damnfingers
09-29-2006, 06:31 PM
Hello all...venturing into unknown territory here. I'm more of a wannabe than a true hotrodder I'm afraid but I'm working at it as hard as my wife will let me.
I've loved the early Fords ever since I can remember. I owned a '29 Sedan for a brief while when I was 16 - it was in my across the street neighbors back yard and I paid $75 hard earned dollars for it in 1960. Didn't run but wasn't rusted - took me a month and I had it on the road. Or rather in the driveway - no driver's license. Ended up having to sell it for what I paid a few months later and hated watching that lucky guy drive it away.
I was in the Navy for 28 years and was stationed in Thurso, Scotland back in the middle 60's. I feel in love with a 1949 MG when I was there and ended up buying it - and then wrecking it the first night the new club opened on base. Sold it to a guy who had a better place to keep it than I did and thought I'd seen the last of it - and I did until last year when I got an email from Scotland from a guy who'd seen my name on the internet. He'd ended up with my car and had just finished a restoration - about 45 years after I'd first wrecked it. Amazing.
About 16 years ago I managed to find another 49 MG and bought it - totally rebuilt it for driving and showing and recently added a Marshall-Nordec blower and a 5-speed transmission (replacing the non-synchro'd first gear 4 speed that was in there originally).
After I finished that one I really wanted a hot rod but my wife balked - pitched a fit actually. So, to make both of us happy I found another 49 MG and I'm building my street rod/vintage racer out of it. It's the best I can do and if I don't qualify for this board, please let me down gently.
I've loved the early Fords ever since I can remember. I owned a '29 Sedan for a brief while when I was 16 - it was in my across the street neighbors back yard and I paid $75 hard earned dollars for it in 1960. Didn't run but wasn't rusted - took me a month and I had it on the road. Or rather in the driveway - no driver's license. Ended up having to sell it for what I paid a few months later and hated watching that lucky guy drive it away.
I was in the Navy for 28 years and was stationed in Thurso, Scotland back in the middle 60's. I feel in love with a 1949 MG when I was there and ended up buying it - and then wrecking it the first night the new club opened on base. Sold it to a guy who had a better place to keep it than I did and thought I'd seen the last of it - and I did until last year when I got an email from Scotland from a guy who'd seen my name on the internet. He'd ended up with my car and had just finished a restoration - about 45 years after I'd first wrecked it. Amazing.
About 16 years ago I managed to find another 49 MG and bought it - totally rebuilt it for driving and showing and recently added a Marshall-Nordec blower and a 5-speed transmission (replacing the non-synchro'd first gear 4 speed that was in there originally).
After I finished that one I really wanted a hot rod but my wife balked - pitched a fit actually. So, to make both of us happy I found another 49 MG and I'm building my street rod/vintage racer out of it. It's the best I can do and if I don't qualify for this board, please let me down gently.