I have been on the hunt for a new project for my wife and 4yr old son to be involved in for awhile. My wife loves the 40s she always sends me pictures when she spots one starts to guess the year and mods, just her all around favorite. So I set out to find a roller with rust, a lot of rust so I could get in cheep. And there are a lot to choose from so after many questions and conversations with my good friend @cruisermatt. I decided to hold off on my 1,000 to 1,500 rust bucket idea and save up. Somewhere in the 6 to 10 range and get a nice truck/roller to start with. Sold my wife on the idea and that’s that, we/I was going to save up. But I still had the itch my 60 project has almost come to an end. So I found myself still searching late at night in the hotel On Mud, Craigslist, marketplace. And then a week or so later I found Mav. I was so excited I could not stand it. I reached out to the owner and got the wheels moving. It happened to be in the same state I was currently working. So only out of pocket was the trailer rental. I was already driving home on the weekends so I just need to grab a u-haul for the Honda Civic I was buying and tow it home. Nice well maybe not I got the deal worked out and got the truck loaded and in the excitement I forgot to tell my wife about it! So I sent her some pictures and she said well I thought we were waiting and then told me not to bring that home under any circumstances. But what I thought she said is I can’t wait to see you I love surprises!!!! So I figured I would shoot her a pic of it on the trailer when I stopped for fuel! Because we got disconnected most likely the bad cell reception. Lol big mistake my phone blew up and you thought extended warranty calls were bad. I had to block my own wife the entire drive home! So 7hr later I pull in the drive and my son can’t wait to get inside. He played and played so now I’m in the process of cleaning the the exterior with CLR and doing a rust converter and then linseed oil. All is good on the home front wife loves it. She even took a tour of a few nice 40s over at Cruiser Matt’s shop in winter park to get an idea of the height she wants.
