Projects 1930 Pontiac 3W rescue. (sheetmetal heavy)

All of he rotten wood was removed and replaced with steel. In both my brown one and this one. Mine was on a homemade frame. This one is on an altered original pontiac frame.


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Looking good man !

 

I'm in awe!

Chris

 

And this is how a rat rod is created

Amazing work, and a nice change, I'm just starting out learning how to weld

 

Roof welded up. Better than fixing rust


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Steve,
Any progress lately?
Tom

 

not too much since this. redoing the drivers side door. and building a new planishing hammer to replace my former imported one.

 

Nice.....building your own planishing hammer ? Even better. It's looking really nice.

 

Yup it's coming along. It'll look similar to the bottom pic when im done. This will help with the rest of the build.


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The remains of the drivers door

made a new inner structure

Patch time

Better


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Nice!!!!!!!!


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Holy cow !!!!
Great stuff

 

Sliced up the whole quarter to create door gap. Not ideal but it worked. Also started on the b post, got the bear claw in and it latches bow


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Amazing work! You are a very talented guy.

 

Made a b post and did more work on the door


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Looking good Steve! Keep up the good work.
Jim

 

wow man, true craftsmanship on your coupes. i had no idea how much time and effort went into your brown car. now this new coupe, hand fabbing panels AND planishing hammers, english wheels, very impressive

 

Thanks man! I get obsessive sometimes. Still always trying to get better

Thanks Jim! Hope you are doing well




Addressed some more issues today. Snowballed and ended up building a new cowl side







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You are sure doing a great job, that body sure needed a loving hand, it has it now!!

 

toreadorxlt, you realize that other than the rear window opening and visor, you're not gonna have any real 1930 Pontiac left if you keep going! Just joking, you've saved a car that normally wouldn't have been, and as another early Pontiac lover, I truly appreciate it!

 

Thanks man! I'm making up alot as I go so it's not a true pontiac.


Got the cowl tied in


Formed drip rail


Still need to trim the back


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Awesome work!!! where did you fiigure out how to build the tools. Very impressive.

 

Looks great man, your metal work is really awesome!

I've got a question, how did you get that bead on the top side of that cowl patch (Post #139)?

 

Thanks guys, the cowl band was put in with my homemade Pullmax style machine. The belt lines were mostly don't with a bead roller and tuned with my planishing hammer.




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looking great!

 

Thanks for the answer. Your homemade tools look very nice! Do you have any pics of your homemade english wheel? I just got done building one with a 30 inch throat using the Joe Andrews (Hoosier Profile) wheel kit.

 

I have no idea how I've missed this thread all these years, what a great save. Bob

 

Got it up in the air a little. Nitpicking some things and starting to jam out the door opening. Party time.


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Metal workin ninja!

 

Thanks ray I love you


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