I just posted a new thread on my 46 Ford truck and thought I'd put my 51 Pontiac on as well. I picked this up a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately I did not take any "before" pictures. It's a typical Michigan car needing front floors, rockers and rear quarter fronts and wells. I jumped right in and gave a 4" front/ 6" rear chop, flipped the rear window upside down,built new rockers and quarter extensions on the passenger side. The drivers side "looks" decent but the P.O. just welded patch panel over the old metal. Have to cut out and redo. Has good running flat 6 with a three speed which will stay. I plan on bagging the rear so it will drop to where it is in the pix. I also hope to have this in primer to take to Billetproof in June.
A few weeks work? Holy crap... Keep the updates coming, I also have a '51 Chieftain. You say it has a Flat6 not an 8?
Yeah, it's a flat 6 with a three on the tree. Original owner must have been to cheap to spring for the 8
Geez, I forgot I even owned this car, sold it as soon as I got it in primer about a 1 1/2 yrs ago. As far as the suspension, I ended up cutting 1 1/2 coils in the front. The rear had 3 in drop blocks with a couple springs removed. In the above pic, the rear tires are flat, thats why it was sittin low. Heres some pix from when I sold it
I sold it in Oct 2009, was kind of a bad time of year, I think it sold for $4900 as you see it, no glass, no interior, needed some finish work to be paint ready.
Wow, that's a pretty good price for a project with that much work done. A guy could have put a few more bucks in that thing and had a real nice driver. Very cool work!!!
thanks i might just do that with mine instead of air ride and save a lot of money , i like what you did with the front i was trying to think of what i could do with mine being the grill is in pretty rough shape
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