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1931 Buick Restoration
| Give the gift of life. Ted & Beth are helping wounded soldiers from dessert storm by using this 1931 Buick Restoration project to honor all service men and women that have served our great country. If you like the car and want to help a hero, send your tax deductible donation. This is just the beginning of the project. I have a few hundred hours working on the car and almost done. It is now at the air brush artist getting the hero scenes painted on it. Keep watching for updates on what we are doing with the car. You will love it. |
Rebuilding Buick into a street rod |
Frame almost done |
Putting in electric sun roof |
Fitting body back on frame |
Scott driving in the 2001 4th of July parade |
June 2006: Starting to strip down body |
Stripping more of the body |
Taking out the interior |
Stripping more of the interior |
Stripping out the front |
Stripping out the rear |
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Primed and ready for paint (over 130 hours to get to this point) |
Painted, ready to get interior! |
Priming fenders & hood getting for paint |
Fenders, hood, trunk just about ready for installing |
Fun header above windshield, with electric sun roof, DVD, CD, nav system, back up camera, siren systems and more |
Rear seat, with seat belts. |
All faces on this Faces of Valor project are real people like you and me, giving their all for our country. Please never forget. |
All 42 faces are being air brushed free hand. Many, many hours of work! |
First World War, Vietnam, Desert storm, Iraq war and others all represented here. |
Fire, Police, Paramedics |
All the major forces have their own seals on the hood of the car |
It takes a lot to make this country what it is. |
It is shaping up |
Marines putting their lives on the line everyday so we can enjoy our freedom. |
Fire fighters giving their lives to save us every day. |
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Projects for Lauren:
Night Stand |
Rocking Chair |
Restoring an Old Trunk |
Headboard
Restoring an Old Cabinet
| When Beth was visiting Lauren, Lauren called Beth on her way to work and told Beth of this cabinet in the trash down the street from her apt. and ask Beth to go down and get it. Then they asked me to restore it. One man's trash is another man's treasure. |
Well here it goes. . . |
Just about done stripping and replacing some rotted wood. |
Trying to get the door to line up |
Hand painting designs |
Well it is now ready to give back to Lauren—can't wait to see her again. |
Restoring a Corvette
This 1975 Corvette was purchased at Florida International in 1992.
It had 240,000 miles on it and was no longer driven.
Restoration began in 2001 and completed in 2005.
Now I drive it whenever I can get it from Scott or Lauren. |
1928 Phantom Rolls Royce Restoration
Bought in 1995 before dad died. Restoration began Jan 2005. This project will take a while. Only working on it in my spare time in the evenings. A lot of sleepless nights. Watch for the progress. Click images to enlarge. |
Starting restoration |
Starting restoration |
Rebuilding Bejuir lines |
Taking body of frame |
Cleaning out engine |
Stripping down frame |
Taking frame out for a ride at midnight |
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Music Boxes for Lauren
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Train Layout
| About 18' x 22' from scratch for kids to see over the holidays. |
L frame layout staring |
Frame work just about complete |
Relaxing working on a engine |
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18' double loop 2 stages, getting ready for track |
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Mikita Bowser Engine
Building Mikita Bowser Engine |
Testing it as we go |
Lights working, some very small parts |
More testing as we go to make sure it all works, which it does. How lucky? |
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1933 Dodge Restoration
| This 1933 Dodge, was the first car my parents owned, & was the first car I restored, back in 1974 to 1985. I started and stopped while in high school
and college. When my mother died, I went out in my garage every night from the day she died and spent all night working on the car until it was done. I drove the car out of the garage the morning of the funeral, having had no sleep for 4 days straight. |
You can see why I only paid $75 for it and some thought I paid too much! |
Riding around with Mom & Dad when I finally got it running. We had some great fun times. Mom and dad were good sports |
First time trying to paint a car, thanks to my friend Dave Smith who gave me a 20 minute lesson on what and how to paint. |
Finish putting it together. |
Driving out of the garage for the first time. |
1932 Phantom 1 Rolls Royce Restoration
7 years to complete |
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Ted & Scott getting ready to drive in Annapolis 2002 4th of July parade. You can see the 31 Buick in the rear. |
| I am also building a remote control 83" wing span plane, and a helicopter and I just finished building a miniature paint booth for all the houses and trains that I've built. |
Wing for my 2nd remote control plane. |
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