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Hello guys.
I just stumbled across this forum today and though it would be a great place to get (and to give) information. I am a farily experienced Street Rod builder, A Journeyman Machinist, Certified welder, and Aircraft Machinist in the USAFR.
I will nose in where I feel welcome and have something to offer from time to time, and when I need information myself.
I don't care how experienced you are, there is always someone else that has more knowledge.
I look forward to chating back and forth and exchanging information.
Ed

welcome Ed, sounds like you are a technoid like me, with a lot of experience. You'll be an asset here.

welcome aboard, there is lots of info here to learn

Wow, another guy with a Buick Street Rod!!! Welcome to CHR Ed,
good to have ya onboard!

Greg

Welcome to the Club.

Welcome to CHR, Ed. How about a pic or two of the Bucik??? There's a few Buick guys around here. I'm going to be especially eager to pick your brain on some fabricating and welding questions. Being ex USAF flight crew, I have a lot of respect and admiration for the abilities of the shop guys. Jump on in wherever you see us amatuers going astray !!!!!

Thanks for the warm welcome guys.
I love helping people out with their projects I am currently building a 1937 Cadillac 70 series 4 dr sedan for my neighbor. I would like to say that I am helping him but unfortunately, he doesn't know how to use the tools that I helped his wife buy him for Christmas. I have done 90% of it and he does the cleanup work.
You should see this car. Big and LONG with dual sidemounts. I have the engine mounted on the frame. $10,000 in chrome alone on the engine. Everything Street & Performance. I hope to remount the body on the frame in about two weeks. I am not making a penny from the job. (I need a neighbor like me)
I have some pics of my Buick before I started tearing it down. Fine looking old car. I am kind of computer illiterate so if someone could give me an idea. as to how to post pictures on the forum I will do it.
I am really looking forward to getting into other peoples projects and picking other peoples brains about ideas. Hopefully we can help each other out.
Ed

Welcome to Club HotRod Ed. Hope ya enjoy yourself here and do get involved.
Check out this thread 'bout uploading your pics. Just remember some guys/gals are on slower dial-up connections so try to keep your pics under 100k and around 800 x 600 or smaller.
Larry M.

http://www.clubhotrod.com/forums/sho...sting+pictures

Hello Guys/Gals,
I found a few pics of my Buick before teardown. It was a pretty decent car already but wanted to install an IFS front and rear with coilovers, an LT1 Stroker with 700R4 and air cond with 16" chrome wire spoke wheels.
During teardown I found a lot of bad wood that I am replacing with steel. Although I have built street rods before, the replacement of the steel is something I am dealing with. Very time consuming. I am a metal worker, not a wood worker so I figured this to be the best way.
Anyway these are the pics. Although I love the present color I am going to repaint it black.
Ed

The pics didn't turn out last time. I will try this.
Ed

This is another shot.
Ed

Yet another shot.
Ed

Last one of my Buick. I caugt a lot of grief from my coworkers and street rod friends about buying a 4 door car. But Hey! Street rodding is all about what you want personally, not what others want. that is the beauty of building a street rod. Build it for YOURSELF.
Ed

Ed, I can appreciate you helping your neighbor for no pay. In 1983, a friend of mine asked for my help in locating a 454 to replace the 350 in his Chevy 4x4. My wife jumped in to help and found a guy locally who wanted to trade the 454 in his truck for a 350, so my friend was able to do a no-cost swap with the guy.

He then decided to hot-rod the 454, so his truck was up on blocks in my driveway for several months while he lived from payday to payday and was able to squeek a few bucks out of his paycheck every week for parts. My garage was tied up with his parts and my engine stand and tools. I engineered the build and chose the parts to do it because he didn't know squat. During this time, I used my truck to chase parts for him, along with my time donated to the cause. I estimate that at the fruition of the build, (7 months), I had about three hundred hours invested in it.

The engine build turned out well, fragging one transmission and three different driveshafts.

About two weeks after he pulled it out of my driveway, he called to invite Sharon and me to dinner for steaks. He and his girlfriend picked us up and we went to the local Black Angus. When the bill arrived, he took out his pen and divided the total by two, informing me of the amount Sharon and I were to pay. I don't know if there has ever been a time in my life that I've been any madder. If there has been, I don't remember it.

That was the turning point in my life for helping other people. I haven't laid a wrench on anyone else's stuff ever since, except of course, my immediate family.

I still have and probably always will have the itch to teach. I scratch that itch by participating in this forum, helping newbies, younguns and others with the expertise that I've gathered over my many years of twistin' wrenches.

Hey Tech, if you do my nailhead for free, I'll pick up the whole bill for the steaks, and have all the new parts when I bring you the motor!!!! Bet you haven't had an offer like that today....