vintage mopars

This is the car where it was found. That pile of wood right in front of it is the collapsed house it was parked in front of. There is an abandoned town whee it was found. We figured the clear patch right where the car is sitting is the driveway to the house. there is a strip of grass right beside it through the trees where the road used to be. The back end is propped up with boards, logs, and tires. When I first got to it the rear axle was buried all the way into the ground. I used the logs to lift it up.








The car is in very rough shape. I thought this would be a cool car if it was fixed up, but what I was really excited about was the challenge. You can see in this photo that a chunk of metal was cut from the right rear fender at some point. This is going to require me to fabricate a piece to patch in. I plan on building a soft tape pattern from the opposite fender.










As you can see there was a ton of junk in the car. I was excited thinking that the car was full of the parts. Unfortunately it was mostly junk.














Almost all of the trim is missing. The bumpers were both inside the car and I have the grille. I plan on picking up a few trim pieces but I also plan on smoothing out parts of the body where some of the trim was found.











This is the back of the car. You can see the grass clearing beside the car where the road was. I am almost as fascinated with the idea of the abandoned town as I am with rebuilding the car. There are a few more houses there with other streets that have grown over with grass. There are also other vehicles out there too. They are also in very rough shape. There is an Austin truck from the 40's that I was also looking at.