It was a dark and icey night at the HAMBster Garage. We took a moment from the construction of the HAMB Gas Rails to look at Mark's 'Cowboy' latest little ride.
A bit of a change from rods and kustoms that are his usual fare... he took a poor old notch and a fastback roof that was rescued while on a trailer while on its way to the tip.
He gathered up some spats left over from a '49 Merc kustom build, a swapmeet special '54 Ford Cusso bonnet, an FC grille shell, some steel, a hot axe and a welder.
To turn out the Sled...
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Next on the agenda is a little more chop at the back and a blown 1800 Type 4 engine.
[ Edited on 2-8-2006 by HotRodMatt ]
greedy51 ·
kooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
last celtic warrior ·
Needs early bumpers with 5 or so overriders on the front. otherwise, shit hot mate...
Stanley ·
:duh
bus914 ·
haha, that is actually a pretty good job of turning 2 type 3's into 1 50's ford. wouldn't have guessed.
BenettonVW ·
Different... A bit of work there..
5lam ·
That's wicked. 🤘
Just needs air suspension and a flame thrower kit! 👍
HotRodMatt ·
Got some more pics of Mark's car today in sunlight down at the Woronora River... will post in a day or two.
Got the wide whites on too now.
Looking pretty good sitting with 3 '34 Ford coupes, a tall T coupe and a T-bucket, an A tudor, a Duece coupe, a '37 and a '40 Ford coupe, a '57 Chev and 60 Chev. It became known as the micro-merc down at the river...
Dasdubber ·
Looks good mate!
squizy ·
Looks great Matt. I love the vision to bring that together. Will they come to the 50's Fair?
pyr0 ·
looks like a sweet custom to me ❗
HotRodMatt ·
squizy ·
👍👍👍👍
Would love for you to take some pics of the Fink Matt.
HotRodMatt ·
squizy wrote:👍👍👍👍
Would love for you to take some pics of the Fink Matt.
You have u2u Squizy
vw54 ·
That is some work .... did it start as a notch ???
HotRodMatt ·
vw54 wrote:That is some work .... did it start as a notch ???
Yes. A late notch. The fasty roof was saved from the tip. About 4" out fo the pillars and the fasty roof grafted on.
The cusso bonnet took a fair bit of work to fit to the VW bonnet frame! But the Cowboy likes a challenge.
kroozzn63 ·
nice work mat ,needs some stripes
Kai.A. ·
absolutely wild!
a lot of crazy idea's have gone into this, and i'd hate to think how many hours of cutting and welding it took.....
brilliant result tho'
with the current trend of hotrod bugs this is a nice addition!
well done!
kai
HotRodMatt ·
kroozzn62 wrote:nice work mat ,needs some stripes
I'm trying to convince him to let me at it with a brush! But there's gonna be a little more slicing yet til he's happy with the shape, so maybe after he sees the HAMBsters get painted.
He's into the blown Type IV now, so that'll take up his time for a while.
HotRodMatt ·
Car is now for sale due to a new project on the horizon...
Serious interested people can call Mark Campbell on 0411 646 859. Offers should reflect the work gone into the car.
The car might also be at Valla on Sunday.
Ad in for sales in a couple of days.
pete wood ·
has he had any interest in it yet?
HotRodMatt ·
He's working on the blown 1800 for it now, so isn't actively trying to sell it. If an interested buyer comes along I'm sure he'd be happy to let it go and move on to yet another project.
The original roof of the notch is now being used as part of the body of a HAMBster! Finally a bit ov VW going into one of them!
The Cowboy (Mark) also wishes to express his thanks to those who helped out on the road on the Valla weekend. I believe it was Lee Shaw and a couple of DSK folk...
salerno ·
wow, i just joined this forum, and this car is serious inspiration/motivation for my own project now..
it looks fantastic.
what sould something like this be worth?
how could you price the hours of work and design that has gone into it?
very cool 🙂
cheers,