1960 Pontiac Ventura... pro tour style

[Krazed]

Originally Posted by Rickerbucks

This picture is from the ebay auction. As you can see, it had been prepped and painted so I'm hoping the body is basically "done". Arranged shipping from GT shipping. they are a new sponsor for one Lap Of America so it was noce to support them for their efforts.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...ORS:1123#v4-41

I'm just going to be honest here. (Not trying to hurt you or be mean!)

That auction to me looks like hes hiding more with new paint/prep. Looking inside through the trunk looks like a lot of rust. Some surface, some not so much.

I can also see a lot of random rust. The "new" panels look like poor patches, overlaps, and bad welds covered up with seam sealer.

Just what I'm seeing in pictures.

I Sincerely hope for your sake I'm wrong and crazy! Either way I'm sure you'Ll enjoy building something. I know we all like welding.

[Rickerbucks]

Thanks Krazed. you have a better eye then I.

That being said.... it will all be stripped done to base metal and refreshed as needed. It cost $3k to buy out of an estimated $120k build. I'm confident that it is a sound enough foundation on which to start a build. but as you suggest... I hope not to be disappointed.

:-)

[Rickerbucks]

Well these are a couple of wheels that I'm considering.... comments are welcome....

[brada]

the first 1 for sure..

[Royalworks]

The first one looks '90ish.

[Rickerbucks]

Brada (Iggy) and his team are my builder.

[Rybar]

Shaun, I'm not a fan of the chrome green. And I like wheel #3 of your choices.

[brada]

Originally Posted by Krazed

I'm just going to be honest here. (Not trying to hurt you or be mean!)

That auction to me looks like hes hiding more with new paint/prep. Looking inside through the trunk looks like a lot of rust. Some surface, some not so much.

I can also see a lot of random rust. The "new" panels look like poor patches, overlaps, and bad welds covered up with seam sealer.

Just what I'm seeing in pictures.

I Sincerely hope for your sake I'm wrong and crazy! Either way I'm sure you'Ll enjoy building something. I know we all like welding.

Yeah . that car Will be stripped completely down to steel and re assessed. alot of it Will be modified also.... it has great bones for this kind of build .

[Krazed]

Originally Posted by brada

Yeah . that car Will be stripped completely down to steel and re assessed. alot of it Will be modified also.... it has great bones for this kind of build .

Awesome! Glad it'll work out for you then.

[Royalworks]

I like either 2 or 3