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well hey evry one

My name is Ivan im from houston texas. Im 16, I bought my first project car about year ago wich was a 92 mr2, when i got it it was falling apart now all it needes is a paintjob. Now i want to get into something more serious like my own hotrod, yes i know im 16 but why not start early. To tell you the truth i dont know much about hotrods but i do know just about all there is to my mr2. So i hope you guys will be able to help me build my first hotrod. Well here is my first question, where could i find a frame for my hotrod or what would be a good donor car to start with.

thank you guys hope you all could help me out!!!

Welcome Ivan.

Before you go tryin' to buy a frame, how about telling us what kind of hot rod you're attracted to. There's a wide world of choices out there, and answers can be all over the place without a starting point.

howdy, Ivan. I agree start young, good to have you here.

We all started with what we could find or afford.
Here is an early car of mine - before

And here is after.
Fortunately i hung with a group that was like this one, only a LOT closer!
Basically, lots of body work and paint, repaled interior and engine.

I seemed to do more when i was young and carfree (no repsonsibilities).

No i worry about money spent, then i had NONE, so i couldn't worry about what things cost!

Originally posted by screamer63_1979
We all started with what we could find or afford.
Here is an early car of mine - before

wow you really got it looking good!!!

im really interested in a hot rod like this one
what kinda frame could i start out with???

That's better. Here's a link to a thread we had running a short while ago with lots of info that will get you started thinking, and maybe even planning. The tbuckets.com and speedwaymotors.com are the two most like what you've shown in the pic you posted.

http://www.clubhotrod.com/forums/sho...al+performance

thanks bob i really like that tbuckets.com website. i really like that t-bucket with a ls1 in it.

thanks you got me thinking

Welcome to the group... T-bucket is a good choice for a first hot rod... You can build on a budget if needs be, they are fairly straight forward with not too many complicated components... There is some good "how to" articles in mags and on the net for these and I have even seen a couple build on TV programs shown on Speedvision...

We will be happy to help with any advice we can, just remember to have fun and learn all you can while you are building it...

Dave Brisco

Welcome to the club. A "T" is an excellent first project. Might want to consider somebody else's started project. Lots of T's get started but never finished, could find one at a bargain basement price. Worth a try, anyway

I thought Streets was gonna give him one. You know, an old dog passing the torch to the next gen so ta speak. Welcome MR2

for what i got for $700 now is the damn 68 LTD so i am pretty much new here too, my first project was a 91 civic,(that was when i got into the sport compact crappy cars) but it's gone now since i bought the LTD, figured that if i was going for power, i should buy a car with a big block v-8. gotta love that power even if it's only making 200 horsies right now until i can fix her up. it's going to be sweet soon.

thanks for the help evryone im getting more and more ideas............... i have and always will love sport compacts because you can not beat an mr2 in handeling(well for the price atleast). Hot rods........ well hotrods have always been intresting to me but could never get around to building one.........finally me and my friend yuri are getting money toghether to start building our T. Right now im trying to count up all the parts we would need to figure out our budget so we could stop thinking and start working.

thanks alot
If anyone has more help please speak up............I will need all the help i can find.

Hey guys, my name is Yuri and I'll be the guy helping Ivan build the rod... a team-work style project. I wanted to take the opportunity to ask just how much horsepower is too much for such a light rod as a t-bucket? We were thinking about getting a turn-key chevy small block with 300 hp . Please helps us out as much as possible . We're really stoaked on this first hot rod project and we really want to eat up some of the local ricers with this thing...