I finally got rid of those two girls so I could take some pictures of my T. I thought they would NEVER leave. :mad: :mad:
(actually, they were very nice to accomodate me and let me snap them with the car.....thanks Ladies.) :D
Don
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I finally got rid of those two girls so I could take some pictures of my T. I thought they would NEVER leave. :mad: :mad:
(actually, they were very nice to accomodate me and let me snap them with the car.....thanks Ladies.) :D
Don
I'm here inside in three layers, freezing! Don, who's the cute blond in green bikini? Is that your son fishing in the background? I miss the summer fun and heat. Got to get the truck done, for those photo ops!:LOL: :LOL:
Yeah Dave, it sure did an old man's heart good. :LOL: Where were girls like that when I was their age??? :( :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Severson
Don
I have no idea who they are. They were tossing a frisbie around and I walked up and asked the guy if he would be offended if I borrowed his girl for a couple of shots. Neither of them had any objections, so we got the pictures I wanted. That's what is nice about getting old.................you can get away with this kind of stuff!! :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:Quote:
Originally Posted by stovens
Don
Well, time to take the roadster back to the shop and help Dan work on his car.
Don all of the photos were great. I think the lighting and angles worked out great!
P.S. Don what size(amp) alternator are you running in your 460? Trying to decide this in prep for wiring coming up. Thanks.:D
Dan didn't need me at the shop, so I got off easy today. :3dSMILE: :3dSMILE:
I haven't gotten as far as the alternator for the 460 Steve, it is just sitting on an engine stand right now. I have a 105 on the T, Dan loaned me his until his car is running. I'll just replace it for him when that happens.
Pictures didn't turn out too bad for an amateur, huh? I had trouble seeing the car in the viewfinder because it was so bright today, so some of them are not centered very well. Allen Funt I am not. :3dSMILE: :3dSMILE:
I thought the beach scenes would cheer up guys in other parts of the country. Spring isn't too far away.
Don
I figured the 100 amp, will give me plenty of juice for most things, that will be drawing power.
The photos really look great! The lighting is nice over the whole car! The model posing in the bikini is almost in the same pose as the old photo on the salt flats!
Bikinis and cars are enough to make most men perk up!
Where's Dan at on his build?
Steve.
Don,
Not only does your car make my heart race - you had to take a shot of the beaches of SW Florida. I grew in Sarasota and lived on Pine Island for about 10 months building the water plant there, and man it was a high of 64 today and the wind blowing.
I love the car and the picture must be Sanibel if I remember riight?
Don, I'm confused I don't know if I want the car still or just send the girls..........LOL. The car still looks great, even on the beach.
BradC
Yeah Dixiedog, it is Sanibel. One of my favorite places in SW Florida. Every Monday my ex-GF and I would take our bikes and ride the 20+ mile bike path, then eat at one of the nice restaurants out there. Place is like paradise.
St. Augustine where you are isn't too shabby either. We went there one time and it is like being back in the 16th Century in the old section. The fort is neat, as are the quaint old restaurants that haven't changed in centuries. BTW, welcome to the forum.
Steve, Dan is finishing up his rear spring mount today. I came home to grab a bite to eat because he is doing one man things right now. As soon as the springs are mounted we can put it back up and set the engine, tranny, body and bed back on to see how the stance is. I'm heading back there in an hour or so and will shoot some pictures today.
Don
Don---"Hate" is a strong word----but---this is what it was like at my house today.:CRY: :CRY: :CRY:
Nice pics! I love your T and these pics really show off its stance. Having seen it up close in person, I can tell everyone here that the car is just as gorgeous in real life as it is in the pics.:D :D :D
Thank you Jim. It was fun, but she tracked SAND into my car!!!! :eek: (I didn't say ONE word, even when she propped her foot up onto the painted dashboard :o :o )
Brian, come on, didn't that cheer you up a little? :D Summer is coming. I hear it is a Tuesday in July in Canada. :LOL: But you guys do have good beer.
Don
Wow! The pics came out great. Really beautiful! The car looks good too!:p :LOL:
You need to sell posters.
About the sand on the dash - some things are just worth it!:LOL:
Mike
I think I would have splashed some oil on it too, just for fun!:D :D
Oh not the dash, the girl!:D
I know the feel of my baby vs. oh baby!
In highschool, my car was still in pieces at the autoshop at school when a hot cheerleader walked up and asked if i'd give her a ride home, man I was never so pissed at my car as that moment!:D :CRY:
I believe I'd had trouble seeing the car too and bright wouldn't have had anything to do with it. :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :3dSMILE:Quote:
Originally Posted by Itoldyouso
Thats calender perfect don great pictures it snowed last night here must be nice have fun
Thanks. I certainly no photographer, but I took the tips Uncle Bob posted and they did help. I didn't get a chance to borrow a tripod from my Ex, so I took one from one of our worklights and laid the camera on it to steady myself.
