Thread: Can I Do It In 98 Days?????????

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Yeah, that's vry true. Around here they have tractor rides where these guys with their restored older tractors go out and drive them from town to town. Can be alot of them at times.

Come to think of it, that Oliver grill has to be from the 30's or 40's because of the chromed center section. In the 50's they were one piece and the center was painted yellow with the main section being green.

Okay, just for fun, what's the emblem on top of the grille shell from?

'48 Buick??


Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

'48 Buick??


Don

Bingo. Unless there's another one that looks just like it.

Well, for a guy who didn't know what an Oliver tractor was you got that pretty quick!!

When I was a kid my Parents owned a '48 Roadmaster convertible. (until a trailer truck smashed into it one rainy night and totalled it ) So that hood ornament was pretty familiar to me.

Don

I know I haven't had anything to post about our projects for the last week or so, but we have been working hard. We've been concentrating our efforts on getting Don's T bucket put together. He and I have been working every night until late trying to have things ready for Dan to weld up Saturday on his day off. As it turned out, Dan redid some of the things we thought we had finished, like the steering box/brake pedal/brake master cylinder mount that Total Performance supplied. It just didn't fit right, so we cut it up and modified it.

The main problem is that the TP car is set up normally for a 350/350 combo, and Don is running a 306 Ford with C4 tranny. So the trans crossmember wants to occupy the same spot as the master cylinder. We built some special brackets to move the master cylinder to the rear of the crossmember, and while we were at it we shortened the bracket that holds the steering box and brake pedal. It now fits great, but took a lot of time to engineer and build.

We worked from noon today til 3:30 AM, but really got a ton of work done. The gas tank, floor, and Walker radiator and Deuce grille shell are mounted, and the car is now sitting up on all fours. Don has new deeper wheels for the rear and narrow ones for the front, which we are going to paint before we mount the new tires. Tomorrow Don and I are going to start wooding the body, which should be a cinch as Total Performance doesn't get real fancy in how it is done, compared to what I did to my T. If we don't do it their way the interior kit he bought probably won't fit.

Here are some pictures of what we got done today.


Don