Hot Rods The car I've been waiting for

Now that’s a score!!

 

Kick-ass!!!

 

Lucky! I have to make mine out of a sedan. This one actually looks very clean in the areas that haven't been cut out yet, a relatively easy fix. I'd love to start with something that looks like this.

 

We need full extraction photos as you rescue it.

 

I would like to know the thought process of putting a car in the basement and then building a wall so it can't come back out.
I mean it's not like it's a fully restored multi million dollar car on display like some people put inside their homes.

 

Maybe its the only place he had to work. Car comes in in pieces. Mocked up. Then taken apart and reassembled outside. My dad used to tell me how he built his T bucket in my grandparents basement and had to take it all apart and walk everything through the house to put it back together in the driveway.

 

My great uncles built a boat in my great grandmother’s basement. It was a beautiful wooden row boat. They spent the next 30 years trying to figure out how to get it out. Being as it was a brick house great grandma would not let them remove bricks. They ended up cutting it up for firewood when I was a kid!

 

Not as crazy, but this was mocked up in the house, with just a sliding glass door to pass through. Note curtains in background, behind the speakers supporting the back of the frame.


Another example
https://jalopnik.com/hand-made-lamborghini-built-in-basement-finally-sees-li-5065896

 

Wow! Nice coupe. I like the top on these as the factory made them without a chop.

 

@chevy57dude it has cool slotted aluminum mags front and back with new tires, tons of parts including 2 dropped axles. Axles are really not attached so it'll have to be removed piece mail. No engine or transmission. It does have 10 bolt something with long ladder bars. Partial channel job, ugggh!

 

Looks like you could remove the wood door and frame, along with that window and frame, and the body could make it thru the opening.

 

TITS!!

 

A buddy of mine bought a 58 Bel Air that had been walled up on a wooden porch since 1963. The guy who owned it got drafted and didn’t want his brothers driving it, so he drove it up on that porch and closed it in with a couple of walls. My buddy found out about it in the early 80’s, it was still in the same place, the owner came home from Nam and went on with his life and left the car sitting there. He told my buddy about it one day, saying he needed to move it before the old house fell in, well, my buddy asked what he wanted for it sight unseen, a price was agreed to, and my buddy went and got it. This thing looks like new after it was cleaned up, 283, Powerglide 2 door sedan. He drove it everywhere before he got sick last year.

 

Come on Ron, channeled cars kick ass, and you saved it before someone finished the chop and ruined it!

Nice score! What are the plans for this one?

 

Been a long day already and it's only 4pm. One ramp truck and two pickup trucks full. The owners wanted everything out, NO PROBLEM!! I will post pictures of the goodies when I calm down and get organized. Here's a few from today's extraction

 

Big thanks to Scott my brother, his boys Tim and Scotty, Mike Bowling, Joey Angers, my wife Maureen (she was kinda shocked because it's more of a car than I usually drag home) and Steve my neighbor.

 

If you left any light bulbs or the half gone roll of TP behind, you didn't clear it!

I've been a part of that kind of recovery, so understand the tired body, mind zinging, buzz of purchase. We will get the full picture when you get it all sorted. Thanks for bringing us along.

 

Plans at the moment-subject to change at any time- is to put original 34 frame and floor, dropped front axle with split bones. 8inch Ford rear or Frankland quick change depending if I find enough parts for that. Very big Cadillac and turbo 400 because I have all of that. Highboy no chop.

 

I have most of a center section in pieces, I need to take inventory.
Give me a call.

 

Was the roll off truck really necessary, I thought those bodies fit in a full size pickup? What a great start!

 

You're not getting any sleep tonight. Your mind is going to be going through and repeating every combination and permutation you can think of trying to find perfect.

 

So, you did not have to cut the wall open? No carpentry needed? Score!

 

Wow!
So…thought about how you’ll get the smile off your face before Monday morning? Everyone will think your up to something!
Congrats, that’s a score!

 

I brought a 38 Ford sedan project home once, and my wife was surprised when it actually resembled a car, unlike the previous "collections of parts"

 

Make sure the papers that (hopefully) come with it aren't for a '34 Chevy.

 

Awesome!

 

That is fantastic. Nice.

 

Good for you! Looking forward to seeing this come together!