Post by rocketeer on Dec 28, 2008 12:55:02 GMT -6
I made a passing remark in the Monte Carlo kit thread about a '41 Plymouth i used to have, and Bill PM'ed me asking if I had any pictures.
So I thought I might post some pics of my old cars. This first set is my '41 Plymouth business coupe. Business coupes were intended for travelling salesmen, so it had no back seat, but a perfectly monstrous trunk for all those samples. I was maybe 18 or so when Dad and I started this project, so I did a lot of dumb stuff: for some reason, I put a Chev straight six into it.
The young knucklehead grinning proudly beside it is me:
And then I became enamored of a sketch I saw in Street Rodder or some such mag, showing a custom '60 Chevy. So I built one. It had '59 bumpers, Cougar sequential turn signals, power windows, shaved door handles, and a tube grille.
Both those cars were fairly amateurish, but by then I was starting to get an idea of how to do things properly, so my next (and last) street rod I was able to do a better job on; it was a '47 Hudson pickup. Ford 302, '64 Dodge taillights. (This car was the occasion for the only purchase of a Ford by our family since the oath sworn by my grandfather after getting rid of his much-hated Model T--I bought a '70 Mustang as a parts car).
Since then, I've owned a '64 Rambler convertible (what a beauty!) and a couple Datsun roadsters, but at present the only car I have that's even moderately interesting is a Miata.
Doggone it, I thought Photobucket had rotated the pictures! Well, what the heck...
So I thought I might post some pics of my old cars. This first set is my '41 Plymouth business coupe. Business coupes were intended for travelling salesmen, so it had no back seat, but a perfectly monstrous trunk for all those samples. I was maybe 18 or so when Dad and I started this project, so I did a lot of dumb stuff: for some reason, I put a Chev straight six into it.
The young knucklehead grinning proudly beside it is me:
And then I became enamored of a sketch I saw in Street Rodder or some such mag, showing a custom '60 Chevy. So I built one. It had '59 bumpers, Cougar sequential turn signals, power windows, shaved door handles, and a tube grille.
Both those cars were fairly amateurish, but by then I was starting to get an idea of how to do things properly, so my next (and last) street rod I was able to do a better job on; it was a '47 Hudson pickup. Ford 302, '64 Dodge taillights. (This car was the occasion for the only purchase of a Ford by our family since the oath sworn by my grandfather after getting rid of his much-hated Model T--I bought a '70 Mustang as a parts car).
Since then, I've owned a '64 Rambler convertible (what a beauty!) and a couple Datsun roadsters, but at present the only car I have that's even moderately interesting is a Miata.
Doggone it, I thought Photobucket had rotated the pictures! Well, what the heck...
