Car Show

[dennish]

This is Lead Sled convention that was in Salina Kansas last weekend and one of my favorite shows of the year. It was a three day show and I could only go on Sunday and most of the really cool cars left since the tempature climb to 104 on Sunday.

Here is the link to a few pictures.. http://cars.537wine.biz/html/salina_jul_06.html

Here is a teaser....

Here is the car we took. The only reason we took it was we got a better and closer parking then if I drove our DD.

 

[joe.p]

Thanks for sharing. Some of the custom paint work looks in the $10,000's could be wrong just a guestimate. I see a lot of dropped down vehicles are hydraulics used to raise'em?

 

[Surfer]

Screw all that, when are you gonna give me the damn 39' :righton:

I've been on Ebay a lot lately looking at 65-66 Coupe Stangs (like that style more) and early Camaros. I have a thing for the early Chevelles too, I'm talking the 65-66 style even though we owned a 70' LS6 that we never should have gotten rid of. Found a bunch but not many have manual trans, I hate autos. I drive with a bottle in my suv and move it around to reptend I'm driving stick

 

[joe.p]

Screw all that, when are you gonna give me the damn 39' :righton:

. I drive with a bottle in my suv and move it around to pretend I'm driving stick

I have an Older 71 olds Cutlass 350 four in the floor hurst, Mickey Thompsons and old school Gragars. The car is exactly like i received it with 50,000 miles on it. The car is one owner titled i have not transfered as of yet. One day i would like to fully restore it without changing the car in the least as possible. It runs and just about looks like the day it left the show room .

 

[dennish]

My take on old cars is that I want something unique like at the Lead Sled show. The Mustangs, Camaros, Chevelles, 55-57 Chevy are great cars and hold an important place in our car history but you see them at every show you go to. I want a 34 Ford for years but now seems like there is one or two those at every car show I go to. The 71 Olds is cool and would catch my attention faster then most of the above mention cars. Lead Sleds shows the person personality, a lot of time you can match the owner to the car by the way car looks. Kinda like the dog looking like the dog owner.

The 39 will probably be sold next summer for a new project.:cheers:

 

[Surfer]

The 39 will probably be sold next summer for a new project.:cheers:

I call dibs :awesome:

Know what's funny, everyone seems to want the 70' style Chevelles and even though we owned an LS6 I still prefer the 65-66 style. I saw a couple nicely done, and they looked mean as hell. But I really have a thing for early coupe style Stangs. Family friends brother just passed away but had a collection of restored (and some original) muscle cars. Every brother brought one home and the rest are stored in a huge warehouse. The one our family friend brought was a completey restored Ford Galaxie which you rarely see. Built 428, manual trans, the whole works, car hauls ass. It's a 67'.

 

[wytstang]

You want unique??? 69 Dodge Daytona or 70 Plymouth Superbird I would love to own one, one day but the prices of Mopars have jumped in the last few years. No I wish I would of held on to my 72 Plymouth Duster w/340 c.i.d motor

 

[BlackCoupe]

Thanks for sharing. Some of the custom paint work looks in the $10,000's could be wrong just a guestimate. I see a lot of dropped down vehicles are hydraulics used to raise'em?

I think "dropped" means when they drop the top (A "droptop")--cut out the roof posts and lower the top closer to the body. I think you may mean "lowered" if you mean closer to the ground.

Also, Dennis, perhaps you can answer this one for me. I saw this on one of the Foose shows. They brought a guy in to "French" the headlights. I think they removed them and reinstalled them behind the bracket that would ordinarily hold them in place--so they were recessed. Then the guy, apparently a famous original oldtimer who was MAYBE five feet tall, and who chomped on a cigar the whole time, put them in place with molten lead-must be a PITA to aim them! I kind of wondered why lead and not fiberglass or some kind of putty, etc. Or was this just to be authentic.

I think Pic DSC913 (Row 10, Column 2) might be "dropped", "lowered" and have "frenched" headlights, but Dennis could answer this.

 

[dennish]

The correct term for dropping a top is “Chop Top” you will here rodders say “the top has been chopped 2 inches”. Chopping a top is a real art and almost a lot art. Taking two inches out of the top changes the angles on the windows post, doors post and the entire back of the roof and the drastically change the shape of the back window. It is quite an art to get everything to line up correctly and a lot cars ended up in junk yards over the “Chopping the Tops”.

Lowering of the car has quite few terms used like – Dropped – Lowered – in the weeds – and hot rodders usually don’t use hydraulics but use air bag systems to raise and lower the cars. A car with air bags will ride 1000 percent then on with hydraulics but air bags will not cause the cars to hop like hydraulics.

The most missed used term is “Channeled” which means cutting the body of the car to go over the frame so body sits lower on the frame giving the affect the car is lower to the ground.

Frenching of the headlights and antenna has been around for years. In the early days everything was manufactured but the builder and was a real art in getting it right. Now days you can buy frenching kits for the more popular hotrods and have all the adjustment to align the lights, some of the older ones I have seen you couldn’t adjust. Before all the bondo and other similar products were on the market the common way to fix cars was using hot lead, which easily molded and shaped.

Hope that helps!!!

 

[BlackCoupe]

The correct term for dropping a top is “Chop Top” you will here rodders say “the top has been chopped 2 inches”. Chopping a top is a real art and almost a lot art. Taking two inches out of the top changes the angles on the windows post, doors post and the entire back of the roof and the drastically change the shape of the back window. It is quite an art to get everything to line up correctly and a lot cars ended up in junk yards over the “Chopping the Tops”.

Lowering of the car has quite few terms used like – Dropped – Lowered – in the weeds – and hot rodders usually don’t use hydraulics but use air bag systems to raise and lower the cars. A car with air bags will ride 1000 percent then on with hydraulics but air bags will not cause the cars to hop like hydraulics.

The most missed used term is “Channeled” which means cutting the body of the car to go over the frame so body sits lower on the frame giving the affect the car is lower to the ground.

Frenching of the headlights and antenna has been around for years. In the early days everything was manufactured but the builder and was a real art in getting it right. Now days you can buy frenching kits for the more popular hotrods and have all the adjustment to align the lights, some of the older ones I have seen you couldn’t adjust. Before all the bondo and other similar products were on the market the common way to fix cars was using hot lead, which easily molded and shaped.

Hope that helps!!!

Dennis--Thanks for that very informative answer. It took a lot of time for you, and I appreciate the informaiton.

 

[Meghan]

Dennis is a wise man, great to have him around to help us out. Restoring cars is something I know very little of.