Thread: '32 ford truck

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Finally it's on the ground!

Looks realy good. Have you had it out yet??

looks great

I have a ways to go, yesterday I mounted the shocks and the headlights. Today a friend of mine runs a body shop, he is behind a desk all day, so he misses doing the work. he worked on fitting the doors and squaring the body. Now I can make the floor. It will be all steel welded in with a removable tunnel.

Absolutely could not be nicer. I envy you.


Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Absolutely could not be nicer. I envy you.


Don

Thank you Don, could not ask for a better compliment.

I'd sell it..........to me!!!

Looks great.

REGS

Originally Posted by REGs

I'd sell it..........to me!!!

Looks great.

REGS

If you were here last night about 11:30 you could of bought her cheap!

Ya.........but you'd be pissed later on when you saw me driving it!!

I'm diggn' the look & all the parts that have gone into so far. Keep posten.

Regs

Ken---Damn, thats a fine looking truck. How is it for room in the cab. A friend of mine has a stock 31 pickup, and there isn't really room for a human being in it.---brian

Originally Posted by brianrupnow

Ken---Damn, thats a fine looking truck. How is it for room in the cab. A friend of mine has a stock 31 pickup, and there isn't really room for a human being in it.---brian

Brian,
I have 44" from the top of the frame to the bottom of the roof. I'm 6' even and that was a real concern of mine. I didn't want to be cramped. When I laid out the truck on a napkin with my crayolas (I can't draw like you) the only way I would be comfortable is to have a 7" seat height and the pedals close to the firewall. So I put in swinging pedals and cut the frame in half picking up 3" of head room. It seems to give me good clearance.
Ken

Originally Posted by REGs

Ya.........but you'd be pissed later on when you saw me driving it!!

I'm diggn' the look & all the parts that have gone into so far. Keep posten.

Regs

Yes you are right, but sometimes when it seems everything is fighting you, ya know! So I just turn out the lights and go home.
Ken

Ken,

Is that a bought frame or did you get some ideas from a morrison frame??

I dig the exhaust hoops you incorporated just in front of the kick up. Looken' good.

I've had a 46 & a 34 P/u in the past. Right now my daily driver is a ford unibody & my 66 Chev II C-dan is next to be finished (floors/tubs/motor - trans line up, plumbing & wiring).

After that it's back to a 5 window A-bone cpe.

Keep up the good work.

regs

Actually, Ken, I was talking about the longtitudinal distance from the center of the dashrail to the inside back of the cab. I built my roadster pickup to be 39 1/2" long, which is about 6" more than a stock model A 1931 pickup. I know when I set in my friends 31 stocker, that its definately the old "knees under chin" syndrome, and I'm only 5'7" (but I have a big gut)..

Originally Posted by brianrupnow

Actually, Ken, I was talking about the longtitudinal distance from the center of the dashrail to the inside back of the cab. I built my roadster pickup to be 39 1/2" long, which is about 6" more than a stock model A 1931 pickup. I know when I set in my friends 31 stocker, that its definately the old "knees under chin" syndrome, and I'm only 5'7" (but I have a big gut)..

Brian,
An extra 6" in one of these things is golden.I wish I had (never mind) Mine measure 35". I guess thats the difference between a model A and a 32. So yours would of been 33 1/2" before lengthening it. I would of thought 32's where bigger than that. Anyway with how I did my pedals I don't seem cramped, yet, It's easy to say that without interior and steering wheel, that all eats up the space real quick. I hope it doesn't shrink to much.
Ken