Big Bertha is here.

Yeap another car. Nothing fancy just an old 4 door beater. I'm not sure if I have a sickness or what's wrong with me but I feel more comfortable driving junk than a nice car. Maybe it's the thought of having something nice to only get it keys the first week it's painted(my 61 chevy) or having people sit on the fender and hear it pop when they get up. Kid crashing into it with their bikes. Down here where I'm at now I think I'm cursed to drive beaters. No sense in having something nice if it's going to get messed up. First bad dent I got it the Yaris we took it to the shop to get it fixed. Insurance covered it. While waiting a few days to get the car in the shop we got another dent. None of the dent are from us. We just walk out and there a new one! I gave up and just started collecting them. Why cause my insurance to go up by putting the daily in the body shop ever 3 months. Oh well. Can you tell I want to move?? LOL. Anyways This old chevy will be used for a dailey for a while. If it's around this spring Amy can drive it while I'm in my car. It will be a family run around car. Nothing cool about a 4 door other than the kids can get in and out real easy.

Most of the chrome was off the car when we went to get it. I spend alomost a day putting some of it back on. Big Bertha is a 1949 Chevy Fleetline Deluxe.
Why the name Big Bertha? When I first seen her she looked like the fat girl your buddy would try to set you up with on a blind date so he could have the cute one.

Big Bertha is bone stock other than the tires and battery. The rockers are rough and the interior needs help but it's one of the more solid older cars I've owned. Other than the brake lights, radio and clock everything else works. E brake, dome light, glove box light, all the gauges, speedo ect ect. The car is a low milage car that has been sitting in storage for a long time. The owners manual and heater control tag is still in nice shape in the glove box. There are no plans for the car other than drive it. I may do some small things here an there but nothing radical. Just an old car to beat around in.

The car came with a trunk load of parts. I have every piece of chrome for it. Extra stuff like sets of hub caps, back part of the rockers that are rotten, extra chrome and more.

NOW THATS ...........GOLDEN...............

jbs10 wrote:NOW THATS ...........GOLDEN...............

HAHAHA YOU ARE ATE UP. That one stuck with ya didn't it.

RebStew wrote:Big Bertha is bone stock other than the tires and battery. The rockers are rough and the interior needs help but it's one of the more solid older cars I've owned. Other than the brake lights, radio and clock everything else works. E brake, dome light, glove box light, all the gauges, speedo ect ect. The car is a low milage car that has been sitting in storage for a long time. The owners manual and heater control tag is still in nice shape in the glove box. There are no plans for the car other than drive it. I may do some small things here an there but nothing radical. Just an old car to beat around in.

Within a few weeks it'll have wheels, then you'll just have to try the new plasma cutter on it in a few places before you drop in the small block & turbo 350.

Nice find!

That's all normal stuff. I'm just not going to get radical. lol
I may fix what break and update it as it breaks. If I can get a few days to work on it that is warm I may work on the rockers. They are the worse part of the car. That's the fun thing about junk. You can't make them worse unless you just try to. If you do that then you will have to move up off Water Works Rd and put it under the barn. lol Sorry I had to say it...

yea a few of the scroungers were quick 2 call and tell me that u got that car like the skallkrusher its not as goodlooker as the skallkrusher but u just got her hay i got some parts 4 that car a straight axel and a ford 8 inch rearend gasser look but dont go taken it apart yet drive her 4 a wile

Thats a fine piece you have there. Always wanted a slope back. Dad had one when I was a baby down in Marion County. Wish I had your connections. I'd have bought it and gave it to Dad. Nice ride.

Awesome...........I want one so bad, all we can do right now is make parts for others

Vickers wrote:yea a few of the scroungers were quick 2 call and tell me that u got that car like the skallkrusher its not as goodlooker as the skallkrusher but u just got her hay i got some parts 4 that car a straight axel and a ford 8 inch rearend gasser look but dont go taken it apart yet drive her 4 a wile

did some 1 say rat rod......

yea jbs10 i agree he got another ratrod

Nice car seen you driving to papaws on thursday. beeped but you didnt look. need to get down there and hang out. also looking for a cheap garage to put the ta in for the winter any ideas?

Vickers wrote: yea jbs10 i agree he got another ratrod

Nope she's not a rat rod. This is a driver. She's not sitting under the barn ratting away. Never seen the beat. I know a guy off of water works. He has 3 or 4 or those rat rod things. I haven't seen any of them out all year. I guess they don't run or he's afraid of falling out of one of them.

hotrodaaron77 wrote:Nice car seen you driving to papaws on thursday. beeped but you didnt look. need to get down there and hang out. also looking for a cheap garage to put the ta in for the winter any ideas?

I didn't see ya. Garage's are getting hard to come by.

Bertha is as big as a bill board so ....

I messed around with the car trying to get some stuff fixed. The valve cover was leaking. The bolts were less than finger tight. fixed that. The return oil line was leaking. Someone had put a piece of fuel line on it with a brass clamped fitting. The striped the threads so it fell out of the oil filter when I grabbed it.

The fitting is really small. I didn't have one so after digging around I found an old vacuum gauge. It's good up to 190 psi so I hacked one end off and the fitting fit the oil canister perfect. I know that the picture make it look like it's on the exhaust pipe but it's not. Plenty of room.

sorry mr president but u got the drama going when u said water works rd but its ok when u get the drama going i never said u had a ratrod just agreed with jbs10 u got a nice car cuz i got 1 just like it u win lol

Just giving you a taste of your own medicine. I can take it and dish it out too.  

Great job Corey!
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Pretty cool.

u can dish out the drama far better than u can take every 1 noes that thii is your world here on the scroungers site if i was 2 say something that made u look bad u wood deleat it as u have in the past when ohio junkyard jeff put u in you place along with a few others u deleated so just deleat this and every thing that has 2 do wit me off your site ana band me from your game u still got a nice car cuz i got 1 just like it lol