definitely be done.
a frame can be built - light weight - to get down there and put it together - under the car.....bolt down....and come along it up....pics later - maybe Monday....what I'm using for the frame off on my 39 coupe.....
I was thinking of bracing the body at a couple points with wood to keep it from folding up and give something to pull on. All 4 fenders are there and really not bad, same for the doors, minor rust on the bottoms. The trunk lid is good. The hood will need work, the roof is caved in, but will push out, need some shrinking disc work
That's pretty slick. I'm not sure there's even body mounts on this car. What did you retrieve with that?
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