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You wouldn't be bringing anything to Street Machine nationals in Duquoin Il this year?

nah, i doubt it. best chance would be the muscle car show in chicago:

http://www.mcacn.com/index.htm

but i don't think anything we've built has been invited this year. this 68 hurst olds we built was out there in 2011.

Typical mechanic/bodyman..... Always drives a beat POS!

slotcarrod wrote:Typical mechanic/bodyman..... Always drives a beat POS!

if anyone is going to the GM show at carlisle this weekend, the 63 impala we built will be on display in the main building.

Taking this one up to have the new top put on. Pretty soon this one will be done..... thank god.

Couple more little things to put on it, and a super good cleaning, and it'll be all done.

Yeah it does look kinda dirty..

Y'ernat Al wrote:Yeah it does look kinda dirty..

No kidding, I would be ashamed to be seen in something that disgustingly dirty!

Yes, I see that speck of fly sh!t on the hood!

the underneath all has to get wiped down, the engine compartment, clean the windows, etc. of course the outside isn't dirty, i just washed it before taking the pics.

Alright, one last pic of this one. The owner is on his way down to pick it up tonight. If anyone knows who Paul Sr. is from OCC, it's his.
On to a new job, which originally was only supposed to be a simple frame swap. Now its become a complete resto. A 62 chevy bubbletop. I didn't take any pic at the beginning, so the first ones I have are of it pretty much blown apart. But it was a running driving car when it got there, and had just been at a car show the day before. It was a decent, 20 footer. Then you start you dive into it and see how much of a POS it is.

Its a factory 409 2x4 4sp car that spent much of its early days as a drag car. Hence the need for a new frame. The original color is black, so it'll be going back to that, and will retain the correct red interior.
Here's a quick shot of the kind of things we're dealing with on this one. If you want to know, the answer is no, that is not the proper way to repair a wheel well opening.

If anyone knows who Paul Sr. is from OCC, it's his.

I'll donate $10 to the server fund if you make a license plate that says "PJD4LFE"

I hear Sr. has a decent car collection going. Interested to hear how he is up close & personal.
Jason, have you done any of the very early Impalas?

gomachv wrote:

If anyone knows who Paul Sr. is from OCC, it's his.

I'll donate $10 to the server fund if you make a license plate that says "PJD4LFE"

as funny as that would've been........ he still owed my dad some money.

askbob wrote:I hear Sr. has a decent car collection going. Interested to hear how he is up close & personal.
Jason, have you done any of the very early Impalas?

ya, he has quite a few cars, and old school bikes (obviously). he's definitely different than he was on the show, at least back when sr. and jr. were working together. he was pretty mellow on the later ones (for the most part), and that's how he is in person. the first time we were up to his house a couple years ago, we just hung out in his garage shootin' the sh-t. like you would with any other car/bike guy.

as for early impalas this 62 will be the oldest, we did the black 63 a couple posts up, as well as a 64 biscaye (i'm sure there's a pic of it somewhere in this thread). we do have a 58 sedan delivery to tackle one day...... when the owner decides he definitely wants to do it.