Projects 1932 Ford 5W Project "Marooned"

I'm excited to see this treasure.... You gotta be walking with wood!
I'll be tagging along for sure.

 

Subscribed looking forward to seeing you build it chris
cheers Paul

 

ok, so time for an update of some of the recent work. Gary Maxwell from blackboard hot rods built me an amazing frame. Can't say enough about his great work and his welding skills are top notch! I also bought some trick backing plates for the front Lincoln drums

 

rims brought to you by a 1940 ford frame that a friend was discarding. I also finished taking the whole body apart into pieces that could be worked on. A little sweat and blood from a knee that I stabbed on some remnants of a sub rail.... oh yeah and some cursing.

 

a little before and after of the fire wall. Not a complete smoothie, but wanted to get rid of some of the unnecessary holes to clean it up.

 

and some work to the front cowl. It looks pretty solid, but of course after sandblasting there were some pitted areas. Those areas have been cut out and replaced with new metal.

 

thanks Paul! hopefully it turns out as nice as yours!

 

You are braver than me but full credit! I had a couple "non" car people see my coupe and say why would you take on such a big project....... Perhaps I should show them pics of your car! Ha ha. Subscribed, keep up the pics and updates! Good luck!!

 

Another 5W??!!?? We needed another one to follow along with.

 

X2, and besides that, I'm watching!!

 

Yes! It will be interestingt to follow this thread and watch a coupe come back to life.

 

Yes X2
More updates please.

 

A really nice start! That would have made a great parts-car for my old 5 window....especially the back window and back half of the quarters.

 

sweet find ,good luck with your build. kinda partial to 5 windows.

 

Rocky has your "old 5w" been put back together? Would love to see it.

 

step by step... oh baby...

 

Glad I caught up with you. That thing is really coming around!! Great work, keep at it. tim

 

Looking good chris .some great work going on there.
cheers Paul

 

Chris, Looks like you are on a great roll......It is looking good and will make a great hot rod. Keep the photos coming.
May I ask what you done with the old frame rails? You know they make a great body stand you can bolt your body on and roll it around while you finish the frame. Just a little food for thought as while building my 3 window I wish I had something like that.

 

my frame rails were missing some pieces, but otherwise that would have been a good idea

 

some more progress on the metal work, starting to look like a window again I'm amazed at how much original metal we were able to keep, just had to replace the square patches under the small side windows and the metal inside the wheel housings. The rest of the original quarter panels was pretty good and cleaned up nice.

 

Very nice...

 

Cool.
Al.

 

Great job. With your skills almost any body is salvagable. I will be following the progress.

 

I wish I could take credit for the metal work, but a friend has done most of it. I just offer, support and rum at this stage, haha

 

Looks mighty good!

 

Rum is good.....I'll work for rum

 

wow the old girl is looking good!

 

DID SOMEONE SAY RUM!!!!!?
Hell I will work for Saliors Jerry Rum also. Looking good Chris, keep the up-dates coming.

 

That thing is looking great man!! Its gonna be a nice ride for sure.