Show Off Your Before and Afters

Marc: here's a lightened pic of your car:

 

B4 and after. 7 months to build. But never done.

 

Mike,

I've seen your car alot and the work you've done to it still amazes me! Hats off to ya brutha and to all of you out there taking a buncha parts and making art out of it.....

 

I love looking at all these pics!!Thanks HAMBERS.

Here' my before, (when I got it)



And a few moths ago

 

heres what i started with..



and 12 months later..taaa daaa....



if only it was that easy!

 

Here's my rust bucket. I havent really even started yet. Just a few things here and there. Got a loooong way to go to reach my 175 MPH Bville, 11.5 sec 1/4 mile goals. For now she serves as daily transportation. I look back at old pics like that and I think "Wow... Look at all the space under the car"

 

12 months???? That is one ubber sweet car now!

 

I'm sure you've all seen these before but...

 

Here's a link to my before and after...http://www.classicroad.com/Dougs32/index.htm

 

The "Mighty Merc" before:







...and after the cleanup.















pigpen

 

Just found this picture of my roadster when I bought it.

And a picture from last week.

All I (we)had to do was,replace cowl side,patch cowl top,replace wheel weels,patch quarters,install new subrails,build a chassis,install 40 rear,39 trans,build 59AB, BAM! got a 32 roadster!

 

My 29 highboy---$200 body--$300 frame---got divorced--stored the parts for something like 7 years---then worked like hell on it after new wife says"I LIKE HOT RODS!"---got me a good woman now!

The 29 is fresh---the 37 is my high-mileage driver--almost 100,000 miles.

 

hows before, and during.. after to come

 

I had to dig pics out of my scrapbook of befores, couldn't find the ones that wern't cut out, so they aren't the best when out of the context of the book. But you can get the idea

well that was pretty shitty, LOL so I'll add two more, aren't the best veiws

 

My '64 Chrysler NewYorker 'Salon'...

How I bought it;



How it's now;



How I would like to make it;

 

How about a bike project??

 

Here,s a before and after of my son,s 1958 Anglia.He bought it when he was 13 with money he made working in a radiator shop at weekends,when his mates in school were getting playstations and computer games for Christmas he was getting blower belts and carbs etc.We had a lot of fun putting this together it gets used a lot and goes like snot off a stick.

 

Yer boys got a bitchin Anglia whats she motorvated by?

 

Hi HotRod60f100,
The Anglia is powered by a little Ford 4 pot it was originally 1600cc now bored to 1700 its got 7.5to 1 compression and the blower makes 10lbs of boost.We had to use a small engine due to his age and problems with getting insurance.He,s now collecting parts as he wants to build a Hemi powered model A, afraid he,s gonna have to wait a while as its his sisters turn next and I,ve got a 34 5 window waiting to get started on.

 

1979


2005 mock up

 

If at the age of 14 she was still willing to sit for a picture with Grandpa's "old" car, then you did something right. The grand daughter and the picture are both treasures.

 

Chad how much have you lowered ya Ford and what have you used parts wise to do it as i have a 47 that needs lowering,thanks

 

From totally Stock to totally Old 'skool!



RapRap
1940 ChoppedChevyCoupe

 

NICE WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

This was a 4 year build..... The body looks better than it was, It took two years to get through rust replacement.

 

Well, I started out with a "street rod" (I purchased the car because it was a diecently solid business coupe, knowing id take it out of its street rod misery), so it alwready had a mustang II front end and an 8" rear. The 8" rear was on parallel leafs that were very stiff and sat very high. The rear is now a 9" rear (switched to get 5 lug hubs) with a TCI 4 link setup, and air bags, and airbags on the mustang II front end as well. In the picture, the front is about at ride height, but the snumbbers on the frame are sitting right on the rear axle, so the car has to be kicked up in the back a bit for driving. The front will drop even lower (no dropped spindles installed) is I wanted a doreward rake, which I dont. Next year I'll C-notch the frame so I can get the rear a little lower, but for now, the rear will drop about 4" off of the ground, and the front will go to about 2".

 

tha chevy after three years of drivin it every day..

 

People constantly ask me why I destroyed a perfectly good 4 wheel drive. And I tell them "To be Differant"

 

Here's one of mine....From Random parts on a trailer to this after in 3 months...It had been in a gararge since 68'

I have other befores.. but not to the "after" stage yet...EVILT