Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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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