Thread: Moving ahead rebuilding my '27 roadster.

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Thanks guys. Funny how our tastes change over time. At the end I couldn't stand looking at that purple any longer. Even the red suspension and wheels were starting to get to me a little.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Thanks guys. Funny how our tastes change over time. At the end I couldn't stand looking at that purple any longer. Even the red suspension and wheels were starting to get to me a little.

Don

PINK is hard to live down! Ha Ha
Seriously the black looks great, the frame looks brand new. Black and white has always been a favorite combo. What do you think about white diamonds on black for the seats? I was thinking of posibly doing that on the truck towards the end of the build(hopefully in this lifetime!

Steve, just to keep Bob happy I'll paint the body fuschia. Poor guy is going to be so depressed now that there is no more purple to pick on.

I got the last of my painting for a while done today. Sprayed the rear axle housing, backing plates and drums gloss black. Also painted my steering column and headlight mount. I had to keep moving my stuff outside because it kept raining just enough to mess me up, but I finally got a clear spot and got it all done.

Hopefully tomorrow I can pick up my powder coated pieces and start assembling this thing. Dan made some progress this weekend too, he got his dash rail modified to fit a little better than Henry Ford intended, so now he can move on to getting the floor finished.

No pictures tonight, but maybe tomorrow I'll have some freshly coated stuff to post.

Don

Maybe we should all start a trend! Pink rodders unite!
One of my favorite movies is operation peticoat with Cary Grant and the pink submarine. My wife rolls her eyes whenever I watch it. Maybe if I paint the truck pink, she be willing to help lift the bed on and off! Tomorrow I'll hopefully be getting my radiator, and will post some shots if I can get it in. Keep posting it'll be nice to see some more rods rolling out of the "triple d" garage!

Don, good idea to lose the pink/lavender frame. I have a friend on another site that had temporarily put pink wheels on his 37 Ford Cabriolet a few years back. He is still living that one down. God only knows how long you would have had to deal with people'e memory of a pink/lavender frame.

Best not to even go there.

I got my parts back from the powder coater this week and started to assemble them onto the frame. Some of the original chrome bolts and nuts were still in good shape, but some were showing some age, so I placed an order for new ones, and put those in the stressed areas like the radius rods. I was actually able to salvage quite a bit of the old car which is going to save me some time and money. For as many hard miles as I put on this car it fared pretty well.

Things are going really well and parts are going back in place pretty easily. I put the rear spring and radius rods on the rear end housing and when I bolted it in place we ran a tape measure to triangulate it into the frame. After just a little tweaking the rear end was right on the money..........surprised the heck out of us that it came out that close first try. Next we installed the front end and adjusted it until we got the same wheelbase side to side. The car should be totally square now.

I finished installing the rest of the front end parts and got as far as the backing plates before I decided I had had enough. We were at the shop until 4 am last night, and I am feeling it today. My goal for tomorrow is to finish up the front brakes and to take my tires off of the 4 rims so I can have them powder coated this next week. Still not sure about rear tires.......I found out the Hurst slicks I was thinking about are only 28 inches tall and I want something closer to 30. I am going to look at Radir slicks website tonight and see what theirs are.

Here are some pictures of where the frame and running gear is tonight. My goal is to have it as a complete roller by the end of August. The guy I am getting my center section from is at Bonneville until the 16th, which means I can't get it ordered until then.

Thanks for looking...........


Don

Wow Don that black is beautiful. Looks like a brand new car, not a resurection!