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Falcon floors are new as with all the suspension . That way it takes good pics LOL . It's a funny market with the Cpe though .

Those 5 window cabs are whats hot and yours is looking good . Glad for a computer keeps me entertained in my life's passion of viewing all these great cars.

Falconvan, now you know why I like the metal floor! Anyway I only have one more picture on this problem but maybe it will explain to Brian that the Bebops floor is connected to all four fenders in one unit and the "body" is reinforced with metal plates along both edges over the frame and 1" square tubing within. This last picture shows the floor with the cutouts for the gear shift and on the right side the bigger hole for the parking brake with eye bolts in the frame holes as I let it up and down on the frame while trimming the edges to fit. Once the floor was down on the frame six holes line up with holes in the metal plates along the edges of the upper body. Those holes are marked at the factory and they still line up. In fact those metal plates are thick enough (at least 1/4", maybe 3/8"?) that there was a ledge on each side of the floor. The plates are probably 3/8" thick because I used 3/8" plywood to cover the hole and now the floor is flush all across the cockpit. The white outline on the black floor is where the original tunnel edge was. As far as alignment goes the front fenders are connected to the rear fenders by the running boards and the splash apron along the side of the frame and the six original holes on top of the frame align with the threaded holes on top of the frame. If I ever "break" fender the upper body might need to be unbolted and lifted up so I do not want to 'glass the floor to the upper body at the bottom of the firewall. I will think more about reinforcement of the cowl when I figure out the heater mount. I might have stopped when I just had the stainless plate on the engine side of the firewall but the deciding factor was how to get a flat surface inside the firewall to mount the lower clamp on the steering column, that is why the aluminum plate extends to the left with the big hole for the column. As Dave Severenson said to me over a year ago, the second rod build is always better than the first, but I only plan on doing this once so it will have all my mistakes in it from the gitgo! Finally, if you look at a real Model A floor the front part is wood at an angle and my final result is quite similar.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

I'm new to this site so this might not be the right place to post. I have two fiats (1968 & 1970) that might be of interest either as a new project or for parts. Can anyone point me in the right direction for marketing these?

I got the front end tore down and painted yesterday. 2many2count Joe gave me the idea on modifying these lower control arms to lower the front end and i think it's going to work good. Thanks, Joe, if you're out there anywhere. The control arm on the right is original with the spring plate on top. The one on the left is the one I modified; I cut the spring plate off and welded it to the bottom of the control arm. It gives me about a 2" drop. I also cut 1 coil off the spring.

should work great Falcon!!! Nothing like some good old fashioned low-buck engineering!!!! 3" of drop with not much more invested then a bit of labor and some welding, really good plan!!!!!

Falcon another good weekend for you i see. I took a 5 day also to work on car but got side tracked by my oldest son. Spent better part of Friday and Saturday over there. Removed a section of deck to put in drain tile to move water away . Then installed a french door for him. One door is bad enough but getting 2 at once to close properly is a PITA . I'm sticking with cars alot easier LOL.

Falcon your moving along well .

I have managed to get the new engine in but I have come across many little things I have had to deal with so far, every mount is a little different or doesn't work at all. The fuel pump will HAVE to be electric, no choice with the vortec engines, and I don't even want to talk about the old factory air compressor. All in all though probably nothing we can't figure out with some time.

What is that engine in Brick?

Got the guys together this morning and shuffled everything around. Tom's Coupe is now in the little garage at home, and my pickup is over at Bill's getting ready to get the box installed and adjusted as soon as the '57 Wagon is done and gone!!!! Sure is fun when you have about 5 more projects going then you have room for!!!! Here's one of my '71 on the trailer behind the Super Dodge. The Dodge is a Turbo Diesel with a Banks Intercooler and chipped, along with a brand new 6 speed tranny....What a towing monster!!! Went out on the highway for a bit with the old Ford on the trailer behind it, the Dodge acted like their was nothing behind it!!!!

That is a very sweet ride Dave, a car towing dream machine huh? So we will be seeing the 71 ford getting finished soon eh? Very cool.
That is my '72 El Camino which will be for sale too. Sorry about the all black engine compartment but it sure helped clean up 30 years of wear. I am not going to do a restore on it, it is going down the road.

Yup, it's a towing monster!!!!! I'd like to find one of those two car Ultra-light ramp trailers just to make the thing have to work a bit!!!! Hopefully the pickup will get finished soon...about to get caught up....

Progress report on my coupe.
Well after Pheasant hunting and on the way home I stopped today at a certain small town in eastern SD to see the progress of the bodywork on my coupe and low and behold there it sat hanging from the ceiling as the attached picture shows
Well the handsome guy standing on his head next to it had it flipped it upside down. I had a bewieldered stare on my face and he says something like "ya mean you bend over to work on the bottom?"
It's too bad I didn't have someone like Dave around when I was welding on the coupe, could have saved myself a lot pain, blisters and scarring. Ya he's a pretty cool guy.

Whoa! That picture kind of freaked me out for a minute! Nice coupe, Tom, I really like that body style. Dave, that truck is huge! It makes your full size 71 look like a Ford Ranger.

I'm just way too old to bend over and do body work!!!!! With no steel top on the coupe, it's a great way to do work on the bottom...


As for the Dodge, we really wanted the Mega Cab, but this is a used '05 and we had to settle for the "smaller" version.... Which is still huge!!!! For a one tone, it has a surprisingly smooth ride, just need to hook something up to it to make that turbo work a bit!!!!

Well Tom, that picture helps me understand why Dave refers to himself as batty!

It is interesting to me to see the bottom edge of the new firewall of the coupe is straight across!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder