Trash to Treasure - Show your basketcases

[Mike Zenor]

Inspired by Switchblade327's post showing his truck project...

Everybody knows rule #1 - project cars should be reasonably clean, straight body, low/no rust. How about the intrepid souls who take on the dregs of the junkyard, the rust buckets, the truly lost causes -- and turn 'em into something cool?

Let's some before/after project pics of your most heroic Mother Teresa hot rod & kustom reclaimation projects....

[SwitchBlade327]

as soon as i saw the title of this post I knew that damn truck was the inspiration for it, hahaha. Technis ain't nothing but a thing.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v440/EVERYlosersHERO/Car%20Pics/oldtruck6.jpg

[Mike Zenor]

Hail to thee, Switchblade, and all who tackle a such a mighty task undaunted.

What's your end goal for the truck? Rod/custom?

[SwitchBlade327]

right now, I'm just shooting for it to be solid steel....

It'll be a bit of both I guess, I'm not completely decided on what I wanna do....I've done two customs already, so I wanna do a rod. Dunno if this is the right thing for a rod though, can't decide.

[Mike Zenor]

When I saw that P/U the first thing I thought was 40s Bradley Style Kustom... shaved, stainless bar grille, 3" WWWs, sombreros, tail dragger w/ skirts. Think Steve Wertheimer's Black Dahlia...

http://www.kontinentals.com/Graphics/morerides1.jpg

[MattStrube]

Not really a basket case yet, but the largest collection of shit ever assembled for a 1/2 ton pickup. Just think that's a whole Model A minus the body and interior. Flathead, tranny, frame, suspension, and ALL the tools I own.

[flynj1]

here is my 34 chevy after I got it home. No floors, no wood not to much of anything and you could see daylight threw alot of the top. every one thought I was nuts

[flynj1]

Its been on the HAMB before but here it is many hours later

[MIKE-3137]

Both of my cars were really junk, I should have passed on both of them now I think, but you gotta start somewhere. First one: was a 600.00 body with no fenders, grill, hood or floor. now looks a little better with glass and a fresh coat of dp90 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/my31and37/37-old.jpg


and here's the body I brought home from Houston Texas in the back of my pickup. Complete with 23 bullet holes. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/my31and37/DSC00534.jpg

[cleatus]

Here's what I started with. What an idiot...and the ad said "very little rust"

[loudpedal]

Woody's ('JOBCORPS' on the HAMB) '35 Ford started out as 5 different cabs, a mangled '37 bed, a '32 Chevy frame and an old Cad engine that was laying in the junkyard for YEARS full of water and guck. We used pieces from all 5 cabs to make one good cab. Z'ed the Chevy frame and added a Model A crossmember. Cut the bashed ends of the bed off to shorten it. We spent a whole night hammering the old pistons out of the Cadialic engine. Lots and lots of work:

LP

[loudpedal]

Woody's:

[loudpedal]

The bum:

[loudpedal]

Here is what we ended up with after 3 months:

[plan9]

loudpedal - you guys nailed it... excellant work.

[loudpedal]

He named it the 'Idiot Magnet"

[Gotgas]

a spot of rust in the quarters of a rare FM3 ("Panther Pink") Road Runner

http://www.pantherpink.com/cars/fm3075_04.jpg

not actually mine, but I know of the car through a friend - it was bought to restore, but -obviously- couldn't

[porknbeaner]

Some bonehead on here owns this POS.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/image_uploads/516062-23gogo.jpg

I'll bet he thinks he's gonna make a silk purse out of it.

[lilbill]

here's my 52. it's got a little rust in the floors and cab corners, a cracked block, all the glass is either busted or cracked and the brakes are locked up.
it's damn near a creampuff http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Bass]

Here's a before pic of my shoebox...it actually wasn't too bad, just pretty much an adandoned project:

http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL19/1983783/4017955/64110813.jpg

I'll spare you the after picture, because most of you know what it looks like.

I've posted this before, but here it is again. This is the Model A Coupe I've been building for a couple of years. It's actually been on hiatus for nearly a year now so that I could build my bike and concentrate on upgrading the shoebox a bit. I'm planning on hitting it pretty heavy again this winter.

Before, with 157 bullet holes:

http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL19/1983783/4017955/64110331.jpg

I took this several months ago, but I haven't done much to it since then. (The motor is sitting on the floor in the pic):

http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL19/1983783/4017955/64110469.jpg

-Brian

[cleatus]

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The motor is sitting on the floor in the pic

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oh, I thought it were one o them "short blocks" I been hearing about.

[ESnacky6]

I still think Cleatus 'wins' the before and after game....