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Projects My Last 40lb hot rod

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Mr Gangrene Genes, May 8, 2019.

  1. classiccarjack
    Joined: Jun 30, 2009
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    Your moving right along. Good to know that this can be done and still be able to have windshield wipers.

    Sent from my Moto Z (2) using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
     
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  2. treb11
    Joined: Jan 21, 2006
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    What a great tribute to the early '60s stock and modified class racing. When you HAD to use factory parts. Not the tube frame & carbon fiber cartoon cars now being called "stock"
    And its a MOPAR too. Thanks for sharing your project.

    Sent from my SM-G965U using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
     
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  3. classiccarjack
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  4. classiccarjack
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  5. Gman0046
    Joined: Jul 24, 2005
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    If it were me, I'd have left it alone the way it came from the PD.
     
  6. Thanks for checking up on my Plymouth, progress has been mighty slow lately. I recently got to start a new job after being laid off from work for some time and that has taken most of my prime focus. Making excuses about the heat and the task of keeping the DD fleet rolling doesn't help push the issue forward, so I won't. Also don't want my gravel driveway craft project to take away bandwidth from real H.A.M.B. hot rod builds. Sometimes I do get overwhelmed with the scope and wonder if it was better off left alone in the salvage yard, tittering on railroad ties and cinder blocks. Consider a trope my friend subscribes to, "can't eat an elephant in one bite, just have to chew what you can". Anyway on with the show. While I admire experts that can hammer out panels in one piece, that is not the way it works in my shop. My process always look more like Frankenstein's monster stitched together from cadavers. Here are some pictures of my firewall, not good, just good enough. If I fixated on perfection it would sit in the garage covered with a tarp like so many others. Using '72-'93 Dodge truck engine locking rubber isolators, with bracket stands modified from an A-100 van.
    Also a photo for those that don't think you can spend 40lb of MIG wire on one car.
     

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  7. nrgwizard
    Joined: Aug 18, 2006
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    from Minn. uSA

    Ambitious project, will be worth it when done. Are you sure only 40lbs will do it? :D .
    Marcus...
     
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  8. Cliff Ramsdell
    Joined: Dec 27, 2004
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    Stumbled across this and I’m digging it big time. Always a Mopar guy with lots of cars back in the day when you could buy these cars for easy money, not today.

    Love the AWB cars along with FE dragsters of the 60’s and I’m bumping up this lost post.

    How’s the car coming along?

    Cliff Ramsdell
     
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  9. 1962 dodge lancer
    Joined: Feb 26, 2013
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    1962 dodge lancer
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    from joliet, il

    love those mopars !!!
     
  10. lippy
    Joined: Sep 27, 2006
    Posts: 6,825

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    from Ks

    Keep going we're watching. I've had a few still got a couple. This one went to a friend in England. Lippy
     

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  11. papa's 39 koop
    Joined: Apr 20, 2011
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    papa's 39 koop
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    Had a 64 sports fury with a 361 and auto trans..Wish I had kept it.
     

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