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No Bobby, say it isn't so! Not another Farmtown junkie! They're trying to pull me in but I'm not going without a fight.

Looks good Bobby!!! The body looks like it's in really great shape!

Originally Posted by falconvan

No Bobby, say it isn't so! Not another Farmtown junkie! They're trying to pull me in but I'm not going without a fight.

Falcon run and run fast game is bad

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Looks good Bobby!!! The body looks like it's in really great shape!

Dave the body is rust free except what looks like rock chips in the front area . The hood and cowl have it the worst . Now there is some all over but only slight compared to this . This with it's age has caused some pitting but not bad like a car out in the weather . With you maybe 2 to 3 weeks start to finish buffing paint .

Selling it is a draw but climbing in it at 53 and plopping in the 37 is not a hard decision to make . Getting in and out of the 94 Escort is enough it's low like a Ferrari LOL .


A pic of cowl and chips

Little 94 Escort was sick blew its rusted Chicago salted brake lines a few days ago with Josh driving it . Well he was smart enough to E brake it and use what was left in the pedal to get it home 10 mile's .

Well 94 Escort wagons have 2 lines running to the rear not just one .At the parts store purchased those neat plier type line bender and it worked like a charm replacing the lines . Still runs to good to give it up ,

I have not posted here for a while but here are some recent developments. I purchased the complete kit for oak bows and beautiful STAINLESS top irons from Brookville about two years ago and finally got around to varnishing the bows and mounting the top irons. Then I found out they had sent me the '30-'31 bows but they exchanged them even though I had already varnished the bows, kudos to Brookville! So all I had to do was bolt things together, right? HAH! At least three techs who shall remain unnamed told me different ways to mount the wiper motor until I found "Pete" at Brookville who remembered routing a groove in the front header to hide the wiper blade. Since Dremel makes a wood cutting bit available for only $5, I used my Dremel tool to carve out a groove under the bottom of the front header to hide the wiper blade after mounting/unmounting the bow for trial-and-error fit at least five times! Then I thought all I had to do was screw on the other bows. HAH! Even though the top irons are beautiful they have to be bent out slightly to match the inverted U-shape of the bows and one side popped the screws out while I put the screws in the other side. Well that was repaired by filling the holes with epoxy and clamping the bow sides with small U-clamps. So far it is holding but the top irons are very stiff even though I have lubricated all the joints so it remains to be seen whether any screws will pop out when I try to fold the unit. I may have to use a few through bolts instead of screws if the screws don't hold. So anyway, for anyone else who has a roadster here a few pictures of the way I have approached the wiper problem. Maybe you can see the brakeline tubing covering the wires to the wiper motor in the last picture, if you can't see it that is good because it means it is not very noticeable!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

I too have not posted updates of my project in some time.
My '50 Studebaker Retro-Rod is nearing a 10 yr. build.
First 3 photos is where she's at today.
Trunk lid and doors still need adjustments.

The complete build story here: www.1950studebakerretrorod.com

Hi 1950 Bulletnose,
Beautiful work, I'll bet you can't wait to get it on the road. Looking at your last pic in the above post I'm just wondering about the allowance for down travel in the drive shaft loop or will the rubber snubbers on the frame rails bottom on the rear end before the drive shaft on the loop? Once again beautiful work.

Jack.

The photos of the frame do not yet have the airbags mounted.



The air bags ARE mounted on car in pics 1, 2 & 3 and bags are deflated in those pics, driveshaft clears when vehicle is fully deflated. There is 5 mounting holes on the axle bracket for mounting the airbags and with that, depending on whether the billet block at the bottom of the airbag is mounted one way or upside down, you then have 10 combinations for ride height. At present I find the rear too high and not sitting level in the weeds, and way to high when fully inflated, ( airbags should only be 1/2 inflated for proper ride height ), so I will change the mounting holes to get the rear down.

That is a mighty fine Studie! It's almost there, ready to run and believe me I appreciate real metal and keep trying to make my "plastic flyer" look a bit resto but you have to stay at least ten feet away! Today I stretched out the top irons that caused the screws to pop initially and so far the epoxied screws are holding OK and now I can see the shape of the roof. I am including a low-light picture of the front of the windshield header where it is possible to see that the wiper blade is essentially hidden when it is "in the groove". It also helps that the chopped windshield makes the header lower than eye level for my 5'10" height.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Thats a slick Stude!!!

Don....thats some sweet woodwork!

I'm still just plugging along....weld....grind....weld....grind.................
I'm soo tired of the nit pickey welding my son has tricked me into.
He talked me into exactly what I said I wouldnt let him talk me into! Drat~!
We're giving the El Camino a complete shave except the bumpers and grill. All remaining chrome delete. Should look ok....I guess. He wanted me to fab a roll pan for the 65 but I told him enough is enough. LOL's. We're going to have to finish this thing sometime this year....so I can finish my own next year. I got him a 'vent delete' door kit from One Peice Products. Hopefully it will be all cut and dry.

You guys would laugh if you could see him. He looks really worn down. Every day for the last 6 weeks he has poured his heart and soul into this thing. I get him up at 5:30 every morning and he works nearly til dark.The entire body is stripped bare and ready for epoxy and and skim of Dynafill ......then outside for a good blocking. I'm real proud of the young feller!

Dave

Not quite up to date.....but some recent pics....2 weeks ago. I think. I meet myself at the door every morning.

Edit....The first picture was quite a while back. I think my son had his brother take a picture of him striking a pose. I told him there was no way he had been working. Too clean!!

The Second and Third were where I cut out the pinch weld on top of the quarters.....all the way around and placed a cap on top.

Forth....interior ready for sealer and paint. Going to wait until all of the welding and grinding is done though.

Last....the finished addition of the Goodmark metal cowl scoop. Ready for blocking.

The Elky looks great, but yeah, the kid's too clean....He ain't done much yet!!!!! Great job on the scoop!!!!

Nice work!

Wow, some great looking stuff on here the last few days! Don, your top is coming along great. That Stude is awesome looking; it looks like it's going 100MPH standing still. The Camino is cool, too. I'll bet that will be one proud young man when he rumbles into the school parking lot.
We just finished painting my son's Firebird, it came out really nice. I'll post some pics after we put it back together and get the decals on.