Renegade Issue 29

I’m pretty sure most everyone doubted that I’d ever finish

this project. When I was pulling the half rusted, shot up

1930 Plymouth body out of an old junkyard in northern

Wisconsin, 3 of my friends were trying to talk me out of it

(I should have listened). I had no idea what I got myself

into but that didn’t stop me, I was a dumb, broke, over

ambitious 21 year old. I needed to straighten the body

and replace 10” of metal around the whole bottom so I

took my mig welder and Mikita grinder and went to work.

After collecting front end and rear end parts I made a

wooden mock-up frame and then copied it with 2x3 steel

tubing. Once I had it as a roller and looking like a car my

mind was full of ideas and that’s where the fun began. I

frenched ‘59 Cadillac taillights in the rear. Bead rolled all

the floor and then welded them onto the 1x1 tube sub-

floor I made. Cut a dash out of a ‘59 F100, but had to

chop and channel it almost a complete foot to make it fit

especially because I wanted the ashtray and glovebox to

be functional. It’s powered by a boring little small block

350 but to make it less boring I scored a rare 1 out of

10 made intake manifold with two Weber IDF40 carbure -

tors. Used aluminum throughout the interior to go along

with the old WWII bomber tank that is converted into a

gas tank.

It sure is a head turner, nothing puts a smile on your face

like giving your dad a ride in a car that you built from the

ground up (especially when you hammer on it!)

The guys at TK photography in Kimberly WI nailed it with

the pictures

Engine: chevy 350

Trans: th400

Rear end: 4 link with ford 9” 31 spline

Frame: 2x3 steel tube construction

Intake: cb performance manifold with 2 weber IDF40

carburetors

Brakes: ‘40s Ford juice brakes with Buick aluminum

drums

Front end: original Henry Ford axle, dropped with split

wishbones

Charlie Lamb

Menasha Wisconsin

Age:23

Photos by TK photography