Thread: New guy from Utah.
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03-01-2020 03:31 PM #1
New guy from Utah.
Just thought I would drop by and say hello, I am somewhat new to the hot rod world with my own project but grew up around them, I am currently doing a 40 Ford pickup build with help from many family members. My dad got his first car (40 Ford Coupe Deluxe) in 63-64 and we still have it, along with many of my uncles cars/trucks. Since my brother has dads car I began my own project, I couldn't figure out how to upload any pictures, not sure if I have to hyperlink them from elsewhere or what, I'll stop back later and figure it out.
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03-01-2020 04:51 PM #2
Welcome to CHR! Looking forward to following your project.
Check this - I think it's still a good primer - http://www.clubhotrod.com/shop-talk/...es-thread.htmlRoger
Enjoy the little things in life, and you may look back one day and realize that they were really the BIG things.
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03-01-2020 05:28 PM #3
Test...Okay, I got it, size issue.
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MVIMG_20200207_185559.jpgLast edited by FordyG; 03-01-2020 at 05:41 PM. Reason: Added pics
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03-01-2020 06:28 PM #4
Wow, welcome and I love it!. Is that the original frame ?Seth
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C.S.Lewis
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03-01-2020 06:43 PM #5
Thanks, No, my cousin had the truck for a few years prior to me getting it from him, the frame he got with the truck was cut up in the rear, I didn't have plans to tub it so we scrapped that frame out and used an original coupe frame that my father and uncle found in a scrap pile in a field in the middle of nowhere in the early to mid 1970's.
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03-16-2020 04:04 PM #6
- Join Date
- Apr 2011
- Location
- Prairie City
- Car Year, Make, Model: 40 Ford Deluxe, 68 Corvette, 72&76 K30
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Welcome to CHR and awesome truck! I have a 40 Tudor Deluxe under the knife currently. It looks like a lot of nice metal work has been done to your truck. I love that BBC power too! Have any pics of Dad's coupe?Ryan
1940 Ford Deluxe Tudor 354 Hemi 46RH Electric Blue w/multi-color flames, Ford 9" Residing in multiple pieces
1968 Corvette Coupe 5.9 Cummins Drag Car 11.43@130mph No stall leaving the line with 1250 rpm's and poor 2.2 60'
1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn P-pumped 24v Compound Turbos 47RH Just another money pit
1971 Camaro RS 5.3 BTR Stage 3 cam, SuperT10
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03-17-2020 08:46 AM #7
Welcome! Love the truck and it looks like some real quality work has been done there. Got all the marks of a sweet ride.
Glenn"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty." John Basil Barnhil
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03-18-2020 07:30 AM #8
Welcome to CHR, great looking truck! Keep us updated on the build!Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Live for Today!
Carroll Shelby
Learning must be difficult for those who already know it all!!!!
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03-19-2020 05:38 AM #9
Neat project!
How about a few details on the drive train.
.I've NEVER seen a car come from the factory that couldn't be improved.....
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03-20-2020 03:57 AM #10
Thanks, Yes I have tons of pictures of dads from 1964 to current. Heres a couple currents. It's kind of a family thing.
Yellow coupe is dads in it's current state (455 Buicked since the 70's), other 40 coupe is my uncles,(SRT8 Hemi) my uncle had 3 in 63 so both have never left the family since. Topless Chevy (also 455 Buick) is a different uncles/cousins.
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My brother re-built dads car with dad and also this 57 150 handyman wagon (Goat Wagon) with his father-in-law, (he bought car in 1968) all work done by them at home except sewing upholstery.
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Each one of these is family
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03-20-2020 04:16 AM #11
Thanks, I have a (468) Big block Chevy, solid cam, roller rockers, oval ports, domed pistons, 10.5 to 1 compression, edelbrock victor jr. single plane intake with a holley sniper efi and a bunch of MSD items. Trans is a TH-400 with a shift kit, manual valve body in reverse pattern. Rear is a Ford 9" that we cut and narrowed in the garage and I put new everything inside, 3.50 gears, eaton truetrac, dutchman 31 spline custom shafts.
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03-20-2020 05:40 AM #12
Wow, I don’t know of any family with that many hot rodders in it. That’s really cool!Steve
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03-20-2020 09:00 AM #13
The topless Chevy reminds me of one I seen in hot rod magazine in the late '80s or early '90s when I was a kid. I love the 455 if Buick power plants that you're usingSeth
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C.S.Lewis
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03-20-2020 09:20 AM #14
That is going to be a badness truck.
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03-20-2020 09:22 AM #15
A truly amazing gene pool for sure!"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty." John Basil Barnhil
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