Ever wonder what it would be like to drive like Fred Flintstone?
Have enough legroom?
Last week, I was telling my nephew how poorly my dad’s 1963 Chevrolet Corvair was made. Specifically where the floorboard had rusted out!
It was similar to your photo and my dad had pieces of scrap sheet metal screwed to various points to keep your feet from poking through!
Tyler - how did you get a picture of Nate’s truck??? 
(1979 Chevy 1/2 ton)
Lol…
A Shivvie, eh? I didn’t think they included floorboards in Shivvies back then, thought ya had to pay extra for those 
j/k 
It’s actually a photo i dug up from an article about a Ranchero (so, yeah, it’s a fooord, not a shivvie) ground up restoration.
Does he propell his truck with his feet?
… when undercoating goes bad.
actually, we restored the body with LOTS of Bondo about 4 years ago, but we really need to pull some body panels and replace them - they are just too far gone. We did repaint it the original colors (gray metallic with gloss black middle portion) and that turned out great.
I tried to interest “Overhauling” in it, but haven’t heard back from them so far… 
This was my dad’s truck. He died in 1986. From the time Nate could talk (I was pregnant with him whe dad died) he was going to drive “Grandpa Frank’s” truck. It still has less than 100,000 miles on it. Nate took all the pollution stuff off when it had it’s last echeck and put straight pipes and headers on it (and only one Puple Haze glasspack, cuz that’s all his friend gave him).
It’s still here in Cincy - we’re afraid it would never make it through the mountains to Norfolk!!!
I thought it was an Italian car!
I have always wanted a glass bottom car…
You mean they aren’t ALL that way? I guess I’ve been living with salt and ice for too long.
I once had a Plymouth Horizon I bought for $75 bucks. It ran well but the floors were rotted out and one day I heard a “snap” as I stopped at a light. When I checked out the situation I discovered the brake rotors were as thin as a potato chip and had actually snapped. To think I drove with my kids in the car!!! This was right after my divorce and I had needed something to get me by.
My first car was a '73 Beetle. Before I bought it from my sister, who bought it from my dad, the rear passenger floor had rusted out, but was securely patched by a friend with welding know-how.
My husband recalls a boyhood road trip taken with his uncle, in his uncle’s car which had just such a hole. Since it was a convenient place to drop butts, Uncle Dan called it the “ash-hole.” Of course.
I had a Volkswagen Bug in which, if I’d been driving awhile in the rain, whenever I had to stop, there was a tidal bore into the front of the cabin.
when the “new” Beetle first came out, I stated “It can’t be a Beetle. It has heat!!”
My '73 had…um…“heat.” You were supposed to pull up the two levers on either side of the emergency break. It worked so well that when my sister and I drove home from Ohio to Maryland for Christmas break '80, we draped my backpacker space blanket over both our laps so we wouldn’t freeze to death.
OK, the story for the ages. I had an Audi 4000 Quattro with about 350K on the odo. Yes, I really did. Wonderful car. However, one day, I tried to back out of the garage to go to work. The car wouldn’t go into gear, at the very least. I think I felt the fire wall move ( did it move for you, dear?) about 1/4 of an inch. I tried a couple of times; when it did get into reverse, I couldn’t shift into 1st. Arg! I suspect that the firewall gave way, making the clutch linkage go out of whack, and not get into gear. But, at 350K miles, I figured it could do what it wanted.