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Then & Now
« on: March 05, 2015, 07:46:27 PM »
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.
Spending time with my grandkids gets in the way of finishing my car but I don't regret it!

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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2015, 08:03:58 PM »
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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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2015, 08:09:17 PM »
Here's my 38 before and after 14 months of working just about every day to get it done.

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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2015, 08:50:59 PM »
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.
« Last Edit: March 05, 2015, 08:52:50 PM by chopper526 »
Tighten it up til it strips, then back it off a quarter turn

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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2015, 08:50:57 AM »
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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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2015, 09:47:35 AM »
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.
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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2015, 10:51:35 AM »
Still working on it. This project has taken the longest of any I have done for some reason.
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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2015, 12:46:48 PM »
This is depressing me. Mine still looks the same there are just more rusty parts now. :'(
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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2015, 07:09:22 PM »
Sixball, are you talking about your pickup???? I don't think I would change a thing!!! That truck has character!!
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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2015, 08:00:13 PM »
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. ::)



This is where it is now :o



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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2015, 08:08:47 PM »
That roadster is pretty cool, even if it's just sitting there. I think I have the guages for that car.
« Last Edit: March 06, 2015, 08:30:13 PM by ghost28 »

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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2015, 08:17:15 PM »
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

This is where it is now :o


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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2015, 08:25:23 PM »
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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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2015, 10:13:07 PM »
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.

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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2015, 11:08:38 PM »
Sixball,

Looks like you had fun "using up" the roadster!
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