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Out#@$%Standing! Looks fantastic. Wow you've been really busy! Keep up the posts. Really like the dash mods!

Thanks guys. Body is cinched down and gauges are in the firewall.

So I crammed for several weeks to get ready to drive my coupe to the Roundup. It was amazing.

Got the manifolds on and the car running:


My good buddies Bob, Mark and Jeff came over to help motivate me. At this point I was up for like 2 days straight..



I have this bottle of water that was blessed by OZZY. I use a little in every car I make. It never lets me down.



Slowly getting close to driving:



Took it out and around the block. Damn it feels good!



Shift knob



Drove to work:



Temporary interior



And for it's first official drive why not go 50 miles to eat some BBQ with one of my best friends? It'll cruise at 75 laser straight with almost the entire gas pedal in reserve. Way faster than I'm willing to try, and that's saying something, cause I'm nuts.



On our way back to Austin



Did a little cruising and met up with some pals at the Continental club



Next morning Getting ready to cruise to the show:



Where I promptly swapped plates with cooler ones.



My friend Matt took this pic




Won the Mad Fabricators pick! It was an incredible honor that my buddy Piero thought enough of the car to pick it as his favorite. What a great weekend!





Next Step: Shake it down for a few weeks then yank the body for some Paint and interior!

Fantastic metal work! I had a '29 roadster body with similar rust but just did not know such restoritive metal work was possible so I sold it and bought a 'glass body. I still had a challenge with the 'glass body but I have to say your work is amazing; expecially the later dash and the window sills.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Way to go Dreddybear! Congrats on the award too! Looks fantastic, glad your enjoying it! Great work with cool details. Thanks again for the great pics of all your hard work. It's good to have friends who help motivate us!

That's a great update! You've got some fantastic pictures there, and the car's coming together as a great period example. Stance is right, and it's got to be a ball to drive. Really like that picture from the driver's seat over the six bellmouth carb scoops!

Awesome work! Great pics!!!

Wow, you have awesome skills man! I love how your car has turned out. That dash is awesome! Great work and congrats on the award! That's awesome!

Little Video I took. Taking the body off next week..

Building momentum to remove that body...............

Nice job Dreddybear!

The little coupe is looking very nice, and I LOVE the split log four carb manifold! Might be a b!tch to tune, but the look is very cool (or kewl, as Mr Severson likes to say...)

Very nice! It looks and sounds awesome! Do you guys have any model a sheet metal parts laying around down there?

Collection is growing..



What's in here? My buddy..



Score!



Even perfect metalfinished cars get bondo. This one is NOT perfect!



Slave workers doing their thing.



I guess they might know what they're doing if what they drive is any indicator..

Sorted some things.

Ariels. Yes!









Exhaust through the rear with bezels.





Visor added plus some other things..