51 olds rocket

51 oldsmobile super 88 rocket. picked it up for next to nothing. its my first chop. lucky enough to have a couple guys showing me hands on w the metal working. im in love with it haha. chopped 4 in the front and 6 in the back. leaving it stock looking on the outside. im gonna bag it all around w a 2 link/panhard setup in the rear. i have the original hubcaps that go w it as well. i have no idea if the motor turns but ill cross that bridge when i get there.

Look'n good!

neat

if the motor is dead, it's easy to stick a SBC in that body style and it's still a GM product.

Later

It's not that hard to find an Olds motor to use. How about a 455? Just saying you can't swing a dead cat without hitting something with a small block chevy in it.

nice work on the C pillar cover. Someone has some metal fab skills in the shop![P

Don't let them Gas Monkey guy's see this!!

Looking good, keep it up!!

looking great! what a killer view from behind the wheel!

Looks like a killer start to a rat!

Takes some big ones to chop something with curves!

Nice work so far on the chop!

Mighty fine job you are doing there!!!!

got the other panel made up sunday and started sectioning the trunk. we also got some welding finished on the driver door.

pics of lid and rear c pillar cover. Alson decided to make a fresh frame from scratch to get the car to lay rockers when aired down.

Used to race

In the 1950's the Olds was a pretty quick car we dragged them and raced on the back dirt roads. I had a 1952 torpedo Olds stick and that thing was fast in 1950 standards of course. Nice cars all of them

Cool car! If you stumble across another set of those tail lights, I'd be real interested in them

cool build, got any side profile pics?

I don't after we sectioned it. Haven't finished yet. Cpl weeks till I can get to it again.

thinking of leaving the welds flat topped