Thread: '37 Dodge sedan

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Alright, here's the story:

In March of this year, I decided I wanted another hot rod. I talked it over with the wife and we decided we'd like to buy a driver that needed some finish work. I looked at a few of Craigslist's finest offerings in person, but the value just never seemed to match the price. I stumbled on an ad one day for a 1937 Plymouth sedan. The pictures showed the car in pieces, but it looked to be all there, and in good shape.

It wasn't really what I was looking for, and I knew the wife would be less than pleased, but I decided to call anyways. The guy answers the phone and spends the next 45 minutes explaining the condition and history of the car. He's a hot rod guy too, and admitted that he just didn't have the heart to cut up a car this nice and it has to go before he does something to it that he just won't feel right about. I understand the sentiment, but we're not talking about a rare old Packard, or some one off car that there were only ever 4 made: it's a '37 Plymouth 4 door sedan, and I have no issue with modifying it to fit my tastes.

I arrived to find the car every bit as nice as he had claimed it to be, which was refreshing, given my experience with Craigslist sellers in the past, but found that it was in fact NOT a Plymouth, but a Dodge instead. No bother, that just makes it less of a "belly button car", as my grandpa would have put it. A deal was struck and I came back a week later with a buddy, a trailer and two trucks to collect my prize. My wife was less than impressed with my purchase, and I put up with some verbal harassment about it in the months that followed, but she's taken a liking to it since then.

I'll continue the story in the next post, but here's a couple pictures of the car before the work started.

17807232_10206888870500870_948369120513585522_o by Ryan Mazingo, on Flickr

17814563_10206888479731101_2277014667208448396_o by Ryan Mazingo, on Flickr