I had one of those for awhile and I do sheetmetal work but the whole front and rear glass cutting part was always my biggest hangup
well i found the mad wagon after i went to look at a ford 2dr ranch wagon that was in the paper for sale, i was in the guys garage and we were talking and i noticed he had all these custom car pictures on the walls. i told him i had always tried to find russ meeks sectioned nomad, he smiled and said it was sitting right where this ford wagon is sitting a couple of years ago. he told me how a guy he worked with wanted him to come look at his collection of tractors, while there the guy said ive got this old cut up nomad sitting in the barn over there so he looked at it and bought it and drug it home not knowing what it was. after finding out what it was he sold it to chip starr and that how i finally tracked it down. what a life its had, here is the pictures when i got it from chip when we finally got it out of his garage after it sat there for about 9 years. oh what a day that was for me. oh joy.
Although it was a cold night on December 31st 2006, it was the best day of my life... The day me & my father bought my dream truck. A 1976 F-350 Super Camper Special with a built 390 and a 4speed. Ford built 2,300 Super Camper Specials from 1973-1979. They dropped the "Super" in '77 and then came F-350 Camper Specials. They have a 7" longer wheelbase (140"). A. Regular cab long bed is 133". They also have other things like a 10" deep frame (Biggest frame ever put in a pickup) they also have a huge "Super Cooler" 4 core radiator. Love this thing, love what it does to the rear tires in 1st gear even more. (Its not running right now, the registration isn't payed) Thanks, 76F350, 59Chev
My problem is "The Dream" involves many different vehicles. My motto is "One vehicle for every need" I am currently at 3 keepers. If I had a good Model A body or complete car it would become number 4. First is my 1967 GTO. The Third car I ever bought. It was my first Dream car. I got it my senior year of HS in 2002 as a complete basket case. It is currently thrown together, running and driving, and stored at my Dads. It's going be my DD and get a LS1/6speed swap after I finish a few other projects. I bought it from a friend who was going to college. Everyone needs a musclecar as a daily driver, right? I hope to start on it next year second would be my 72 K5. The second vehicle I ever bought. It's the major project I need to finish. Who doesn't need a menueverable 4x4, that seats four with a removable top? third would be my 1979 F250. Grandpa bought it new and gave it to me last year. It's a minor project because again I can't leave well enough alone. I'm currently gathering parts for a 4x4 swap. Funny how I never needed a fullsize truck until after I got one. I hope I can manage to keep them all and aquire a model A at some point. I would like more, But I would settle for four.
Still looking. But I do have some cars that I have always wanted. I found my truck by diving around neighborhoods in between my classes at the local JC. I saw it in a driveway with another later model truck. A few months later I recognized the later model truck in a swapmeet booth, so I asked the guy what was up with that 57 pickup in his driveway. He said "oh I sold it to my neighbor across the street". Turns out my dad knew the guy and we ran into him at the same swapmeet and ended catching up and finding out he was "the neibhor across the street". I asked him if he wanted to sell the truck and he said no, so I told him keep me in mind if you ever to. About 3-4 days later he called and said he had changed his mind. A week later I was mine. So! Drive around neibhorhoods that you dont know and you may find somthing you have allways wanted!!!!!
Definitely true. I have lots of dream cars, however one has stuck, a GTO. I finally got one after I kinda got screwed on my '79 Firebird (long story but pretty much the project wasn't going where I wanted it to). I went to go find a body shell for the Firebird and found a GTO next to it. I asked the guy about it, he wanted $1500 for it. I couldn't do it, I'd have to part the Firebird out to get it. So I talked to him again, he wanted $850 for it or something. I told him I'll keep in touch, don't sell the car. That winter the car froze to the ground and couldn't be moved anyway, so that bought me some time. I parted out the Firebird over the winter, took about 6 months to get the weather nice enough. I looked at the GTO numerous times over the winter, then finally we grabbed it and trailered it. Unfortunately MI weather was getting worse, it started snowing bad and getting windy, I almost thought we would lose the car but we made it. I was determined to get that car.
After going through cars like women haha i decided i wanted something i really liked that i dont see often at car shows and i remembered my first car my grampa gave me was a 61 Ranchero and how fun it was to drive. So i sold my 50 chevy and started lookin for a 57 Ranchero since i never really seen that many cool custom ones and i randomly checked ebay one day and right when i saw it my heart dropped and i knew she was the one! I'll always keep this car! Though i do plan to buy many other cars
I went to look at a '29 Model A coupe advertised in the Tulsa newspaper. It turned out to be an almost finished restoration - too nice to cut up. I saw this Deuce Tudor outside the guys garage and asked what his plan was for it. He said it was for sale but he had listed it under "parts" because it wasn't a complete car. It was an all original car, complete except for engine, seats and side windows. I bought it on the spot, complete with a Merc flathead, three early ford transmissions and a boxful of parts. Here's how it looks today.
