Sod Buster
Senior Member
I picked up this 1947 a while back, it was customized in 1968 by a guy with a paint shop in Beloit Kansas, it was in a garage under a tarp for years then sold four years ago, where it sat in an old warehouse.
The interior trim and dash were painted candy apple red then striped with a torch and clear coated, he did the same to the hubcaps, when I went to look at the car it didn't have the hubcaps on, after the deal was made as an after thought I asked if he had hubcaps for the car, he said yeah, they're ugly as hell and in the trunk, lol.
The interior is an eye opener, to say the least., all the trim including the rear view are painted, the seats are a fake leather with silver walking liberty fifty cent pieces as seat back buttons, two across the front and three across the back, the interior is pretty spotless other than the drivers side carpet which is worn out, like new every where else, 1968 new.
The dash ash tray handles are small pistons.
And another one on the hood pull.
The linkage is flipped too left hand shift, the story on that was the guy liked to put his arm around his girl and he could hit second faster, with it flipped first is straight up second down and away, and just to really be different he installed a amber shift knob with a Toad imbedded in the center, I call the car the Toad.
My wife thinks the toad is gross, the knob not the car. lol
I know I will have a ton of stupid questions going forward.
The car seems pretty unmolested, other than the paint, lol, it had a Columbia two speed at one time, had.
The old car is just funky enough that I love it, other than going through the mechanicals I'm not going to change a thing.
The interior trim and dash were painted candy apple red then striped with a torch and clear coated, he did the same to the hubcaps, when I went to look at the car it didn't have the hubcaps on, after the deal was made as an after thought I asked if he had hubcaps for the car, he said yeah, they're ugly as hell and in the trunk, lol.
The interior is an eye opener, to say the least., all the trim including the rear view are painted, the seats are a fake leather with silver walking liberty fifty cent pieces as seat back buttons, two across the front and three across the back, the interior is pretty spotless other than the drivers side carpet which is worn out, like new every where else, 1968 new.
The dash ash tray handles are small pistons.
And another one on the hood pull.
The linkage is flipped too left hand shift, the story on that was the guy liked to put his arm around his girl and he could hit second faster, with it flipped first is straight up second down and away, and just to really be different he installed a amber shift knob with a Toad imbedded in the center, I call the car the Toad.
My wife thinks the toad is gross, the knob not the car. lol
I know I will have a ton of stupid questions going forward.
The car seems pretty unmolested, other than the paint, lol, it had a Columbia two speed at one time, had.
The old car is just funky enough that I love it, other than going through the mechanicals I'm not going to change a thing.
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