I sent the pictures to a new hot rod magazine that is just starting up. He and I have traded emails before the car was done, and he told me to send some and some info when it was finished. He emailed me back yesterday and said I would be in issue number two. That's pretty cool. I think the green bikini helped. :D
Don
Man, I'm seeing quite a few red "X"s along with the photos. Looks like the smileys aren't working.
I have noticed that as well Jack. I think there are still ghosts in the machine!:3dSMILE:
Hmmm. For a change, my computer seems to be working ok. No red X's, but the site does go down from time to time.
I thought you guys might get a laugh out of this. I just sent my Son Don the following email and the pictures of the bikini chick:
Hi Don:
I thought I'd send you some pictures of my T. A girl I met and I went to the beach yesterday. She insisted on taking her girlfriend along, but that was ok.
Her name is Brigette, and shes the one in the green bikini. She is trying to move the relationship along too fast, talking about becoming your new Mom and stuff like that. But she is a nice kid, I think you would like her.
Dan met her, but he kept hitting on her, so he won't be seeing her much any more.
Whoops, shes knocking on the door right now, gotta go. She has already moved some of her stuff in, so do you think she is getting too serious?
Love, Dad
Dan put me up to it. :LOL: :LOL: Should be funny to see what he says.
I think I'll play this one out for a while and have some fun with him. :D
Don
Don that is great. Now we need Denny to morph her face on to a similar body in a different outfit with you somewhere other than the beach!:D
You mean like this?
Or like this?
Glad to see your having fun with the new T don, dont you just love living in florida? Where else can you just go out on a random day and get photo`s like that! Are you gonna bring her along for billetproof? Or are you gonna roll the dice and see if you can find a new one on the way?
Only in my dreams, only in my dreams. ;) :D :D
It's kinda like the time I told my Girlfriend that when she turned 40 I was going to trade her in for two 20 year olds. Her reply was " don't worry Honey, you aren't wired for 220." :o Guess she told me.
Don
If every weekend were as productive as this one, Dan's car would be running in no time. We got some major stuff done Saturday and Sunday. Of course, we didn't leave the shop until 5:30 Sunday morning and went back again Sunday afternoon, but those hours really paid off.
We finally wrapped up mounting his quarter eliptic springs in the rear. He settled on one way of doing it, after rejecting about 10 different ways (:confused: ) and got the brackets built and welded on. It works pretty well and gives him a bunch of ride height adjustment just by turning two bolts per side looser or tighter. Thank God that is finally out of the way.......I thought we were never going to get that task done. :)
Then we were able to mock the engine and tranny back on the frame and put the body back on temporarily to see where the car would sit. The bed was the last thing we got done, and it needed a c section taken out of each side for the rear axle assembly to go up into. Once the lower skirt was installed all the suspension is pretty well hidden from sight, but since he is going to leave all the workings exposed in the bed people will be able to see the entire rear suspension setup by looking into the bed .
The 1940 Ford wheels he bought on Ebay showed up Saturday and they are really nice. Tomorrow I have to take them and two others he has to the powder coaters to be coated black. The extra two wheels will mount some Hurst slicks that he will alternate using for shows and stuff.
So here are some pictures of what we ended up with tonight. We also sent his axles back to Moser to have them redrilled for a 5 on 5.5 pattern.
Don
Very slick. This is going to be very fun watching it come together. Steve.:3dSMILE:
Thanks Steve. I am really enjoying helping him put it together. Aside from spending time together it is nice spending someone elses money for a change. :LOL:Quote:
Originally Posted by stovens
Today I took his wheels to the powdercoater. He bought 4 '40 Ford wheels on Ebay that were nice and he already had two on the front of his rod, so they are going to do all 6. He is going to put Hurst slicks on the other 2 just for shows and cruises.
Quite an operation over at the powdercoaters place. Two booths outdoors doing nothing but sandblasting all day, and a huge facility doing all kinds of stuff in powdercoat.........everything from car stuff to huge dumpsters and cabinets. We have never had anything powdercoated so we are anxious to see how they come out. He's going with gloss black.
Don
There are a couple of powder coating places around here. I have seen work from both and it's impressive. What blows me away is the availability of colors that they have now; candy colors, too! I saw a pile of motorcycle parts that had been powder coated with candy purple over the original chrome. WOW!:eek: :D :D
Yep, they had a board with pictures of everything from boats to motorcycles, and the colors of the parts were amazing.
