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Hot Rods What did your current Hot Rod look like when you started?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by HOTRODPRIMER, Feb 20, 2015.

  1. Jet96
    Joined: Dec 24, 2012
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    from WY

    image.jpg Mine headed home
     
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  2. Jet96
    Joined: Dec 24, 2012
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    image.jpg Last fall, it's getting brakes etc. right now, there'll be drivable days pretty soon...
     
  3. 1971BB427
    Joined: Mar 6, 2010
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    Yeah. One man's junk, another man's treasure!
     
  4. Flathead Coupe
    Joined: Feb 25, 2014
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  5. Doug B
    Joined: Feb 2, 2008
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    This is the first pic I have of my coupe project. The previous owners grandson tried to help by painting the side of the car white. Currently looks like my avatar,but without the photo chop
     

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  6. vents
    Joined: Jun 16, 2007
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  7. ImageUploadedByH.A.M.B.1425734885.286768.jpg ImageUploadedByH.A.M.B.1425734966.688308.jpg ImageUploadedByH.A.M.B.1425735006.303411.jpg ImageUploadedByH.A.M.B.1425735033.569522.jpg
    Current project
     
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  8. It has gone full circle and looks more like the first picture again due to being stripped down for rust repair, half finished front clip and engine swap etc.

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  9. cs39ford
    Joined: May 1, 2012
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    image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg First two photos from 1987 when I got it up in Mn. Last photo from last summer
     
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  10. 340HilbornDuster
    Joined: Nov 14, 2011
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    The Man..............You Da Man!...Incredible Work!
     
  11. Still a long way to go. 4new.jpg 366new.jpg
     
  12. IMG_4398.JPG November 1, 2014: After 30 years in the basement garage, it was on the trailer to move from the St Louis area down to Springfield.
    10392482_10204600131670986_4879263460147665040_n.jpg November 30, 2014 - Had it running and moving under it's own power again.

    This weekend, the front springs will be rebuilt with a combination of leaves from another set, just to get it up off the bumpstops. Still trying to determine which way I am going with it, long term.
     
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  13. wingman9
    Joined: Dec 30, 2009
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    from left coast

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    First picture is from when I bought the Chevy in 1973. Second picture is a couple of years ago. Holy shit, I think I'm doing this whole thing backwards. Oh, well...
     
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  14. 1978...........

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    2015.......

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  15. Deuced Up!
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  16. 40fordtudor
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    Regret that we didn't take pics along the way---can't say why. Just didn't.
     
  17. Phttttt :p I got an entire life like that. ;)
     
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  18. cs39ford
    Joined: May 1, 2012
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  20. Zandoz
    Joined: Jan 23, 2012
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    When I first laid eyes on the seed of my project it was an unphotogenic mass of hoses and wires that formed a cocoon balanced on an old tire on the back of a flatbed truck. Inside that cocoon was an engine and transmission.

    Today, 3+ years later, the project is still just parts...about 75% of the parts needed for my someday to be bobtail T.
     
  21. Scott67
    Joined: Oct 29, 2013
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    Before and now half way there

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  22. 1932 Ford truck
     

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  23. DDDenny
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  24. clem
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  26. Deuced Up!
    Joined: Feb 8, 2008
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    Believe it or not, I spoke with original builder who did the chop work. He was from Pennsylvania and this was a full fender rod (as per state law) built in the late 1970s and done right. Below however is how I acquired it from a guy in Ohio, back on an original frame, fenders and interior gone with God knows what in mind for it...
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    Stage 1 - Below complete and running

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    Final product a six months later ready for the 2013 HAMB Drags.
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  27. This is a nice coupe, Love the lines, the rake, the chop, even the dash is fine as frog hair.

    So my chuckle of the day, ay my own expense. I was scrolling and some time when I am not really concentrating the words that I see and what is written is not the same. So I am looking at your location as I scroll and my brain said that you live in Tupper Ware New York. :D

    Here is the before of the latest heap to land @ the Pork'n'Bean Ranch

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    Don't have an after obviously but Tim was nice enough to look in my brain and create an after for me.

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