Thread: FINALLY, some progress

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So—after 5 months of tearing down, cleaning, rebuilding and parts buying, I’m finally doing things that show progress. For months, everything I did looked like the previous days work. Building it up is much more rewarding than tearing it down and cleaning.

sooooooooooo-------------are the tires on the wrong side?????????????/////

Beautiful work. I particularly like the air suspension. I'm curious like Jerry, though. Aren't those tires directional?

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

sooooooooooo-------------are the tires on the wrong side?????????????/////

Did you mean on the wrong ends of the car? He took the "bigs and littles" seriously it looks like, bigs in the front and littles on the back. Or at least, that's the way it looks to me.

On this computor, they all look the same!

I think Jerry meant the tread direction, and yes they appear to be directional tread on the wrong side.

Frame could be upside down, then tires are right

Originally Posted by techinspector1

Did you mean on the wrong ends of the car? He took the "bigs and littles" seriously it looks like, bigs in the front and littles on the back. Or at least, that's the way it looks to me.

NOPE--Wheels are all the same size, 18x7.5 Actually, I've just got them on there to roll the chassis around. They were on my Mustang (worn out now) but I pulled them off when I sold the car. Probably not going to use them on the 39.

Very nice work on the chassis! IDK if mine will get the bling treatment this go around.

Nice, looks like a great start!

Man--I'm so tired of sanding I feel like my arms are going to lock up on me. I've put a gallon of mud on this thing so far and blocked off all but a pint Can't wait to get done with this part.

Sweet, a 39 Chevy! I thought that frame looked like a 35-39 Chevy. My very first car was a 39 Chevy. Is yours a sedan or a coupe?

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

Sweet, a 39 Chevy! I thought that frame looked like a 35-39 Chevy. My very first car was a 39 Chevy. Is yours a sedan or a coupe?

Hey 40, actually, it's a 4 door sedan. We've had about a half dozen cars, all coupes. Whenever we would go for more than a w/e, we would have to pull a trailer for all the wife's stuff. And forget buying anything while ur out. We once had to SHIP a bunch of "shopping spree" stuff back from "Shades of the Past" in Tenn to Florida because we just had no more room

Now, a family could live in the back seat of this one. Plenty of room to stretch out!! Replaced the firewall and front floors. Had the entire car soda blasted

Wow, great work! I know what you mean by having no room. We have 3 kiddos, and there's no way to pack them all in my 40. Need a Limo almost.

Yea, we had a 41 Ford standard in our quest for more room. Kids are grown & gone now, but we like to travel for longer periods going to runs in other states now.

Had air ride on last two we built and love it. See UR from Mitchville. Would that be Maryland?