rpu update - thrashing hard.

[lowsquire]

big show down here in three weeks...will have it running and drivable, still far off finished, but may not bother finishing it...looks cool like this.
you CAN make a windsor look kinda old school, doncha thunk.?

[lowsquire]

94's on a windsor?? thanks corey. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[lowsquire]

whippet gooood.

[Jaypee]

Nice http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gifReally nice!!

[Aushotrods]

wow. Cant wait to see it 'finished'. Keep the good work up LS

[lowsquire]

and

[Farmer]

looks pretty cool, show us your rear end....uh, that sounded bad. anyway...i was also looking at your front brake backing plates...what kind of brakes you running up front, don't look like juice brakes..nice man, the motor looks good. I love those 4 bbl. intake to 2x2bbl. adapters,
it looks kinda like the old thickston intakes for flatheads, but real short. keep the pics comin'

[lowsquire]

farmer, front brakes are early F100, or maybe F 1, basically a bolt on, just change the inner wheel bearings. i think theres a hamb tech post on it.
rear shot.

[Stevie G]

Are you going to run a set of Brooklands windscreens?
DuVall maybe?
Looking good LS.

[roadstar]

Great looking car Sir.

I see they put the Dizzy on the opposite side over there too http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[lowsquire]

like this i think.....

[Farmer]

nice truck man....i can see in the last pic the light is better....dig the duvall type windshield mock up....
that steering wheel on the right side always just looks wild to me being a Yankee....I would totally crash and burn if I had to drive like that...haha

[Rusty]

Looks great. Keep us posted on the progress. and definately the first drive.

[lowsquire]

will do.
hopefully should be running next week.
its all the little shit that seems to take ages....
almost cant imagine it actually moving under its own power, its been 'silent' for so long
btt for the australian massive...

[Jimmy B]

Have to bring this thread back to the top http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif.

lowsquire, that is one cool lookin A pickup http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif .
Are you going to run any perforated mesh in the radiator shell?

Keep us updated on the progress.

[Flat Ernie]

That thing is killer looking - I've got a set of those valve covers & one of those 2x2-to-4bbl adapters - now I know what it'll look like!

Only critique is I don't care for those big assed shocks. They sort of take away from the otherwise clean lines of the front end. Seems like they would jiggle the headlights too mounted like that. Sadly, I don't have an good ideas to fix it & I hate doing that (not offering a solution). Still a neat looking little RPU!

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[PEDDRO]

Nice goin' Ben....I think those rear shocks would work better bolted up the other way though. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

So.....trailer queen, eh?!

[Drewfus]

Looking great, well done.

Looks like I'm gonna owe ya a beer (or carton) as I'm a slacker.

Need to have a chat with you, will PM as I'm coming south over N/years..... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Again, keep at it, look forward to cutting laps.

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[slammed]

Look's fantastic. Your rpu would 'ave been right at home at the Pile-up this week-end!

[lowsquire]

thanks all,
you guessed it on the grille, like the blower bentley stuff.
yeh the front shocks....when you get a pair of shocks for five bucks brand new, aesthetics take a bit of a back seat, they actually look a lot more prominent in the photos, can put little ones on, just flip the perch bolts up the other way, and bobs yer unk.
you comin to the picnic drewfus? give you a drive if you do.