Thread: Project '49 Shoebox.

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You're right Steve, I'm feeling it a little. It's 4 am and we just ate dinner, so now it's a hot shower, some Excedrin, and BED!!!

I'm pretty surprised how much we got done today. Still a lot to do obviously, but we are having a blast doing this one. Nice thing about a $ 500 car, if you screw it up you haven't lost a whole lot of money.

Don

Don wrote: But if worst comes to worst you can always make a convertible out of it.

That's what a friend did. He actually intended to do it so it was not part of a mistake. His came out real nice.

BTW, are the legs in the first pix going to be a permanent addition? Looks like a good foundation for a console.

Haha, I actually suggested a console to Dan, like the ones people used to put in showcars in the '50's, with a fake telephone and 45 rpm record player. He didn't seem to cotton to the idea. Some guys just have no sense of "tradition."

BTW, what's up with the forum today? I tried logging on a bunch of times and kept getting redirected to some site that was trying to cure my athletes foot and sell me some stainless cookware.

Don

Don't know Don. I haven't had that problem lately. Could be you have a website hijacker software on your pc. Sometimes you can get them from just about anything. Last one I had was by Google and it nearly drove me crazy until I found out how to delete it. But then two months later it showed up again. Pesty little buggers.

Don and Dan, Looks really good! Must be nice to have two sons into cars building long term memories they will cherish. I can’t believe how much you guys have gotten done already. If I could get my wife into working on cars we would be quite a pair. With the 43 acres cleaning up is a real job and she is hard for me to keep up with. I want her to read your post on chopping and bagging, sub framing then I tell her to get me started.

Richard

That would be pretty cool if you and she could do a project together. My last girlfriend was willing to roll up her sleeves and do things like this. She and I bought a 27 Foot SeaRay together that had been repo'd and needed some work. I did the mechanical stuff and she did the cabin and cosmetics. Some of her ideas were actually good ones and I was impressed that she was able to figure this stuff out. She also helped me pull and rebuild the engine on another boat we had, and was a tremendous help in doing those things.

In fact, she sewed up the interior for my '27 when we did some things to it about 9 years ago.

Don

Don, it would be nice, I may talk her into cutting the top on the 51 Plymouth, and I’m like mopar34 I would like to make a Carson style top. We do just about everything together, we cannot afford to have repair people come in we just try to do it ourselves. We have put three gas furnaces in this house, one we did twice because of carbon monoxide getting through the walls where the pipes were rusted out. We changed that one twice, this time we put an outside combustion unit in. We have put A coils in two units, two outside condenser; had a guy working on the side hook up the AC lines. We change from gas to an electric hot water heater. We have ran 220 lines where ever we need them in the garage and house, that’s a plus for living in the country. We ran a bigger breaker box hooked it up; we had to dig up the sewer pipes in January with a jackhammer. We put new parquet floors in one bedroom and we still have the dining room to go. It’s amazing what you can do when you can’t afford to pay someone to do it.

She will help me with the floor pans in the Nova, and then we may get started on her 68 Camaro convertible. She tells the oldest grandson they will be driving with the hair blowing in the wind, mine will be gone by then.

We have two of the three grandson's that love the cars.

When my garage gets to the point where I no longer can walk through she feels sorry for me and pitches right in and it's back to order.

Richard