My Stuff - over the years

[Mel]

OK here's my projects and cars, old and new, i hope you enjoy looking (as it's taken about a good hour or more to do this)

**You have to start at the bottom of the page and read up **

2007
1932 Ford Tudor. This is another car i've always wanted.....(so many cars to fit into a short lifetime).
The plan is to.......keep working on her. It's only a hobby after all!
When time and money permits it will eventually hit the road. Maybe in a 'Eastwood/Baraket' primered fenderless sedan stylee or maybe a fully fendered ol' timey flat paint style. Who know's...not even me yet.
I'll post updates whenever i feel i've achieved something with it.

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc224/gearhead188/IMG_5316.jpg

http://rides.webshots.com/album/546933655jEmedB

2005
My 32 roadster. 8 Long years when it really should have taken half that time. The end result was a car i have always wanted. It not 'cutting edge' or vastly different from a good number of nice roadsters. For me it's a totally practical ride that i can drive virtually anywhere. It's on 18000+ very enjoyable miles so far, and i hope it will clock up thousand's more in the future.


http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc224/gearhead188/IMG_4983.jpg


2004
Oh no! Not another!!!!
My funky 56 oval window. I bought it, drove it, had fun with it, sold it.

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc224/gearhead188/56beetle.jpg


2001
Another distraction was restoring this old 58 beetle for my daughter. We discovered this car rotting away in a local council lockup. I can remember the owner driving it around my home town when i was a teenager.........years and years and years ago:D.
For me, it's amazing that my daughter is now the owner.
The little beetle was bought 'new' in 1958 by a British Army Captain in Lagos Nigeria and imported to England in 1963, this i can believe as all the old red sand that came out of it when tearing it apart.
It too, also had quite an amazing history to it, as have most old cars if you can discover it.
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc224/gearhead188/IMG_2580528x396.jpg

1999
Who hasn't owned this??? Well amongst loads of others, Russ Debarr(rottenpop) has and so have i.
A very silly person pulled out in front of Russ on a wet road (not a good idea) and the front end got rearranged. I bought it, fixed it up and drove it around a bit.
One thing will stick in my memory about this car, is getting a shower of water falling off the inside of the roof on a cold morning:mad:(no headlining).
I installed LPG to make it a economical daily driver,but I was forever repairing things on it, which kept me from getting on with my 32 roadster.
A lovely ol' mopar with an amazing amount of history from when purchased new......but it had to go.

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc224/gearhead188/Barracuda8.jpg

1993
Gone are the 34 Coupe and the 65 Chevelle(eventually) and also my interest in the 'scene'.
But not entirely.....i bought this little 70 Dodge Dart with a wheezy 6cylinder as a 'family car'. Immaculate interior and very shiny paint. I drove it around Europe in '95 and sold it before i could no longer resist the temptation to cut it around and Pro Street it. If it had been a 68 i would have done it!!!

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc224/gearhead188/DodgeDart.jpg

1990
Bored of the 34, i borrowed the engine/box/wheels and did the Pro-Street treatment to a 65 Chevelle.

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc224/gearhead188/11.jpg

1988
My version of 'Tom Prufer's Cop Shop Coupe'.
Hand made everything on this car, including a fully louvered 3 piece hood, and i built it within 18months!! (wow).
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc224/gearhead188/flamedrod.jpg

1986
I bought this 68 Dodge Coronet R/T, 10:1 440 cu ins Holley 750cfm double pumper, high stall converter Torqueflite 727 and a suregrip with 3.90-1 gears
It eventually ran 12.09 and 118 mph and it was a true street driven car (my only car at the time).
Great fun !! but 10mpg on a run really hurt, especially on a round trip from the South West to Santa Pod Raceway.

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc224/gearhead188/DodgeCoronet.jpg


1982
I built my first 'Hot Rod'
Daimler V8 and Jag Rear, auto was changed for 4speed Jag box eventually.

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc224/gearhead188/pop12a.jpg

[Rich G]

Excellent post Mel - that Barracuda's a bit like the 105E that Russ / me / Jo etc have owned... :D

[Mel]

Thanks Richard. Not sure it warranted any stars though!!!......
I surprised myself when i posted the pictures of cars i've owned, I'd almost forgotten about some of them. Consider myself real lucky to have owned all of them.
I'm thinking about adding some build up piccie's to this thread later on.

[rottenpop]

Mel, of all the cars you,ve ever built, that 34 just gives me goosebumps as it still looks fantastic.

Nice to see the old Barracuda too as in the time I had it I actually managed to take no pictures of it whatsoever. Wierd......

P.S. Tubes in the post today.

[Violent Veg]

Great cars Mel, I remember your 34, still looks the dogs - where is it now? The sedan will look great aswell - my vote goes for full-fendered...

[Rich G]

Great cars Mel, I remember your 34, still looks the dogs - where is it now? The sedan will look great aswell - my vote goes for full-fendered...

Nah, got to be the Barakat & Eastwood look!! :D

[Muroc]

Mel, well what can I say, I never thought you where that old to be honest!

A superb and varied line up, Mopars VW's and the odd hot rod thrown in, that has to be one of my favourite posts, I wonder if anybody else will do this, your flamed coupe will stay forever in my memory, as a young lad riding a bicycle through Kings Langley in Hertfordshire I saw your coupe in an Esso petrol station filling up, I never realised until now it was yours I could have only been twelve at the time, and Ive never seen it since, a very, very cool car indeed!!

Come on get that sedan finished, I'd have to go with the Eastwood look myself!

Dan

[Brootal]

OK... You win... :(

Great collection of cars. No doubt about it! :)

[Hotrod Rod]

Mel, thought you were a die hard pre 49er through and through, never expected so much yank/pro street in your portfolio.............great thread


Rod

[streetvw]

Mel got say I loved your 34 from the day I saw it a avon park and then in custom car. heres a shot of it that I took at avon it was parked up with the blue pop below

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/streetvw/161812874FbZrPI_ph.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/streetvw/bluepop.jpg

nice bugs btw. here is a shot of one of my old bugs

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/streetvw/streetvw_3.jpg

[Mel]

Russ, the Barracuda was a nice old car. Shame to see it go.
VV That photo is one of my favourites of the coupe(taken by Colin Ayers) it's in the States now.
Richard, E&B look is the quickest way, so i'll probably go with that for now.
Dan, thanks for that. Everyone else thinks i'm older.....I can't remember seeing you on your bicycle!!!
Brootal, a great collection if i still had them all.
Rod, nope, i love most old cars, but i can't see me ever owning a Tri-Chevy.
StreetVw, Nice Beetle, btw thats Rem's Pop in front of the coupe.