"GrandeNada" <grandenada RemoveThis @aol.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Lightning
> Yeah, I've thought about it.. I'm just to old fashioned I guess. Need the
feel
> of steel.
> The body I'm replacing is a steel one. It was rolled over.
> Makes me sick to think about it. I still cry my self to sleep at night
thinking
> bout it too.
There was a time I felt that way, and of course at the time the fiberglass
bodies were horrible.
But as I have aged considerably, I have come to the realization that
original iron is getting very rare, and needs protecting. And fibreglass
bodies have gotten a thousand fold better.
There is a 29 Model A runs around my area, pretty much original, except for
all the Fronty parts on the engine, un-mistakable sound, and it buzzes along
65-70 mph like nothing.
I watched the show on Discovery Channel a couple weeks back with all the old
time modders, Dick Dean, Bill Hines, his son Mike, Gene Winfield, and a big
ham named Norm Grabowski, retired actor and hot rod collector. They took a
premo 54 Chevy 210 sedan and chopped it up, sectioned the body, lowered it,
.. It was painful to watch.
There are at least a dozen 48-50 mercs in my local, all but two have been
chopped and channeled, 4 of them are on modern chassis, and not a one has a
flat head. Sad in deed.
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