Thread: Project '49 Shoebox.

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Brian, he and I have talked about the fact that he is diverting his energies to this car now rather than his '29. I think he needed this break, he has been knee deep in the '29 for about four years now (of course that is because he keeps scrapping it and starting over ) but I think some of the fun has gone out of it for him. He said last night that his plan is to fool around with this '49 for a month of so then get back on the '29. From working side by side with him on this new project I have to say it is more fun than any other project we have done in a while. Even my other Son Don said it was like old times the night we got the car home and spent hours just drinking a few beers and washing all the dirt off of it. Something about an old junky car that makes it fun to tear into. I am going to make sure he is reminded often that the '29 is pretty close to being done so he doesn't forget about it.

Tonight we spent a little time just moving some of the metal around to get some idea of what we need to do to get it to all line up. The front windshield posts were now off about 3/4 inch per side because of the 4 1/2 inches we removed from the top, so we started making some slits in the area above the windshield to see what it would take to push the top portion out to meet the bottom portion. We used a portapower and with just a little pressure things lined up pretty well.

We are nowhere near done with the front posts, the top will be on and off a whole bunch more times, trimming here and grinding there until we get a tight gap all around. The top on my '39 Dodge was probably on and off 30 times until we got the tight gaps we wanted. This one should be about the same. At least I am getting a good workout benchpressing it each time.

Here are some pictures of where we ended up tonight, like I said this is only the very beginning of a lot of trimming and pushing until things come together, but at least some of our fears are put to rest now that things were not going to line up at all.

Don