My Comanche rescues Shelby Dakota pickup

[meljr]

The one on the right side of the shed is a Studebaker. The rusty one in front is a metropolitan, The yellow one in front of the Stude looks like a Metro. Can't tell if they're Nashs' or Hudsons as they both had the same body and only a chrome logo to tell them apart.

I ask because my wife has always thought the metro's were neat, and if I had the bucks ..... She wants a 'virtable though.

 

The 'rusty' Metro is going in the shop this month for sanding, etching primer and a repaint to look like my late Mother in Law's Hudson Metro (monochrome tomato soup color) from the 50's. The yellow Metro was in primer and ready for paint when the barn fell. It sustained a nasty dent on the roof and I'm not sure what it's fate will be ultimately. I also have a complete coupe that runs with rusty floors but no title and a decent convertible in the garage with no title. I have literally a ton of parts for these old Metros.

 

The 'Studebaker/Desoto' is actually a low mileage 1956 Plymouth Savoy 4 door from Crackerville, Montana that I bought for it's 277 power pack and push button powerflite transmission. It had been hit hard in rear while parked in front of the M&M bar in Butte and the barn collapse took out the roof. There are also two 1956 Plymouth Suburban wagons still in the barn that appear to have escaped serious injury -- a 2 door and a 4 door. Oh yeah, I almost forgot; there is also a 1956 2 door post Plymouth Savoy with a front sub frame and big block K member from a 70 B Body. Drop in a 440, hang the front fenders and you've got an instant rat rod bracket racer.

 

-mel