Looks great!! I like the seat the way it is My high school car was a '39. SURE wish I didn't trade that away!! Bill
Registration day. Took my 1940 Oregon plate and documents to Insurance office and DMV today, so I guess it's the first day of being street legal. I'm going to take it out on the road tomorrow. I know it's a little rough around the edges, but that's the way I like 'em and I really was in a hurry to drive it. 9 months, start to where it is now
Looking good! When I built my 39 deluxe it took 9 years and you did about same in 9 months! Enjoy it now!
That is one nice '40 coupe, I'm waiting on some better weather to go look at a '40 deluxe in snow country. It's a finished car, cause @ 77 I'm pretty much past another project from scratch. Hope it is as good as it looks in pix.
"Rough around the edges" is the best driver! A real hot rod there, take it out and wind it up! You said interior is next, what are the plans?
I really like it and a little rough around the edges makes it more fun to drive in my opinion. Looks great!
Gorgeous car indeed! It appears you lifted the body off/on the frame with an engine hoist. Would you mind elaborating a little on how that was done, please?
Just saw this thread. Man that is one beautiful car! Nice job. I wouldn't change a thing, except maybe put my name on the title. Sent from my iPad using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I just stuck this thing back on my hoist to illustrate, but I put it on backward. The tapered end of the board should be toward the back so it doesn't con tact the hoist arm when tilting. Pretty simple really but probably not the best way of removing the body. I had it as far back in the door jamb as possible but body was still pretty tail heavy. I just lifted it up far enough to roll the frame out from under. The frame was set on my rollers to get as low as possible. It's what you do when you don't have any help available.
Well, I sort of contradicted myself on keeping everything preserved. There is a Hispanic guy here in town who does great work out of his two car garage. I had him do the seat, windlace, headliner, visors and a few other little things in a very simple theme. He used brown vinyl with a distressed pattern for everything but the seat insert. I made my own door panels and rear compartment panels out of ABS plastic with pebble grain texture that compliments the seat material. Sprayed the panels with rattle can. The best part about this is that the upholstery guy's wife doesn't like extra vehicles sitting around so he has to get 'em out of there fast. With the seat already done by him previously, I took the car to him on a Saturday morning expecting him to take a couple weeks to do the headliner, etc. He calls me Sunday afternoon and says come get your car, it's done. Guy is amazing, headliner is beautiful and, wait for it, I have about $1000 in the whole schmear. I'm not kidding, I still can't believe it myself. Oh yeah, I have since replaced all the glass with a nice green tint. I don't think I did anything too terribly wrong by these "improvements"
Well, that is hard to knock. Great job, not over done and looks right. Your car, your choice, great call!
Hi DDDenny.I don`t think you know the irony of your comment.Just a little history here.Crapper was the name of the English fellow who invented the flush toilet. Good luck.Have fun.Be safe. Leo
Yea, I know all that history stuff too. Thing is, if I had used the word toilet I wouldn't have been able to say crapper Us old guys gotta get our giggles while we can.
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