truckmen
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Hello all,
Just a few words to get started.
My name is Ralph. I am married to my newly-wedded bride, Alina; we live in Bucksport, Maine. Half the time, I am away making money at sea on a drillship. The other half, I am squeezing in time in the shop aside from work to be done on our old Cape and the property.
I have a little hobby called "Penobscot Packards". My wife and I have three '55 Packards, one is a 2-dr "Four Hundred" and the other two are Clippers (a 2-dr and a 4-dr).
We also have a 1st gen Charger (needing an interior), a '50 Desoto Deluxe Carryall that we had recently purchased and driven from Denver to Maine (last October).
We have a few more cars sitting around waiting there turn in the shop including an old '51 Frazer, a '60 Dodge Seneca 4-dr post car witha slant 6 and 3-speed on the column, and a '55 Buick Century 2-dr hardtop.
I am working on bringing my bodywork skills back up to "par" as I time allows and currently (at this writing-Winter/Spring 2013) we have a '65 Rambler Marlin inside the shop. I am repairing the whole left side after an old apparent side-swipe accident along with other damage involving cutting out much of the rear quarter, etc.
Anyway, the reason I came here was the interest in rat rods. I have at least one Packard that is just begging to have this treatment done to it. and I think this old Clipper might look quite nice.
Please say hello and add me as a friend. Any Mainers out there?
Ralph M Bohm
Just a few words to get started.
My name is Ralph. I am married to my newly-wedded bride, Alina; we live in Bucksport, Maine. Half the time, I am away making money at sea on a drillship. The other half, I am squeezing in time in the shop aside from work to be done on our old Cape and the property.
I have a little hobby called "Penobscot Packards". My wife and I have three '55 Packards, one is a 2-dr "Four Hundred" and the other two are Clippers (a 2-dr and a 4-dr).
We also have a 1st gen Charger (needing an interior), a '50 Desoto Deluxe Carryall that we had recently purchased and driven from Denver to Maine (last October).
We have a few more cars sitting around waiting there turn in the shop including an old '51 Frazer, a '60 Dodge Seneca 4-dr post car witha slant 6 and 3-speed on the column, and a '55 Buick Century 2-dr hardtop.
I am working on bringing my bodywork skills back up to "par" as I time allows and currently (at this writing-Winter/Spring 2013) we have a '65 Rambler Marlin inside the shop. I am repairing the whole left side after an old apparent side-swipe accident along with other damage involving cutting out much of the rear quarter, etc.
Anyway, the reason I came here was the interest in rat rods. I have at least one Packard that is just begging to have this treatment done to it. and I think this old Clipper might look quite nice.
Please say hello and add me as a friend. Any Mainers out there?
Ralph M Bohm
