Hello, Those photos may be good to go for a lot of people here on the HAMB. But first of all, you personally have to have room on your property to store the rusty find. Or store it in the garage. In all cases, once it is stored, you will get depressed looking at that sight of daily rust. The folks here have been through that as later projects and have left them sitting in their yards/garages for ages. People have worked on rusty projects and it has taken 2-3 years in between family responsibilities and jobs. Some are still not even close… For a first time novice, what you see in the magazines and local car shows has taken many months of preparation and hard work to get it to show in the right place in time. What you have compared to what you see driving around are complete opposites. At 26, you are either married, job, military or single with an apartment for residency. So, if you happen to have a house + yard, do you really want to stare at a rusty pile of a car for months or years? What happened to the goal of daily driving a nice hot rod to places you frequent or to your job? Jnaki From most that are interested or are becoming interested in hot rods, it is the wrong way to get involved to satisfy those implications of driving around in a nice hot rod. Listening to the great sounds of the motor starting up and actually going for a drive anywhere, even with the pandemic going on these days, is something as part of lives. If you had the space and skills, then go for it. But, in looking back to age 26 or earlier at 14 when we started building a complete 1940 Willys Gas Coupe for street and the drags, it was lucky that the Willys was a rolling car that had been sitting in a backyard for years covered up. So, the body was relatively nice and neat. If we had seen a rusty body/frame and parts laying around, we would have driven on to the next find. It would not have been a good exposure for a first time builder. Yes, folks here will laugh and say that is hot rodding… but, they have experience and have gone through their own experiences of custom cars or modifying an old hot rod. Frame up rusty body/frame/parts? Not everyone’s bag of tea… Especially, (and even if) you have a friend who is willing to help. They don’t live there and they don’t have the same ideas as you do or the skills. Moot point. Taking apart an old car and doing all the modifications to make it street legal and then make it compe***ive for the drags was our goal. It was difficult as it was our first full modification to an old take apart car, for all safety aspects and correct installations of parts necessary to make it run and run correctly. The rusty parts would have turned us off for the build. We liked that it still was a remove the front end, fix the ch***is, prep the rust,align everything and it would have extended our complete build for months. It we had to look at that rusty pile of an old car, it would have been a calamity and we probably would have taken it to the neighborhood junk yard to get it out of our yard. But, as all things go, it is your project and/or time. Responsibilities are most important and this project if it is the choice, will take up all of your time and energy… for what? Years of non running car in parts sitting in a yard getting more rust and/or in a garage taking up daily driver space. For most, it seems like a car in running condition with a good body and style would be up your alley, so to speak, with modifications and experience learned in keeping it running well for safety and enjoyment. It may take a while to get the running hot rod to where you have thought it would be. But, skills learned in small increments as well as instant gratification in driving will lead you to more experiences and enjoyment. YRMV
Thanks guys I think I'm going to start with a good 31 ch***is that's already together and build something from there. I think this is too much for me.
Then that is the correct answer for you, because you know yourself better then we do. You may want to p*** the info concerning this project on to those that were asking about its cost. To some others, it may be the only way they will ever get an old car.
Ford made 134000 sport coupes in ‘29, they were the hottest seller in Fords lineup on the A introduction. buy it, start on it and you’ll stumble over all kinds of stuff something good come along? Flip it. But as others said you can get your feet wet. As for how long it takes to do a project? It’s like eating an elephant, take one bite at a time and one day it will be gone.
"if you think you can do a thing or you think you can't do a thing... you're right" - Henry Ford "There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose." - Henry Ford
It’s not about time, it’s about completion. To stay on the project till it’s done. Looking at completing by a certain date in my opinion takes the fun out of it, and leads to shortcuts. Another thing is to eat your vegetables before dessert.. do what you find difficult first then do what you enjoy.. I’m my case the next time I’m doing body work and paint first..
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