After complaining enough to Tony about not having a part from his collection, he was awesome enough to add to my build a filled original `32 grille shell that he used to run on his old purple 5 window coupe - the car he took me for a drive in as an apprentice and had me hooked ever since. Thanks for everything Tone. Big Al, this is what I`ve been working on lately. I must have about 30 hrs in that early/improved A dash rail already. Thanks for all the neat parts you've passed on to this rig too mate.
Hi What is the throttle pedal setup from ?, I modified a lhd one but it doesn't look as slick as yours.
This is looking beautiful. Thanks for taking the time to post up. Be proud of all the time you have put into it mate- work of art!
Not sure mate, the a spoon pedal Mark gave me and a swap meet part on the firewall I shortened and bent.
Looks great man love it? Did you have to bend the accelerator peddle to clear the brake? I have the same set up in my 33 peddle fit is very tight.
Outstanding work. Its good to see another traditional style hot rod being built in Oz. Keep up the good work.
Great to see, really cool on multiple levels. On a side note, the fact that you're building such a period (and well done) car in Gladstone is a massive A+ in my book as my experience with the locals would suggest that it would be like night and day. Rock on, love it, Drewfus
Incredible workmanship with every aspect of this build. Boxing looks amazing. Neat dash panel. Thanks for posting.
I was talking to Johnny Warren today and he told me about your story . Well, what can I say . You, my friend, have become a master fabricator and am very very pleased that I infected you into hot rodding that day at work, and I knew you wanted to go for a ride in old purple , and how we always talked about operating our very own shop . Then with my back operation and you moving to Gladstone our paths changed . You just keep building your hot rod with all the period parts and me and others telling you how to build them , that it has sure paid off my friend , And I know you are going to build more mind blowing hot rods and remember to always have time for other young people to simply talk to them and tell them how hot rodding is really cool and pass the torch to them just like I did to you Pat .
Thanks for the kind words Tony. Safe to say I would never have given this a go without your influence and encouragement, it was great being able to head over to yours and ask questions and see how it`s done first hand. I`ll be back down in March for a week or so mate, looking forward to catching up again for a couple of days if you`re around.
Haha cheers, there are a couple of really neat original early Fords in town but zero traditional styled hot rods.
So good to see such a skilful build with such a traditional trajectory. It's all to rare in Australia. Beautiful work, sir.
Great looking car - I hope you enjoy the hell out of it when you're eventually driving it. I look forward to many more updates. Cheers.
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