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Oh ........ it sounds sooooooo fast!!! That has to be a load off. Everyone seems to be pretty stoked about the event. I can only imagine!

Keep up the progress.

REGS

Almost drivable..

Cool!!!!!!

Havent posted in a while, but I drove it at my wedding in march and drove it a bunch this summer. Gonna take it apart soon for the next stage...




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_MeElAg1Ck

Congratulations On both scoring that beautiful lady as your bride and having the car finished enough to use on your special day,well done.
Just found this thread so have read it through and man what an awesome car, love everything about it,man do I want that Caddy motor.

looking killer!

Awesome job man! and I thought my 31 was bad, This give me hope and inspiration seeing you take a car that rusted and turn it into a work of art

wow dreddy that is a really sweet ride. hope that when mine is done that it sounds as good as yours.

Congratulations on your wedding! Must have been cool with your friends following in their cars too. And of course, Congrats especially on your car. Gives me some incentive to get going again on my Essex RS coupe. My car needs an awful lot of body work also. It's intimidating. Never done bodywork like that before, and haven't any machinery to make patch panels. sigh. Perley

Originally Posted by oldrodder43

Congratulations on your wedding! Must have been cool with your friends following in their cars too. And of course, Congrats especially on your car. Gives me some incentive to get going again on my Essex RS coupe. My car needs an awful lot of body work also. It's intimidating. Never done bodywork like that before, and haven't any machinery to make patch panels. sigh. Perley

thanks!

Just attack that thing. If you have a hammer and some sheetmetal you can make it work! Just jump in! If it's a complicated panel, just make smaller sections and join em up

Also I wanna make a point to anyone who may be attempting this for the first time, alot of cars you see in magazines or on message boards these days are metal finished to such a high degree it makes people think they need all this experience and toools to build their own car. Not true. You may not be able to get it perfect in metal, but close enough that the average skim coat of bondo will do. This is more reasonable, plus I dont care who built it, if you want smooth, shiny paint then even the finest metal finished car is gonna get some filler. So BUILD em and have fun and dont get stuck on the little things!

It's been a while but I figured i could update a little









Cut out the ugly hump for the f100 side steer:









Made a mount to run '40 cross steer:







Rebuilt this bad boy:





Learnin to sew:



Makin things nice:





Chromin stuff:





Strippin stuff...



Black Frame.

You've came a long ways on the car, and it all looks great!!!! Keep up the updates!

Whew! And what an update it was!! You've been busy and it shows, a lot of great work there. Thanks for the pics also.

And I only hope that you aren't out in the workshop toooo much and neglecting that lovely bride tooo much mate..... . I do appreciate the little extras you have invested in like the vinyl covers that really takes your car to another level, wow, outstanding, great ideas and they really suit the style of car you are building.

First time I'm looking in your build thread, dreddy. This thing is awesome! Now I'm looking forward to seeing more. Congratulations and good luck.