Good point on the Bass '29, but that wasn't his first rodeo. Northern rusted thin stuff vs desert find Southwest stuff does differ. Bob
Damm...being from az I wouldn't even look at that. BUT I will add to the guys that can fix them. .more power to em. Lotta people here have serious metal skills. Nothing more inspiring than looking at some of these builds. Sent from my SM-G900V using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Coupster material was my first thought. What's it worth? That is where YOU have to take a deep, cold , hard, mercenary look at it. Get over the dreamy eyed conception of what it could be. What's the price of the body you would love to have? Now, to take that one to level that you want, what what is it going to cost you. What can you ,or, are willing to buy for it? What can you make for it? What skills do you already have? What skills are you willing to learn? What is the learning curve to obtain those skills and the time frame to do so? What tools and equipment do you have and what will you need to obtain or borrow? What tasks will you have to pay or barter for? Do you have a place to work on it and a place to store the disassembled parts? Is perseverance part of your personality? What is your trade off between the satisfaction of a piece well done vs. the aggravation of getting there? Add all that up and subtract it from the price (that may go up or down) of the finished car. That's the value of that body. If you're not doing it for a living your time doesn't count any more than if you were following a little white ball for a couple plus miles.
here ya go. slice it as thin as you can and make a resin table top out of it like they do with wood. there are videos on you tube. I like the yellow mold.
In my opinion, that thing is a mess. If you are in Wisconsin, look up Bob Bleed. He has a shop near Milwaukee called Midwest Fabricators, and he is always selling stuff. Check the HAMB Classifieds. Sent from my SM-G920V using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
at this point fellas, when they get back to me, and i know the old man from the yard.. hes gonna ask a stupid amount for it... but by chance which is slim... he says 100$ ill get it. I am always looking for one, but right now with farming and hours cut at work its just a bad time for me to buy, so thats why i was asking what you guys thought it would be worth. once i get back on my feet here soon ill probably go out west or something. but i figured maybe id luck out for only a 23 min drive vs 23 hours
Have you seen it in person and able to fondle it a bit, or are those pictures from an ad? if you can get it home for under $500, and below the pillars/body metal isn't 'poke your finger through' thin with rot, it could be a good to have to at least start to piece meal a body together with other donor parts from other bodies. Without knowing what your capable of sheet metal wise, its going to be a lot of work, but if you've got free time, why not. Most of a cowl, most of the doors, and most of the quarters are more than what you have now, but I would anticipate on having to buy most of another donor body at some point to mix and match and conservatively a year to get it sorted, especially if its your first go. Good luck, have fun!
Keep looking, dry western bodies are not that hard to find even in this day and age. That one is a heart breaker for sure.
Rufus Ranch in Brainerd, MN isn't that far away from you. Look at their website. You might do a lot better there.
In person, it’s crusty here and there but some spots it’s real good Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
man hes got some nice deals on stuff. rollers. for not bad prices and shit, a weekend of work i could probbaly have something that would move under its own power, sit on a cinder block and drive it around the driveway lol
Build it! Keep looking for the rear corner and you'll find one. You'll also find a windshield frame, dash and garnish mouldings at swap meets. All the patch panels you need are available at reasonable prices.
I do got the windshield frame and front end stuff, steering arms and axle. Dash stuff I haven’t collected on yet. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
If you buy that body send me a PM. I'm pretty sure I have a couple roof tops that could be used to repair it.
hey thanks man, this fella up in MN has one for 300 but dang its kinda rough, and preferably like the ones with the smaller window in the quarter, i thnk they are the coupes?
You would be safe around the $500 +/- range. You could make a nice coupester out of that pretty quick and sell ovv the good bits of the roof to someone who's got rot in the spots yours does not. A 35/36 windshield actually lines up pretty close on a model A cowl last time I checked my pile. I have also seen the whole roof grafted on to @kasselyn29 's land speed tub. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/twisted-drill-special-lsr-build.629189/ Here is some inspiration on coupesters: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/calling-all-coupesters-lets-see-em.945002/
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