Hot Rods Yard art lets see some!!

Were does the fine line get crossed RR material /Yard Art? Bob

 

A picture of the junk in my yard, taken from inside the junk in my driveway...

 

If it's hovering around 100 degree's in your neck of the woods like it is here in the Sunny South let me offer you a photo of last winter,freezing rain. HRP

 

Up and away

 

HRP isn't the only one thinking of cooler times. This is 17'' Ford wheel & tire I couldn't give away.

 

Started but never completed.

 

My back lawn art, found it deep in the bush off an long abandoned rail line. JW

 

Great find!

 

Have you had any luck tracking down any history of what we in the States call a cow catcher. HRP

 

It was found on a special section of abandoned line that I have been studying for years. Its off a small main line 1800'sLoco (0-6-0) that never ran on this line. It was with 5 coal tenders and cut up Loco frames dumped in the 30's, some are Baldwins. JW

 

Way cool, looks heavy.

 

The kids jungle gym. I need to add some wide whites. Ron...

 

Here are 2 updated pictures from post #147. We added some lights.

 

Some of you will remember Santa's Cadillac, from HotRodPrimers Christmas thread.

Well Santa went back to the North Pole, and left his junk on my lawn.
Told me it ran when parked, but I Think the reindeer were doing all the work.

We now have fenders, and some rattle can paint. I also added headlights.

 

That's cool Jeff. JW

 

Thanks mate. Left side headlight will be wired up to a battery.
I'll probably flame the front fenders and body sides, after more black paint.
Who knows how this junk will look in the end, but it's a nice distraction.

 

Jeff-
Outstanding work.

 

Thanks, it's fun to throw old junk from the shed together.
Makes more room in the shed, and the locals are digging it.
I'm looking forward to the grass growing up around it.

 

{ Cool, Kiwijeff } Tell the home owners association, that Santa abandoned it! lol My grandsons little service station in the snow.

 

A little garden I built with rocks dug up building my new pole barn.

 

We did a little more Hot Rodding to the Jungle gym.

 

Better put a frame under it and make a roller out of it then....
.....no telling what this thing may turn into

 

This Pegasus was rolled up into a ball by a CAT and left in an orchard. It was given to me by the owner and I brought it home and unrolled it. It fits perfectly on my shop....

 

Wow Ron, the blower has me green with envy, haha.
I need one for the Cadillac.
I'm scheming up an idea to use two Holden six heads, on a homemade wood V block.
It'd make for a cool looking V12, that would get all the gear heads wondering what the hell it is.

 

Here's mine, Built by one of my best friends in the late 70's. He was a Chevrolet guy (in the corvette hot rod pictures, I posted a picture of his '57 Vette.) He built this truck and later it became his work truck, we hauled winters worth of firewood on a trailer behind this truck many times, as you can see he also plowed snow with it. Since he passed on, his truck became a fixture in my yard, I haven't done anything with it. When he built it, he used a Ford Bronco frame, suspension, engine & driveline. It's powered by a '70 Ford 302 with a stick shift trans and 4x4. Honestly he really was a Chevy guy! RIP Lou Swartz, I miss you bud!

 

you reckon you could box up a coal tender and send it over here?

 

Rear of my shop

 

On our way back from Bowling Green drags on a back road near the Kentucky border near Tennessee !

 

Not easily, would need to carry it 4 miles to get one out JW