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Thanks guys. Steve, it's 1950 Chrysler black. It really is the blackest I have seen. The guy at the paint store said it has very little blue or other colors in it. I always thought black was black, but it turns out there are lots of different shades of it.

After seeing how it all looks together Dan is leaning toward the body being black too, with a white top. But that could change tomorrow.

Don

Don, I think Franklin Welding is over in your area somewhere (maybe Sarasota or Fort Myers?). They're at the Turkey Run every year. They make narrowed rears and other stuff; they might be able to do those drums. Maybe someone on here knows their address or phone number...

All that black is beautiful, but it needs a COLOR to contrast and make it "pop". It needs something like bright red metalflake or candy Tangerine orange...

absolutely stunning, almost a shame to cover that frame with a body

Nice work!!

Looks amazing!! Fortunately for me I went over yesterday to visit my mom for Mother's Day, had lunch and the '35 is in the garage there so I snuck out for 4 hours or so then came back in for dinner and left after dinner

Jim: I'll have to check out Franklin to see where they are, thanks for the tip. Dan found the perfect contrasting color for his rod, it's called chrome and polished stainless! He has kicked around a bunch of colors, but is going for the understated look with pretty much all black except for a white top and white rolled and pleated interior. Shooting for that "little book" look from the early 50's. That's today, but until he actually pays the body shop to shoot it the color could change at any time.

Thanks Josh. Your help and that of everyone else got us through the powder coating issue. We are really glad we did it now.

Thanks 35fordcoupe. Not a bad day. Free meal with Mom and time to work on the car too. You are a brave man to sneak out like that.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Dan found the perfect contrasting color for his rod, it's called chrome and polished stainless! He has kicked around a bunch of colors, but is going for the understated look with pretty much all black except for a white top and white rolled and pleated interior. Shooting for that "little book" look from the early 50's.

Another suggestion that fits the theme stated would be some simple pin striping for enhancing. A single or double stipe around the hubcaps, some highlighting on the tailgate and grill shell, maybe at the beltline, even the radius rods. Not too much, just enough to be a subtle touch in keeping with the time frame simulated. White to compliment the interior/tonneau/top would work well

That's actually the plan Bob. He is hoping Skratch is at Daytona again this year so he can get some pinstriping done. After Don and I had him do our cars last year Dan isn't about to let us outdo him. I have to admit that the lines he laid down really did finish our cars off,

Don

Don---We need an update---Surely there must be progress since last series of pictures.---Brian

Brian, as a matter of fact we are on our way out the door right now, heading to the shop. We've been doing all those little things that need done to fire up an engine for the first time, and last weekend was a wash because Dan was out of town the whole time. But we did go over a couple of nights this week and start running plug wires, etc.

Funny thing happened. We made a preluber that we spun with an electric drill, and when I started running it a big stream of oil about a foot high shot out of the open sender hole in the block! At least we knew we had good oil pressure, but the cleanup wasn't real fun.

Tonight we are going to buy a temporary battery and make up a gauge panel. His driveshaft was done this week so we can get that in place too. Nothing earthshaking, but maybe we can fire it up this weekend.

Thanks for asking.

Don

Got quite a bit done last night, like running the plug wires (that took a while as we had to figure a way to make them as neat as possible and still use straight boots on the plug end. Olds plugs sit deep and the 90 degree ones wouldn't clear the heads) Dan didn't care for the MSD printing all over the wires, so he used laquer thinner and made them look old timey. Polished a bunch more brass fittings and got those installed, and started bolting down the carbs for the (hopefully) last time.

Have to run out today and pick up some odds and ends of brass fittings for the fuel system, and make up a PCV setup. We are trying to fire it up by the end of the day today. Had to get the driveshaft remade, the first one was 1 inch too short, but the shop jumped right on it and corrected their mistake. Put the new one in and it fits good now.

We are running Rotella T oil because it is supposed to have a high load of zinc in it, plus we added Comp Cams break in additive. I always worry about flat tappet cam break in, but we have so much assembly and cam lube plus the other additives that we should be ok. Have to hook up some gauges like oil pressure, temp, and a tach so we can bring it up to 2000 or so for a half hour. I told Dan we are going to pick up some ear plugs because this baby should be a little loud.

Don

Don I did the same thing when I got my engine together. I was excited and had forgot to put the oil ascending unit in. Ditto on the mess. Felt like a Texas tycoon striking it rich with a gusher!

Don't forget the vid' with sound.
The chassis is outstanding looking!!!!!! I vote for a "big" show for the unveilling of complete project. What is Dan's thinking for the car's unveilling?

Earl

I have one very happy Son right now................we got his hot rod running last night !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It took us about 7 hours of hooking up stuff, and of course Dan had to build a panel to hold the tach, oil pressure, and temp gauges, plus some switches for the fuel pump and fan , , but at about midnight we turned the key for the first time. It fired right off, and after retightening a couple of fuel leaks on the 3 carb fittings we got it up to 2000 rpms and broke it in for a half hour. We did it in 5 -10 minute segments, and once we were fairly confident we had enough time on it we dropped the rpms to about 800-900 because I knew Dan was worried that it wouldn't have a cammed up idle like his Brothers car. I don't think he had ANY worries, it sounds GREAT!!

Here are a couple of YouTube videos he did last night (I guess he was still wired and had some energy when we got in at 4PM) The first one is with the baffles in the headers and the second one is wide open...........not a whole lot of difference. Crank up your speakers for the full effect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T_1ZUbRCGc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq2IHg-QE34

Don

It sounds sweet and there wasn't much difference in the sound but I bet you had to be there to notice the difference. Congrats to you and your sons.

Wow way to go Dan and Don. This one has been a long time coming. Looks and sounds great!