I have tried to get my camera to focus that close up, but no dice. If you look at the lower bolt head in the picture you can kinda make out the little rocket.
Look close at the wood grain of dash,it's real wood. My son Lance an I built his 23 "T" from scratch,he wanted a custom dash to match his other wood,so after he hunted at five lumberyards he found one piece of wood with nothole with the grain around it going out about as even as it gets in both ways=this was the place for his speed-O in center of dash with a flame design going both ways with the grain flame design. I know most will over look this type of detail,but its things I look for.
Again, not sure I would call it "sexy", but far better than just hanging a couple pieces of plate together to mount a flathead....
Thanks guys Just a bunch of plate cut and rolled to shape, welding - I start with MIG - then grinding, then filling in holes - I switch to TIG for smaller imperfections - more grinding.....welding....filing and sanding.....
Wow from what you started with to the finished product is an amazing result. Great job, you done anything else with that much effort? got pics?
Thanks - the whole chassis is scratch built from 3mm plate, and all parts are 'blended' in a similar way. Not strictly traditional, but I'll do a build thread when I'm further into it - the plastic body in the background will be used as a buck for a one-off steel body.....
Very Nice! Seeing as how I thought it was a casting in the original pic, it definitely belongs on here!
I like detail,even little things add up to sexy I think,this is my old rod I built in 1959 that I'm still having fun with. Take small at axle bone bolt,it was cut off but not just flat,insted shaped in to a cone on top. To top off the kingpins nice an shiny I had added 50cents{new 1960 coins]and used 25cents on all the tierod ends as well. Finelly got around to adding some stainless steel bolts I shined up to backing plates too,but this photo is older then that,so don't show.
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