This one’s been under development for many years. I bought it as a project over 50 years ago. It has been start and stopped worked on some of that time with about 40 of those years tied up in barn/garage storage. Took me a while to work out the y block conversion and bring the other driveline pieces together. The sheet metal was all ‘35 but since I have another ‘35 pickup, I decided to use a ‘37 grill and “hybrid” hood. More time and effort. Needed a bunch of smaller sheet metal repairs but they’re done. There are some other tricks not seen in these pics and you will see them “someday”. Getting close but time moves faster than me.
Got in '84 a week after graduating high school as an original car. Only car all the way through college and dental school, which limited how much I could get done on it. Got wrecked and has been waiting ever since. It's still here and retirement is around the corner.....
The white 62 Cadillac has belonged to my mother since the mid eighties. This car was completely disassembled and painted in 2005. Slowly but surely it has been getting finished up over the years. I acquired my 57 Eldorado from Orange54, here on the Hamb, back in May of 2005. Since then, I've managed to remove the front bumper, get the engine unstuck, and gather up several missing parts. I'll get it inside the shop as soon as I have space for it.
Yes, and my Shop is still full of them. Now that I'm retired, I don't know if I have enough Get-R-Done left in to finish any of them. But I'm still giving it all I have every day, but it's just not the same anymore.
There were a few I should not have ever started on, those are no longer here. Does that count? I feel that I have finished building all of them that I should have.
62 Belair bubbletop. No pics, I was 15 and people didn't have phones in their pocket back then. Hell, I think we still had a 'party' line!
Last few years,have had to look at what I can an can't do more vs,jump into things. Now be 84 yo this Sept. A little over 25 years back,I picked up a garage clean out of hotrod parts. In it was a cowel from a 1917 Huppmobil roadster,with almost no rust. I didn't need or want another hotrod or even one to sell. But like it was a magnet,parts that would work great as a hotrod,kept poping up { Being I'm a nut n bolt case,if they were cheep,I'd buy them= They fit for a little out side the box hotrod !> So in my head I gave the now pile of parts a Name; "Hubba Hubba Hupp". Then more time an more parts,; I have to admitte to my self; To old now to do it. Already too much to do,just keeping my 28A an helping my Son keep his 23T going{ he has no time or want to do a nother rod ether. A lot of parts,I have no pic of,but listed down the right side of drawing of ideas. It needs a new owner.
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