The Jalopy Journal
From Jim... OK, with the sub rails and floor handled, it was time to start fixing the cowl. We took the bottom 6 inches from the crushed donor...
For those who would like to know a bit more about the history of this car, HERE is an article I did on the history of this Jimmy Summers 1936...
From Jim... While chatting with a good friend of mine on the West Coast and bitching about how I could not find a good floor pan, he chimes in...
When the body arrived we cut away all of the crushed body that we were not going to use. Then we sent the floor pan out to the blaster to get a...
From Jim... So now it was time to think about how we were going to repair the body. Our goal was never to do a pebble beach type restoration, but...
More from Jim... In the the original Hamb thread from 2009, when the car was originally discovered, some people posted that the car should be...
From Jim... After enjoying the bolted together remains and dreaming about how it would look all finished it was time to get really started. The...
From Jim... We were very happy to see so many of the original parts still being there that when the parts arrived at Schuchart Customs, we...
From Jim... One of the concerns I had was probably the same concern that many Hamb members, as well as custom car historians had, which was if...
From Jim... So just to wrap up the fast recap, after unsuccessfully attempting to purchase the car and never even receiving a response from...
A new thread on how the Jimmy Summers 1936 Ford Custom was rescued and restored can be found HERE.
I'm going to share this restoration of the Jimmy Summers fadeaway 1936 Ford Coupe story here on behalf of Jim Bobowski aka bubba67, the owner of...
Sharing this digitalised 8 mm. footage Stillrunners uncle took from the 1950 Bonneville trip. Amazing footage. [MEDIA]
Here is one from Belgium, photographed at the FLATLANDS MOTORMAN show in Rosmalen The Netherlands. [ATTACH]
Thanks Stogy.... VERY interesting. I came across another small article on the same car a while ago. It was published in the January 1951 of Ford...
I seriously doubt this is the same car. The black and white photo is a '42 Mercury, while the color photo one is a '46-48 Mercury. The Color...
Palle Johansen 1947 Cadillac. Finished just a few days ago... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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The last name is Cacciola Ryan... You might want to change that in the title. Here is a LINK to a story I did on the car, that tells a bit more...
Custom 41 Mercury tub created from a two door sedan. Inspired by the old Sam Barris created Joe Urritta 1941 Ford and the Harry Bradley inspired...
Alcemy, On this version, the one that was chosen, I dropped the top down at the B-pillar but more was taken out of the back than the front. Then...
I like the slightly shortened rear window side window, to me it gives it a slightly more early Custom look, and it adds a bit more weight to the...
The full story on that flamed '50 Mercury owned by Larry Lorenzo is actually very interesting and goes way back to be one of the very first '50...
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This picture of it comes from the Hot Rod magazine Yearbook No 1 published in 1963. I think I have seen one or two more pictures of it. [ATTACH]
These two were shared by Mike aka "1932V8" on Instagram[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Jonnie sure did a good job interviewing George. To bad that the stories George mentioned about the Golden Sahara in this interview are far from...
John Canepa is working on the Tom Hocker Ford right now, doing some great work fine tuning the car before he will be doing the Blue paint. Updates...
I did a full article on the Custom Car Chronicle on this original Barris Kustom Shop created '49 Mercury that is now in the Museum. [ATTACH]
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