Rusty Bowtie
General Category => General Discussion - Intros => Topic started by: TFoch on March 05, 2015, 07:46:27 PM
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What did you start with and what does it look like today. Some of us have come a long way with out projects. Let's see the difference.
I started with a bunch of body panels I bought in Oregon. Fit them in a "Pod" to ship them to New Hampshire. Took me 7 years to take my first ride in it.
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I failed to take a picture of the car when I first got it 3 years ago just have a few from different views here's the rear of the body then and now.
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Here's my 38 before and after 14 months of working just about every day to get it done.
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I bought my car about 4 1/2 years ago, it had been in a storage garage for over 20 years. It was channeled with white diamond pleated interior. It was fendered with runningboards (dummy me, I don't really have any pictures of when I first got it :() and in need of an update. I took it down to the frame rails, chopped it and made it a highboy. It's ready for paint and interior....in progress.
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This is interesting, and would mak a great calander for nest year.
You guys have seen my before and after pic's so far. I hope to get it finished if there is a finish to any of these. The black car is what I am shooting for in the look.
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My 32 has changed a number of times over the 40+ years that I've owned it but I think this would be the best representation of before and after.
Moose
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Still working on it. This project has taken the longest of any I have done for some reason.
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This is depressing me. Mine still looks the same there are just more rusty parts now. :'(
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Sixball, are you talking about your pickup???? I don't think I would change a thing!!! That truck has character!!
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No, I was thinking of my '26 roadster but the pickup photographs a lot better than it really is.
This is me driving the roadster home. ::)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gVCeDB43VmQ/UWd_V-W08_I/AAAAAAAAF4U/SU4GiYPRTqo/s400/R%2520and%2520R.jpg)
This is where it is now :o
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-vL6m3-vHtwo/UWORuRCXXuI/AAAAAAAAFxI/HBI2-TYnt3g/s400/100_1852.JPG)
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That roadster is pretty cool, even if it's just sitting there. I think I have the guages for that car.
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No, I was thinking of my '26 roadster but the pickup photographs a lot better than it really is. SO DO I!!!!!!!!!!! ;D
This is me driving the roadster home. ::) You bought that car new???? Man, you're old :o(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gVCeDB43VmQ/UWd_V-W08_I/AAAAAAAAF4U/SU4GiYPRTqo/s400/R%2520and%2520R.jpg)
This is where it is now :o
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-vL6m3-vHtwo/UWORuRCXXuI/AAAAAAAAFxI/HBI2-TYnt3g/s400/100_1852.JPG)
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Hey Sixball, I'm looking closer at the picture of you driving the roadster home. I guess they are advertising on the car for R&R Chevrolet in Cape May Courthouse. Cape May Courthouse is just inland from the Jersey shore about two hours from where I live. I drive through it every weekend when I go down to a vacation house we own in Wildwood, on the south Jersey shore. Really no big deal, just a cool coincidence. I did a quick google of R&R, no results. Anyway, you look mighty "dapper" behind the wheel. :)
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Chopper that is a neat connection with the R&R roadster. I never looked as cool as that guy. My roadster was built in the Oakland, California plant.
Ghost, those gauges look like the right shape. Here are the ones I'm going to try ti use. '55 Studebaker Speedster. Complete with key, courtesy light, and all switches. If I can't fit it in the roadster it'll go in the pickup next time around.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-lspgge1WPBk/UWOSrKflf4I/AAAAAAAAFxY/9lJGocO76uo/s400/100_0862.JPG)
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Sixball,
Looks like you had fun "using up" the roadster!
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I've got the latest pic of my 35 in my thread for it, here's the pics of how it looked when I first towed it one block, from my neighbor whom I brought it from, sitting on my front lawn.
Its a peach, ain't it, ;)
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At least it looks like you have plenty to work with. Looks solid, too.
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KiwiJeff I like that luggage rack on your 35.
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Hey Kiwi. Is that the car you are making into a ute?
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Tom, I've tried selling that luggage rack, but no one down here wants it. My Oregon Hamb buddy would like it for his 35 Chevy, but would cost to much for him to get it up there.
Ghost, that's the same one. Its a little nicer now.
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Kiwi nice project you have there.