Hot Rods Modified Murray - IT'S ALIVE!!!

Just home from dinner Scott and the first thing I did was lon in and look for the video !! That's bitchen buddy !!! Your focus and dedication have been really amazing !
Rob

 

scootermcrad ... sounds great! ... Congrats on this major milestone for your "Bitchin' Briggs"

 

Scooter,
OFS!!!! (Out Fucking Standing!!!)

Rex

 

It's great to see you moving along so well on this great project.

 

that is super cool

 

Looking forward to progress reports.
That will be a sharp looking ride.

 

Congrats...love following your build.

 

scootermcrad, this photo belongs in the 2010 HAMB calendar submission thread...

Very Cool...

 

Good Lord... if I had that shop/equipment/parts & you had a feather we'd both be tickled.

Nice ride man, looking awesome.

 

Scooter is not only very talented with the metal works but his eye for photo composition is also spot on!


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Scooter, very, very nice!! Great Work.

 

This is probably one of my top 5 favorite hamb built cars..... congratulations, it is beautiful.

 

Hey Scooter.............congrads........hope to see you soon

 

Wow. That thing's tuff as nails. Feels good, doesn't it?

 

AWESOME, congrats!! That must feel great Scoot, I am happy for ya! It is nice to be able to fire it up now & again for a little inspiration as you go on. Really sounds fantastic!

Dan

 

been following this build sence you started.great to hear it running.cool project.

 

I wanna hump that car in so many ways. Go show, Scoot!

 

Looks awesome keep up the great work!

 

Congrats Scott - looking good!!!

 

Congrats Scooter. Sounded great and yes it is a good thing you did the second video, the first was horrible. Looks like I need to take you out for a celebratory beer.

 

Sounds great Man! Congrats!

 

Thanks everyone for all the nice words!!! I am so excited!! Still giddy as all get out!!! Been a looooong road to get to this point! All down hill from here... I HOPE!

I'm SUPER motivated now! It's like a new rush of building energy has come over me. I jammed on the chassis the rest of the weekend. Progress is good! Here's a few sneak peeks of what I got accomplished...

Lots of smoothing of welds and getting some gussets done. Still a lot more to do and I need to blow it all apart so I can finish the front of the frame as well as flip it over and get all the welds on the bottom. Again! Lots more to do! If it looks unfinished, it probably is...





Made mounting points for the shock links...















That's it for now...

 

Really gonna be bitchin! What are your rear shocks off of?

 

The shocks are an interesting story, actually...

I got them from a guy in Tennessee that another HAMBer referred me to. They are NOS Military shocks. They were still bolted into their oak crates wrapped in wax paper and had a sticker with the MIL-stock number as well as a stocking date of 1951. They were still sealed with the original tape and everything. I had no idea what they were until one day I was doing some work at my previous job (military contract) and ran across an old air field radar trailor that had them on it. I was able to see what the suspension setup was like as well as find out what the trailer weighed. Should be a very cool setup. They are adjustable also. The only draw-back is that I have all right hand side shocks. I will have to re-index the arms of at least two and possibly all of them. They are NOT easy to get off the spline and applying heat may damage the seals, so I may have to make a tool/puller to make it happen. We'll see.

 

Glad to hear it run!

KILLER

 

DAMN! Looks great!
You have a great style and talent there, but we already knew that. Like someone else mentioned, you also have a good photographer's eye.

Truly Outstanding! I thank you for keeping me inspired on my Sedan

 

Fuck yes Scooter. I am really happy for you bro!!!

 

whoa. that is awesome.
more!

 

That's a cool car !!!!

 

Damn!!! Looking really good. I just wished I was any wheres near that close to being done.

Len