[I started this project about 15 years ago by mistakenly buying a POS for too much $$$, here on the H.A.M.B. one night at 2:00 AM while drunk. It was a learning experience for sure.Some other interesting things I learned: Did you know it is possible to patch large rust holes in the frame with empty coffee cans and bondo? Did you know its OK to cut off one of the header tubes if it interferes with the steering shaft? Did you know that you can do body work with a hatchet as long as you have lots of bondo? I didn't know any of that before I went to pick up the "car" in Vermont. So, after tossing the old frame, boxing a new frame, discarding shitty fiberglass doors and lots of other fun stuff, I started to build what I thought would be a decent AV8 car. I worked at it for probably 5 years before other things in life caught up with me, I moved from NJ to VA, brought the car along in pieces, and there it sat in the shed for the past 7 years until about 3 days ago when I finally faced up to the fact that I was never going to finish it. So that's why I am here today. I just put the car together a bit this week, so it looks like a car and not a sad pile of rusty junk. Anyway all of the outdoor photos are new, follow, sort of in reverse chronology, are some photos from way back when (~2008). So here are the details- It is/was a real roadster, with some pretty rusty Henry Ford steel, but with additions. The quarter panel in particular are patched. There is no rear deck lid, the doors are... well, I will get to them later. There is most of a flathead engine, disassembled. I had the block bored out to (I think) 0.020 over, there are new Egge pistons, new Hastings rings, and the other original intenals. There are two intakes, one Offenhauser 3 carb, one Edelbrock 2 carb. I tossed the automatic trans years ago and have a ford 1953(?) 3-speed (disassembled, some new parts but probably needs syncros.), 7 wheels, 4 decent tires, a repop windshield, a couple radiators (untested), various boxes of miscellaneous stuff. The frame is mostly boxed except the front left (steer not finished. The frame lowered in the rear a couple inches, and subframe channeled on the frame again maybe 3 inches. Lots of commentary in the photos, and perhaps I will add more. This is really an OBO sale. I want the car to go to someone who genuinely appreciates it, but I also need to get it gone fairly soon. I'll never get anything like what I put into it, of course, but I am not giving it away either. NOTE: AM TRYING TO INSERT MY ACTUAL GALLERY WITH MORE PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY, PLEASE BE PATIENT. PXL_20221012_144304251 by radioFlyer55 posted Oct 14, 2022 at 6:20 AM PXL_20221011_162639778 by radioFlyer55 posted Oct 14, 2022 at 6:24 AM PXL_20221011_162659438(1) by radioFlyer55 posted Oct 14, 2022 at 6:24 AM PXL_20221010_173046337.PORTRAIT(1) by radioFlyer55 posted Oct 14, 2022 at 6:24 AM PXL_20221010_174648800.PORTRAIT by radioFlyer55 posted Oct 14, 2022 at 6:24 AM
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