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So are there any others here from Minnesota??

Also.. how about with 37 Fords?? Thanks.. Al

Al , once you start driving it, given all the safety factors are in, and nothing else you`ll find it hard to take it back down for something else.

Looked like this when I started.., and now.. Al

Al.

Looking good.

Jack

Al, I am partial toward the slant back as that was the first car I learned to drive. When Dad bought that car I was 12 years old. I couldn't sleep for looking out the window all night.

That body style is really neat. You don't see many of that style. That 350 is going to be stronger than the 85 hp that was in Dads 37. Good luck with it.

Thanks. I drove it around the block a few times this past Summer.. Couldn't go to far though.. No Windows.. I can sit in the car, and wonder how may of those cars hit something backing up. can't really see a darned thing threw the rear view mirror. I am installing a backup camera. It will be near the top of the decklid in the third brake light. It shows 180 degrees back there. I am going to mount the screen in the header panel where the speaker would have gone. Also have to try and figure out how to build a platform for a 10" screen. I will have a usable back seat, and already have a 12 Volt DVD player. Al

Don,

Love your taste in make and model.

Jack.

Now that I have new seats for it.. It is starting to look alot better. I will be building the door panels soon. I have a bunch of stuff comming from Autotrim.com I'll have to send more pictures of all of the problems that I ran into. I will show a couple now.. To set this up.. I had to make my own firewall.. Took me a couple of trys, but I did it. The other shows how the guy before me used old school to lower the rear of the car.. See in the first pic. I never knew that the motor mounts were set back 9"!! I already had the engine in the frame, and was lowering the body, and the darned body wouldn't fit. I was alone, and couldn't raise the body back up.. The next thing was to cut the firewall out in order to fit the body.. The second one was just scary to think of driving around town like this. Al

Thanks Jack, It was a blast to build as the last rod I built was in 1957 it was a 32 5/W . The 32 is still in show condition. Sold in 1966.

Al is that 9 inches back going to influence the interior look?? Your shifter will be back a ways uh.

I cut out the old mounts, and moved the whole works foward..