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Title: GLEN'S 59 REBUILD !!!
Post by: the old trucker on April 19, 2009, 05:09:40 am: http://i333.photobucket.com/albums/m366/theoldtrucker/DSCF0258.jpg
Title: Re: It just may be one....Dawg !!!!
Post by: the old trucker on April 19, 2009, 05:17:29 am: Swamp Dawg... remember a while back when I was asking about rims & you asked me if I had a project on the go. Well maybe this will be it. Gotta wait for the snow to go some more.
Title: Re: It just may be one....Dawg !!!!
Post by: Swamp Dawg on April 19, 2009, 12:29:36 pm: Now that looks like a project! ;D
Title: Re: It just may be one....Dawg !!!!
Post by: the old trucker on September 26, 2010, 08:03:44 pm: Quote from: the old trucker on April 19, 2009, 05:17:29 am

Swamp Dawg... remember a while back when I was asking about rims & you asked me if I had a project on the go. Well maybe this will be it. Gotta wait for the snow to go some more.
Quote from: Swamp Dawg on April 19, 2009, 12:29:36 pm
Now that looks like a project! ;D

Remember when you talked about this Swamp Dwag ?? Some people said I was all guts to take on my rebuild. Well..... there's someone braver than me out there. Dpaulson.... sharpen up your pencil... you may be able to retire if you can get enough steel to fill the order that this fellow needs. And yes he is determined to see it through...too. He got it mostly for the suspension, a template, & drive line. Here are a few pics of his find. He's a mechanic & his brother has Mig, tig, aluminum welders & a flow jet or CNC I think he called it. Plus he has more contacts than the Pope has... It's a 1959 model.

http://i333.photobucket.com/albums/m366/theoldtrucker/PICT0816.jpg

http://i333.photobucket.com/albums/m366/theoldtrucker/PICT0811.jpg

http://i333.photobucket.com/albums/m366/theoldtrucker/PICT0809.jpg

http://i333.photobucket.com/albums/m366/theoldtrucker/PICT0805.jpg

http://i333.photobucket.com/albums/m366/theoldtrucker/PICT0812.jpg

http://i333.photobucket.com/albums/m366/theoldtrucker/PICT0819.jpg
Title: Re: It just may be one....Dawg !!!!
Post by: dpaulson on September 27, 2010, 07:24:10 am: I hope he starts before his template disappears altogether. ;D
Title: Re: It just may be one....Dawg !!!!
Post by: Swamp Dawg on September 28, 2010, 08:14:35 pm: Wow that thing is in rough shape! One sneeze and you'd blow the door off!! ;D
Title: Re: It just may be one....Dawg !!!!
Post by: the old trucker on September 29, 2010, 02:19:24 pm: Ain't it amazing what salt water will do to metal. A lot of residents up around where she came from used to have "STEEL" doors in their houses at one time. Here she is ready to go in the snow.
One hundred ft. in front of her is salt water.

http://i333.photobucket.com/albums/m366/theoldtrucker/bomberrebuild016.jpg
Title: Re: It just may be one....Dawg !!!!
Post by: grfishmaker on September 29, 2010, 07:50:41 pm: OT - Are you sure you newfies aren't using these machines for submarines? Wow, I've never seen a body rust away like that. Over the past year or so, I've noticed that alot of the machines that you have posted have rust problems. I remember wondering if it was from the coastal air. So from now on I will play it safe with my machine and stay this side of the Ontario border.
Title: Re: It just may be one....Dawg !!!!
Post by: the old trucker on September 29, 2010, 08:15:32 pm: We're known to be rough & tough down here. That is how we survive. There's one machine that hauls three cord of fire wood at a time. He has done it with the same bomber for the last 15 years. We give everything a good workout here.
OT.