Projects a basket case worth saving

You can do it.

 

Is it done yet? A little chicken wire and some bondo, we'll have this sucker on the road!


-LUKEY-

 

Relax all right?
My old man's a television repairman,
he's got this ultimate set of tools!

 

And survey says; #1 Question is tell us the story behind the car #2 If you have the time & skill just about anything can be done.

 

I can't throw anything away.......

 

Great project! I cant wait to watch it to come together!

 

Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I use that line all the time.

 

worth saving I think? Frankenstein is a more appropriate name tho

 

all of the metal pieces and parts will come from Lee Kay in orange county, he's the best in my book. He hand builds entire coupe body's.

 

backstory is that it was dug out of a river in okmulgee oklahoma with a tree growing through the middle of the roof. There ain't a straight piece of metal on this pig. But at the end of the day , it's just metal. A little cut here a little metal shrink there, a little tig weld here, etc... AND A HELL OF A LOT OF BONDO!!

 

Yea, I thought I recognized it. It can be saved, good luck and have fun.

 

dont give up now, you got some bitchin headers!

 

I'd have to go with the somewhat solid rear section and build from there. Not that the back section can't be saved but using that section might give you a good foundation to build from.

One thing about it, it makes cutting the two cabs I have in two and making a stretched and chopped cab out of them a piece of cake in comparison.

I'm subscribed as my daughter wants a steel 40/41 Willys coupe and I'm afraid she might drag a similar project home one of these days.

 

I don't think I like these wheels, gotta sell em!

 

working on doors

 

If you don't save it ill do it...

 

It's a project worth saving. I just have to ask, for the record how many different bodies donated parts? Hard to believe there are that many parts bodies out there.

 

I have the front fenders and center grille panel you need! PM me...

Steve

 

Oops, here it is...

Steve

 

i would save it can wait to see you build it

 

Not much work lately but at least it's slowly resembling half of a car

 

oops

 

Go for it. Guys are saving every piece of 32 scrap they can.

 

Its starting to look like something...

 

thank God for visegrips

 

This looks like something we might have taken on. Don't give up it will be well worth it when it's done. If it's a willys it's worth saving.
Gasser Girl

 

yes i would attempt to save it...and i would have a story to tell others!

 

When I looked at your pics I threw up a little in the back of my throat because if I tried to fix that it would probably look worse when I was finished.

I've seen some amazing metalwork here on the HAMB but sometimes I wonder whether it would be better overall (time/money) to find a better donor car than to spend hundreds or thousands of hours resurrecting a frankenstein.

Good luck. I look forward to another amazing HAMB project.

 

I get the feeling from some of the "saves" I've seen on the HAMB that taking a pile of scrap(no offense drumyn29!)and bringing it back to life delivers a level of satisfaction that would be hard to achieve with a good donor car. To each his own, but its builds like this that I really appreciate most. Not only is it educational but its downright cool!

 

I love it!Go for it.I would.