Take a look at the 34 S&H Custom Rods has listed.

If you have any questions or would like more information give them a call.

Brant you love this stuff don't you! Maybe you should get a conversion dictionary. I have heard there are some on the net but not looked at one. OK, we spell tires tyres (it's English), center centre (same reason), color colour (ditto), liter litre (it's a Euro word so we spell it that way) etc etc. We also have a lot of dual words like petrol station and gas station. Although petrol is the more common word, both have been interchangeable since day dot. BUT over the last 20 years, LPG (liquid petroleum gas, an oil producing by product) has become very popular as it was always cheaper than "gas" had 100+ octane and was good on the polution side. You guys call it propane. So gas and gas have become a little confusing, especially for younger folk. The LPG isn't as cheap as it once was and the octane is dropping also because (I'm told) the LPG we got as a result of our oil mining ("natural gas") is now a man made product and doesn't have the same kick. Why, I have no idea. Although we now export huge amounts of industrial grade natural gas to China. To help them make carr parts and everything else I presume.

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread!

Oh yeah, there's also aluninium and aluminum, which we also make a lot of. We just call it ally.

CK...If it take a year to find the right car i am perpared to do just that. I have no intentions of buying something that I can't live with and immediately start a rebuild project.

jdstokes...Shameless plug. I sent you an e-mail throught this site asking some questions about the car. I am going to guess that it didn't get to you? But I do like the car. The wife isn't to fond of the red...but I don't think that the color is a deal breaker with her.

slopper...I have this soft spot in my heart for old British cars. So your using the Queen's english isn't a problem and won't require an interpeter.

shine...I have a relative who live in Teaxs. So your drawl isn't a problem either. Thanks for the paint buff out tip.

brianangus...Canadians are easy to understand as long as they aren't from Quebec Provence, Eh.

Bob

Bob......check the July, Aug, Sept issues of Street Rodder magazine for 3 installment of titling a street rod in California.

Keep kroozen, the "Title Guy"

31tudor,

Thanks for the comments and tips. I should of said that I am very familar with "StreetBeasts"...I almost bought into their package. At a discount of course. But forunately my better and smarter half stopped me for very sound reasons. Those guys are still calling me some 20 months after I talked to them and told them the deal wasn't for me. It must have been the "new guy" questions I was asking.

So other than the cool factor...running a flathead as a driver might not be the best choice.

I have built race cars and have enjoyed all the work involved. But I have also quickly learned that the smarter choice is to buy someone's well built piece of hardware and improve it. Although there is that "I built this myself" factor. I am just not sure I want to deal with the Califonia DMV.

Jim,

I did read those articles with great intrest and it almost changed my mind about building it myself....almost. I even have a '34 coupe title...no car but a title.

Bob

Few thoughts:

1. I look at the idea of buying a finished car like a house. Someone built it to suit them, so you'll very very rarely find something exactly how you'd like it. So, factor into an appealing deal what you might like to do to "renovate it" to get it just how you'd want it. This could be simple like new wheels and tyres or more complicated like re jigging the suspension to get it to sit right or even retrimming it. In any case, the $ to get it to where YOU want it have to be considered, just like a house.

2. Flatheads aren't so bad if they're prepped and built properly, they're just a bit gutless if you're used to later SB standards.

3. I read that stuff in Street Rodder. Different from how we do it, but not hard really. Just a pain in the butt going through the processes. Possibly sounds worse than it is. Clubs and/or other people who've been through it would be a help. In the very special interest area of hot rods, I found long ago that calling the "department of whatever" pen pushers for information gets you "by the book" obstacles rather than good solutions.

4. I'm always lerry of not finished projects because I don't trust the work that's been done. I'd hate to discover a frame warped by welding or suspension out of whack, not to mention bad things hiden under primer or shiny paint. You can get lucky though and not all 1/2 finished projects are stuff-ups.

As said, just thoughts.