31 Buick Sedan

[tiny1]

This car belongs to my buddy Ron We've been working on it since Feb 14 .
This one isn't going to be a rat rod but it will be a shinny driver not trailer queen.

This is how it looked when we found it. It had a cedar tree growing in the motor box we had to cut down to get it the car out of the woods.

 

[tiny1]

These will show you how bad of shape the car was really in. Allot of our friends came by and looked at it and laughed aid he waited his money buying that junker

 

[Bonehead]

Looks like a project.

I may have parts you need for it, let me know what you need, I am only keeping the body part on mine. (30 Buick)

 

[tiny1]

Ok enough laughing and ol tiny I'll show them buddy's what you can do with a junk nobody wants

 

[tiny1]

Now we added to the doors and hung the back section of the car and started adding the tubing for support

 

[tiny1]

and even more tubing for support and filling in where the back doors were

 

[tiny1]

Few more some of the roof of a astro van we cut up . I'll have some more later wife is gone and an has camera .

 

[tiny1]

Looks like a project.

I may have parts you need for it, let me know what you need, I am only keeping the body part on mine. (30 Buick)

I'm not sure if he needs anything he has all the fenders and grill shell for the car its going to be an open wheel car He also got a 73 vette rear end were going to use under it. thanks we will keep you in mind

 

[skull]

doors

man o' man those look like some looooong doors
is that the stock length for real 2dr sedan or did you stretch them a little?
cars lookin' good.
what motor/trans combo and what color?

since l started mine l don't know if more people are doing the 4dr to 2dr conversion, or l'm just paying more attion to that kind of projects[dr

later

 

[truckster]

Metal magician!!! Thanks for the post and the pictures.

 

[Bonehead]

Tiny, you do great work. I have been thinking about mine for a while, and you have given me some great direction. Thanks man.

 

[tiny1]

man o' man those look like some looooong doors
is that the stock length for real 2dr sedan or did you stretch them a little?
cars lookin' good.
what motor/trans combo and what color?

since l started mine l don't know if more people are doing the 4dr to 2dr conversion, or l'm just paying more attion to that kind of projects[dr

later

I'm not sure what the stock lenght of a two door is we made these 35" overall
we took the front of the left rear door and used it on the right front door.

Its going to have a 454 /turbo 400 or 5 speed standard he still trying make up his mind . color wise that still up in the air all i know for sure is it will be two toned.

Thanks Bonehead, truckster

 

[whytesmoke]

Keep us tuned in very nice work .[P

 

[bob w]

You guys are saving the "unsavable". Congratulations on the fine work.

 

[international rat]

Lookin good. Glad to see im not the on ly one building "junk" that nobody else wants!!

 

[CORPO]

man you guys are doing a great job saving that one.. i like the longer door look... the roof looks like its going to fit great

Keep it up!

 

[skull]

m & t

Its going to have a 454 /turbo 400 or 5 speed standard ;quote

5 speed sounds cool. lf ya run a auto trans have ya thought about a
gear-vender overdrive or beefing up a 700R4 to get better fuel milage?
l hate to be so consious of gas milage, but here the cheap stuff is $3.00+
and the good grade is $3.35+ and talk of going higher.
with the compression ratio my 355 sbc is running, 92 octane is a must.

Later[dr

 

[Gregster]

Tiny , that's a goodlooking build you have going , I like the 2 door conversion .

 

[LOWANDRATY]

Tiny my 31 chevy 2 door sedan has 35-1/2" doors the window opening is 30" I think you hit the nail right on the head with those doors, looks killer, I can only hope mine looks 1/2 as good as yours, keep up the great work. and more pictures !!!!!

 

[tiny1]

Thank you guys for the kind words. The body was pretty solid on the old car just the wood was mostly gone. It looks like I'll have to replace about 3" along the bottom of the doors.

Skull 92 octane is a must on my truck also . But he is pretty set on the 5 speed standard

lowandratty thanks for the info. We were wondering what size they were.


Thanks again for the kind words Guys