junkbrick
07-03-2005, 07:04 PM
Just wanted to finally introduce myself after lurking here for over a year...Anyhow, my name is Reed and I live in Birmingham. Got introduced to hot rodding the way some of you might have, through the pages of many magazines...but in my case it was the pages of CARTOONS...Trosley might be responsible for all my madness...just maybe.
I started off my hot rodding adventures by hangin out at my dads shop, slowly getting a little responsibility around the place. I was into mini trucks at the time, and my dad and friends helped me drop a mild SBC into my S-10 Blazer...oh the taste of speed!
Fast forward a year and I am now driving a car I always wanted, an 87 Buick GN. I met some really cool people with my Buick, and loved the car BUT there was only so much I was going to do with that car...I still needed a creative outlet.
My dad and I juggled around a few muscle cars, and a couple of odd ball projects, never finding what we wanted. Well, one of my dads good customers-turned-friend was a guy named Brian Logan...Kustm52 over here in HAMB land. Lets just say his suede ride was giving me some ideas.
I was also very lucky to have some influences in the fabrication world...the past few years had been spent becoming friends with John Myers and Mickey Cox, who happend to challage me on what seemed like a routine basis...tig welding, basic lathe and mill work as well as a well versed education on going fast!
Well, the years passed and I have found myself finally with a hotrod project...my buddy Matt, a.k.a. coupe on the board, found a '36 FoMoCo Pick em up hiding in a barn...finally got something to work with!
Sorry for the long intro...how about some progress pics!
I started off my hot rodding adventures by hangin out at my dads shop, slowly getting a little responsibility around the place. I was into mini trucks at the time, and my dad and friends helped me drop a mild SBC into my S-10 Blazer...oh the taste of speed!
Fast forward a year and I am now driving a car I always wanted, an 87 Buick GN. I met some really cool people with my Buick, and loved the car BUT there was only so much I was going to do with that car...I still needed a creative outlet.
My dad and I juggled around a few muscle cars, and a couple of odd ball projects, never finding what we wanted. Well, one of my dads good customers-turned-friend was a guy named Brian Logan...Kustm52 over here in HAMB land. Lets just say his suede ride was giving me some ideas.
I was also very lucky to have some influences in the fabrication world...the past few years had been spent becoming friends with John Myers and Mickey Cox, who happend to challage me on what seemed like a routine basis...tig welding, basic lathe and mill work as well as a well versed education on going fast!
Well, the years passed and I have found myself finally with a hotrod project...my buddy Matt, a.k.a. coupe on the board, found a '36 FoMoCo Pick em up hiding in a barn...finally got something to work with!
Sorry for the long intro...how about some progress pics!