Yeah, I know I messed up the name , should be Custom Royal but I'm changing the car up so I thought I'd best to the name too,ha,ha.. AT any rate, I'm at a point in my life where the family, kids and work have almost made it impossible to keep a cool car around, seems that every time I got one together I'd have to sell it to buy diapers,bicycles, braces or whatever.... So I have devised a plan that is so stupid it may work this time. Build one that nobody else could ever be stupid enough to want! I had an opportunity to take two 56 Custom Royal sedans in on a deal for next to nothing, no cash out of hand either, sort of a junk trade. I brought them home, assessed what I had and started scheming... I have a very rough ,complete rusty car and pretty good western car that had been taken apart , mechanicals had been done and they were starting to attack the body and seemingly lost it to the bodyshop for not paying or something along those lines, didn't care, didn't ask. I have the good one in my garage now, have decided to cut the roof off, rake the windshield radically and chop it . This will make it a sort of four door speedster if you will... I'll occasionally post photos but this will be a whenever I have an evening to fart with it project so bare with me, could get interesting?? Here's the good shell..
-- Edited by Chris Stapley on Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:14:16 PM
-- Edited by Chris Stapley on Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:15:15 PM
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Found a parts car last night that if it had a drivetrain in it would have been a nicer car than what I have to start with, doesn't matter because I now have a cherry front clip instead of just a right front fender that I'd been looking for. Anyone need any spares, looks liek with three cars I may have plenty of extra "stuff"...
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Very cool undertaking Chris! I love where you're going with the customizing. Any sectioning in the foreseeable future?
Sooo... about the letting go of this one part...you're not even gonna consider it once complete? A Royal Custom roadster would look pretty sexy sitting in my driveway. hah!
Looking forward to your progress!
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i like very much. i was recollecting about a 56 plymouth suburban wagon that my grandfather gave me when i was 15. the hood looks the same, different trim. it had a red ram v8 and push button trans. awe good memories
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i'd have loved a Suburban wagon,heck, I'd have even left the roof on that one! Thanks Talon, might need a hand making some sweet bowls for it, you feeling up to a smashing session follwoed by some soothing english wheel time????
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Well, long ago I "thought" I had my front fender problem solved,guess what. Went back to buy the third car and the knob had scrapped it, didn't even have the courtesy to take off the one fender I needed, and I went to school with this jerk. No wonder we never became friends! At any rate, I took the right front fender off the rotten car, and as I started to strip the paint off to do some figuring I realized I had a fender almost worse than nothing.. Kept grin fading and thinking it would have to so for the time being and then recalled,hey I kept the front clip off of a 53 Buick trade I'd already frenched the light rings on for another guy twenty five years earlier..got the sawzall out, trimmed off the crappy first 12" from the rotten Dodge fender, eyeball measured( for precision) the matching piece from said 53 Buick and tore in to it with the sawzall next. I am very happy with how closely the main contour of the graft is going, this is one evening two weeks back where I had a night for me.. Hoping to get this portion done maybe Monday since we are all off work. Here is what I have that I now consider a good plan... Too bad I have to lop off the first twelve inches of an almost perfect left fender to match,lol....
Found enough junk to get a front bumper in place, had some bent stuff to remedy but we have it now. Have to make a custom gravel panel now ala Richard Zocchi...
-- Edited by Chris Stapley on Monday 19th of May 2014 11:42:09 PM
Thanks Nick, moving at a snails pace so it seems, every time I threaten to start at this old pig,life gets in my way...lol.
As far as how nice a job I will do , it's my car and will not get the "attention" it would have had I been building for someone else.
Haven't the time or the dollars to make it super nice anyway, this is why I am building this car the way I am hoping, affordable
and functional while still making heads turn "hopefully". We shall see..
Cheers,
Chris.
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No pics tonight, did one of the less glamorous things this evening. I was thinking about how handy it would be if I could simply start the car and drive it in or out when Need the shop, had to change the plugged original rotting fuel line, got that done and only had half a pound of crap to dig out of one eye... One more small thing off the extremely large list anyway..
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Nothing too exciting to report but after doing a fuel line and some cleaning got the old pig to start on it's own from the fuel tank tonight, even had forward and reverse gear after it has sat for oh so many years, it leaks trans fluid, gasoline and water from every hole it possibly could but it runs again... May even get me a slight bit excited again!
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Nothing too exciting to report but after doing a fuel line and some cleaning got the old pig to start on it's own from the fuel tank tonight, even had forward and reverse gear after it has sat for oh so many years, it leaks trans fluid, gasoline and water from every hole it possibly could but it runs again... May even get me a slight bit excited again!
