A few years ago i purchased this car. A friend listed a house for sale that had not been lived in for over 30 years (long story). She told me there was an interesting car in the garage but she did not know what it was. I found this 1930 Hotrod, and bought it. Not my type of car , but i thought it was cool. I owned some muscle cars but this is all new to me. After working on this car for only a short time and finding out all of the history about this car i now think it is one of the coolest cars i could own. I will be posting my progress on this car. I wish i started this post when i first started rebuilding the car. My plan is to rebuild this car and keep the flavor of how the original builder built this car. Here are pictures of what i found in the garage.
the car in my garage with some of the parts that i found with it. I was not sure what the metal bars were that bolted to the frame in the front. After searching for info about this i figured it was for towing the car.
I started disassemble the car to rebuild it . It looks good in the pics but it needs a lot of fixing to be drive-able.
I am keeping the interior , it just needed to be cleaned it looks like new. The original builders mom did the interior in the late 1950's
Cool car with some scary stuff hidden underneath. Very common. Note the two link rear suspension with joints at each end. What keeps the top of the axle from rocking backward, other than the spring shackles?
The wife told me her husband ( he passed away) had over 20 cars and never finished any of them. He bought this car in 1975 and it never left the garage. I asked her for the name of the person who sold it to him and she gave me his name. I looked him up on line and after some calls i found the guy living in New Hampshire. He bought this car at the age of 17 in 1954. He took the four banger out and installed a chevy V8 to made his hot rod Bill of sale i found with other papers.
Kewl car... built ford on ford even... ALso dig the GMC motor home in back ground. To bad its been sitting a long time
Yes scary stuff i will be fixing all that. The original builder ( Frank) told me that back in the day he would go to the junk yard and cut out parts from cars and just adapt /weld or find a way to make things work. Today we just open the catalog and it comes in the mail.
Cool car, those brackets were indeed for hooking a tow bar to. Pretty common up to at least the late 60's early 70's when even the big boys didn't often have tow rigs and trailers. I'm thinking that no one is going to have a big fit and fall in it if you make a few changes in the name of safety where we can see some suspect items.
Frank told me in 1965 he bought and installed a new 289 Cobra crate engine that he bought over the counter from ford. And a new close ratio top loader. Casting date on the block is May 1965
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