The fantasy/the reality

[kombu_kid]

1953 Kaiser "Henry J".......hey, Ox, I'll bet you're familiar with these, right? Imagine what kind of ego Mr. Henry J. Kaiser must have had to call his latest new car the "Henry J". Another one awaiting resto. into a "gasser" for the street.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b276/MyCammer/P1001194.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b276/MyCammer/bad_brew.jpg

Guess which one's mine.\:-)

(BTW, let me just scream from the rooftops......I have the most understanding wife on the planet!!!!)

[hankypanky]

nice ride you lucky bastard! Did you do all the work yourself? If so, great restoration!!:thumbup:

[kombu_kid]

Uh....sorry Hank. That's why the title "the fantasy/the reality".....mine is the blue junky one. The nice one is what I'm aspiring to have mine look like. I'm finishing up a barracuda project right now, so the ol' "J" may be next in line...

[Asshat]

Ok...now you are cool in my book konbu. I have always loved those set up as a gasser. You do know that the gasser is about 30 years out of date, and a real poor setup for anything approaching the tens? :)

Street legal, tubbed slightly for 10" and an EFI SBC- coil overs, 9" and a TJ tuck and roll. All that would be missing, is me, a ZZ Top song and a doobie. :)

[hankypanky]

oh ok. well it still looks like a fun project. good luck!:ohmy:

[Oxmix]

Looks like a solid chassis to start a build on. Saw lots of those when I was a kid.

Regards

Ox

[okisteve]

1953 Kaiser "Henry J".......hey, Ox, I'll bet you're familiar with these, right? Imagine what kind of ego Mr. Henry J. Kaiser must have had to call his latest new car the "Henry J". Another one awaiting resto. into a "gasser" for the street.


(BTW, let me just scream from the rooftops......I have the most understanding wife on the planet!!!!)

Egotistic??? Well, only if you want to talk about that cars predecessors, the Kaiser and the Kaiser-Frazer. At least poor Mr. Frazer got his name in chrome, even if only second place.

Come to think of it, the Edsel :barf: was named after Edsel Ford. Nobody could make up a name like that.

[kombu_kid]

Looks like a solid chassis to start a build on. Saw lots of those when I was a kid.

Regards

Ox

Yeah, it's very solid.....but it's gonna need some floors and the rocker panels have some pinholes in them. That blue paint is the original paint from '53!! This car came out for sale ($1000) in the local desert paper here Saturday morning a couple years back.......I was at his house @0830!!!

This is a full-frame car, which means I can remove the body from the frame, then start chopping off the front A-arms & welding on the leaf spring attachment points. Then I'll paint the frame gloss black. A lot of people would powdercoat it, but I'm into doing things as cheaply as possible........using a gloss black paint with a hardener is every bit as nice and durable as powdercoating, in my mind, and a helluva lot cheaper.

I'm basically a hardcore Mopar guy, but this one's gonna have a 327 chevy with fenderwell headers and probably a Holley double pumper......following my "keep it cheap" theme. I've got almost everything including a posi rearend, an Muncie M-21 4-speed, and some good used radiators around.

All these plans are based on me selling my current '67 barracuda, which I'm in the process of finishing up a paint job on, then taking the money and "rolling it over" into the "J". Hopefully everything will work out according to plans, and I'll be able to get hot on this before I'm 90.