Projects How about building kustoms from garbage

Same here and i've done a lot of rust repairing with my project!
Thats a really challenging puzzle,but looks good so far.

 

I remember someone on here who built a beautiful black Merc custom from a pile. Who was that?

 

I believe it was Aboner.

 

Lotta babble and not many pics, kids??
This is a car a buddy of mine , Manny Novo, is just finishing up ( picture is OF a picture from 3 years ago)
Ford rear 1/4's with a Caddy hood for the back, hand built cowl and dash, custom frame, nail head motor with a blower and 6 deuces.I have newer pictures, but they're lost in hyper space .
Name of the car is the "Moon-Pie" I believe most of the parts for the body were donated or sold at a very reasonable price because when the owner of the junkyard found out what was being done with them, he figured my buddy was off his rocker. Not the case.

 

Maybe not a "custom" in the true sense but.........Same guy, same junkyard- made up of 3 different bodies, a Dodge, a Plymouth, and a Willys. ( I think)
Same approach- carried out in pieces and transformed into a cool car he drag raced. ( Can you guess the build date?)
ENTIRE project done in his driveway! ( by him)

This might not fit the thread parameters exactly, but you have to give the guy credit for a pretty amazing build.

 

Here you go

 

This is how it's supposed to be done. I love seeing someone's vision come to life. Inspiring.

 

Thanks for the "tech support", "FINNRODDER"!!

 

I love it !!

 

Heres mine.

 

Possibly the lead topic could have been more accurate if it had been "Customs built with/from Cast offs" My new cab for my 48 uses parts of three cabs two of which were given to me to haul off at one time or another and one that came as part of a two truck purchase for 100.00 where I bought two 1-1/2 tons without engines for 100.00 a few years ago. I spent three times that getting them home though.
Somewhere I have photos of the sectioned 59 Ford known as My Blue Heaven from when it was first under restoration that I took at Unfinished Nationals years ago. A lot of the original custom work on that car was really suspect and the gent who redid it spent a lot of time making it right when he did it.

 

Glad the el matado was found and restored

 

No problem.Got any pics of the painted Moon-pie?

 

One of my favorite "saves". It's amazing how good it looked when done,considering the fact the metal must have been completely f#cked up by the heat. Pisser car.

"Finnrodder"-I've got to move them from my e-mail acct. Going to be in Mass. any time soon?? (HaHa)
I'll get one of my kids to help me ASAP.

 

It looks alright in the photo but it was rusted and bent to hell. I got it complete,and have so far replaced the frame, the entire lower 4" of the car inside and out, firewall,1 whole quarterpanel ,1 wheelwell and the stock pressings on both wheelwells,made trunk supports,lower A and B pillars, subrails, converted a sedan fender it came with to coupe, replaced the grill, all 3 of the other fenders AFTER straightening them but they were too thin at that point.hopefully i can finish the metalwork in 2016.

 

I havent been US after 2013,i guess it will take some time for the next visit.So you have to bother your kids

I like your build thread,its going to be sweet ride when its done!

 

@Torchie that thing rules! I've always wanted to build a pickup with a 41 car nose. I even collected a whole nose to start with. It may happen or it never will. Yours looks fantastic!

 

More garbage,please

 

Threads like this are the reasons why i joined the HAMB.
Absolutely inspiring. !

 

I guess 60's customs are not my cup of tea,but i respect the great restoration work you have done,Moriarity.That trike looks pretty cool,whats the story of that?

 

Holy crap,thats cool!

 

Starting with a Four door sedan and in the process of turning it into a 3w coupe

 

New year bump!

 

Torchie.........I f-in love your truck!!

 

Aren't most hotrods and Kustums built from garbage?

 

I usually work with pieces of cars (junk). It makes it more of a challenge, more interesting. My build thread ends up with the mostly green Bantam in the photos below after it began with the pieces of a car (it was a car, it had a title!) in the other photos.

 

I was thinking about this thread and looked it up to see if anyone had added to it. Has anyone made a body from late model sheet metal AKA the Thom Taylor renderings where he took muscle car replacement panels and rendered them into awesome hot rods.?