Thread: Un-streetrodding a 34 tudor

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I picked up a project a few years back from an estate. It's a glass 34 tudor that is chopped and was running (of all things) a pinto motor! That was the first thing to get yanked out. He was running a 3 piece hood and a cheapo glass 33 grill. So I picked up a nice 4 piece stock hood and a stock grille. Then I decided to go fenderless so in order to do that I had to take the IFS out from under the front end and install a dropped I beam That's kinda where I an at now. I will post some pics as I get time.

The day we picked it up.

And a week later the wife and I yanking the banger motor...I love my wife.

A couple of shots of us installing the posi chuck.

The fun you two are going to have!! This is neat!!
My Bride will allways ask if there is something she can do to help whenever the tools are out
:-)

lucky men we are! Mine helped me drag a 2000 pound 2 post lift into my basement for a future garage build as well as a complete bbc 454 (bought at the same time) only having to sell it before the garage could come to fruition. It all worked out though. I did get the garage and it has 12 foot ceilings so I will get the lift but it now has to be a four post ( I can't drill into the floor because its heated).



This is what I started with. A 1 bay garage but I fit 2 cars in there. Yes there is 2 cars there. The 34 is sideways in front of the wife's coupe.

But we ended up with this.

Cool Build and a great shop. Amazing what we can do when we put our minds to it! And it's great that your wife likes to participate. Thanks for sharing the pics too.

Neat solution for garage space, and bonus space for the living area to boot.

Funny how some things cycle around. Mid '70s we saw a fair number of people making similar odd power choices because many believed that constricted fuel supply was "here forever". Oh the Hemis that could be had for a song then! Then as life realigned itself again we drifted back to "normal". I don't know if you know the builders motivation for the 2.3, but that's one of the potential outcomes of the "build what you want" mentality. Keep the pics and progress reports coming please.

Now with the engine out of the way it's time to remove the paper thin motor mounts.



Time to mock up the SBC and everyone gets involved. My boy supervises.

The my daughter helps guide the transmission to the mount.

Then ultimately the wife's gets it done. (Did I mention how I love my wife!)

Now that the mounts are tacked in out with the mock-up motor and in with the rebuilt 350.

Thanks for the rebuild pics, always enjoy lots of pictures!

Thank you for the story and pictures of the Tudor. Now, what is that saying..." The family that play together, stay together in love, life forever. " I'm sure that those two young ones will be hot rodders in their future. Is the '33 Chevy a steel body coupe ?

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Is the '33 Chevy a steel body coupe ?

Yes it's all steel except the deck lid is fiberglass. It's a 33 Chevy master. All the wood was removed and a steel inner structure was installed. That is my wife's car (Lucky bitch) it has a 57 Ford 9" 700R4 and a SBC with a tunnel ram with dual quads. Her car is going to be more bling and raw power and mine will be bare bones and more for the kool factor.

Now with the 34 in it's new home it was time to get serious about what I was going to do to it. In order to save time and money it was determined that we should make it fenderless. No fenders to fit, body work, and paint. Plus (I think) fenderless cars are kooler. Only one thing stood in my way....the IFS. Unless its a high dollar build with a completely polished front end; IFS on a fenderless car just doesn't look right. Plus with the sale of all the extra parts I was able to pay off some bills and buy the parts I needed to change it over. Another thing that made it real easy was I had a buddy that just picked up a 37 Ford coupe. It had a factory ford front end with a new disc brake conversion. Basically he wanted IFS and I wanted a straight axle so we swapped. So I broke it all down.


Then this showed up on my doorstep.

Plan of attack was to leave the IFS cross member in place till I was all set with welding (tacking) the model A cross member in.



That's better.

Awesome work, and it's really cool the whole family gets involved too! Your garage sure is nice as well!

So this same buddy that had the 37 ford front end was going to run kool lookin 30's Chevy cowl lights as tail lights. So he asked me to cast him some red lenses (I do resin casting of 1/8th scale models). I told him we could just stain them like stained glass. So I bought the red stain and did them and they came out great. He was still on the fence and finally decided to go with 50 Pontiac tail lights so guess what I got? That's right Kool lookin 30's Chevy cowl lights with red lenses. I'm going to make up a better mounting system from the arm to the bucket. I just had a bolt lying around so I can get a visual. The backs will match the paint on the car but the ring will stay polished brass....Till I get the funds to have them chromed (or not). The wife helped me repurpose the steering arms we cut off the 37 ford spindles. We made tail light brackets out of them. She held both torches with Mapp gas till they were cherry red then I got out the "Persuader" (my 3 foot adjustable wrench) and bent (actually twisted) them till they were facing the same direction. I still have to drill and tap the bases and drill out the 7º hole where the tie rod would go. On with the pictures...

Nice work and good way to use what you already have.