Don
Looking foward to seeing the results. About two years ago we built an addition to the house. We had an old cement double sink on the back porch with rusting metal legs. I had the legs sandblasted and then took the to a local powder coater, who had a metal gray color we used on them. I think they were cast iron, or maybe a pot metal. The came out great, and now we don't worry about them rusting(1880's cement sink):eek:
In the last week or so we have really made some progress on Dan's RPU. I mentioned that he found a nice set of '40 Ford wheels on Ebay and that we took them to the powdercoaters last week. We have never had anything powdercoated, so we were anxious to see how they turned out. They did a great job, and even wrapped the wheels when they were done to protect them.
I took them to a friends auto repair place and had the new Firestone blackwalls mounted that he bought when we were in Daytona. His shop has a super duper balancer and he was able to get them all done with only one small weight on the back of each tire.
The next thing we wanted to tackle were the motor mounts. Because the 455 Olds weighs like 650 lbs and has a fair amount of torque, we decided to build a crossmember right under the engine and make the motor mounts bolt to that. We finally decided to build the crossmember by cutting a front side, a back side, and a top, and welding it all together. We worked on it all day yesterday (I finally left the shop at 2 AM and Dan stayed till 6 AM working on it) and today we finished it up. I think it really came out nice, especially after we punched it full of holes. Now we just have to do the same thing for the tranny crossmember.
Of course once we were done we had to put the engine back in and also install the body and bed to get the full effect. We also chopped his grille shell 4 and 1/2 inches and propped that and the two headlights on to see how it was going to look.
Here are some pictures. It's starting to look like he might actually have a running hot rod some day. :3dSMILE: :3dSMILE: :3dSMILE:
Don
Don,
I just saw it on another forum, that truck is killer...
Did you guys find a new wheel dealer? I found Paulsen Wheel, and taled to him about wheels for my truck..Seem like a very good guy...
Just thought Id let you know
Harmon
Couple more shots.
Don
Thanks Harmon. Dan must have been posting it too. :) No, we gave up on having wheels made and just bought some original 40 Ford wheels. We sent his rear axles back to Moser and had them redrill them for 5 x 5.5 so he could just bolt the old Ford wheels on the back to match the front ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by CHEVYBOY
You are right about Paulsen. I talked to them a while back and they seem like nice people.
Don
Wow! Dan's attention to detail is absolutely amazing. We don't often see that level of patience in someone so young; most just want everything done as quickly as possible and to hell with the details. I look forward to meeting him again and seeing the finished car.:D
Did you guys build an all-new frame or just rebuild the rear half?:HMMM:
That big torque-monster Olds will blister the tread right off those skinny rear tires. Better watch out, Don, if he realizes how much better that thing would hook up with some real meat on the rear he'll have the tires off your roadster on there!:LOL: :LOL:
Thanks Jim. No, the frame is entirely new, the old one got cut up and the front half is currently an engine stand for the 455 until it finally gets put in for the last time.
I think he is finally happy with the way it's coming out. Last night, as we were walking around it taking pictures, he said "for the first time I can look at it from any angle and nothing bothers me about it any more." So, I guess from that standpoint it is better that he cut the first two versions up, he would have never been happy with the way they ended up........now he has exactly what he wanted.
As for the tire thing, he had six wheels powdercoated with the intentions of using the extra two for some Hurst slicks. Last night he said he is about ready to order his pumpkin for the rear end, and is leaning toward 4:11's but I think 3:89's are about as deep as he really needs. The good thing is that he won't have to worry about breaking anything, he has put all strong stuff like 31 spline axles in it. There is a guy he talks to on the HAMB who has a roadster with a dual quad 455 in it, and the car ran low 12's smoking them most of the way, so Dan keeps asking me how I think his will run. My only answer is "you have NO idea !!!"
Next step is to get the steering sorted out, and he is leaning toward the same Flaming River box Don and I are running. It is the only option we can see fitting correctly.
Looking forward to seeing you again too Jim.........are you going to Billetproof?
Don
Looking very nice indeed. Don your son has more thought into this car than anyone I know. He must be a deep thinker! It must have been a relief to hear him say that he can't see anything that bother's him anymore!:3dSMILE:
Here's my silly question for the day "what does RPU" stand for...retro pickup?
If you ever do the roll bead in the floor boards post a pic for me please. I was under the truck doing the brake booster, when I saw a long cut running under the cab bench seat area! Tell dan we're all impressed. By the way what name does he post on the HAMB network? Thanks, Steve.