What did you do to your Oval today?

seanboy69

Was installing a new battery an the wire from the alternator to the starter melted Shocked

I pushed the old girl outta the garage to burn in the driveway......she didnt but now she is pissed at me Crying or Very sad

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1956 oval ragtop
1962 baha
2276 in progress

EA57RHD

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I took the car cover off, dusted her off, started her up, drove her out of the garage, and took the 57 for a little Sunday cruise this morning.

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Sunroof53 · Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 7:21 pm Post subject: Obscene

Its a good job i am not a moderator on here.Those pictures would be off in a second .I mean the humanity of it ,posting pictures of a gleaming RHD oval in glorious sunshine cruising down the highway with palm trees and a blue sky .This is November and a global forum you know ,there are people who wont even see there cars for months while we look at dark skys ,rain ,cold and snow Shame on you

EA57RHD

How foolish of me. I mean, how could I be so selfish, egotistical and self-centered. I am so embarrassed Embarassed

to think that thesamba postings were exclusive to So Cal........NOT Exclamation

I laughed my ass off with you post Sunroof53 Laughing

Forgive me, but that's how we roll in Southern California.....Ya gotta love it.
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BlastMasterMannyFresh · Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 7:15 pm Post subject:

used it as a table to fix a bus rack

iaccy · Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:59 pm Post subject:

sonicjagstang · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 5:19 am Post subject:

LMAO! at the last four posts. Actually when I viewed the pictures or the RHD HARDTOP Wink

I was only thinking "Holy shit, that is a clean windshield!" OK, I may have been guilty of thinking it was a really nice car also.

Hmmm, an oval being used as a table.... I remember back when you just used to use it as a car starter/battery charger. LOL! You honestly deserve the award for most uses of an oval.

I love the fact that you are not afraid to use the car and have fun with it. Leave the (over restored trailer queen please don't breathe on my car shit) for the anal retards that forgot how to live simply and enjoy things.

Schwing · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:04 am Post subject:

Over the weekend I painted the decklid (rattle-can special) and moved the tailights to their correct location -- just so I could get a better idea if I wanted to keep it black. Yep keeping him black!

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EA57RHD

sonicjagstang wrote:

Chick Iverson · Samba Member Joined: May 23, 2002 Posts: 732

I took my RHD for a spin today after I charged the almost dead battery. I have been driving my convertible lately because the weather has been perfect, but I needed to drive the hardtop

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sonicjagstang · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:10 am Post subject:

EA57RHD: Thanks for correcting me on that one. Wink

I must have still been thinking of details from other cars I was browsing before returning to comment on this thread. I can CLEARLY see your car is a hardtop...... a very nice one with a very clean windshield. Laughing

I made a little progress on the dis-assembly of my 57. I found that in addition to being incredibly rusty it has had some horrible repairs done at some point. The car has sat since 1968 so anything that happened to the car happened prior to then.

The front has been hit, the inner fender sections are wrinkled a bit and the rear bumper mounting points had become so rusty that someone welded up some angle iron to remedy the problem. They also welded the lower rear fenders to the apron hoping for more strength I guess.

Also, some holes were patched by screwing sheet metal over them....better than more crappy welding I suppose. Another bad thing is the drivers rear quarter has been replaced and somewhat crudely spliced in. The car was originally Prairie Beige and it appears the car was wrecked when close to new and repaired then later on it was getting rusty so some crude repairs were made and it was then painted green.

The engine was replaced by exchange in 64 so this car has quite a history for certain.

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Schwing · Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 7:12 am Post subject:

First of all nice oval, step1 is always going over the rust/metal repair and figuring out where you stand, one section at a time. I've been trying to tell myself that with all the rust repair I have ahead of me. One section at a time, its just metal, make it pretty.

Second of all, great garage! Bar, TV, pool table! Man its gonna take you forever to finish this car lol. My guess is there's a fridge somewhere too. Cool

BlastMasterMannyFresh · Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 7:20 am Post subject:

flat screen tv no lees. Wink

I love that car already.

Slow6t5 · Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 7:36 am Post subject:

sonicjagstang · Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 9:49 am Post subject:

Schwing: Thanks for the compliments and you are correct in your way of thinking about the metal repair. I'll just have to tackle one issue at a time and it will slowly come together. As for the shop, it belongs to my friend Rennie. I am in the process of renting an old shop downtown that was built in the thirties so the car is at his house until that is lined out. You are correct about the shop having a fridge, it is just behind the bar to the left of the window. Laughing

mannys66:

I am glad somebody loves it because personally I love the flat screen but am beginning to hate the car.

Slow6t5: You are very fortunate to have found such a project. The more I tore into mine the more sick I became. I knew it had issues when I bought it but I was hoping for a break somewhere... I suppose I got my wish because most of what I touched did "break". Laughing

I understand where you are coming from concerning decisions also....uuugghhhhh!

johnshenry · Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 10:24 am Post subject:

By all means, get the whole thing media blasted before you start metal work. See thebugshop.org if you haven't already.

You never know what you truly have until it is all stripped.....
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aa390392 · Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 11:08 am Post subject:

I went to the body shop to check progress, hopefully back by 1st of year.
picked up driver seat, being restitched, he said that "material 56 yrs old is just now getting broken in"

sonicjagstang · Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 12:25 pm Post subject:

oldbug · Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 12:00 pm Post subject:

Hooked up the battery last night to give it life after who knows how long.

tferr · Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 4:57 pm Post subject:

Had a full day in the shop ended by finding a broken light switch while trying to diagnose my lighting problem
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