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Thomas, I'm 73 years old. I have spent a very large share of my years building hotrods from cars of the early 1930's and late 1920's. Some of them have been very fast drag racing cars. Some of them have been very classy "daily drivers". If you spend enough time working with old cars to the extent that I did, you get to know the terminology. The yellow pickup truck in the picture was my last hotrod. It represents a soft top pickup truck that was actually produced by Ford from the early 1920's to the mid 1930's. The big deal here is that there were very few of them made. I wanted one, so I started with a two door steel sedan body. I cut the top off. I shortened the body by over three feet. I designed and built the steel bed from scratch. I boxed the frame. I put in a small block Chev V8 with three speed automatic transmission. I designed and built the tubular frame for the soft top and had it upholstered by a professional . It had a full custom suspension and 4" dropped I-beam front axle. All welding and painting was done by myself. This pickup was driven from central Ontario to the East Coast Nationals in Moncton New Brunswick in 2001. About five years ago I realized that my arthritis was getting so bad that I could no longer get down on the floor to do any work on it. I admire what you are doing, and I follow your posts.---Brian
Really coming together now Thomas. Will be sorry to see this one end. You and you buggy will be the hit of the neighborhood!! Maybe you need some old fashioned attire as well when driving the buggy around Bill
Hi Thomas, I am sorry to hear that your back is causing you to drop the completion of this project, it has been an ambitious build, and most interesting to watch along as you progressed.I hope you are soon well enough to work on something smaller.MJM460
No Thomas, That's not the way this story should end. Hang on to the buggy for a while. You have already put your heart and soul into building it. Hopefully you will recover well enough to complete this beauty, or perhaps you may find a youngster eager to help you.Hang in there a while longer.Mike
Very sorry to hear about this, really hope things do improve!
Thomas,I'm very sorry to hear your back troubles are that sever and I hope that they improve. I'm also sorry not to see you complete this project. I've been enjoying following along. And your enthusiasm has made it very enjoyable! But if its not fun for you anymore, then by all means, do something that's fun. Life's too short to spend it doing something that no longer brings you enjoyment.I wish you the best of luck in whatever projects you choose to pursue. I hope some of them will be in the model engineering world, but if not, enjoy yourself, whatever it is!Kim