Hot Rods Field Cars.... NOT Barn Finds!

Quite a few of you folks post threads about vehicles you've stumbled upon, rotting in a field or even the forest. Almost reads like a Grimm's Fairy Tale. But have any of these been saved and made road worthy? Yes? Then post 'em up!

 

My avatar was a field car, getting close to running and driving.

 

Oldsmobile?

 

49 Buick

 

My 50 ford was sitting in a field in Ocala with no engine,trans,glass etc.I guess that makes it a field car?

 

Found behind a barn, got it home.

 

You bet your sweet tits I have, Fred. As found:

Today:


Build thread: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/a-speedster-comes-out-of-the-weeds—build-thread.1003005/

 

My avatar started out as a field body.

 

Got any before and after pics?

 

VERY nice recovery! That's what this thread is about. Show what you found and how you got her back.

 

WOW! Just........ WOW!

 

Thanks. I'm bad with those body styles.

 

Does behind a fence, on the edge of a field count?

How about in a junk yard?

I don't have a picture of the car in the stone quarry, but I have a picture of it shortly after I got it home.
Gene

 

My 32 was in the woods. Unfortunately, I wasn't the one who found it, but I am the one that brought it back to life. Build thread in the link below.

 

Here you go Tfeverfred.First pic is day I got it,second one is first day I drove it (legally).There is a thread on this (ongoing) build on the customs forum.

 

I love playing the field.....well kind of these days....

 

This one was on the edge of a ravine in the Sierras. No engine.trans side glass. Had rusty floors, quarters, 4 flats and a big rat

 

This one waits 300 miles away

 

Fou nd this 63 American in the brush on an acreage. Does that make it a brush car? Tuned it up, put a small NOS kit on it and went racing at the '03 HAMB drags. Fat Ass Whitewalls has it now.

 

Thanks Fred.
I can't take the credit for the first build up, but once I got it off the builder, I stripped it, rebuilt and painted it.
I didn't do the flames, but I designed and helped all the way with them.
It took me five months to completely transform it. I'd allowed myself six, so I was happy enough, but I'm still making changes.

 

My brother [Janglehead] found this anglia in Lockjaw's field in southern Oregon and built a strip car with it.

 

Swapped four rough grille shells for this 41 Ford COE about 12 years ago


Took about 11 years to get it to this

 

BJR, got to love them buicks!!!! Bruce.

 

Before and After. It took both cars (61 and 62) to make one.

 

Brought home last week. Give me some time and it'll be on the road.


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Here it was in the field...


As drug home.



And now...



And here is one of my f1s as found in the field...



And now....

 

surprised that no one has clarified what a "Field Car" is - in American Graffiti, when Falfa & Milner catch up to each other for the first time - Milner: "A Field Car runs through the fields, dropping cow shit all over the place to make lettuce grow"

 

Defiantly a field car in early 1980's.....

Now it's out of the field & sleeps indoors. Flux

 

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