Thread: Project "Left Overs"

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Wow, that first picture came out really small. Anyway, I wasn't going to see all that work he put in go to waste, so I set it aside until I got my 23 and then my 27 out of the way, knowing exactly what I wanted to do with it when I did finally get around to building it.

In about 1970 I built a 32 roadster pickup. I had no money, two kids who were about 6 months old, a wife, and a burning desire to have a hot rod. Sounds like most of us, I bet. So I scrounged up a 39 Ford and robbed the frame, found a 32 pickup body for $ 15, and a built Olds engine and Cad/Lasalle transmission for $ 175.00. Out of those parts I built that car, and actually got it running enough to drive my wife and kids around the neighborhood before the cops would show up. The car I am going to build now is kinda, sorta, a recreation of that car.

For the engine I have another Olds, this time a 30 over 394 that we built originally for the 39 Dodge pickup I had at one time. We built it about 4 years ago, maybe 5, and a couple of years ago I decided to scrap the Dual Path transmission that was behind it and put a Bendtsens Transmission adapter on it so I could run a more modern TH350. I think that was a wise investment, even though the adapter was $ 1000.00. I just didn't trust that old 64 Olds transmission, plus it weighed a ton.

Here is the engine I will be using:

Don