first ill show ya a pic of the find, i bought a nice 27 turtle deck for a hundred bucks lasr weekend, now i got one for my T-roadster project. Now what i got done, i had borrowed my buddy gennie duece firewall to mock up my body so i had to get my own, well im gonna have a nailhead and dont feel like cutting up an original so when my buddys went to p/u there brookville 29 roadster body i had them pick me up a firewall frome them excluding the feet cause ill make my own for free! so heres a pic of that.
i also had a new (used) header panel for the car with an inner structure so i spliced and diced it on to the car then chopped my w/s frame, and took some 35-36 w/s hinges and modified them to fit the 32 (its easy and cheaper then real 32's) header then fit my windshield frame im hapy with the way it turned out! hera a pic of that.
its still overwhelming when i think of all the work i still have to do!!! you havent seen it in person!!
Man, you are making HUGE progres on what was a total heap. I'm impressed and enjoy watching it come together. Build on! JH
Not only do you have a nailhead powered deuce in the works, but your 27 turtle deck is way straighter than mine is.... Nice work man, I look forward to youre progress pics all the time! Im gonna go hang my head for a while.... -J.
Titus, your progress totally ROCKS! And nice score on that turtledeck. Keep up the progress, the reports AND the pics! Regards, Dave.
its ok, you should see the turlte deck its gonna replace, i bought it for 10 bucks if that tells you how bad it is, jsut think of it as upgrading!
titus, you rule dude if that 5 window is gonna end up anything NEAR the sweetness of your truck, its gonna KICK ASS keep it up!
1 question. with the cleco(sp) fasteners, are you over lapping the patch panels instead of but welding them?
Titus I have a glass deck lid for 27 T if interested its made by gibbons. Bought for a steel 27 I had a while back just taken up space in garage. let it go for $50 plus shipping. Would trade for 15 gallon aluminum fuel tank also
tommy, im just using them to fit all the patch panels, when i go to weld them in ill use my cutoff wheel and cut next to the patches and butt weld them correctly, i figured some one might mention something about that!
there a story behind those clecos though....... When my dad was in Vietnam he was an airplane mechanic on a carrier ship, when his term was over he was offered to take home any tool in the toolbox that he wanted, so he chose that cleco set! so they been in around for a while, i stole them last week from him! like half the other tools in my garage!!!!!
it was a little rusty around the back edge of my patch for my cowlso i made a patch for the patch!! quiz, is there anything funny about the new cowl vent opening???
what the hell is a cleco fastener? im guessin its those studs stickin outta the side? How do they work?
I 'think' truck vents and '32 pass are the same vent. Looks to me like it's a tad farther forward than a stock 32..could be the pic though. It all looks good man.. I need one of those cowl vents for my 32 5 window too.. Rat....
when i got the car the top of the cowl was cut out so i went to the french lake and snatched up the last cowl vent there out of a 33 pu and used the whole top to patch mine, so the opening is a little further forward! clecos are used alot in airplane skinnig, you can drill a hole in the sheet metal and use them basicaly as removable rivit. or hold panels in plce while you fit them.
You ask him that same question in person he'd bite off you head! I had the same question, glad i'm not the only one.
Hahaha. I thought so.. i must spend too much time checking out deuce's .. time to get a life..(and a cowl vent for mine) Rat...
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