Hot Rods Well, I bought a Thames!

Great score, wicked hot rod. Keep us posted. She should be 60's gasser style all the way

 

in the words of the Black Crows jealous, jealous again . love it. SS

 

Could use a quick gloss black paint job, and that’s about it!

 

That thing is terrific, little West vs. East with the Beatnik Bandit ???

 

THAT SWADE AVATAR!!!!!

 

Hated how low it was in front, it looked broken.

I tossed the dangerous blood thirsty fan and resigned the entire front. I lowered the radiator, moved it closer to the engine, made new motor mounts, installed new cooler and mounted the transmission cooler.
Hopefully tomorrow I will have my new steering coupler and then it's off to the muffler shop.

 

Damn..!

Mike

 

Just out of curiosity, I see in this latest picture that the Moomjeans car hauler is still at your place, so do you own it now? If so, that is a hell of a great truck.
I found a shot of Moomjeans car hauler back in the day when Dennis Moomjean was the track champion at the Merced Raceway.

I looked back through your thread on the Willys Gasser build, it really made me smile to see that indeed you did acquire Dennis Moomjean's car hauler, and I am really glad that you decided to keep the name on the door, that truck has a lot of history behind it.

 

Very cool with a ton of potential.

 

Tuff lookn’ little bugger!

 

Definitely in the ballpark, looks like a sick little ride.

 

Anglias and Thames are very cool and just don't hardly see them much.
Im sure that will be a stunner.

 

On the ramp truck, the only thing I will change is the front suspension and winch as well as the engine. I bought a 78 dually with hydro boost brakes and kept the front half of the truck. Once it's all installed, I'm going to run a power steering driven winch instead of battery operated, more reliable.

 

What a bad ass little hauler.

 

I'm going to rebuild the front suspension and add spindle mounts as well as a 60's Psychedelic paint job and an injected SBC.

I bought this axle the other day and I'm trying to figure out what the best front suspension should be for a 60's-70's gasser.
Semi elliptical, spring over axle, leaf springs, coil overs....

 

Possible new paint idea.

 

goodbye rack and HELLO straight axle/no brakes!

 

I can hear the Chirping tires into Second already...Congrats on the aquisition...rumpity rumpity!!

 

change has come

 

dropped it off at paint 5 days ago

 

Great panel paint job!

 

I’m definitely digging that panel paint job. Psychedelic baby, that helped the vibe a ton

 

NICE real NICE. The perfect style paintwork for a Thames.

 

That paint really “pops”.... freak drops an all!! Looks great!

 

WoW!

 

Dang' !!!! Wooooooo-Eeee is that cool.

 

What a find!
Rare to see these around any more.
Good job on the front end change, like the paint job as well.
Way togo!
Mick