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Don:

Whatever happened to the car you guys were chopping the top on?

I know what yea mean about crowed, been there and still doing that

Originally Posted by 37 Caddy

Don:

Whatever happened to the car you guys were chopping the top on?

Well, we chopped two of them. One was the 39 Dodge truck that I just mentioned selling, and the other was Dan's '49 Ford. The '49 has gone to the great car show in the sky. I got tired of tripping over it and having no room to work on our other stuff, so I got Dans permission to cut it up.

I know it sounds terrible to do that, but the body was a 4 door that we would have had a lot of work in to finish it off as a tudor, and it was pretty rough with a lot of flooring and whatever that needed replacing. Dan bought it for the flathead anyway originally and it had no title, so that would have been another hassle.

We did save lots of the good parts, like the dash, and Dan plans on putting that in some future project. We also kept the tudor doors he bought out of Nebraska or somewhere like that as they are rustfree. Someday we will find a better candidate to build a shoebox from and the parts we saved will go to that project. I got a real workout with the sawzall reducing the '49 to pieces I could carry out of the shop, but luckily most of the frame was thin enough from rust that it made it a little easier.

Don