Thread: Ya gotta want it bad............

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..........but here's what can be done when a European rodder just HAS to have something that looks mostly like a '34 Foird 5 window coupe. Good stuff!

XAV34

There is a true "craftsman" in the same mold as some on this site.

Panel fab was fantastic true craftsman . Like the 33 34 fords myself maybe this FB will get me one down the road.

Very nice workmanship. I'd like to see it when it's finished.....

Just goes to prove, cars speak the universal languge to some of us!

Wow!!!! Remind me not to complain when Speedway takes 3 days instead of 2 to get my parts to me!!!!!!!

Some of these European and Scandinavian bodyman types are simply amazing. I worked with a guy who learned to build cars in Sweden, and he told me over there you Apprentice for 5 years before you START learning to do bodywork. You have to pay your dues first by sweeping floors and working up to doing minor chores.

Very creative to turn a fordor into a coupe that actually looks pretty close to the original.

Don

Amaing work! This is the sort of thing most anyone can imagine but the actual body work is well into the advanced expert range. I have thought of a similar project with a '42-'48 Ford sedan body but the area over the rear fenders is not for amateurs and I can appreciate seeing that this was actually done in this case. On a '42-'48 sedan a convertible coupe could be made by cutting a section out between the back window and the upper edge of the rear fenders and leaning the domed trunk lid forward, BUT (!) then the fun begins to fill in the space between the lid edge and the top of the rear fenders. I actually measured this on both a '42 and a '48 Tudor but then reality set in and I realized, correctly, that the compound curves were/are way, way beyond my skills. I know this because I actually did cut the body off a '40 Ford Tudor and matched it to the hulk of a '40 convertible body using the cowl of the sedan, but I was lucky to be able to sell it unfinished and with the realization that I could not have finished it without a LOT of help from a "real" body man! Thus I really appreciate the work in the area recreating the bead above the rear wheels, truly amazing and highly skilled work!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Awesome. There's no telling what I would give to have a talent like that.