Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Don---I toyed with that idea when I layed out my top 3 years ago, as it lets you keep the top a little lower. However, I just couldn't get my head around that slanted down in the rear look, and since my rpu is a "highboy" with full fenders I went ahead and made the top a bit higher, just to keep the top of the side window parallel to the door top.

I understand. His will have to slope down a little to hide the bows in the back, but we looked at a bunch of roadsters at the show and they mostly seem to be like that too. As I mentioned before, your top came up when we were discussing them.........you did a great job on it.

BTW, he solved his wheel problem. After the fiasco with that wheel company not being able to deliver, he decided to go with original '40 Ford 16 inch wheels all the way around. He found a mint set on Ebay and is having them powder coated black. To avoid wheel adapters on the back he is having Moser make him up the same 31 spline axles he has but with a 5 on 5.5 bolt pattern. That way they will bolt right on. He has 5 on 5.5 already on the front.

Don

Talent just runs in your family! Did your dad fabricate as well, or is this something you picked up on your own, and your boys, followed suit?
My Dad was clueless as a mechanic, but had the racing part down pat. I grew up taking auto shop classes and rebuilding my first car, 1968 Mustang. My Dad always had foreign imports, that weren't sold here. He'd go to Italy once a year and comback with Lancia's, Alfa's, Citroen Maserati's, and my favorite tow Dino Ferrari's that cost him some jail time for excessive speeds in Texas, and failure to stop for the police. As my step mother told me at the time, a cop flipped his cruiser in a high speed chase. They sent out a chopper to stop him with a road block. Dad had his faults, but I loved the cars! We'd borrow them in high school to fix for him, take them home for a week, and have a blast!