Thread: Dad's car

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BTW, Thanks guys for all the input on my questions so far. I figured I'd throw some pics up of the car my Dad built (is building? Are they ever really finished?). The marker lamps are from a Heritage softtail, the rear end is Jag, the little chrome bracket in the back window holding the third brake light was part of a toaster (Still says "one slice" with arrows pointing to the slot where the light is)!






The interior still needs work, which I plan on helping out with, and we''l go from there.

A bit off topic but -
Has anyone heard Dan Seals 'Old Yellow Car'.

Great ballad - it should be on every Hot Rod 'mix' CD.

He's done a really nice job on it. I like yellow anyway, it just looks like a hot rod color to me.

Don

he has done a real nice job on the car, and i love the toaster thing. what engine is in the car?

Tudor your dads car is sharp. Like the detail in the visor delete. That must have been some work getting it to that stage. Did he use a top of a donor or fab it all in himself.

Seroiusly, this car really was right out of a barn somewhere in NH. The frame was already set up for the jag rear end and a small block. The body itself was rusty steel, with an amateurish chop done that he had to go back over and straighten, grind, fill etc. Basically he scrounged up recycled parts anywhere he found 'em and made whatever he couldn't find. You know, the way rods used to be made before $50,000 turnkey replica's could be bought.

He's a motorhead frm way back. During the 70's he was into Brit bikes. At any given moment he had anywhere from 2 - 5 bike projects going at a time. Damn, if he still had some of them they would be some real time pieces. Nortons, Velocettes, Matchless, BSA, and the crown jewel was a 1951 Vincent Rapide in, not quite, but damn close to concours condition.

Back in the 50's when he was a kid, he and a bunch of kids from Waltham were in a club called the Pushrods. He told me that they sprayed one of th edrag cars purple in his dad's garage. Gramps was fit ot be tied when he came home and found purple overspray all over the garage...

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

He's done a really nice job on it. I like yellow anyway, it just looks like a hot rod color to me.

Don

I'm partial to that color meinownself.