1930 Chevy sedan build thread...trying for 3K.

[buckroseau]

Buck, I'll tell you, not only are you resourseful, you are also FAST !! I can't believe how far you've progressed in such a short period of time.


Keep the pictures and info coming.

Don

Hey Don,

I don't know about fast, but I will agree with resourceful.. I'm really trying to use what I have and trying to keep it as low buck as possible, but I want something decent looking and safe as well.

That is about as far as I am for now, those headlight pics were taken about 5 days ago. I am planning to pull the doors off in the next couple days and I have some work to do on the A and B pillars. Few other misc. things, but I am hoping to strip it down the frame in the next week or 2, finish up some welding and sandblast the frame, axles and get them into paint and start putting everything back together.

I am going to get the body zip wheeled down to bare steel and back into primer and then start smoothing that out. This rig is probably going to be moving this spring, but I'm sure it won't be done by any means. Plan on driving the summer and then back into the garage next fall for more work.

Thanks, Matt

[brickman]

Your car is looking great Matt, I see alot of welding the mockup now, but everything is looking really cool.

[buckroseau]

Got a few hours in the on the chubby tonight. Nothing really special. The tin that used to cover the wood on the A pillar was missing on most of the pillar. Some was on the bottom so I continued off of that. Not totally necessary, but I wanted to keep it clean and cover up the 3/16" piece of flat stock that was welded in where the wood was. I used some 20 ga. I had and used my shear and brake to bend it up.

Anyway...few pics.

Matt

[CHEVYBOY]

WOW....Great build, your car is looking great, and thanks for giving me some good ideas...Keep up the good work

[buckroseau]

Not a lot to show, but got a couple half days of work on the chubby this weekend.

Didn't really take any pics because the majority of the work was tearing it apart. Almost all of Sunday's work was spent welding everything solid, since almost everything was tacked together.

Took couple pics of the frame outside on sawhorses later in the day.

Matt

[Itoldyouso]

Geez, I really feel for you guys in snow country, those pictures give me the shakes. We were just talking about that tonight, we had two halogen worklights turned on us to warm up our shop because it dropped down to 60 degrees in there. We commented how we see pictures with project cars covered with snow and wonder how you guys put up with it. Oh, that's right, the ice fishing is really good.

On the other hand, your frame looks terrific. Starting to shape up really well.

Don

[buckroseau]

Geez, I really feel for you guys in snow country, those pictures give me the shakes. We were just talking about that tonight, we had two halogen worklights turned on us to warm up our shop because it dropped down to 60 degrees in there. We commented how we see pictures with project cars covered with snow and wonder how you guys put up with it. Oh, that's right, the ice fishing is really good.

On the other hand, your frame looks terrific. Starting to shape up really well.

Don

60........how can you stand that kinda heat? Oh..must be dry heat


Did a little more welding on the frame, rear axle and front axle tonight. Little more tweaking to do here and there, but hoping to sandblast a ton of stuff in a week or so. Then get some of this stuff into paint.

Thanks, Matt

[Lowenbrau]

Nice work as always Matt. I was seriously beginning to worry about you when I didn't see any new projects starting. I was also thinking about getting the cable hooked up again since its a long winter up here without something to watch. I feel much better now to have found you over here.

[MNPoser]

Nice work as always Matt. I was seriously beginning to worry about you when I didn't see any new projects starting. I was also thinking about getting the cable hooked up again since its a long winter up here without something to watch. I feel much better now to have found you over here.

Too funny....

[29bowtie]

Very impressive build, thanks for the post.

[apeterson]

Hey Matt!!!

Steve told me about your car... so I had to check it out for myself!!!! I am impressed as usual!!! hope all is well...

[brickman]

We have been 30 to 40 below our normal all winter so far, makes my garage hard to heat!! Once you get used to working on your ride with 7 layers of clothes, it's cool, lots of pockets!! The frame is coming along great, is it pretty much all fabed up or do you have more to do on it?
What color is the frame going to be and how close are you to laying down some paint. Maybe I should ask if you are going to paint it?

[buckroseau]

We have been 30 to 40 below our normal all winter so far, makes my garage hard to heat!! Once you get used to working on your ride with 7 layers of clothes, it's cool, lots of pockets!! The frame is coming along great, is it pretty much all fabed up or do you have more to do on it?
What color is the frame going to be and how close are you to laying down some paint. Maybe I should ask if you are going to paint it?

I actually stripped down the car last week and have been pretty much finishing up all the welding and a few other things. Really haven't taken any pics because it doesn't look like I am doing anything.

I am going to be sandblasting tomorrow, I have a lot of parts to blast including the frame. Yes, the frame is going to get painted. I will be using PPG DP90LF for the primer and I am using a agriculture Case IH low gloss black paint for the frame, axles and other bits.

I should have some pics posted up by tomorrow night of the action

Matt

[29bowtie]

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[buckroseau]

Got quite a bit of work done on the chubby today.

Got a solid 3+ hours sandblasting today. Blasted the frame along with quite a few other parts...anything from seat parts to engine parts. Had a buddy from work out and helped me all day with the blasting and the heavy lifting.

After the blasting hauled the frame and a few other parts into the paint booth. Got the frame hung along with some other parts..shot 2 good coats of DP90LF. I gave that an hour or so to dry and then smeared a little filler here and there on the front, sanded that out with 80 grit and shot a couple coats of ureathane primer.

Tomorrow I plan on sanding that ureathane primer out to 220 and hopefully I can shoot a coat of DP on top of that and get into paint. Well see.

Matt