visited another car guy today

[austinsailor]

Heard about another car guy in a nearby town who has 60 or so cars. Makes me envious. Mostly because he's found the time to get them together.

 

Edited June 1, 2016 by austinsailor

[Brent B3B]

I would just love to have the space. do you know, does he do all the work himself? 

 

in the last photo, what is the truck with the red box?

[austinsailor]

He has done a lot himself. Local machine shop does the machine work on motors, he assembles. He's done the body work on some, painted a couple. Said he used to just hole up for 3 or 4 months, work 10-12 hours days seven days a week and finish one. (My wife would put an end to that!). The last few he's found professionals to do a lot of the work. A number of them were bought finished.

He has 53-57 Chevys, both 2 dr and convertible, and random others years and brands. Says he's never gone after anything specific, just buys it if he likes it.

Truck is a mid 40's Ford.

He keeps all inside in running shape, good batteries, good gas and starts all once a month or so whether he's going to drive them or not. Batteries and corroded points are his biggest problems, occasionally bad gas. Says he never used stabil, I suggested AV gas but had to explain what I was talking about.

Really nice guy, enjoys showing them.

Gene

[busycoupe]

Impressive, but I would rather have half or a third as many that were ready to drive. The layer of dust on the cars in the pictures tells a lot.

[austinsailor]

Most inside are ready to drive. He starts them all once a month or so. Didn't notice the dust you mention, but I do agree it's way overkill.

He also has dozens of motors in the back. Flathead fords, big blocks of various sorts. Does make one envious, even if it's not just the way we'd do it.

Genes

Edited June 4, 2016 by austinsailor

[casper50]

How can you enjoy a vehicle to the fullest when you have so many?  Nice cars though.