TECH - From a $25 32 Frame to a Rolling Chassis...

Wow! That's some cool **** you got going on there.

Thanks for taking the time to photograph and do***ent it all for us mere plebs.

Can't wait to see the finished product.

 

Man that looks great!!!! I wish I had 1/2 the tallent !!!

 

Nice SANO work Neal...thnax for sharing. VBery similar to what i did with my frame too !! Will be a killer ride when all done....keep us in the loop !!

Rat

 

good job,good pic´s,that´s exactly why I hang here,but 25$ for the frame,that´s unbelievable.

 

Simce I am blundering through my first real total build, this is the best illustrated info I have seen on ideas for a frame build. Mine will just be a Zeed Model A but I still have to admire your craftsmanship and say thanks.

 

"25$ for the frame,that´s unbelievable"
Hah--I bought a rolling '32 ch***is, complete with a wagon tongue clamped to the front axle, for $25 DELIVERED.
Course that was in 1969...
Not as good a deal as it sounded--two of the hubcaps were mashed.

 

Square is not always about personalities.

Very clever with the floor tie-downs.
I'll keep that one in mind.

Very nice work as well . . . looking forward to seeing the RPU progress to the running stage.

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Hah--I bought a rolling '32 ch***is, complete with a wagon tongue clamped to the front axle, for $25 DELIVERED.
Course that was in 1969...


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Going along with the old rule that the first liar never stands a chance . . . I threw away a complete no engine 34 Vicky.

It was a rolled in the ditch total according to the kid I bought it from (for the engine) but with what I know today, the crumpled in left windshield post could have been fixed without too much h***le.
New grille, maybe a new hood top and straighten out the fender it would have come back just fine.

 

C9,
Along the same vein as your liars quote...

I was talking to a guy who is(always has been) a big fan of Pontiacs. He is a millionare right now (owner operator of his own trucking co. amount other things), and has more '67 GTOs than one man has a right to (but that's beside the point).

We were talking about how he likes to keep buying rough cars and bringing them back to life - even if they don't get completely restored. As long as they become "saveable" to someone...I asked him why a guy with as much money as he had doesn't "invest" in more money into fewer high dollar purchases and re-build them.

He turned to me and told me this story....
He started by saying that after he tells me this story I might not respect him as much as I had. In fact I might grow a chip on my shoulder and begin to dislike him for what he had done (being a die hard Pontiac lover myself). So the story goes:

"When I was young I had a factory job and started making good money. I had to move out my my parents home and so I moved in with a buddy out on his farm land. That's when I first started buying cars. I bought just about one of every Pontiac that I ever liked. I had '65s '67s '69's and a bunch of other big Ponchos like Cats and Parisiennes and stuff from every year. I had dozens of cars - literally. Every car was a good driveable car with little to no rust.

One day my buddy came to me and told me that he and his girlfriend were getting married and that I had to find somewhere else to live. He agreed to let me keep all of my cars there until I could find a new place and or sell them off.

Frankly I didn't even try. Those cars were becoming less and less valuable and it became a case of "outta site - outta mind". Years p***ed and one day I got something in the mail from a (second) friend telling me that the first guy was going to auction off everything on his land and move away. It pissed me off because he never tried to contact me. I didn't know if he had planned on making money off of my cars or just crush them without my knowing. I was living in an apartment in town when that happend so I didn't have any storage to speak of.

So one day I took an old 4x4 out there and started pushing all of my cars down into the gully. One by one, right on top of one another in the bottom of the timber. There is no way to ever get them out, and now that time has p***ed since then - it's probably not worth even finding out ......."


.....Mow how much truth there is to this is unknown by me, but he isn't known to make up stuff. And he obviously has something working on his subconscious today because he has several pole-barns and a field full of old iron - not just Pontiacs either. He practically game me a rotten 58 Buick just for the Nailhead. And the '34 PU body that I have in my garage was a trade deal for a 500 HP Pontiac engine that I had. Which is the reason for me keeping up on this post (in case you were in need of some relevancy).

And don't ask me who it is - I am sworn to secrecy at risk of loosing a valuable resource......

 

Thanks Neil!

 

An oldie but a goodie.

 

Gee thanks. Excuse me while I whip this out.

 

looks good

 

i straightened my '34 frame with Neal's method (this tech thread), works really well. i cant remember the total cost but i made a trip to Holmes Depot and the local steel supply... maybe -/= 90 bux

an observation... i have six anchor points total, positioned as a rectangle, it was sometimes a pain to get proper pulling pressure on areas not close to the actual anchor point. i will be adding four more anchors so i can cover every inch of the next frame, which is a mangled '32.

 

One more time for posterity

 

sick, looking nice, great work.

 

Some of the old stuff needs to be read again. Great post ! Love it. 11 year resurrection please. Thanks Neal.

 

Everything Neil does needs repeat viewings.