Hot Rods Old 32 ford 3 window coupe "hot rod" found

Titus,I wish it were in my garage and you had a feather in your drawers and we both would ne tickled! HRP

 

I've seen people ohh and ahh over much worse starts on here. Gotta give them credit, they sure got their money out of that shoebox donor. If you tidy up all the lose wire, I bet you could wire it twice with whats draped around it.

 

Anyone who thinks this should be saved obviously enjoyed the 70's way to much!

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Great save. Can't wait to see this one come together.

 

Thats a pretty nice body! Can't wait to see what you do with it!

 

Dang! Great Score!!

 

So i moved it into the stall with a little more room to work


all you "leave it alone guys" are gonna be mad! sorry, it was too ugly to be left alone



here it is with most of the ugly gone! almost there!


anyone want to come get the shoebox subframe you can have it



heres the motor and trans, this thing will go in the scrap pile too


got all the ugle cleaned off, i should have taken a pic but there were a couple layers here!

firewall gone too, looks way better

i had some donor rails for the front section, i was given these 10 years ago, i was thinking ahead! lol


i made a template of the rail where i cut and traced it over on the other rail it lined up pretty darn good and seems to measure pretty close, i just tack welded it so i can adjust once i have enought structure and integrity in the front rails to measure and square things up


the other side went nice too, some preliminary measuring and temp tack welds actaully got it within 1/8 square and 1/8 level to each other, i need to get the back up on jack stands and leveled then i work on getting these true and square to each other and the ground

here it is looking more normal

 

You just raised the value of your investment by $5k by cutting off all the ugly!

 

WOW! As someone would say, Make a '32 Great Again. Bob

 

Hahhh, love it.. Some history should not be repeated or see the light of day again..

 

So it's a little "rough"- beat my dog or mess with my wife, but DON'T call my car UGLY!
Body looks pretty freakin' nice, and I love the slicks! Good score.

 

Well Titus...being a contributor to the Homogenized thread I would have said no to myself on posting that in that thread. It lacked safety and style bigtime (not worthy). Looks like a learn welding experiment gone real bad. Ya done good and thanks for sharing.

 

Mike I really like your new build. That 3 Window builder obviously showed everyone it could be done......imagine if they had became a songwriter.

 

Now this is starting to get very interesting to me......Like what you are doing with it...

 

Good grief, I wish you guys would stop with the "original" bullshit. Just because someone built some old ugly cobbled together abortion, an early Rat Rod piece of crap does not mean the anyone should "preserve" it.
Saving the good parts and sending the rest to the scrap dealer is what's proper.
History, give us a break.

 

Ahhh, Titus. Thank you for the fast-forward movie! But...Why do the rails look so long?
Hope that 3 window body wasn't shortened...

 

<<Big California GASP!!! >>

 

Nice find!!


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Titus got it right, the front end is gone. It's History. Nice job, now it's

 

Great Find! Love what you have done so far! Go Man Go!!!

 

Loved the video!

 

Nice find indeed. I'm with others here, it had no value or lost value when the 60's factory muscle cars were new. I can only imagine a couple guys cobbling this together to see what the heck would come out of it. Their work probably did save the thing from being drug out to the back 40 to rust away in a ditch.

 

Nice improvement man.

 

I kinda liked the shoe box firewall, goes with the recycle theme.

 

Good work Jeff...saving the hot rod world, one piece at a time !

 

I enjoyed the video -- great job on that. The car is looking 1000% better already!

 

Jeff , congratulations on the find -that's bitchen ! It couldn't be in better hands and you have to be stoked and Christmas came early....

 

Frame looks better already. If the price is right, I'd be interested in the heads, intake, and oil filter housing off of the old motor.

 

You know how you can tell east coast from west coast rods with just a glance? Well, I guess you can spot the midwest rod by just looking for the coupe body mashed onto shoebox running gear.

 

its exciting to know this stuff is still out there (and if it could only talk !) thanks for sharing.....dan