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Type 3 Sled - Spy Pics (Daylight pics added 1/8/06) Now For Sale
HotRodMatt - July 29th, 2006 at 09:49 AM

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 - July 29th, 2006 at 10:28 AM

kooooooooooooooooooooooooooool


last celtic warrior - July 29th, 2006 at 12:25 PM

Needs early bumpers with 5 or so overriders on the front. otherwise, shit hot mate...


Stanley - July 29th, 2006 at 03:55 PM

:duh


bus914 - July 29th, 2006 at 04:36 PM

haha, that is actually a pretty good job of turning 2 type 3's into 1 50's ford. wouldn't have guessed.


BenettonVW - July 30th, 2006 at 12:33 PM

Different... A bit of work there..


5lam - July 30th, 2006 at 07:23 PM

That's wicked. :punk:
Just needs air suspension and a flame thrower kit! :yes:


HotRodMatt - July 30th, 2006 at 08:00 PM

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 - July 30th, 2006 at 09:02 PM

Looks good mate!


squizy - July 30th, 2006 at 10:21 PM

Looks great Matt. I love the vision to bring that together. Will they come to the 50's Fair?


pyr0 - July 30th, 2006 at 10:26 PM

looks like a sweet custom to me :!:


HotRodMatt - August 1st, 2006 at 02:53 PM

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squizy - August 1st, 2006 at 03:08 PM

:yes::yes::yes::yes:

Would love for you to take some pics of the Fink Matt.


HotRodMatt - August 1st, 2006 at 03:14 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by squizy
:yes::yes::yes::yes:

Would love for you to take some pics of the Fink Matt.


You have u2u Squizy


vw54 - August 2nd, 2006 at 07:32 AM

That is some work .... did it start as a notch ???


HotRodMatt - August 2nd, 2006 at 09:22 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by vw54
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 - August 2nd, 2006 at 09:26 AM

nice work mat ,needs some stripes


Kai.A. - August 2nd, 2006 at 10:15 AM

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 - August 2nd, 2006 at 11:12 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by kroozzn62
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 - August 4th, 2006 at 07:13 AM

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 - August 24th, 2006 at 11:40 AM

has he had any interest in it yet?


HotRodMatt - August 24th, 2006 at 11:54 AM

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 - September 25th, 2006 at 11:20 AM

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,