Rpu, is water pipe traditional?

looks like the shop down the street from me built it

 

I'm surprised. The rest of it looks actually pretty good. I can see why you bought it. Just toss out the **** and fix it right and you will have a nice little rod there.

Don

 

I'm with Don. You can still pull out a win with it. I'd start with a turd wrapped in aluminum foil if I could work on it with my grandpa.

 

Welding would have turned out better if you would have ground off the galvanizing off first. Oh well!

 

This is my favorite part of the build............very ingenious ! Why cut off those old spring perches when you can simply bolt the new ones right on them ? The bolt hole is even slotted for fine tuning.

Don

 

Rat rodding at its finest. Looks like they started with a nice original RPU and proceeded to use every cheap ****ty shortcut in the book. And made up a few of their own.

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It's going to get a t spring and new four bar here in a couple weeks haha all the welds will be re done and a new motor mount and trans mount will be put in

 

well, you have most of the parts you need, just have to put it together correctly. body look great, it will be a fine looking rod when done!

 

Your 4 bar picture is the HAMB version of those "as seen at WalMart" photos that get p***ed around the WWW.

 

Step 1 -- build new ch***is
Step 2 -- install old sheet metal on new ch***is
Step 3 -- drive it

 

I had a 56 Chevy with a roll bar made from plumbing parts. there was a business in town at the time called "4 Star Plumbing" so my funny friends started referring to it as my "roll bar by 4 Star"

 

The knurling is a nice touch, decorative AND functional, helps you get a better purchase with your vise-grips...

 

.....may even be part of said "vise-grips".....or a an old ratchet handle.

 

I think the guy that put my Lincoln together and yours are the same person, or brothers at least!
I had to go through and correct a bunch of junk like that, transmission pan sitting on on the wishbone, rear end too narrow and no shocks, rear spring shackles put together with 3/8" hardware store carriage bolts, rear wheels with torch cut bolt holes for the four lug rear cut between the 5 on 5.5 pattern. Like was said, get rid of the junk, and you will have a nice ride!

 

That's the first suspension set up I have seen from Home Depot.

 

That 4 bar is made from tractor hitch links. Only the finest parts from Tractor Supply.

 

I remember guys covering their **** welds with bondo to get it through "inspection" at the local 1/2 mile dirt track. all you young pups may think it unsafe, but back then REAL Men PUT SAFETY last! (AND SOME PAID WITH THEIR LIFE) SADLY

 

My buddy Stevie Wonder looked it over, he said he couldn't see a damn thing wrong!!-MIKE

 

lol it must be safe it does have an nsra sticker on the front windsheild haha

 

X2, ***uming the price was right, I'd buy that in a heartbeat. Body looks pretty damn good.

 

the body is really good. I found a bunch of old cloth wrapped straw in the doors from what I am ***uming to be factory sound deadening lol

 

I had a neighbor that welded the same way! HOLY ****! Nice truck other wise!

 

Just an update we got the whole car stripped this weekend I was surprised how quickly it went haha half the bolts where only finger tight.



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Somebody please confi****e that stick welder from the guy that built that ch***is. He's gonna kill somebody with it if somebody doesn't take away his buzz box.

 

You could actually stick a small nail through the gaps and holes in his welds lol

 

I read a post on a different thread today how cars owned by automotive enthusiasts are probably better maintained than the average Joes car! Sometimes yes, sometimes NO. This one looks like it was built by a couple of 16 year old kids, a buzz box and a case of beer.

 

I was thinking probably a 10 year old lol

 

And two cases of beer!!

 

I'm pretty sure my 3 year old could lay a better weld wow scarry glad it's getting fixed very nice looking body to start with

 

If you drove that home, you my friend, are lucky to be alive.