Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Nice work Don, the rivets are off the chart! I love the rpu look and I am going over to Brians side on the side window lines but being in construction everyday, things that are off balance or unstraight drive me nuts!!

Thanks guys.

No Steve, my Dad wasn't a hot rodder, but he and my Grandfather had that old time "make it work" ability that our forefathers had. They would mull over some problem and pretty soon they would be at work and have it fixed. My Dad's dayjob was being a diesel mechanic in the local steel mill, and he was a musician at night. (sax man) Unfortunately, he died when I was only about 11, so I never really got to know him as well as I would have liked........it has been a hole in my life. I also wish he would have lived to see my own Sons, they are sax players as well, and he would have been beside himself to see how well they play, and they would have loved knowing him as well. Below is one of the few pictures I have of him, taken sometime in the late '40's or early '50's. He is on the right.

Brian, thanks for that picture, I'll pass it along to him.

Jim, yep, he likes the details for sure. Me, I would have stopped with the brackets as shown in the first picture, but they bugged him, so he cut those ears and made them part of it all. Right now he is agonizing over the spring to frame mount, and to be honest I don't understand why. It is a simple mount, but somehow he thinks it has to be so complicated. I guess that's one reason his car will be nicer than mine.

Brad, I would have never thought of the rivits either. Funny part is, they won't show much when the car is together, but I guess he will know they are there.

Brick, you must think like him. You both have more patience than me, and a different vision of what the final result should be. That is a good trait, makes for a nicer car in the end.

Don