Thread: 1934 dodge coupe

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here is the 34 dodge my dad and i are building. the car was sitting behind an abandoned house about 45 min from cleveland ohio. it must not have been an ohio car for long since there is no rot at all on it. i dont remmeber what model it is and i dont remember the wheel base off the top of my head. the frame is fully boxed. it has a tubular x member and a fat man front stub. all the mustang ii stuff is stainless tubular. the engine is a 350 out of a 99 suburban. it is a stock rebuild that is 40 over and converted to a carb set up. the tranny is a 700r4 which is sitting in the corner, waiting for a rebuild. out back is a ford 8 inch with an open diff. we still arent sure what gear yet, either a 3.55 or 3.73. the car was about 75% complete when we got it. well have to do some digging for some bolt on stuff but all the steel was there.
we try to work on it every saturday morning for at least 4 hours. it doesnt always happen since we have lives outside of the car, but we do the best we can. all the work, other than chrome, glass and some machining, is and will be done by us. the first couple pics are the car when we bought it. its just the shell on the frame, the rest we needed to put in the bed of my truck since it was appart. the others are as it looks now. the pics were taken right after i worked on it this past saturday. like my 41 ford project, i will keep everyone posted on the build...with pics!

bob

sorry guys, the pics from when we got the car are HUGE! so ill only include the "now" pics until i figure out how to shrink the originals.

bob

Wow, nice body..... Why not Mopar power? Friend of mine had one with a 440 and another friend is having one built with a hemi. A 340 would be nice...... Either way, I like those cars.

the 350 was free!! trust me, im the last guy that wants a sbc in anything other than a chevy. but, free is for me! i think a new injected hemi would look great under that hood!

bob

Very nice body. The 34 dodges are real nice looking cars and it looks like you guys are going to have a real cool rod when your done.


Thomas

willoughby !! next stop willoughby !! ( from some old favorite twilight zone episode of mine ) put up a pic of your pinto .. iv`e a friend who has a 74 with a turbo added .. as you can tell by my sig i`m a bit fond of them as well

Originally Posted by HOSS429

willoughby !! next stop willoughby !! ( from some old favorite twilight zone episode of mine ) put up a pic of your pinto .. iv`e a friend who has a 74 with a turbo added .. as you can tell by my sig i`m a bit fond of them as well

Lol, when I was posting on here earlier I was saying that to my sister. She hated that part of the show.

What an neat body,must have been in storage for a while,has it?Ideal to lift some molds off,isnt it??

the shell and frame were sitting behind an abandoned house when we saw it. i dont know where it was befor. from the condition, it couldnt have been outside for long. or even in the state of ohio for that matter.
we went to work on it again today. between my dad and i, we got 10 hours of work done. i didnt have my camera today, but ill bring it next week and snap some shots. we stripped the rest of the shell to bare steel. removed the hinges and removed the firewall. there were still sections of original black in the jams and man, was that stuff hard!! the shell is just how we though...free of ANY rot. we were kinda nervous about what was under that primer. getting the primer and sealer out of the crevises of the body lines took most of the time.
more pics to come!

bob

Originally Posted by turbo74pinto

sorry guys, the pics from when we got the car are HUGE! so ill only include the "now" pics until i figure out how to shrink the originals.

bob

If you use PC (windows based) and your pictures are on your hard drive you can use Paint to resize.
Go to "All Programs", choose "Accessories", choose "paint". Once the paint window opens click "file", then click "open", then double click the picture you want to edit. It should appear in the white box. Choose "image", then choose "resize". A nice size is 800 x 600, so figure out what percentage of your original dimensions that would be and adjust accordingly. Then "save" what you've done. Repeat as necessary.

thanks Bob!!
here are picks from when we first brought the car to my dads house. this is just how we towed it home...plus another truck bed full of the other parts.

lol, check out the face my wife is making in the second pic. i never noticed that. its the look of...what the hell did they buy?!?!?!? or...shes just talking to my dad. ill go with the first of the two.

bob

Hopefully you guys have the stock dash panel, they're one of the nicest looking ones ever made.

we do not...and we agree. infact we were just talking about that today. we will probably hunt down a stock one. they seem to range from 225-400, pending on condition. a full set of guages that we like is around 450, and wed have to make a panel.

bob

this is the most recent pic i have of the car. the exterior is stripped of the paint. the crappy roof filler has been cut out. the firewall has also been removed. right now were are working on getting the car as straight as we can. right now both rear quarters below the belt line and the cowl sides are done. i will post pics of when we get the car in primer.

bob