gashog
12-09-2005, 03:45 PM
Greetings!
I have been lurking on the HAMB for a month of Sundays. Although I am new to customs, I have spent the last 30 years fiddling with 1960’s Mustangs and Corvettes. I will probably be a fairly quiet member of the board but will share my experience whenever I can.
I told myself when I was a kid that I needed to learn my way around a car before I tried to build one. Well, here I am, five years of patching them up as fast as I totaled them and 25 years of restoring them and I finally got my first rod. I thought I knew my way around a car pretty well until the 29 coupe showed up in the driveway and all of a sudden it was “Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.”
Honest first reaction? The idea of being able to do whatever I wanted to the car scared the begeebies outta me. I don’t have many strong opinions on how I want to go- the closest thing I ever drove to one of these was my pop’s tractor. I didn’t want a cookie cutter car and I wasn’t looking to reinvent the wheel, so I figured the best thing I could do was start with a car just the way Henry built them. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not about chopping up a piece of automotive history, the car is just a nice, bone stock driver. Right now, I am reading everything I can get my hands on and picking up anything I think I might be able to use until I can decide which way I am going to go with the car.
Safety glass, turn signals, fuses, moving the gas tank and battery, the list of must do’s is so long I’m not even sure where to start. The plan has always been to do an older style ride but not iron clad set in any particular era. Fenderless flathead with hydraulic brakes and 16” steelies for sure, everything else is fair game The only rules are build it safe and build it the way I want it.
Thank you for the chance to join your ranks!
Joe Sikora
gashog
I have been lurking on the HAMB for a month of Sundays. Although I am new to customs, I have spent the last 30 years fiddling with 1960’s Mustangs and Corvettes. I will probably be a fairly quiet member of the board but will share my experience whenever I can.
I told myself when I was a kid that I needed to learn my way around a car before I tried to build one. Well, here I am, five years of patching them up as fast as I totaled them and 25 years of restoring them and I finally got my first rod. I thought I knew my way around a car pretty well until the 29 coupe showed up in the driveway and all of a sudden it was “Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.”
Honest first reaction? The idea of being able to do whatever I wanted to the car scared the begeebies outta me. I don’t have many strong opinions on how I want to go- the closest thing I ever drove to one of these was my pop’s tractor. I didn’t want a cookie cutter car and I wasn’t looking to reinvent the wheel, so I figured the best thing I could do was start with a car just the way Henry built them. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not about chopping up a piece of automotive history, the car is just a nice, bone stock driver. Right now, I am reading everything I can get my hands on and picking up anything I think I might be able to use until I can decide which way I am going to go with the car.
Safety glass, turn signals, fuses, moving the gas tank and battery, the list of must do’s is so long I’m not even sure where to start. The plan has always been to do an older style ride but not iron clad set in any particular era. Fenderless flathead with hydraulic brakes and 16” steelies for sure, everything else is fair game The only rules are build it safe and build it the way I want it.
Thank you for the chance to join your ranks!
Joe Sikora
gashog