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Ken - Just got my August issue of SR and the layout is great. Really like the 34 PU. Unfortunately I don't fit well inside of them without a large can of grease. Not only two great vehicles but a really cool shop as well.

BTW, I also visited your company's website and liked what I saw. Referred your website to a relative who just got a custom chopper in trade for an unfinished 39 chevy. He was looking for a new trailer for it.

Ken,
I do like your truck and if SR ever gets around to sending me the August issue (I'm at the end of the alphabet) then I'll have a better look. I'm like Mopar 34 - too big @6'4"/205# for the little p/u trucks of yester-year (sez I building a '31 A roadster )

I'm like Mopar 34 - too big @6'4"/205#

Dang Dave, man you're a little on the skinny side. You need to chow down to catch me. I'm probably short enough (6'1") for the truck, but unless he has removable steering wheel, my little belly buddy won't get past it.

I wonder what it would be like to be 205 again? Probably like being 18 again.


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Bob

Places to go, People to annoy!

[QUOTE=mopar34]I'm like Mopar 34 - too big @6'4"/205#

Dang Dave, man you're a little on the skinny side. my little belly buddy won't get past it.

I wonder what it would be like to be 205 again? Probably like being 18 again.


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Bob -
Oh-oh looks like I touched a nerve - and I'm complaining that 36 waist pants don't fit right anymore and need to lose 15-20 pounds (according to my Dr. and my wife). At 18 I was ~165 but that was a L-O-O-N-N-G time ago

Thank you all, I'm getting ready to do another one if you look at my other post I think you would fit in it. I'm just not sure it will look correct. that's why i asked for help, and see what it would look like before I ruin a nice '32 truck!

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

Thank you all, I'm getting ready to do another one if you look at my other post I think you would fit in it. I'm just not sure it will look correct. that's why i asked for help, and see what it would look like before I ruin a nice '32 truck!

Ken,
Historically, a '32 truck is too small for me as a friend, now, unfortunately deceased, built one. But he and his wife fit just fine so us big and/or tall guys can't be a build criteria. It has to be based on what looks good to your satisfaction, and most '32 p/u's do, regardless. Also it depends what you are "trying to say" to others with this vehicle. What I or anyone else thinks about it should not be a significant weighting factor as my opinion might say it looks like h*$$ but to the next guy it is a work of art. Take Posie's new build - not his expected quality in my eyes, but others love it.

If it is as nice as the Chebbie....... (and my Aug SR is STILL not here)

If it is as nice as the Chebbie....... (and my Aug SR is STILL not here)


Well Dave that will teach you to pay for your subscription 7 years in advance. Primedia knows you're not going any place so they can just sit on your August copy until the cows come home.

My last name starts with an S and I got mine in yesterday's mail, so unless you are a T or later, yours should be there today or tomorrow, unless of course the mailman (mail person for you that are p.c.) is a car nut and too cheap to subscribe.

And Dave, no you didn't hit any nerves here. Not many of them left to hit. And your 36 waist pants don't fit anymore? Hell I can't remember when that size ever did. Maybe in my first life.... surely not in this one.

Originally Posted by mopar34

If it is as nice as the Chebbie....... (and my Aug SR is STILL not here)


Well Dave that will teach you to pay for your subscription 7 years in advance. Primedia knows you're not going any place so they can just sit on your August copy until the cows come home.

My last name starts with an S and I got mine in yesterday's mail, so unless you are a T or later, yours should be there today or tomorrow, unless of course the mailman (mail person for you that are p.c.) is a car nut and too cheap to subscribe

And Dave, no you didn't hit any nerves here. Not many of them left to hit. And your 36 waist pants don't fit anymore? Hell I can't remember when that size ever did. Maybe in my first life.... surely not in this one.

Well Bob, if you are an S and I'm a W then maybe tomorrow or Thursday - heck, I just got my June NSRA Streetscene yesterday, June 11. I don't think this mail person is a car nut - he asks the 'wrong' questions when he sees me working on my car.

Sorry about the waist size - 15 years ago mine was a 34/35 and with a wife that likes to cook - I have tended to spread beyond the middle age expansion.

Oops - gotta go - lightening just hit a tree in the woods in back and scared the @@@@ out of me.

Later

Originally Posted by mopar34

Ken - Just got my August issue of SR and the layout is great. Really like the 34 PU. Unfortunately I don't fit well inside of them without a large can of grease. Not only two great vehicles but a really cool shop as well.

BTW, I also visited your company's website and liked what I saw. Referred your website to a relative who just got a custom chopper in trade for an unfinished 39 chevy. He was looking for a new trailer for it.

Thanks for the nice comments and the business.
Ken

I will never forget the time my car was on a magazine cover. Unfortunately it was on the cover of the wifes Home & Gardens while I was putting dressing on my tires. Ruined the cover and made the wife mad.

Congrats to all who made the magazines.

Jack

Ken i'm one who likes getting up do some reading and coffee then get ready for work.

The layout was great and been reading the new thread with the truck.

Mine finally came, but I could not remember what to look for. I will find it tonight while sucking on a cold can, in my A/C garage and working on the DeSoto. Probably be more reading and sucking on the cold can than working on the DeSoto .

Jack

Bobby - I do the same thing, while everyone else is still sleeping I sit out in the garage and stare at all the work I have to do

Jack - I don't drink, but after this weekend I'm thinking about taking it up. It's pages 174, 175, 176,and 178 in case things get a Little blurry.

I checked it out. It happens that was one of the few articles I read when I first scanned the magazine, I just didn't put it together with this thread. I usually do a quick scan, then a detailed look. Those are great projects, but I favor the pick up. I think that is going to be very cool ride. I do like the little touch where you raised the rear wheel opening on the coupe. Nice touch, most people will love the look, but never notice it was an added process.

Do you have pictures of current status you can share with us. We want to know " the rest of the story ', and we love pictures.
Jack