Thats great! Welcome. Can't wait to see the pics.
Hello from Pittsburgh, PA
Still thinking the past week or so has been a DREAM!!!!!..... and for a change it is a "good one" ! ! ! !
We went to a "swap meet" (in Canfield, Ohio) a couple of weeks. After spending ALL morning searching for hot rod parts & goodies we (my wife "Gina" is also an avid piston head) made a quick pass thru the CAR CORRAL to check out some of the cars for sale.
It was an extremely "HOT DAY" & we were both "beat" from spending hours looking for parts. After starting the truck (love remote starter) so it would "cool-down" agreed to take a "quick-look"at the cars for sale. As usual, we saw quite a few nice cars/hot rods we would love to have in our garage.
One in particular caught my eye. It was a OPEL KADETT .... but NOT the coupe or the popular GT models ...... it was a 2 door-station wagon. Talk about unusual ..... and nowadays.... "rare". Especially in its current form..... an old school gasser - SBC w/350 turbo tranny - Ford rearend w/ladder bar suspension - and the engine setback big-time (entire engine is under the cowl)
It was "for sale" but now that I am retired and on SS my "just buy it days" are over with for now!!!! So I took a few pictures to put in my "wish-we-had-file" and drove back to Pittsburgh with a "mild attack" of "gasser-fever".
I have been a BIG FAN of gasser style cars since I built my first "Revell" model car back when I was a kid (Stone-Woods & Cook Willys). Almost bought a '42 Willys sedan last year but just couldn't get enough $$$ to make the deal.
So a few days passed .... I'm still thinking about the Opel..... so I download the pictures I took of it at the swap meet .... take them into a Photo Shop program.... enlarge the picture of the windshield containing the "for sale sign" and then "zoom-in" on it and "bingo" there is the guy's phone number.
So I give him a call to see if he sold the Opel or not..... He did NOT SELL IT.
So I ask him if he would be interested in a "even-up-trade" for a street/strip El Camino???? After exchanging pictures & info via e-mail we agreed to trade. Three days later the Opel is sitting in my driveway.
So here I am..... Looking forward to sharing and getting to know all the gasser guys and hot rodders on this forum.
I'll post some pictures as soon as I figure out what I need to do to get them here.
We went to a "swap meet" (in Canfield, Ohio) a couple of weeks. After spending ALL morning searching for hot rod parts & goodies we (my wife "Gina" is also an avid piston head) made a quick pass thru the CAR CORRAL to check out some of the cars for sale.
It was an extremely "HOT DAY" & we were both "beat" from spending hours looking for parts. After starting the truck (love remote starter) so it would "cool-down" agreed to take a "quick-look"at the cars for sale. As usual, we saw quite a few nice cars/hot rods we would love to have in our garage.
One in particular caught my eye. It was a OPEL KADETT .... but NOT the coupe or the popular GT models ...... it was a 2 door-station wagon. Talk about unusual ..... and nowadays.... "rare". Especially in its current form..... an old school gasser - SBC w/350 turbo tranny - Ford rearend w/ladder bar suspension - and the engine setback big-time (entire engine is under the cowl)
It was "for sale" but now that I am retired and on SS my "just buy it days" are over with for now!!!! So I took a few pictures to put in my "wish-we-had-file" and drove back to Pittsburgh with a "mild attack" of "gasser-fever".
I have been a BIG FAN of gasser style cars since I built my first "Revell" model car back when I was a kid (Stone-Woods & Cook Willys). Almost bought a '42 Willys sedan last year but just couldn't get enough $$$ to make the deal.
So a few days passed .... I'm still thinking about the Opel..... so I download the pictures I took of it at the swap meet .... take them into a Photo Shop program.... enlarge the picture of the windshield containing the "for sale sign" and then "zoom-in" on it and "bingo" there is the guy's phone number.
So I give him a call to see if he sold the Opel or not..... He did NOT SELL IT.
So I ask him if he would be interested in a "even-up-trade" for a street/strip El Camino???? After exchanging pictures & info via e-mail we agreed to trade. Three days later the Opel is sitting in my driveway.
So here I am..... Looking forward to sharing and getting to know all the gasser guys and hot rodders on this forum.
I'll post some pictures as soon as I figure out what I need to do to get them here.
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With the recent resurgence of interest in gasser styled cars & nostalgia drag racing many "I want to be different" hot rodders are opting to build "one-off-hybrid" gasser-looking cars like Mark is doing with his '63 Pontiac....
Case in point....Here's a pic of a G-Body Malibu (which many hot rodders are calling the "shoe box" of our time):
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>>>>> I assume to post pictures on this website I have to have a place on the internet to "store" my pictures in order to download to here????
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Open a free Photobucket account, then you can load the pictures there and post them here. I'm not computer saavy and I found it was very easy to do!
Building something different was my plan when I built my '46 Austin gasser, but people keep mistaking it for an Anglia, so I guess it's not different enough!
Building something different was my plan when I built my '46 Austin gasser, but people keep mistaking it for an Anglia, so I guess it's not different enough!
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