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Here is the entire spring after grinding it clean, and you can see how no holes are visable in any leaf.

Don

And, as I mentioned, the weather held out, so I got quite a bit of priming and painting done. The rear axle is all done, and so is the front spring. Tomorrow the parts should be dry enough to at least get the front end totally hung.

Here are some pictures of what I got painted tonight. More windchimes. Not too many big parts left to paint, all small stuff now.

I've got a chromed 10 bolt rear center cover, chrome shocks, and chrome shackles to install on the rear axle. Should contrast nicely against the orange, and break it up a little.


Don

Don the more I see of the orange, that you have painted the more I like the color. I will buy the pizza, just send me the bill.
Brad

Thanks Brad, like I said, it's starting to grow on me too.


Can I get two toppings on that pizza.


Don

Don, Where did you find that "No club" license frame? My Dad and buddies are in clubs and hassling me to join when I finish my car. Id love to slap one of those on my car now. I have never seen the frame you have.

BTW, I like the color combo as well, how about some simple pinstriped flames on the body, maybe layed with two colors, one being your orange?

Thanks Gusaroo. I do think the body will need something to break it up, so something will probably be painted on it, scallops or flames.

That frame was given to me by Tony DiCosta, who owned Hot Rod and Custom Supply, a shop devoted to all stuff 1950's-ish. (He has since sold it and it has moved to Indiana or some such place)

Tony was a flathead builder extraordinaire, and built the one for the Total Performance T that you saw in all the magazines. His shop used to be right here in Cape Coral Florida. After I got my '27 running I drove in to show it too him, and he liked the fact I had built it old-timey, so he walked back into the shop and dug out that frame. He had been saving it for a car for himself, but felt it would look good on my T.

I think it is a true '50's-'60's piece, because he told me it was very old, and I remember seeing them back then. It is one of those patina pieces you just keep for sentimental reasons. When I was President of the local Ford club, some of the members told me it was contradictory because I DID belong to a club, but they just didn't understand that it simply fit the era of the car.

Maybe someone is reproducing them? If I run into any in some catalog or whatever, I'll keep you in mind.

Don

Don

I haven't posted anything in a while, been pretty busy, but I check on your's and Jim's progress every day.

You're coming along great! Looks good. You'll be riding by the first part of June!

Like the others the color is growing on me too. I'm going to throw my vote in for the scallops or flames.

Those spring buttons are slick(no pun intended). I'll have to remember them.

Mike

Thanks Mike. I'm glad Bob P told me about the buttons. They are simple to insall and should work great. I guess he felt he owed me something after all those jokes about my "Girlfriend."

BTW, the spring liner from Speedway is horrible, and it is going back. It might be ok on a fendered car, where you don't see it, but on a car where the spring is right out there to see, it would not look good, I'm convinced. The edges that wrap up over the sides of the spring don't lay flat, and are all warped.

I see Total Performance no longer carries this style, possibly for that reason.

But these buttons are the cats meow, and should work on any leaf spring application, not just single cross springs. The part that goes into the hole actually snaps in to hold them in place until you get the spring assembled too.


Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

I guess he felt he owed me something after all those jokes about my "Girlfriend."
Don

Who was joking?

Don

Splurge Don order all the way garbage pizza, your worth it....
Brad

I got to knock off early today because I ran out of painted and chromed parts to install. That's a good thing, because I got the front end all mounted, and the backing plates and spindles temporarily put on. I need to order my tie rod from Speedway now that I know the dimension it ended up being.

However, it is official.............I LIKE THE COLORS. Now that I have seen more parts put on, it is coming together pretty well, and the orange in person isn't too far off of a nice gold. I can live with it.

Here are some pictures of the stuff I got bolted on today.

Don

BTW, here is a picture of how those poly slider buttons go onto the spring. They just tapped into the holes, and are held in place by the spring leaf below it. They seperate the leaves pretty far, and I suspect as they seat and get ground down the gap will close somewhat. But it isn't objectionable to me now.

Don

Looking good Don. It's a shame the the colors often don't photograph as they reayy are in person.

Thanks Mike. Yeah, my '27 photographs PINK, and it is PURPLE.

When I would post pictures of it, people thought I was either strange, or a Mary Kay saleperson.

Don