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Posted in intro section but not sure how big this forum is and thought it best to post on this section....
Somehow the wife and I (no drinking involved) bought a 1950 F1 on a lark.
She wanted something vintage to play with....besides me. We needed the buy in to be very low. After a couple hours of discussing and web browsing we were in a parking lot waiting for a kid with a truck for sale.
It needed to run and stop and cost little. So a few grand later - low price for San Diego... folks from other areas with some savy would prob have spent hundreds, or more likely just took a pass.
I haven't wrenched on a anything old (spend spare time tweaking a modern Indian) for many years.
Anyway, while waiting to see the truck, the wife began to realize a manual trans would be a challenge for her to drive. ...gave her a 'what were you expecting' talk and said we could do a conversion.
Well turns out it was converted some 30 years ago to 327, powerglide, rachet shifter, front discs ...total hotrod from back in the day.
Bought it. It's a total mess. Rusted through and through. And leaking from everywhere.
Plan:
-Replace everything
-Not worried about staying original
-Whatever works and returns some good fun
Wife digging in
![3a845a4161cc521876a3f73e4028d8bb.jpg](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170424/3a845a4161cc521876a3f73e4028d8bb.jpg)
Somehow the wife and I (no drinking involved) bought a 1950 F1 on a lark.
She wanted something vintage to play with....besides me. We needed the buy in to be very low. After a couple hours of discussing and web browsing we were in a parking lot waiting for a kid with a truck for sale.
It needed to run and stop and cost little. So a few grand later - low price for San Diego... folks from other areas with some savy would prob have spent hundreds, or more likely just took a pass.
I haven't wrenched on a anything old (spend spare time tweaking a modern Indian) for many years.
Anyway, while waiting to see the truck, the wife began to realize a manual trans would be a challenge for her to drive. ...gave her a 'what were you expecting' talk and said we could do a conversion.
Well turns out it was converted some 30 years ago to 327, powerglide, rachet shifter, front discs ...total hotrod from back in the day.
Bought it. It's a total mess. Rusted through and through. And leaking from everywhere.
Plan:
-Replace everything
-Not worried about staying original
-Whatever works and returns some good fun
Wife digging in
![0415cdb3166e8677440345a698448077.jpg](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170424/0415cdb3166e8677440345a698448077.jpg)
![3a845a4161cc521876a3f73e4028d8bb.jpg](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170424/3a845a4161cc521876a3f73e4028d8bb.jpg)
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