165 Main Street · Annapolis, MD 21401 · (410) 269-6737

Ted's Hobby Page

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. To see how you can help CLICK HERE and enter the world of Faces of Valor USA.
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
	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.

Marines putting their lives on the line everyday so we can enjoy our freedom.

Fire fighters giving their lives to save us every day.

Here comes the great American Look!!!	Lauren helping dad put on the luggage rack.	Long time friends Rusty & son Mike from Bay Country Vans put in the beautiful interior
I didn't realize they didn't have back-up camera & 7" DVD screens, Electric sunroof & sirens in 1933	After many hours of fun work, lets put the engine in. Thanks for all the help and advice from Wayne Evert & Bill Hicks.	Almost there...
Time to put the fenders on.	How about a little fun with lights.	Lets make running boards from scratch from Mahogany
Friends Mike Zitzmann (Veteran of Viet Nam face on the car) and friend Don App, help sanding and refinishing the running boards.	Running boards finished	Almost there. Thanks Mike Zitzmann for all the help. Good friends are what it's about.

Projects for Lauren:
Night Stand | Rocking Chair | Restoring an Old Trunk | Headboard

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.

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	Engine coming along	Fabricating a new fuel auto vacuum tank
Old auto vac on left is pretty much shot	After telling me it would be $450+ for a tank, I figured it was time to make it myself. It's fun welding!!!	More than 1/2 way done
Ready for pressure testing before hooking it up, keep your fingers crossed.

Music Boxes for Lauren

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
		18' double loop 2 stages, getting ready for track
	Over 500 feet of track laid	Master switch boards just about done
Over 5000 feet of wire run	Mike on left is over every Monday evening. Great fun working and chatting with Mike. Hal is sharing his experience with scenery.	It's great to finally start scenery.
The start of the first tunnel/mountain

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?

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.

Driving to work one Sunday morning in 2008 after not using the car for over 22 years.

1932 Phantom 1 Rolls Royce Restoration 7 years to complete

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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165 Main Street · Annapolis, MD 21401
(410) 269-6737 · fax (410) 269-6738