Our story started at a car show my wife and I attended, we came upon a 1957 Buick Century that had been street rodded. I told my wife if I ever do a car this would be the one. The response she gave was why havent you done one and you better do it before you die. The search started and through many car sites,craigslist, we found our 57 Buick Special 2dr hardtop, by the way it was a gift from my wife for Christmas shipping and all,what a gal. We are enjoying this project together she has assisted me in the salvage yards locating missing parts and has been super supportive.This is a dream come true for me as I remember my dads 57 Buick and the many he worked on at his service station as this is who I got the car bug from.
thru the Hamb....topolino's that are A. either restored or B. all out race cars are pricey as all hell...last year i was talking to Rod N Race on specing out my topo body from them...was 3 days away from making the down payment for them to start casting the body....over the Labor Day weekend, i get a pm here with a tip on the one i have...41 years since i saw the M&M and the Trillo bros topo's at the local dragstrip and fell in love with these cars...last 2 dream cars took 25 and 30 years to find ones that were "just right for me to buy"....53 willys truck and a 72 vega wagon..both long gone..hell the vega got sold after 13 years to "help" pay for topo parts...i guess that puts the topolino dream into prespective, eh???????
A friend who worked for UPS driving a rural route called me and said there was a 55 hardtop in Bisbee, pretty reasonable. I went and looked at it and bought it. A week or two later my wife said it was a conspiracy (against her) that all my friends were coming over to look at the car and tell me what good deal I got
Nice first gen Super-Cab! I noticed its a Camper Special... This truck looks oddly familar... I love 73-79s. Lemme guess a C-6 and a 460?
I remember in 1st grade riding the bus, id always get the window seat just so i could look at this old car sitting in a field up the road from me. I had no idea what it was, but i knew i wanted it. Fast forward to my sophomore year, and i got a chance to buy it for the price the fella paid for it...$125!!!! Now i have a hotrod nash!!!
wanted a 49-54 Chevy. looked at a 54 sedan delivery that wouldn't start, a 50 sedan that wasn't a coupe, and found my 49 coupe with a 261 and 3 speed in line at Mc Donalds with a for sale sign in the window while cruising the strip in San Leandro with my buddy in his 55. didn't quite have my license yet so my buddy had to drive it home. got my license and taught myself how to drive a 3 speed. that was 1976... someday it will move under its own power again.
I'm still looking for that perfect one, you know the one in your dream with the naked chick on the front seat! but then the alarm goes off and it back to work.
Yeah, which dream car ! I got up early one morning to take my 65 F85 street racer to the Hall street reunion cruise 1995,got gas and picked up a paper to read for when I got there . I had wanted and looked at 67 442/Cutlass' before but could never find the right one for the right money . Well in the sat. paper was a 67 442 listed for $1200 WTF ! so I got excited and called straight away , after a few back and forths that morning , to hs house, work and him back to me I said I want to come up now and will leave check deposit if I like it so I called Tinker and asked what he was doing , said come get me we're going to Benld ILL , about 45 miles north of STL. So we left my car at show and went to buy the 442 , still got it . Turned it into a street racer after I had to sell the 65 with a full tube chassis in it . Have had a few other 67's includeing a factory 4spd car in shed now .
I think, since my car can pick up my vibe... it IS my dream car. After I got sold my last dream in January, I thought I´d give up on cars!!! I had my Carryall for about 20 years and with work, family, fixin´up the house, tighter budget, local salvage yards mostly gone... and no space to take the truck apart and do it right, I thought I really was tired of it all and at the end of my rope! Help me... `gasp´... There was a void in my life ...and there was the internet, tempting me to return... I´d dream about stuff for sale, not for sale and even saw some junk, rust held together by bondo disguised in a sexy paint job... then through Craigslist, I saw an ad for an old wagon and checked it out and the seller really wanted to sell... I made an offer and... he accepted. It needed a bit of mechanical work, but that gives me the ultimate high. ... the beauty of it all is my youngest daughter (9 yo) helped me change the plugs! Notice: This true story is not a lucky moment (and definitely hokey-assed), but faith and dreams in the gospel according to spark and gas-O-line... keeping the dream alive and passing it down to future generations! can I get an AMEN?
