When vehicles were started and "completed"

[pflaming]

Seems that every year one or two cars are completed i.e., PUT BACK ON THE ROAD> So I'm wondering what a chronological record would look like:

pflaming // B3B: Started in spring of 2006 === Legal on the road in spring of 2013

Maybe the administrator can set up a page into which we put the information and possibly a pic.

[TodFitch]

A special page, not in the forum area, will require action from GTK.

 

For what it is worth, I took my '33 apart in the fall of 1978. The next time it ran enough to go around the block (with woefully misadjusted brakes) was New Year's Day 1998.

 

Officially it was legal on the road the whole time as I never filed a non-op on it and I paid the registration for all those years. What finally got me off my butt to get the last of the work done to get it going was California starting to require proof of insurance: I hadn't bother insuring it for all the years it was apart. Cost of insurance was high enough that I either needed to file a non-op or get it running so I could enjoy driving it.

[Merle Coggins]

I purchased my truck in May of 2006, on Mothers Day in fact.

Here it is just after I got it home

 

By August of '06 I had the engine all tore down and over to the machine shop. I then began more disassembly on the truck itself.

 

By the end of September of that year I had the engine back together;

 

And then the focus went back on the chassis. I stripped it to a rolling chassis and began cleaning. From Oct, '06;

 

After I had a good coat of POR15 on the chassis, and had it top coated to protect the POR from UV, I could begin the reassembly and overhaul of the brake system, complete. Once I had the drivetrain all back in, and all new brakes, it was time for it's first test drive... Jan, '07

 

From there the body work began. Lots of sand blasting, beating dents, sanding, filling, sanding, priming, sanding, priming, sanding, etc, and finally paint. Eventually it all came together and it was time for it's Maiden Voyage on the street. Now fully licensed and insured it came out of the shop, almost whole. June, '08

 

Now I had room to begin work on the bed. I also had a goal to be ready for the WPC meet in Farmington, PA that July. And I made it. Here's the complete truck again. I got it all together July 4th weekend, 2008

 

A few days driving it back and forth to work to work out a few little bugs and it went on the trailer for the trip to PA, and it's WPC debut.

 

From then on it's just been smaller projects.

The interior was done over the '08/'09 winter. Only the seat had been recovered during the initial build.

I had to replace the clutch the next winter, Jan, '10 as it began slipping badly over the previous fall.

Disc brake conversion also done that winter, Feb, '10

 

Other than that I just drive it all over during the summer months and do little maintenance over the winters.

 

Merle

 

 

[Merle Coggins]

No one else wants to play along?

[Don Coatney]

I forget when I started and I don't think I will live long enough to ever say my car is completed. Line in the sand keeps moving.

[RobertKB]

Started 1986

 

 

Circa 1992

 

 

Finished 2005

 

[Dan Hiebert]

Started our D24 spring of 1992.  Roadworthy and registered as a Texas "Antique Auto" summer of 1993, but - completed?  Nah.  I'm with Don on this one.  That date is over the horizon somewhere, and I don't think I'd have it any other way.  I enjoy tinkering with it and finishing the next project (and there's always a next project) as much as driving it.

[mrwrstory]

Purchased my P-15 in April 1994.  It ran well 'tho I replaced the shot rearend with a Volare unit.

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Dumped the front and put big tires on the back and drove it as a faux Hot Rod til about Dec. 2000

when I started serious modifications to make it run as good as it looked.

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All went dormant, while I was distracted by other infatuations, until sometime in 2010.  I figgered I better get

busy and "get off the pot" as I had most of the expensive stuff done or in hand.  It fired in the Spring of 2012.

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and,...I have been drivin it and workin on it since.

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[oldodge41]

August 1990

 

 

 

 

 

March 1991

 

Still not "completed"

[ggdad1951]

Merle made me do it...

 

picked up FEF from the parent's farm on April 18, 2010:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

video of his first drive July 30, 2011:

 

http://vid1178.photobucket.com/albums/x365/ggdad1951/downthedriveway.mp4

 

 

 

 

 

Mounted the cab Dec 17, 2011

 

 

first gas run June 2012:

 

 

 

First Back to the 50's show June 23, 2012

 

 

 

took my dad for his first ride in the truck since 1979 Sept 1 2012:

 

 

 

Sept 30, 2012 on his drive back to the farm for a visit

 

 

and the saga continues....

[Jim Yergin]

Purchased October, 1987.

 

Finally on the road, October, 2007.

 

 

Jim Yergin

 

 

[1950 Special Deluxe]

Picked it up from my Father In Law's farm June 14, 2009.

Not complete, but presentable June 2, 2014

Must be complete, received a restoration plaque last night at our awards banquet.

Edited January 11, 2015 by 1950 Special Deluxe

[BobT-47P15]

Purchased "on time"   made payments to the owner over several months in 1972 into 1973.   The car was found in a small salvage yard on the

west side of Springfield, MO.----parked in a garage, surrounded with all sorts of stuff including old counters from a dime store.  Finished my

payments and brought it home in June of 1973.  Had to move those old counters and pull the car out with the yard boom truck/wrecker.

 

This is what it looked like then.

 

 

Put a good engine in it in '73,  sprayed with some Rustoleum primer.....and started driving it.  How it looked in 1975.

(Don't know what the 1994 date at bottom went with.)

 

 

Then sometime later (probably late 70s) , decided it was time to get some minor body work done and have it painted.

 

 

Looked better.............

 

 

Had it re-painted yellow again in the 1990s and finally had a top put on.  Used it for several years.

Then in 2011, the big tornado came through Joplin and right down our street.

 

 

Fortunately, damage was minor compared to everything around it,  The worst thing was some flying

object broke the wooden top bow above the rear window.  That little stick of wood turned out to be over

$600 to have a replacement steam bent from oak and shaped to match the original.  Insurance paid for

it, of course.

 

Son in law took it to his house in Grandview, MO to repair some dents, scrapes and to do some cleanup

from the airborne muck that got on everything.  End result was body work, another paint job and a new interior.

Have a new top in the garage......waiting to get it installed.

 

 

Eventually it will get back to looking like it did prior to the storm.   Speaking of the shifting line in the sand----

now the engine is smoking.  Ah well.......gives one something to do.

 

[40plyrod]

A lot of hard work and "stick-to-it-ness" shown here and very nice end results. I hope to join the "finished" club soon. I purchased mine in 2004 but work didn't start until 2008. I think the best advise I've heard on taking on a big project is that "it like eating an elephant...one bite at a time."  So I guess I'm still chewing. 

[BobT-47P15]

That elephant is looking real good so far.

[1950 Special Deluxe]

Must be done, received a plaque last night telling me it is restored.

[Frank Elder]

This one is a work in progress......

 

[Ulu]

Like bob, I bought my P15 on credit and made 36 payments.

 

Otherwise, I bought mine in '85 all shiny...

 

 

I drove it daily, and over 30 years turned it into this:

 

 

[DJ194950]

A lot of hard work and "stick-to-it-ness" shown here and very nice end results. I hope to join the "finished" club soon. I purchased mine in 2004 but work didn't start until 2008. I think the best advise I've heard on taking on a big project is that "it like eating an elephant...one bite at a time."  So I guess I'm still chewing. 

That's a lot of chewing! 

 

Nice work.

 

DJ