Hot Rods What came first...the part or the car?

There’s more to that story.

 

Once upon a time I recieved a freebie gas cap… not long after I built an aluminum body and fuel tank underneath it. Several years later an obscure overhead valve cylinder head came along… let’s just say there was some machine work involved…!

 

I started one with a donor chassis. The chassis was good, the body on that chassis, not so good, so I started looking for a body to put on the chassis. The 48 Plymouth coupe in my avatar started life that way. That one worked out pretty well.
Actually, I started, and finished two projects like that. The one before the coupe was way off topic.

 

My cars started as complete, but only used about 50% of the parts; did build a bike around a carb I found at a swap meet, but changed it after it was on the road.

 

I’ve always started with a car then came the parts, that includes my pro mod I built not long after high school using my race car as the base.

 

I have been collecting up a 35/36 5 window for a few years. The first thing I bought was a nice windshield frame, because it was a good price, and I just KNEW I would need it someday. A parts car for a frame, a dash, and other random stuff followed. I found the body (an insanely good one, but bare other than the deck lid) a couple of years later. It is still in the parts collecting phase, though.
Funny thing is that I want to build it as a 36, but 35 parts keep finding me.