If money wasn't an issue, wot kind of rod would you build?

Better than that, do the 64. It was rebodied into the 65 so it's gone bye-bye.

 

One that would do everything I wanted it to... comfort, speed, ride... and then look good doing it.
Sam

 

if money wasnt a problem....... id have a shit ton of cars!! but if i had to choose just one id have a 35 willys...... and make a gasser out of it! id also like to have 55 merc montclair sunvalley, but it wouldnt be a hotrod.

 

a 32 coupe with a 302/5 speed and a 56 chevy black on black with a blown big block,4 speed and my daily driver would be my plymouth with a 340 six pack and air bags,um o.k. a 325 red ram,

 

With Rear wheel drive conversion.

 

1.49-50 Merc Chopped and lowered to the F'n ground
2.Flathead powered 200 mph Belly Tank
3.32 roadster (black laquer/flat head)
4.1966 Shelby GT350 (blue w/white stripes)
5.one of those new CTS Caddys. They are BAD ASS!

 

I'd build the same car I'm building right now but one hell of a lot faster my 27 T Roadster pick up wouldn't add any flash either!

 

36 Ford Sedan Delivery.. mimicking the Thom Taylor/Pete Eastwood R&C Delivery.

 

Get the 41 done!!!!!

 

Probably an altered wheelbase Plymouth, Aluminum front end / blower, the works.

 

1933 Willy's coupe, pro street, supercharged, lenco5 speed and a rumble seat.

 

Pretty simple for me,a steel 32 High boy roadster on 32 rails full hood powered by a 283 4 speed and 9 inch out back 4 inch drop axle rolling on 16 inch big and little's mounted on steel wheels.Sorry can`t dream like some guys here.

 

Since I'm a senior citizen member and have owned or driven a fair bit of the kind of stuff folks discuss here, I'd like to build something a bit different. 1953 Rambler Country Club with a turbo'd 308 Hudson/HydroMatic snuck in and a narrowed rear with posi and say 3.23 gear. Update the suspension and big Buick finned aluminum front brakes, finned iron Buicks out back (no disks). Low mount power steering pump and late model box.

I like the open front fenders of the Country Club. All the other Nashs had deep skirts over all wheels. At first glance the flat head six would look stock(ish). Slightly wider steelies and dog dish caps. Nice premium cloth and nauga interior on factory springs an frames. Sneak a few gages in and maybe power windows.

Drive it around like the Grand-Pa I am until some kid wants to Beep-Beep my Rambler. OK Kid, lets do it! Since the full sized Hudsons ruled Nascar in the early 1950's - in a LOT heavier car - this should be fun

Start with something like this:

 

Or a 330 P4

 

Moneys no object? Hmmmm thats a tough one cause I love cars so much. Maybe the original Milner's 32 coupe?

 

A 1956 Ford Crown Victoria Gasser, with a blown 427 Ford cammer, Richmond 5 Speed, Dana 60, '32 Ford style straight axle up front, and screw the purists! LOL!

 

Whatever the hell I wanted to and screw the whining bitches.

 

One day, I might take my '37 Terraplane two-door and put a 308 Hudson "Twin-H" Straight 6 in it, with a GM automatic transmission. I really like the car as it is (essentially stock with a few minor mods - a Hudson O/D and 12V electrical are the biggies), and it'll do 70 mph all day long as it sits.

The Terraplanes of '36 and '37 are among the best-looking of ALL Thirties US-built cars. Body mods are pretty unnecessary on them, IMO. I'd build it more as a sleeper than anything. What is more sleeper (and right!) than a modded 308 Hudson in a light Terraplane!

If money truly were not an object, I'd love to build a Duesenburg, Auburn, or Cord. A French Delahaye coupe would make a fine ride, too!

 

Another idea....

'57 Ford F100 (short box, big window), in the weeds stance, hand rubbed to perfection black laquer, tan rawhide covered bench seat, black rubber floor mat, reworked factory gauges (with a 150mph speedo, and a tach), firestone bias blackwalls, 15" black steelies with dog dish caps, oak bed floor, and to motorvate it all a Ross Racing Engines built aluminium headed and stroked 394 Olds, backed by a 5spd and a Currie 9 inch... It would be sooooooo sweet...

 

I want that fucking car!!

 

First I would finish the cars I have already. then i would buy the car I love the most but cant afford a 57 Cadillac eldorado blarittz convertible.then the list would be long.
40 Ford coupe with a Caddy motor moonshiner style
chrisman coupe with a very nasty motor .
32 roadster with a aurden head motor in it
auburn boattail speedster
dual cowl phaeton of some type duesy, caddy, packard
49 or 50 mercury custom
willys gasser with a big blown hemi

I could keep going. my garage would be huge. all types of cars

 

if money wasent an issue i would have to build my dream truck 1948 ford f1 nice big coker white walls bagged all around 2 tone paint job 351 clev motor

 

Basically it would be very close to the Deane Spencer roadster only with a blown Ferguson ARDUN a 5 or 6 speed and magnesium knock off wheels.

But thats just for starters.

 

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aLSO I WOULD SPEND SOME MONEY TO GET A FEW SETS OF ONE OFF COMPLETLY ALL WHITE BIAS PLIES AND SOME ORIGINALS STLYE STEEL WHEELS STAMPED OUT OF STAINLESS STEEL. FOR THE RIGHT MONEY, I COULD GET SOMEONE TO DO IT!

 

I would have a perfectly restored boattail riv for a daily driver, a 62 bubbletop for cruise nights, a 56 chev 2dr post gassered for drag racing, and a factory five daytona coupe built to the ragged edge for auto-xing. Then a 50's coe sitting on a 1ton chassis with a duramax/allison and a slant bed to tow them around on. And a bunch of old honda motorcycles.

 

Oh, and a record-setting lakester.

 

either one of these would do or both.

 

just thought of a new one. if money wasnt an issue and i had a time machine, id go back to 1957. I'd order a nomad with no power brakes, steering, radio, clock and heater delete with a fuelie 283 and a posi rear. I'd then send it to Canada or wherever they did it and get the EL MOROCCO coversion done on it. Then i'd load it in the time machine and head back to now. Then i'd take it to barret jackson and let everyone drool over it while i turned down every single offer the rich a$$holes there threw at me! HA!

 

A man after my own heart, my sentiments exactly!

 

After thinking of it, I would buy a type of car I vowed never to own. I would buy Janis Joplin's Porsche,the one with all the crazy painting on it.

Hey, it was Janis's Id own one of Hitlers revenge for that.

Doc.