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New windshield in and it's pretty scary! I can see everything!! HeHe! It's pretty cool to be able to see, I can't wait to get the rest of them in but I had to stop to go to a big show in Branson.

Great improvement, Always nice to be able to see!! On old cars sometimes you think the old glass is ok until youget the new stuff in....

Update on circle burning.... Greg won a feature and bagged a third and two second place finishes..... Great start for a first year racer and we've still been able to drive the car on the trailer every night!!! Last night he took a big hit on the first lap and bent the upper A-Arm on the inside in a first lap melee. So, coming from 2nd row inside with a bent A-Arm managed to get a second place finish!!! Not bad for running with about 3" tow out and probably about 15 degrees of camber on the LEFT front!!!! Last week we bought a Shaw late model that has been converted too a Wissota Super Stock that was just off the frame table with all the '06 updates and brand new aluminum inside and out!!! Next year we'll have the kid going a bunch faster then the present pure stock will go!!!!! (Checkbook severly wounded, contributions accepted!!!)

Great job by the kid Dave, you got ya one there I believe. I hear you on the hurt checkbook man, better be looking for some serious sponserships so he can have the best without hocking your house!

Maybe I'll just sell the house, get a bigger toter, live there!!!! My kid is starting his last year of college, after that not a whole heck of a lot keeping me here in the "poverty belt"....

Going to start to install my door glass and power units this weekend, any tips or advice would be appreciated. I really don't know how I am going to do it yet.

Fairly simple to do, just read through the instructions that came with the power windows a time or two. Make sure the unit is installed solidly inside the door and centered under the glass. Welding a bracket or two onto the inside of your door is a much better method of installing the regulator then some lightweight bracket screwed in...JMO

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Fairly simple to do, just read through the instructions that came with the power windows a time or two. Make sure the unit is installed solidly inside the door and centered under the glass. Welding a bracket or two onto the inside of your door is a much better method of installing the regulator then some lightweight bracket screwed in...JMO

i thought you were suppose to read the inst. afterwards.

Just documenting some minor progress on bumpers, turn signals (LED) and tack rail wood. Progress is slow but not zero. The rear is shaping up but the front end needs a lot of more work. The top is on order (2" chop).

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Thanks DennyW. The LEDs are made in the USA and have DOT on the lens so even though they are really running lights the DOT should help some? They are 12v and should work with my GM wiring system but they require a special low amperage flasher unit available from Speedway since LEDs actually take less current than a 12v bulb. The only problem is how to hide the wires. The simple solution is to add a few electronic tie-wraps to the bumper brackets with the wires underneath, but maybe I could make looms out of 1/4" tubing and paint them black to put under the brackets. There is a company in Ga. which has sold hundreds of turn signal kits for restored Model A cars but their LEDs need 23v and their kit is $169. They sold me the stainless steel plate to bolt to the bumper for $6 each and the LEDs were $9 each from Auto Zone so after I added some stainless steel bolts and washers I got the set up for about $60 and $10 for stainless gewgaws. The gas tank is in place but still needs to be bolted in and then I can add the fuel line. Everything takes time but when I rush the work I make mistakes, so I will just keep trucking along. Although I bought a roll pan I have not installed it since it would make it hard to change the battery so I will try to hide the battery with a luggage rack .

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

thats a sharp looking car. keep on keepin on

Thanks ChevyBoy, I guess you can appreciate those fenders being in PA? I grew up in Penna/Pa. and a lot of folks don't seem to realize that the "Eastern Style Rods" got the way they are partly because of fender laws. I like the looks of a fenderless rod and I guess it's great in Az or Cal but when you turn in through a mud puddle where does the splash go?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

i still wouldnt mind having the option of getting a face full of mud though... ever though there are some fenderless cars running around here with PA plates??????? all i can say is a nice car is a nice car and it looks like you got one of them....

Harmon

Originally Posted by Don Shillady

Just documenting some minor progress on bumpers, turn signals (LED) and tack rail wood. Progress is slow but not zero. The rear is shaping up but the front end needs a lot of more work. The top is on order (2" chop).

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Very nice 'A' Don....... you lit a fire under my butt to get out in the garage this weekend and get back to work on mine. Haven't even looked at mine for many.... many months.
Would love to see more pic's of it.

DHOTROD, whatever it take to get you going, you have a handicap with the address of Street of Broken Dreams, you got to fight that! Actually I think my car will turn out to be better than a looker from 10 feet away, but maybe you shouldn't come closer than 5 feet. I have a written agreement to go back to the paint shop after I get all the accessories on for final touch up and to paint the wheels; there are some bubbles in the paint I hope they can smooth out. I am going to the Richmond NSRA Nationals as a general admission person with a camera and last year I realized that there are some incredibly detailed rods out there, but some of them are trailer queens. I am just going to do the best I can to make my car look and perform good/well and then drive it and wash it and drive it and wash it etc. Most of my pictures are scattered through other threads and there are some side shots on earlier pages of this thread when it came out of the paint shop. The metallic maroon looks diffferent in different light, sometimes a deep red and other times almost metallic brown, but I like it.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder