Had our club's yearly event this weekend... saw a guy that I know has a rough '30 coupe with the quarters cut off from the trunk down through the bottom edges of the doors... $200.00 as is where is... i'll be headed down east to see what I bought Sunday... pix when she lands...
Body was sitting on a pile of steel pipes in the woods, all floors rusted off, cut from 2" before the trunk down on the tulip panel to the b pillar just above the floors, beads under the q windows were broken, rear corners of the doors were cut off, gutters rusted through... but has enough tulip panel for me to make one for a sport coupe and has both quarter garnish... ya hoo !
well it seems there was not as much still out there as I remembered... bought it... needed the quarter garnish and the bottom half of the tulip panel... father time as been hard on the coupe and on me...
you got it pete, I could smell it rusting as we walked up the woods road to get at it... note the shaft that appears to be poking me in the belly, they broke the windshield, stuck another steering wheel and column through the broken glass, anchored it to the dash rail, the extra steering wheel ran a steering box over the hood that they used to lift the snow plow blade... that's the 141st model a body i've had... love them ! . gonna use the quarter garnish and bottom half of the tulip panel, the rest may be looking for adoption.
Love those model a's want to try to get the 29 parts maybee Sunday? Looks like one of your old trucks in the back round.
that's a damn nice car so when will you have on the road 3mo. pete likes them kind of cars wood cars they are fun project he is good at them
Nice find Sloppy, can I buy the doors please? I need them WICKED BAD! Even if they are killed. I have some rusty stuff willing to trade. PM me. Thanx, Ron Sent from my SM-G930V using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Worth the $200 just for the fun trip going down and bringing it home.... and still a darn good deal I think..
krykie... after we were loaded up he tells me of an extra tulip panel all taken off down on the river bank... bought it and the right rear quarter [with garnish] laying beside it... damn happy camper... pete, ive owned that hatchet for 45 years... have done everything with that little devil.. . .got home happy as a pig in ship... then after lunch a remembered it was my birthday... no wonder he showed me the extra stuff... still will need some cake and icecream this coming week... . .
I like the axe. I used a machete to take three floor pans out a 40 ford coupe. Sometimes the first step in body work is not pretty.
I used to bring along a 10 lbs. axe with a 12" handle, safety glasses, a steel chisel and vicegrips to hold it with... could split a panel in munutes... maybe that's why the restorers called us butchers... . also he had a '30 one ton and a '31 pick up cab on the river bank ? ? ? , saw a finned cast iron high compression head leaning against the wall in his garage...
Thanx Smitty for the swap! This guy has a cool shop with neat stuff hanging all over the place. I bumped my head a few times on a variety of rusty gold items! Sent from my SM-G930V using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
They always look better when they are not sitting on a river bank Sent from my SM-G930V using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Looks similar the one you and Pete rolled out of the woods for me that my rear corners came from... Deja Vu seeing you in the woods with some rust.
hello jhr...... those WERE the days... with all the tin I've had, my only regret is my buddies didn't call me Rusty while I still had red hair...
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