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Pretty cool stuff Dave.

Neat story, and cool hat and plaque!

Great Story Dave!!!

Rusty

Dave,it seems we have more in common than slot cars!

Yeah Dave awesome story!

Thanks for sharing!

Like you I don't have an old 1:1 currently either.

Still looking for another though.....

Has to be the right project to take on.

Not to take away from your story but I think we all had an old car story to tell...

I had a few vintage rods myself I still wish I had.

I had a model A coupe with a 402 Big Block, 4 speed and 9 inch Ford rear.

I loved this car. The body came out of an old junk yard in South Dakota.

I also had an old '37 Ford coupe drag car. It came out of an old corn field in Wooster, Ohio where it sat for years before it was found.

It had a '57 Pontiac rear end with cheater slicks on the back, fiberglass front fenders and was without drive train when I bought it.

I was told it was raced with a 392 Hemi and 4 speed.

I tinkered with it for awhile and eventually sold it before getting very far with it.

At the time my friend where I kept this car at had a '34 Chrysler airflow he was going to turn into a sled, a '37 all steel Willys coupe and a '39 willys pick up all steel. He picked up the collection of Willy's from a guy out of North Carolina for a song basically. He still has them today I do believe? We kind of parted ways and lost track of one another.....

Those were the days when I had no responsibilities or commitments and could dump a whole pay check into my cars back then.

Now I am lucky to be tinkering with Ho and 1/32 versions of these cars!!!!

Some day I will get another again.....

Some day......

Wayne(Bolton's Speed Shop) :D :D :D

Some more stuff,i have built (ground up) over 30 rods and customs since 1977, owned and modified that many more,my taste have always run late 50's style
check out the roadster with gmc 2-71 blower on it! hand built the whole set-up.i have started three car clubs since then,and two are still going strong.

Drop dead gorgeous car dave,till they flamed it.......who would do that to a traditional build like that! I am not a painter by any means,so most of my rides stayed in California suede. I did hand tape and shoot all my flames tho. I love the tilted b-post,only a few choppers do that right,as its a job! I always leaned them forward,made em look fast sittin still.
My shoebox had a tag on the front that read "no merc" cause everyone thought it was a 49 merc. took a lot of work to nose that baby and add that Desoto grill,french the lights etc, my elec door buttons were in the appleton len's I also cut out the rear taillight sweeps that run back from the rear lights,and then stood up two 52 poncho lights.I could go on with this stuff for days,but those days are gone ,still got a 31 Vicky body and chassis out behind the shop....hmmmmmm?

With this I will get off this post! I really liked your story dave,it took me back to some great times!
This is my newest car I ever built,and me 20 years ago.thanks for the memories. 409/4-speed

The only picture of my only rod/custom is in a box in the storage shed. It was a '41 Ford Deluxe Tudor Sedan, with the old 85 horse flathead still running with hundreds of thousands of miles on it. I found an Offenhauser manifold that would take three of the one-barrel Holley carbs that were stock, and just for fun, I got two more carbs from Standard Parts (later NAPA), still in the box with Ford script on them (I also got coils, fuel pumps, elbow shocks and a bunch of other stuff from them, all in Ford script boxes-- I made a deal and cleared a shelf of old Ford stuff). That particular Standard Parts depot bought all the parts from the old Ford plant in Memphis decades before. It was wonderland in there. I sold it to a guy who worked at the American LaFrance fire engine factory in Wisconsin, and I saw it in a magazine a year later. Prettiest red you ever saw. He put the flathead in something else and stuffed something huge under the hood. I don't remember what it was, but he stuffed it in there.

The reason that red looked so good to me was that I messed up the paint. I dug around all over Memphis to find an original 1941 Ford-Mercury paint chip chart. I wanted the creamy beige that was on Lincolns that year. I found it and had the painter order it by the original number. When I went to pick it up, the paint job was flawless- a really fine job. YELLOW. The paint chips had discolored over time, and it was a shade of light yellow. In those days, paint chip charts for shops didn't have names for the colors, just numbers. The chip charts at dealers had the names.

Nice rods guys. Great hat and stuff you've got there. I have all of my original Chevelle Club stuff going back to 1982. Don't have the cars any longer, but I still keep the stuff that means something to me.