Howdy from the East Coast of canada!!!

[Hemifried]

Hey guys! Want to formally introduce myself to the forum and say Thank you to everyone that's been involved with it's creation as well as all the priceless experience and knowledge that has been shared on it.

Now I may be new to the forum but i'm no newbie to the scene, As a snotty nosed kin in cloth diapers I can remember hanging out with my Dad in the basement garage while he was working at restoring a 48 Desoto more door, Then at the age of 6 he bought a 51 Dodge wayfarer sportabout convertible (one of 1001 built that year) that he restored, I was big enough to sit on the fender and pass wrenches at this point!

Then when I was 8 he found a 51 Dodge panel van that had been used as a bread truck in toronto and some how made it to the east coast and was parked on a vacant lot between two tree's. He found the owner and I bought it for myself for $25! I even paid cash for it!!! It didn't run, and after I tore the engine down once I got it home I found that someone had burnt an intake valve on #3 cylinder so rather than fixing it the pulled the rod and piston out, Widdled out a stick, drove it down the cylinder and I have to assume that they kept driving it for god knows how long! haha

Now to modern times, A few years ago I got the itch that I wanted something of the era and found a 50 Dodge business coupe, that turned out to be a car my dad had purchased the year I was born so he could swipe the motor out of to put in his desoto, Needless to say that 1970 was the demise of the 50 as it had been nothing but a parts car since then... not much left of it now but atleast its home... and it makes for a heck of a lawn figurine!

Todays current project is a 1949 Plymouth business coupe that I bought site unseen and had shipped east from North Dakota, I've enjoyed it for a few years as a stocker with flat black paint and scallop stripes but its time to get to work and tear it apart and slam a 354 hemi into it, My plan is to build a high and mighty inspired street car with the side exit exhaust, homemade tunnel ram. I've been about 8 days since I started tear down, interiors out, Front ends off, rear fenders are off, motor should be out tmw and hopefully next week i'll be starting to trial fit the hemi and a833 over drive 4 speed. I'll post pictures in the next day or so once I figure out how to!

looking forward to reading about all your projects and hoping that being here helps to keep me inspired on this project!

Dad's old 48 Desoto

Dad's 51 Dodge wayfarer sportabout convertible

My 49 last fall

and now

Edited April 21, 2012 by Hemifried
adding pictures

[Hemifried]

sorry for the huge pictures they won't reduce on photobucket for some reason ... weird!

[Don Coatney]

Here is some inspration for you. Pictures from the POC meet in Detroit 2008.

[Robert Horne]

Welcome to the forum.

This my long time friend's car, Charles, Ironton, Ohio.

350 Chevy engine.

[Hemifried]

Here is some inspration for you. Pictures from the POC meet in Detroit 2008.

Thanks Don! I can never get enough pictures of this car!

[Hemifried]

Welcome to the forum.

This my long time friend's car, Charles, Ironton, Ohio.

350 Chevy engine.

That's got some flake in it!! Nice 50 robert.. thanks!

[Hemifried]

Here's a photoshop of whats going through my head, Homemade tunnel ram, Side exit trumpet exhaust, no rear fenders, 8 3/4 rear axle with 3.91's, I'm seriously considering painting it primer gray for the time being as the thought of a 4"chop is in my head but I'm not convinced I want to do that to this body

Here's a picture of my brother and I in the back of Dad's 51 back in the day... I would love to find the car again!!

[Young Ed]

Here's a couple of my pictures from that same day. And a little video of them starting it. Turn your speakers way up!!!!

[Don Coatney]

I recall that the headers were so wide that they had to remove them to get the car into and out of the closed trailer.

[Young Ed]

I recall that the headers were so wide that they had to remove them to get the car into and out of the closed trailer.

Now that you mention it I recall that too. Perhaps they just needed a better trailer though.