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I'm still grinding through all the little tasks to get finished but here is where I am at.

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I ran a cross your flatbed........[dr love it!!!!!!!!!!! do yu have any pics of the build? I want to build one to put on my truck.
 
I ran a cross your flatbed........[dr love it!!!!!!!!!!! do yu have any pics of the build? I want to build one to put on my truck.

Thanks, link in my signature should have most of the pics. If anything is missing let me know and I'll find it.

:)
 
193Oish

193Oish dodge that started life as a 4 door, then a guy was scrapping it & we saved her and made itto a running, driving fun machine.

Later :cool:
 

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Here's a sad before and after - I was googling 1937 Packards and came across this beautiful custom one that I recognized by Jim "Bones" Noteboom. On the same page saw a pic of a burnt mess and realized it was the same car - bummer....:(
Only positive is that I'm thinking to make a one piece hood top for mine and there was a pic of the hood hinge setup that helps out... note the even more kool use of a Packard V8.
 

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Here's a sad before and after - I was googling 1937 Packards and came across this beautiful custom one that I recognized by Jim "Bones" Noteboom. On the same page saw a pic of a burnt mess and realized it was the same car - bummer....:(
Only positive is that I'm thinking to make a one piece hood top for mine and there was a pic of the hood hinge setup that helps out... note the even more kool use of a Packard V8.

That was a really cool car. Seeing a burnt up rod always churns my stomach.

Does that car have a rumble seat, trunk, and working convertible top?
 
My 34 the day I brought it home May 2013, and how it looks now. I drove it all last Summer and Fall,...it sat during the Winter,..and from March through May 2014, the transformation happened.

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How my coupe has changed............

Here are some pics of my coupe when I first got it, and what it looks like now. Not to mention all the suspension work I did to make it drivable... ;)
 

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Nice transformation [cl The paint and wheels work together well and every thing is better black ;)

Thanks. It was a 70s build, and about 75% was done well, but the other 25%, they lost their common sense and their tape measure...lol

There's a lot of not so obvious changes that I made,....I'll probably make a build thread and be more detailed in what I did to it.
 
Here's a 'almost finished' picture of my first hotrod, a cut down '50 Ford. Later, I cut 31" out of the frame and threw the floor tin away. I'm the guy driving. This is 1967.

Here are some pictures of it last week, 2014. You didn't want to be bored with all of the usual before and after pictures, did you?
 

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On the bright side you still have it [cl might be able to save it [S

That was a fade in Galveston on the beach in 57. I could'nt do it i was only 12:(
 
Yes Soltz, it is savable. I have quite a few flathead motors kicking around here, surely some of them will be rebuild-able. The rear-end is still here, still with the blue wheels on it and the same tires. I always wanted to put Dad's old Model T phaeton on that frame but never did. Well, that's still sitting there too.
The excuse that I will use for not doing the restoration is that I have too many other projects. :eek: It's not that I'm lazy and scared, much. :D
 

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