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  1. Clay, sure glad it wasn't any worse. Only last week the grandson of the fellow I play music with swerved to miss a deer, ended up rolling his pickup. Kid was OK.....truck probably totalled. In our insurance office, we say it is often better to hit an animal (although we all hate to) than to attempt to dodge it----because you then get into the problem above.

    The last deer I tangled with absolutely hit me. Was at night....it leaped a fence and ditch and ran into the right front corner of my Caravan. Then bounced down the right side, denting each main section of that side. I kept going as there was nothing I could do, but I think the car a ways behind me then hit the deer.

  2. Arthur......its your car, your show.....do it how you want. At least you've used imagination and a little craftsmanship to invent these things. You're probably right, with fenders, hood, etc in place they won't seem as large. And nobody else will have the same thing as you. :);):D

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    Back in 1960, I totalled the parents nice gold and cream 57 Plym wagon with V8 engine and pushbutton transmission. So with the insurance money in hand, Dad went to the Chevy dealer and purchased this wagon new. 6 cyl with stick shift, turquoise and white. Not the deluxe model. Lovely blackwall tires and small hubcaps. The "before" picture here. I don't know where my "after" picture is just now, but that wagon got spruced up by me. (Dad was somewhat generous with letting me do it.) It had whitewall rings and flipper hubcaps, 59 Caddy tail light lenses, and a fake two pipe exhaust coming out. Looked better to me anyway.

  4. A long time ago (like 30 years ago) I simply took front end sheet metal apart....piece at a time. That way you can do things with each part as needed. Also with the front end off, there is usually road gunk that can be cleaned off the frame and other parts. Just depends what you want to do. I think it's easier to do some things with the motor with clip removed. However, the current motor was put in without removing anything other than the hood and radiator.

  5. It's 10:22 pm on Monday night. Just got home from a dinner doings. Looked at the "who's online" listing......are 15 listings of "guest". I presume a guest is someone who has not signed up and does not have a forum name. So, hello to all the guests......come on in, the water's fine. Join in the fun and

    information. Always nice to have a few more old MoPar fans aboard.

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    The fellow on the right is Buffen Buue, president of the North American Car Club of Norway, if I remember correctly. (Not the very best pic - taken at night) They spent the night here in Joplin, MO in June as part of their Route 66 tour from Chicago to California. I think there were 17 cars on that trip...all shipped over here, driven on the tour, then shipped back.

    Another pic of some cars:

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    This group of vehicles was from the 50s and 60s.....all very nice. While here, they went to a drive-in movie.....some or all of the people had never been to one before.

  7. Zach, you would have to be reallll good to get a set of these. This place sells them for $1650 and they say there is an additional 10% price increase coming before long.

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    Link to their ad: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1940-52-53-54-55-1956-60-61-Chrysler-MOPAR-Wire-Wheels_W0QQitemZ200042155964QQihZ010QQcategoryZ34209QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    What I don't know is - if you can buy a new Chrysler style wheel in painted version instead of chrome.

  8. About joining in on a forum, such as this one or the HAMB: one of the HAMBers told me "it's like walking into another fellow's hobby garage--you need to introduce yourself." That's why the HAMBers give someone a hard way to go when they fail to do something in the way of an introduction. Doesn't have to be a literary work of art. No one here is hard to get along with, but we like to have an idea who we are talking to. :)

  9. That little convertible IS slick......modernized with what looks like quality work. Not sure, however, that it's worth $100,000. I suppose if you made two or three hundred thousand per year, then the asking price might seem somewhat reasonable. At todays prices, it might have cost around 50K to build if all work was farmed out.

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