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My wife and I recently picked up this K10 from family friends. This is going to be our first ground-up restoration. Currently doing rockers, cab corners and floor pans. This truck meant a lot to what is basically my second family. With that said, they said we will only sell it to you. We know you'll treat it right and fix it up. I'm only in my mid 30s but the love of older cars and trucks is a passion of mine. Wish I could do it full time as a job. The truck currently has a built 305 out of a '79 Conte Carlo. It's .030" over with a pretty decent cam.

This car is called Death Bed Promise. My father-in-law started this project over 20 years ago; he and his wife drove to Speedway Motors in Nebraska on their last road trip together to pick up the C-4 Transmission and adapter for a Flathead. Shortly after he got pancreatic cancer and died. On his Death Bed he made me promise I would finish the T-Bucket. It was many years later that my In-laws gave me the car to finish. So, I sold my R-1 motorcycle to finance the project and got started on November 14th, 2021, and finished the main things in 8 and a half months.

I've been in love with classic British cars since I was a teenager, and now I'm 79. I've had several old British cars, but ever since I saw an MG TD "rotting" in a field next to my house, I've wanted to work on one. That was 65 years ago. Hopefully I will be driving this car often. They aren't built for highway driving, just for toodling around town and to car shows. I bought this car sight unseen, on an MG web site, and had it transported to my home in Georgia. I bought it with the intention of restoring it, and that's just what I did.

I bought this ‘74 Chevy Vega because my dad raced pro stocks back in the 70’s. He had a Vega in ‘74-‘75 named “Priscilla”. Although he wrecked it and almost killed himself, I was captivated by the Vega. My dad spoke differently about that car from all the others. When I was 15, he passed away and I always dreamed of building one of his cars. So now I’m 31 and I got my hands on a 74 Vega, and I plan to build a pro street clone of Priscilla. 70’s paint, striping, and of course a tunnel ram. I just got the block machined and bottom end built.

I always wanted a '55 Nomad ever since I saw one at the age of 11. It just tripped my trigger. Fast forward to now. My now uncle by marriage had a friend who had a Nomad. He said, "the cool thing is, it has Packard rear lights.” Now jump back to 11 years old, 1972. That Nomad I saw had funny rear lights, probably the main reason I remembered it so vividly. Back to now. The Nomad my uncle was referring to was, in fact the same Nomad I saw as a kid! By way of timing and sheer luck, I got an opportunity to purchase that same Nomad. So, I did. It was in pieces.

My daughter (Mila) is on her fourth vehicle at age 17, not due to any accidents. She sold a Dodge Durango and in searching for a replacement she found a 1984 Pontiac Fiero SE. With the flip up headlights, she had to have it. We are in the process of getting it put back together after replacing worn parts to make it a reliable daily driver.

I got this Buick in a trade. I was building an '05 Excursion, doing an '08 Super Duty conversion. This guy in Colorado saw it and wanted it. He had a handful of projects and long story short I picked this Electra, mainly because she's different than the usual build. This guy loaded her up and drove all the way to Southern California. I thought she would be a fairly simple build. She looked good in the pics. I saw some body panels that would need work but once I got her in the garage she revealed more and more.

My best friend and his family had a handful of Dusters, and I wanted a car that I could build myself and be different from theirs but still be similar so when I needed help it was a phone call away. I had a 1970 El Camino at the time and mentioned to a coworker that I was thinking about selling it and he said he was looking for one. He had a 75 Scamp he was working on and offered to trade. I looked at the car and it was in pretty good shape, completely gutted of interior, didn't run, and had some body work started on it. I thought it over and ended up doing the trade.

Been to many cars shows and haven’t seen one yet. So, it’s a Dodge coupe and Chevys and Fords get way too much attention. This is the 3rd rig I’ve worked on to bring back from the dead. I’ve made a pretty '60 Apache and a really nice '70 Duster. Each had a few upgrades. The Dodge will be my most involved build, with the most mods and most engineering. This will be a rat rod with, hopefully, awesome interior and look like it’s not gonna make it to the next stop light. Gonna race. Gonna show. Gonna put miles under the car.

I picked up this 1950 Ford 4 door flathead 6 Shoebox. It's pretty solid and about 65% complete. The floors are pretty good. Only had one 6" x 3" place I had to cut out and replace. I'm buying new old stock when I can. The only thing I couldn't find was the trunk striker, so I fired up the forge and made one. I found the turn signal kit and a windshield washer kit. Both were options in 1950. I took out the original wiring harness and will replace it with a new harness I picked up. I'm also going to convert the car from 6 volt positive ground to 12 volt negative ground.

This is a story about a restoration and building of the only RV - Rat Rod known on the road at this time. We have traveled the country six months out of the year (in another class A motorhome) for the past seven years and we have never spotted any Ratted RVs of this creation or this model. When we travel with the Ratted RV, usually to car shows, regional racetracks, NASCAR races, special events, football tailgating, and more. Every stop along the way we make new friends, and everyone wants to take pictures.

This is a 1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass S that I bought on eBay back in 2003 to build one of my dream car projects: a streetable tribute version of the prototype 1968 Hurst Olds. The owner of the car was selling it for scrap metal; the 350 2barrel w/ 2-speed Superturbine 300 transmission had long been removed. The front fenders, hood, interior and electrical system were mostly removed/pirated as well. The car was a rust-free Florida car with clean title, solid frame, and Chevy 12-bolt rear end.

I found this truck in a salvage yard after visiting Loretta Lynn’s ranch back on Oct 13, 2017, and it was going to be crushed due to it being wrecked and so badly rusted. I asked to buy it to use as yard art since there were no VIN tags and it was scheduled to be crushed anyway. They agreed and I ended up paying 1200 for it because my wife wanted to use it to sit in the driveway and use to decorate for each season.