Hot Rods Curbspeed Coupe. "Holy Hell" 10/4/2020

Beautiful work Dale! Love the height of that rear window moulding.

 

Update. I built a glove box for the 1938 Ford deluxe dash that I retro fitted into the 34 yesterday. Wanted to make it nice and deep but ran into my heater and cowl vent. Had to only make it 6 inches deep(insert joke here Bada Bing! ) 11 wide by 6 inches tall. Enough room to lock up a few items of value. It will work. I don't like the cardboard stock stuff. Probably would have not worked anyways. I love building shit. One more thing off my punch list. The quest continues. Thanks for looking. Hope it's not too boring.

 

I forgot to put up a picture of my A/C slash battery box that I'm in the process of working out details . It has a screened vent on the bottom to intake air. I will have dual Oddyssy PC925 batteries in this box. to make sure I have enough power. I am running an early Corvette generator with a tach drive unit on it and want to make sure I have reserve power to spare. These little batteries can be set in any position and that works out great for small cars. I will use a universal dual battery kit like the 4 wheel drive guys do to run all the accessories. I hope it work out. I think it will. Never done it before but I ain't skeered. See, plenty of room to wire them up. This whole mess goes behind the seats.

 

Don't drop the battery on that toe! Looking good....

 

Sure like your dash!

 

Really nice.

 

Thanks you for the nice comments. I will be building a battery hold down bracket and mounting a battery kill switch today. I'll post later.

 

Progressing well!

 

Battery hold down brackets made. Can't find the damn Battery kill switch I had. I hate misplacing parts that I want to use. Vent on bottom for air intake for A/C also. Fasteners I found at Ace Hardware to hold down the top too. The batteries fit in there nice and snug. Should work out pretty well. Now where is that damn cutoff switch?

 

Started another small project yesterday and finished today. Lots of pictures. Here goes if you want to know how to build the ultimate hotrod cup holders.
Ok, I like to have something to drink when I'm driving. Not alcohol anymore, thank goodness, as I've been dry for 2 1/2 years. You know, pop, water and coffee. The usual alternatives officer. In my roadster pickup I was always spilling shit everywhere. It's hard to shift and drive and hold something between your legs or tuck somewhere. So I decided I wanted some cup holders in my coupe. Not normal crappy billet cup holders or some plastic pos that rides the hump. No, real honest to goodness ultra bitchin' finned aluminum hotrod flavored cup holders. Follow along and I show you how.
First, scour the swapmeets for these Stilko spin on oil filters. They are usually pretty cheap. Nobody uses them and I don't know what they where used for. Maybe diesel truck? Who knows? It don't matter. for originally but this is what they look like

 

Next, Take all the guts out and pitch in your junk bin. I always hang on to stuff like this as I never know when I'll need to make something. Set the inner tube in a vise and turn the filter housing off of it. It comes right off with a little muscle.

 

Next, take your 90 die grinder and use it carefully to take that ugly parting line out of your fins and then trim the top lip back as it hinders the looks of the unit. I am pointing. File or carefully grind this smooth and break the edge for a cleaner look. to the excess lip to be removed. File the excess of the material out of the grooves. It is very time consuming so be patient and it will turn out great.

 

I will be using some flat strap 1/8 x 3/4 for the mounting holders and I am using 1/4-20 elevator bolts so the heads will be flush in the bottom of the cup. Acorn nuts will dress it up. Disregard the threaded knob as I went with a different style in the end.

 

Next, I drilled a .266 hole in the bottom of the filter in the center. Then I polished the hell out them to make them look pretty. I marked my mounting strap where I wanted to make my bends and drill my holes.

 

Your going to want to drill and tap your mounting hole first. If not it's going to be hard to tap it after it's bent. I decided to use these type of turn thumb/wingnuts, Ford air cleaner nuts is what they are marked as at Ace Hardware.

 

I put the elevator bolt down in the cup and bolted it to the bracket. Mounted the bracket to test fit on my underdash package tray to see how it was going to look. I ended up using a one inch long elevator bolt in the end with an acorn nut. The one in the picture was for mock up.

 

Then to have a look see. I can move these anywhere along that rail on the package tray. I can also make another bracket if I don't like where these are in the future. I like it as of now though.

 

Next, I detailed them with some copper paint. I will be using copper as an accent color on this car. And that is how I built the ultimate finned aluminum bitchin' hotrod cupholders.

 

looks bitchin' man!

 

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More work.

 

I continued to piece the compound curves hammering over the breaks and trimming off excess until I welded it all and smoothed it out. Had my good buddy Kirk Ward(thanks) punch some holes for me and it's almost done. Just a couple more little things and move on to the next project. I have a punch list I'm picking off. Final fit and finish will come when I start bodywork.

 

You have quite the collection of bitching ideas.. Those cup holders are awesome. Keep at it!

 

Your the man Dale...love those cup holders........but I am a little concerned about the position of your foot feed.....your leg is going to get tired holding it up in the air like that....

 

I assume your kidding U-235. Throttle rod is not hooked up so spring is holding it in that position. Thanks for the props guys. I'm trying. I see your in Aces and Eights Car Club. You guys supported me big time. Do I know you?

 

Man, you are too good. Amazing. Gawd' I dig this car. It's good to know, I probably can't build it .... but, I'll know how maybe. Detail heaven and fine print in BIG friggin' letters. Bitchin' ... as always. Thank you !

 

Damn Dale, you have really got it going on. This car gets more bitchen' with every post!

 

You guys are giving me too much credit. Really. I 'm just a redneck Swede that wants a bitchin' hotrod. My motto is 'Fake it until you make it". Got a couple more things done today. Received my Pure Hotrods early Ford F-1 style shock mount kit yesterday and proceeded to smooth out all the bumps in prep for chrome. I am making the upper shock mounts with front F-1 shock mounts cut up and severely modified. You can see in the picture I have not finished the uppers yet as I have to wait till the body is off the chassis to set them up the way I want. Also made a gauge pod out of an electrical outlet cover. Found it at work and thought I could modify it to work between my 4-speed and E-brake on the tranny cover. Not sure what gauge I'm putting in it yet so I just stuck my start/run/kill switch in it for now so you could see. It will get chromed too.

 

Yeah... curbspeed; you say"fake it -'til ya make it
& then I say"if ya can't make it right, make it bright"
Don't be so modest; this builds kickin ass.