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06-08-2012, 11:52 AM | #1 |
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If You are Going to Kill a Good Original....
....then why not finish it? Wasn't there talk recently about this sort of thing, getting a "hot rod" project underway by butchering what looks like was once a solid Model A body, and then abandoning it? Makes me want to cry as I am trying to find a decent restorable 30 or 31 Roadster body.
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06-08-2012, 01:22 PM | #2 |
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Re: If You are Going to Kill a Good Original....
It looks like its been sitting around for some time
Unfortunately there are a lot of starters in this world but not a lot of finshers!!! I guess it could be saved with new subrails, gas tank,& firewall etc . Looks like another project for Flop !!!! John Cochran |
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06-08-2012, 01:29 PM | #3 |
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Re: If You are Going to Kill a Good Original....
Notice the trailer it's sitting on -- all Model A components!
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06-08-2012, 01:37 PM | #4 |
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Re: If You are Going to Kill a Good Original....
No telling when that car was taken apart. If it was long ago then it was a car that no one cared to much for. An old guy at church that has tons of model a's told me that they were so cheap when he was young that they would buy a whole car to get a few parts. It looks prety good and you can find everything still to fix it.
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07-01-2012, 08:39 AM | #5 |
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Re: If You are Going to Kill a Good Original....
i bought that roadster, some of the cutting about the firewall is fresh , but it has lots of good left ,if any one has any sugestions please feel free to mail me , want to build a AV8 have frame and lots of flat parts some of the body parts i dont have , went to oklahoma of route 66 to get it 16 hundred miles im ok with the buy
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07-01-2012, 09:44 AM | #6 |
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07-01-2012, 03:11 PM | #7 |
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Re: If You are Going to Kill a Good Original....
How about adding, loss of job, illness in ones self or family, and a host of other things.
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07-01-2012, 03:28 PM | #8 |
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Re: If You are Going to Kill a Good Original....
FLOP could work this car over [easy] Looks like a early 1930 standard roadster with a TRUNK! rare i would say if you go original ....
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07-01-2012, 03:34 PM | #9 |
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Re: If You are Going to Kill a Good Original....
Bottom line- if someone is enjoying it in any form-good on them. Tired of seeing "perfect" cars packed away and never used. What's the point? Not as if A's are so rare that there are only 3 left in the whole world.
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07-01-2012, 05:00 PM | #10 |
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Gerrald said he purchase it! Asking for help
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07-01-2012, 08:20 PM | #11 |
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Re: If You are Going to Kill a Good Original....
the car looks like it might have been converted to a truck during ww2 . the drip rails in the trunk area are missing and there are opoenings in the back , and below the trunk is missing, no rust out ,but needs subrails and floors , good news its mine
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07-02-2012, 12:37 PM | #12 |
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Re: If You are Going to Kill a Good Original....
By the address its problably being sold by Otto Goins. I bought my 29 CCPk Up from him (If in deed its is Otto) Hes a straight shotter, had no regrets dealing with him. Iceman
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07-02-2012, 04:16 PM | #13 |
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Good luck with the restoration what ever it may be. You have work cut out for ya.. Again good luck... Keep us posted... thanks
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07-03-2012, 04:01 AM | #14 |
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I opened this thread thinking it was another story of a restored stocker that was butchered then abandoned. Thankfully, nothing of the sort.
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12-09-2012, 06:02 PM | #15 |
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finally got all the pieces for my roadster thanks to brooksville ,thanks to my good friend Eddie Murphy for the gas tank and firewall
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12-09-2012, 08:18 PM | #17 |
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"I'm tired of seeing abandoned chop-jobs in the junkyards especially when it is obvious that someone started with a pretty solid original piece..."
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12-10-2012, 09:16 AM | #18 |
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I don't know. I have bought several half (or less) finished Model A's through the years and they turned in to pretty nice Model A's when I was finished with them. Saved me some work and money in the process.
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