Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Mike: I'm sorry, I missed the second part of your post. Bummer about your health. You said you go through this periodically, and that must be tough, knowing it may reoccur. Keep the faith MIke, maybe it won't happen again or at least not for a long long time.

I wish you well bud.

Don

thanks Don. we will see. its a fluid thing, and i'm not talking trans. fluid either.

"I think he likes that time alone without me bugging him and trying to carry on a conversation."

I used to get a little upset whenever anybody came around to shoot the bull and I was up to my elbows in something. I absolutely cannot talk to someone and do my work at the same time, so I'd just have to stop and ya-ya with them.

Don,

You mounted straight to the frame? I think that you said that you might consider using the shock mounts. why did you go directly to the frame? How does this affect your rad.?

Thanks,
Zachariah

The way I ended up doing is is actually the most common way, but I thought for a little variation I'd mount the bar to the tops of the shock mounts. But it ended up putting the headlights too high, and it looked goofy.

As for radiator room, I have plenty, as the rad sits a few inches behind the bar. I built in a couple of extra inches in case I ever want to run a blower and need room for the pulleys and belt. Don't know if that will ever happen, but I like the idea, and have always wanted a blown car.

Thanks for asking.

Don

Don, the bar looks really cool. Too bad chroming is so darn expensive or else that thing would look awesome all nicely chromed. I had an idea on a chroming technique I haven't seen used yet. (sorry to get off topic again but while it's on my mind....) Now this all depends on the color of the vehicle but I have a powder coating maching and pounds of powder in all sorts of colors never used... One of them is a smoked chrome. Looks like a black chrome, it's awesome. I thought that it would be something different to do this on a bronze or orangish metallic paint job and do the grille and everything that normally is chrome or a dark metallic purple color... Have you seen it done? I have a picture in my head of the colors it would look good on IMO but then again there aren't many colors it would look good on either.

Don---That headlight bar's cuter than a speckled pup!!! Nice work. I can't talk/visit and work at the same time either. ---Brian

Brian, please don't lie. You know that when the neighborhood hotties (meaning good looking women lol) come by to check out the hot rod you roll out from under the rpu and have a chat with them. Then you pull out your 2 liter bottle of pepsi and take a swig! haha

Denny:I wouldn't want that ONE Tweety sic'd on me.


FMX, no I haven't seen the stuff you are talking about. Tell me more.


Brian, thanks. It's also real cheap.

Don

Thanks Denny. I thought the 2 liter thing was kinda funny too.

Brian, I know what you mean about being alone in the shop, because I guess I am sort of that way too. I wish I could be one of these guys who has 3 of their best friends over and each one helps the other build their rod, but to he honest, I am kind of a loner in that respect. When other people are there, they keep pushing you to get moving and get something done, and I like to just take my time and sometimes just sit in the rod and think about the next step.

My best friend Pete, who passed away about 5 years ago, used to ask to come over to my shop and help me out working on some project, and I really preferred to be alone, so I made one excuse or another. I feel bad about that now, because he really had a heart of gold, and just wanted to repay me for the times I helped him work on his cars. But my time in the garage is my therapy time, and while I might pass pleasantries with my Son when he is there, I also enjoy those times when it is just me and the stereo.



Don

I can work with an audience, but it really slows me down. Like you guys, I get the most done when I am alone. Also, I talk to myself and the car constantly when I'm working alone. When things are going as expected, I carry on pleasant commentary; when things go wrong I rage and cuss and sometimes throw things. Then I calm down and do it right. I think it's all very theraputic and keeps me from taking out my frustrations on other people.

Don - Thanks for the compliment (a couple of pages back). I have been told before that I have a good eye for proportion. I hope that's true; if so it's probably because one of my hobbies is drawing.

Brian - I'll be looking forward to the posts on that Duvall style windshield frame. Depending on what body I end up with for my roadster, I may want to do that.

I'm going to the Turkey Run at Daytona next month and I hope to come home with a body. The ideal piece would be a '27 roadster pickup body (fiberglass), but all of those I've seen are high $$$. I can find '23 T-bucket bodies starting at $385. I wish someone would make the '27 bodies like that. I don't need opening doors or steel reinforcement... Anyway, a '23 bucket will do if I can't score a '27. I like the '27 because the cowl shape is compatible with the Duvall style windshield. Whatever I come home with, I'll be posting build pics here. The build pics of my coupe are in the gallery.

I'll see you at the Turkey Run. Because of work schedules this year for me and my Sons also, we are probably not going up til Friday night. HOTRODDADDY has proposed us all trying to meet, and I am really looking forward to that.

About talking to the car...............I swear at it when something goes wrong or when I get hurt. One time my Girlfriend said to me "Honey, do you realize you are swearing at an inanimate object?" Shows how little she knows.......she must never have seen Christine. These things are alive I tell you.


Don

I have to be alone if some one is around they better be at the other end of the shop. I will get nothing done with anyone there. People come by to yak or what ever I start cleaning tools puting things away sweping the floor. Don't know why I just work better alone. I spent 3 hrs yesterday working on 2 trim pcs. That are no longer avaliable and I have to have them for the slider glass on the 53. Yes they do have a personality I don't know whos but if I forget to tighten a bolt or make the final adjustment on somthing IT will let me know
GEE cars are fun

I know a guy who has a mold for a 27 roadster, ive been trying to buy or borrow it so i can make my own

I can get a '27 roadster body for about $600 and that's OK, but what I really want is the roadster pickup body. The RPU doesn't have the turtle deck on the back. It is very similar to the '23 T-bucket except the cowl area is different. I plan to build this thing as a bobtail with the rear axle exposed and a keg style tank on it. as usual, of course, plans are subject to change. My current idea is to make it look like I just dragged it out of a barn where it's been lurking for 50 years. I am even going to create a phony scrapbook with old event photos, etc. and pictures of how I "found" it in the barn under all the junk. Then on the last couple of pages I will tell the truth with build photos, etc.

That's a cool idea about the "barn find." Don't forget to cover it with lots of bird droppings. Maybe a stray mouse or two thrown in for good measure.

I'm sure you already know this, but I'll mention it anyway. The real steel '27 roadster body was exactly the same in the front for the roadster and also the roadster pickup. All Ford did was bolt a turtle deck to one or a pickup bed to the other. On the glass versions, the various manufacturers have simply molded the turtle deck to the body, so it doesn't come off.

I like the roadster pickup version too, and actually considered at one time cutting the turtle deck off and building the back portion of the cockpit out of fiberglass to the exact shape of the original steel body (like you said, like a T bucket back portion) but it would have been a fair amount of work and I didn't feel like getting into all that. But it could be done, probably by making a male buck and forming glass over it to the correct shape.

I really like your idea about the bob tail thing. I think it would look great.

Don