Projects Survivor Hotrod Found!

I was lucky enough to come across a 1929 Roadster Pickup that was originally hotrodded in 1957. The owner passed away and the wife was selling a few of his cars, one of the care takers of these cars contacted me to trade for a model T I was building. When I saw the first picture of the truck I knew right away I had to have it! I could tell this was an old build from back in the day. The caretaker wasn’t aware of the truck’s history and wasn’t able to answer my million questions. So took the truck home and starting to share it around on Facebook, the stars aligned and the original builder got in contact with me. The story of the truck basically is 3 brothers and a couple friends built the truck together around 1957 and took turns driving it to high school. You can see the first picture of the truck when it was first built. Flathead V8, I was told it took 4 junkyard motors to get enough parts to get the Flathead running. One of the brothers worked at a Sinclair gas and service station and you can see him sitting in the truck in front of the service station. Later in the mid 60s it was passed to one of the other brothers and he re did the truck with a 283 and a 56 bel air rear end, as well as adding a top and bed cover. The truck bounced back from brother to brother where it finally ended up with the friend who had it until he passed away and that’s where my story starts. I am in contact with the two last surviving brothers who built the truck, and fully plan to have it running this year so they can take another spin in the truck they built so long ago! They are both excited as I am and we plan to sit down and record the full story as I am told there are plenty of funny and embarrassing stories. I will update this thread as I build the truck and do more interviews! In the mean time enjoys these pictures of then and now!

 

Sometimes the stars line up just right!

Very cool truck and story!

 

Thanks Ken! I’m very excited for this project and it’s history

 

Like the story,,,,and look at his face,,so funny!!

 

That’s too cool! Looking forward to following along!

 

Very Cool - need a lot more info, start out with how you located it

 

Watched this yesterday when you first posted it. Such a cool piece of hot rodding history

 

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The caretaker reached out to me when I posted to sell my T bucket, he wanted to trade for it

 

Dang near perfect.
Don’t even need paint.
Ya did good.
I’d drive the wheels off it

 

For those that want to follow the build, check out the youtube channel!

 

Cool as can be....going back with a flathead?

 

We have some options, we will be posting the progress here though!

 

This is the first time I ever saw a widened '32 grille. Really neat car with some great history, glad it's in the hands of someone who cares about it. A little rough around the edges maybe, but there's enough "good" left to do at least some preservation for sure.

 

Neat

 

CONGRATS !

 

What he said. I kept looking at that grille wondering, "Is that really widened?"

 

What a great video, Im excited about your build. Just stay in era.

 

Very cool deal all around, that's going to be a fun one to finish. Interesting side note, if you notice in all four of the old and original pictures all of them cats thought it was necessary to wear a helmet when they got in to this car. Got to be a story there as well.

 

Great find and story ! Will follow along!

 

awesome find...good luck with he build!

 

Cool. I'm already subscribed to your YouTube channel so will be watching for sure... and if I wasn't already, I would be now.

Glen.

 

We are going to interview them on Rod and Style YouTube channel, give that a follow if you haven’t already. But a unboxed bare bones RPU with Merc Flathead probably did feel like a monster in 57 haha

 

Thank you! We are definitely staying period correct!
Here is the concept art we had drawn up by Chris Piscitelli

 

Like, cool daddy-o!

 

Very cool!

 

Great story and car! Thanks for sharing. I love reading these survivor stories.