Thread: Dad's car

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Tudor your dads car is sharp. Like the detail in the visor delete. That must have been some work getting it to that stage. Did he use a top of a donor or fab it all in himself.

Seroiusly, this car really was right out of a barn somewhere in NH. The frame was already set up for the jag rear end and a small block. The body itself was rusty steel, with an amateurish chop done that he had to go back over and straighten, grind, fill etc. Basically he scrounged up recycled parts anywhere he found 'em and made whatever he couldn't find. You know, the way rods used to be made before $50,000 turnkey replica's could be bought.

He's a motorhead frm way back. During the 70's he was into Brit bikes. At any given moment he had anywhere from 2 - 5 bike projects going at a time. Damn, if he still had some of them they would be some real time pieces. Nortons, Velocettes, Matchless, BSA, and the crown jewel was a 1951 Vincent Rapide in, not quite, but damn close to concours condition.

Back in the 50's when he was a kid, he and a bunch of kids from Waltham were in a club called the Pushrods. He told me that they sprayed one of th edrag cars purple in his dad's garage. Gramps was fit ot be tied when he came home and found purple overspray all over the garage...