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Just wanted to publicly thank Dave, (Odies dad), for the great gesture... ...when I noticed in his build thread about removing the door tops to roadster-ize his Model A, I inquired about possibly buying them to fix a set of doors for one of my coupes... ...Dave offered to GIVE me the door...

I was the local distributor for Hot Rod Deluxe Magazine back in 2000-2001, I recently found four brand new, NOS copies of Issue #2 in a box These are mint copies...the photo shows two vertical lines on the cover, thats from my scanner, they are not on the cover, there is however, a small...

...picked these up this weekend : 15x12 Ansen's, 5 on 5 bolt pattern... They'll need the backsides cleaned, and they've been drilled for slicks, but, the price was right, I traded one '57 Chevy inner fender for 'em!

...with a buddy of mine, one of the things I ended up with is this set of wheels: 15" x 14" Ansen Sprint rears Polished 15" x 3.5" Fenton Gyro's on new 6.00-15 Goodyear Power Streak bias plies... According to all the hot rod magazines, Pro Street is making a big come back, thinking I might...

The Purple People Eater at Paso, 2000... ...first pic is Saturday morning, towing it into the park... ...second pic is Friday night at the Shifters party at the bowling alley...

...all I have to do is weld it back together, right?

This is also a FlashBackFriday photo...this is my girlfriend, (second from the left, bandana, long dark hair, dark jersey), with some of her team mates from her first team, The Oakland Derby Diamonds, (she now skates for the Detroit Derby Girls), back in 2012, at the Detroit Autorama, posing...

I found this back in the late '90's at a little resale shop in Indy, while I was down there for the Rockabilly Rebel Weekender at the Fountain Theater... ...brought it home, showed it to a buddy who practically begged me to sell it to him, which I eventually did, and then he gave it to his...

...that we just did some work on at our shop...big block, automatic, 12-bolt rear, dropped tube axle...when the customer came to pick it up, he left us a little present...yeah, that's the rubber from the burnout on fire!

In another thread, Skip asked me to share pics of my magnesium/aluminum hot rod wheel collection...I'll start with these, and add to the thread as I get more pics of them... My custom modified rear Motor Wheel Flys, work was done by Stu Galbraight at Weldcraft, probably 20 years ago ...started...

After several years of looking, I was finally able to score, (at a price I could afford!), a pair of the rare, elusive, magnesium, "N" code, 15" x 13.5", 5-spoke Americans with the gusseted spokes! They were only made from '69-'70, and in very small numbers...I understand they made a 15 x 10 in...

Didn't want to hi-jack jfg455's thread, and hope this isn't off topic, but, what are scrap prices in your area? They've been way down here for the last year, currently $75-$80 a ton for sheetmetal... I've always been able to make extra cash for hot rod parts by scrapping, but here lately, its...

...yay or nay?...(not mine, saw this on another sight)

Chromed & polished Hilborn injection, magneto with right-angle drive fuel pump, and Nicson front timing cover/motor mount for my 401...

...metal toy cars...Tootsietoy hot rod roadster, (sans the driver's head!), and a Hubley '34 Ford 3-window coupe...

Helped my buddy Charlie pick this up yesterday...he heard about it from a guy he did some paint work for...it originally came from Nebraska to Michigan in 1968, and has been stored in a barn since '79-'80...

...some random shots from around my shop...

This is a car we just just updated, and did a full restoration on at the shop where I work... ...originally built in the mid-60's, from upstate New York...it's an old Fiberglass Trends all 'glass body...we fixed the frame, updated the cage, swapped out the early Olds rear for a 9" Ford, all new...

I went and picked this up last weekend from a little town southwest of Chicago...I'd been trying to get it for the last four years, and finally, since the guy was moving and had no place to store it, we came to a decent price...I got it REALLY cheap, considering the current market for Tri-Five...