Sadly, I have yet to own all my dream car(s), although I did see a 62 Corvette in a weedy shed out by Creedmoor today, thats one..and I would like to have a 33-34 Ford roadster..I have a good start with my 48 Cadillac sedanette. It was on CL and was listed as a 1048 Cadillac typo error. I think that kept alot of people away. I picked it up complete with very little rust, useable glass and OK chrome for $2500, He wanted $4000..I also have a 53 Studebaker coupe and an Avanti so the list is pretty complete for me..going to build a 34 truck very similar to BBleeds old white one and just might be satisfied...
back in 92 or so my dream car was a 64 impala,,one day as i was going to a new construction job i got lost and found a 64 impala 4dr hard top,,bought it for 500 bucks,,drove it a couple years,sold it,bought a 64 belair 4dr,then another 64 belair 4dr,,sold them both. rode a bicycle for awhile,all the while thing about a new dream car,,got my 50 chevy wagon given to me through word of mouth back in 95 or 96. the wagon craze just hit around that time and i picked up a running 63 nova wagon,love the wagons now and i managed to keep the 50 chevy wagon all this time,even after selling the 63 nova.so it may have not been my dream car at the time but it has grew on me and now it is my dream car,,,or am i wrong to consider my wagon my "dream car"?....anyways thats my story.....now if i could only get the time and money to get it out of "sitting".
I looked for over a year for a 30s era pickup I could afford. Wound up finding several but they were junk, way too far from home, or overpriced. I visited a local guy (Carl) about a 1950 Chebby truck he had for sale, a buddy of mine wanted one. We talked with a while about cars and stuff and mentioned I was looking for a 30s era truck. Carl said he had a 35 Ford truck in his garage that he bought in 1983, but had been sitting since 91. I went and looked at it a few days, struck a deal right there and left a deposit. The truck was built in the 70s, had a Corvair ft. end, SBF engine and toploader 4 speed. The truck was green flake with gold diamond tuck interior that had faded to gold and smelled like rat piss. After spending $500.00 in parts and 1 month of labor it was a runner. I have rewired and repainted it as well as recovering the seat and replacing the wood bed. Not too much mechanical was needed. I am replacing the tired 302 with a rebuilt 302 and converting the trans to a top shift using the Jeep T176 shifter. I love this truck. Here are a few photos taken over the last 18 months or so.
Found an add on the bay area craigslist for a rusty model a firewall went to go buy it as a spare. I have no idea why, i already had a few. Got there, the guy showed me his garage. I asked what are you doing with that 1931 roadster body? He said i never really thought about selling it, but sure I would. So i bought it instead of the firewall.
The car was my dad's friend's brother's car which was in my dad's friends barn. We originally went there to see an overly optioned 50' Chevy coupe that had sat behind the barn for over 25 years, but when I saw the Studie in the barn we had to get it. Now, back then I was looking for a Stude, and we wanted to get a 59' Lark 2 door wagon, but we ended up with a 54' coupe. Which this was the first time I had ever seen one. Here is the car as it sat in the barn.
I'd bought 4, '53 stude coupes in a package deal but they were all pretty sad...and after going to a few funerals I began to feel pretty 'mortal"...decided to go to the top of my mental bucket list in case I croaked before I built my dream car...a 33-34 ford coupe. This guy approached me with his cousin's cast-off 34 chassis in trade for my rustiest stude coupe...I jumped on the opportunity to get started with my dream car! Made the swap and carted the 34 chassis [with a home-made woodie body on it] home to my garage.....went on a search for a 33-34 coupe body. 2 days later my buddy stops by my place with this 34 ford 5 window body in the back of his shortbox chevy pickup....cut into 4 pieces. It all fit into the back with the tailgate up and it was sad....an old roundy=round racer. He saw my chassis and he wanted it...and I wanted the old body in his truck...we argued back and forth for 3 weeks until I finally wore him down. He is also a great body man and the body/chassis is over at his body shop right now, getting put back together and chopped ..... Yep, I finally got my dream rod and it's slowly going together.. Got a 370 Pontiac engine and a 5 speed tranny with a Winters quick change rear.......
I had a friend call and ask me if i still wanted a merc?I laughed and said i cant afford one.He said a buddy he knows called one day and said he has one for sale or trade,so he told the guy about this 31 pickup i just finished mind yall its just an old hotrod solid with a nailhead real traditional,alot of sweat not alot of money and in my head no where near done,but the guy was down to look.He came out the next day,liked the truck the whole time im wondering how much do i have to put with my truck.Then i looked at his 51 merc with fellow club member on here he goes by 50hg we were both thinking that the car even without motor was a nice solid 98% rust free car ,it had fatman mustang 2 front stub,chrome colume,disc brake conv.nice interior ,how much do i have to put with it?Well then i talked to the guy and he said he really liked my truck and then he followed that up with if you want id like to trade strait up and he would bring it to me,i said hell yea 1 week later he delivered and for two months had my ass chewed by my wife cause she was asleep when i made the call without consulting her first but what could i say it was a merc for one ,solid as heck for two,and to top that off my all time dream car and thats where im at today working om my alltime dream car a 51 2 door merc thats solid.Does life get any better as i feel like the lord saw fit to bless a sinner like me.
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