Thread: New/Old Yard filled with projects.

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Originally Posted by TooMany2count

Bob it may be both, but it's also one of the ugliest things I have ever seen ...joe

Again Joe, good to see you back in the mix. Yeah, but there are others out there too. Here's one that wasn't likely built by the same guy, but looks like they went to the same design school. The side view only looks a little weird, but the front........................

Bob That truck and Ford brings to mind the stories I've heard about a buncha guys getting together on a Friday night with a couple cases of beer, a lot full of cars and a torch.

Pat

That is so butt ugly it's beyond description.

Ha Ha. must be the same guy that built a Skoda based limo in his backyard a few years back. the owner (from the Czech Republic actually) said: "it was build within 3 days and much barrels of beer!"

Lotsa

To get Mach's thread back on topic here's a way to envision that Custom Ranch Wagon.

Good thing I live too far away or my wife would really be mad at me.

Here are a few more.

That T-coupe would be fun with real steel after all my messing with a 'glass body but I am tapped out and just hope to finish my '29. My family had a '55 Ford two-door wagon and swapped out the 272-Y when it got old and replaced it with a 292-Y from a dealer. It took a week and a comedy of figuring out eight plug wires which we disconnected without marking them. After all of that the crank pulley wobbled when we started it up due to a bent crank and to our relief and amazement the Ford agency from which we bought the engine honored the guarantee, towed the car to the agency and replaced the 292-Y in one day at the agency which amazed us since my Dad and I had sweated a whole week to try to finish the swap! On second thought the Model A Tudor with 16" wheels would be a more sensible starting point and still real steel!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

What is the white roadster?

Kinda has the look of immediate post war Pontiac, maybe Buick, tin. That's a '39 Chev next to it, and much of what's been pictured has been grouped by manufacturer, so likely GM.............though that's a Model A rear cross member on the front bumper.

I could spends days there, snakes or not.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Kinda has the look of immediate post war Pontiac, maybe Buick, tin. That's a '39 Chev next to it, and much of what's been pictured has been grouped by manufacturer, so likely GM.............though that's a Model A rear cross member on the front bumper.

I was thinking Cunningham?

From the look of all the rivet heads, the white roadster might be a one-off patch-quilt-work of various fenders to make a smooth body. I know I have dreamed of what fenders might blend together to make a smooth sports car.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

There was a fad/trend in post WWII U.S. usually referred to as Sports Customs. The idea was to build a sporty, low slung looking car from a more mundane sedan. For more info here's a Hemmings blog on the subject; http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...a%3DN%26um%3D1
These were popular enough that a number of articles appeared in Popular Mechanics, or maybe Mechanix Illustrated, probably both that did "how tos" on this style of car. As often happens, how well they turned out depended on the skill of the builder.

Some more. The white roadster is some kind of custom. There are several there including the 38 ford pu. I couldn't believe they are just setting there. Even as ugly as that pu is, it has a lot of work in it. . . .