Thread: roadster pickup body back from bodyshop

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I brought home the roadster pickup body today from the guy who was doing my bondo finishing, and I must say I am very pleased. Take a look, keeping in mind that this body started life as a really wretched sedan, had the center cut out, the back moved foreward to the rear of the front doors, then had the top cut off, a new floor welded in, new bottoms on both doors, and new bottoms on cowl on both sides. I did all the welding, but thought I would be wise to take it to someone who does finish bodywork for a living, rather than do it myself. I am going to try to post one picture of the body in its most "dismantled" form, and 3 or 4 pictures of what it looks like now.

I can't figure out how to post multiple images, so will do it this way

i like it a lot have a great night
your friend emmy

xxx

This picture shows the body stripped right down to its absolute "undies" before I started to build it back up again with patch panels, new floor, firewall, etcetera.

Looks purdee' Str8 ............... good job.

This picture shows the body stripped right down to its absolute "undies" before I started to build it back up again with patch panels, new floor, firewall, etcetera.

You're doing a super job Brian! It looks great!

Pat

Amazing! Recent posts sound like you got the trans attached and the distributor in, can I ask about what radiator you are using?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Don--It may sound a bit dumb, but I don't know what kind of radiator it is. I bought this car as someone elses abandoned project. and all they knew was that it was out of some Chrysler product, it fits inside a 1929 rad shell, it has an automatic transmission cooler built in, and thats all they (or I) know about it.

On the last 2 rods that I built, I went down to the rad shop and scrounged around in their used tanks bin untill I found the biggest upper and lower tanks that would fit inside my rad shell, and had the inlets and outlets in the correct place, then had the rad shops build a core to fit the tanks. I believe this cost me around $350, and I never encountered any cooling problems. Both rods had small block chev engines, one a stock 327 and one a modified 350

Hey Brian, great job on the body!!!!! This is a really first class example of taking what you have and building what you want. Superb job, going to be a very unique rod when your are finished with it. Congrats on a job well done. I've really enjoyed watching the progress on the body and hope you keep us as well informed on the rest of the build process.