Thread: One Way To Build A '32 Hyboy

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We are still wiring this thing, 7th week . There are so many challenges so many things to figure out. But I love it, it's what makes it interesting.
One of the things I wanted was to have an electric cowl vent opening and a electric license plate opener to fill my gas tank. I bought two of these cowl vent kits that are programable, I can't remember the name of the company but they look to be good quality. The cowl was straight forward I just had to make my own hinge mechanism because of all the junk I have under the cowl door. The license plate opening and closing was a whole different story. The first thing was I didn't like the way the license plate looked on the rear panel. It was just to big, and when I added some trim around it, it just didn't look right. So I cut a one inch strip all around the plate, now it fit the back panel. So then we frenched it to that size. I made a sketch of the new size and took it over to a friends shop that has a Lazar cutter and he cut out this miniature frame for me. I have an employee who is a great machinist and a friend, he has been with me for 8 years. I explained what I wanted to do and needed a miniature hinge set and a driver for this flex cable I bought from Mcmaster Carr. This is why I'm able to do some of the things that are done on this car, I have a lot of help. There is a button in my seat riser to open them.
I took the doors and had the inside powder coated, to insure of no rust later. The complete interior of the car will be done when I blow it apart.
One of the problems in the wiring was trying to hide the wires to the headlights, fan, horns, and the map air sensor that is in the air inlet tube. I decided to cut a hole in the air inlet tube and weld a 1/2" piece of tubing the length of the tube inside and run all the wires inside of it.
Ken