Thread: The coupe... (I hope)

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Well this is the coupe as purchased, lots of Bondo. lots of rust under the bondo,flimsey boxed A chassis, 350 C.I. 350 trans, some sort of old c-clip rear end
5 coates of paint, drivable but in pretty sad shape, was built around 30 years ago and driven daily....

Possibilites . . . I see possibilities. I like it. 'Course I'm building a highboy meinownself.

Here's where I'm at now, Took it apart just before Thanksgiving and started over, New home built chassis (.120 2x4)
4 link rear susp., 8 inch rear, redid the motor,488 lift 234 dur cam,9.5 to 1 comp. 700r4 tranny, N50 x 15 Mickey Thompsons on 14 wide Smoothies for the rear, all 3 carbs now work, Vertex Magnito,......... The body, stripped to bare metal, all new lower panels. new bead rolled roof filler (hand made) new bead rolled firewall (hand made)
all new floors (hand made & bead rolled)
all wood removed & replaced with square tubing, rain gutters hand formed and welded into body, So many hours in the metal work of the body I could just PUKE, and theres still hours & hours left to do...

Looks good, I ajusted the pic brightness and contrast to clear it up a little

Also new chassis was stretched a bit so it's now 109 inch wheelbase (sposed ta give a better ride) and it allowed me to run a flat firewall for leg room instead of the wheelbarrow firewall, body was channelled 5 inches, ( still got head room for my 5' 9" self )

Thanks Matt, I'm still learnin the new Digi Cam and photo shop deal, May take me awhile (LOL)

PSSSSSSSST , you John Milner?

Joking aside , Ya got a Bitchen rod !!!

You dont have to tell me about metal work......the rust worms got a hold of mine also.

What flavor of color you going to spray it ?


SprayTech

And no Billet allowed, everythings gotta be 60's- 70's style, cept for A/C

Thanks for the pictures, that's an incredible amount of work. I promised pictures of my roadster but not yet, it is still just a frame without wheels and an engine. Most of the effort this summer has been on the engine, a very mild, almost stock 350 and a simple TH350 with a Maverick 8" rear. I/m not going to show a picture until I get wheels and the engine in the chassis but I am slowly working on it. What about your dash, will you retain the inner part of the old gas tank or just use a new peice?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Well Spraytech, everywhere I went fore I tore it down everybody would holler "Hey Millner" So I was thinkin orange, but the wife thinks a soft yellow, and I'm buddies with Bob Galbreth of Newport Engineering and he just painted 1 of his display cowls
" meadow yellow" and is pretty happy with it ,so after sifferin on it, it wouldn't be to bad to be identified with Ole Millner,
Would it ???? Besides a coupe looks good yellow, So Me thinks some sort of a soft yellow,and a buckskin or pewter interior, It'll be a while fore I gotta look at clolor chips ( I meant the wife hasta look at color chips...LOL) and once I do get the metal work done someone else'll hafta do the final stages,cuzz I just don't have the skills for that (Thank God for the Brother in Law that owns a major Body shop)

Don the old gas tank is gone just the original cowl remains, I am going to use the original upper part of the dash board
And the lower portion was hand made with black tuck & roll cover,looked pretty good and sumthin similar will be utilized. I know what ya meen, my kids would look at this thing a few months ago and would say it looked like sumthin drug home from the scrap yard, I got so tired of doin metal work on the body that I just quit that and concentrated on the chassis/drivetrain, painted the chassis with por15,then squirted it with 2003 Yukon Pewter, so it's done and gotta go back ta work on the body (UGGGGGHHHHHHH) Gonna be a long Fall & Winter...

Thank's Streets, and I knew somebody would blast me about the A/C But Hey That heats gettin tougher on my raggedy old ass....... Man I went to the midget races bout 2 weeks ago and it was in the high 90's I was lookin at them guy's in their soakin wet nomex underwear and double layer fire suits and thinkin man I'm glad I don't do that no moe,,, (NOT REALLY)

Just dont pick a color between Piss Yellow and Puke Green ...............LOL

The good thing with a deuce is any color looks good !!

I dont know if you want a bright yellow , but VW has a Screaming Bright Yellow they had in the 70's. I painted a Minx Manx dune buggy in it and man that thing was just hurt your eyes bright, but sure looked good . He used all black interior and black accents to really set it off.
I can get the color chip # if you want to take a peek at it

SprayTech

I think that there are lots of different colors that would look great on your coupe...Black, Lime green, orange, purple, and yellow (not all together)....

I wouldn't think it would be a bad thing to be mistaken for Milner...HE'S SO BOSS!!!! (swoon)(sigh)

SprayTech,

I would be interested in the VW yellow. My grandaughter requested a yellow roadster and I was thinking about the yellow from the '77 Z28, but it is a bit pale. I like the kind of color that makes your eyes tired. My personal favorite is Aztec Red from the old Caddy El Dorado, but my wife can't stand it so if my grandaughter requests yellow I will be able to use that. Maybe you can post it for all to see or send it me at my e-mail? Anyway I can look it up in the VW records.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder