Hot Rods Got a model a coupe for "FREE" prepare to cry

you must be the King of the Stupids. did you sign up just to make idiot comments?

 

Sure you can...

 

NO not stupid from what I also have read from here from time to time, whats the matter don't you like re runs?

 

Most people I see here have a sense of humor, I see its going to take awhile for you to get up to speed!

 

I wondered the same thing

 

I once bought an A coupe body that had fallen off a moving trailer for $100. It looked very similar to yours, minus the charring. Parts of it went into this coupe:



It lives on in infamy.

 

That looks like the a they did for Paul Tuttle sr.

 

That's a decent core for some of the metal gurus on the HAMB.

That's a bottle, not a can.

 

It is. Here's what the body looked like before we started grafting parts of other bodies to it.



And here's one after the patching:

 

Figured it didn’t start white lol. Came out nice.

 

I knew someone would call me on that.

Couldn't find a decent picture of the old can during my 3 second google image search.

 

Is this better?

 

You may have paid too much, Good Luck...

 

Any chance the owner had a title for that car? Hopefully in the house and not the garage. Might be the most valuable part left from that car.

 

Look a the pictures closely. Does it look like this is a slant windshield? Is this a cabrolet or a coupe. If it is a slant windshield why does it have a visor? Only slant windshield coupe I've seen was the one proto type 3 window which has no visor.

 

This is almost as common as the buffing comments

 

Garage was detached so the house didn't burn.the owner of the car took the chassis and left the body behind.land Lord kicked guy out and she asked me if I knew any one who would haul it off.

 

Interesting. Me and that horse are on the fence about whether or not this could be repaired.

 

You could get that up and running, and still have the whole afternoon to drive it around town.

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Chances are that the sheet metal was annealed due to the heat of the fire. Chances are that the fire dept. hosed the car down while still hot. You got it at fair market value.

 

I wonder if you could fix the hardness of the metal still? Can a burned body be salvaged? I turned down a 1970 Challenger that was burned. That is why I am curious. I was told that the metal would tend to crack.... Did I get bad information?

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It depends on how hot the metal was and how fast it was cooled. I would assume that if it were a structural fire or car fire, the fire department showed up rather quickly and added cold water to the hot sheet metal. When you add cold water or air to hot sheet metal, it also shrinks the metal. Hammering on the metal after it has hardened to try and stretch it back into shape would surly add to the chance of cracking.

 

Thanks 1946caddy for the information.

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LOTS of parts to rescue! ( a full set of hinges is worth 150 bucks all day long)

There IS no junk! Use it up!!

 

And if cracked. What's the fix for that???

Do we treat this job like any other job???? What factors must he and others working with metal from the 30's??? AND rusted too?.

I ask because I was working on a similar car that rolled over. Rust had settled in and made the metal thin, orange, crusty and weak. When hit with a body hammer it did not act the same. Here is a picture of a door that has what im describing

The hardest part will be where its crushed on the body lines, well it was for me. The easy solution would have been to cut it out. But when working with what you have and not having another car to take from you made due...


Worked it back at 1st with a jack and 2×4 on its side and hammered/dollied out the rest but my question is what do you do when you have a developed a crease like in this picture, top left.

And as I said in the beginning what do you do when you overwork it and stretch the metal out? Thanks.

And don't give up hope OP.

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Porta power that back into the general shape of a car, get the doors opening and closing, winshield in, and on a chassis. Scuff it down all wrinkly and wipe it down with gibbs oil.

Drive it around and tell the story everytime you stop.

Perfect place for a rustoleum paint job. It sticks to anything, if it does flake off, jist brush more on.

Dont know if thats workable back into a nice car with the unknown heat damage, but it can still be a fun car.

 

That doesnt look like its been hot enough to anneal it. It more scortched and had something drop on the roof

Secure it to a body jig and get the Porta power to work, pick the correct start point and it will come out as it went in.. The metal has a memory and its just amazing sometimes how they pull back into shape .. What would you have to loose, better to have tried and failed, before you let it rot into the earth..

Does look worse now I take a second look , maybee has been hotter in some areas but still, what you got to loose? ( but your sanity )

 

Don't harp on me too much, but what about selling it to a rat rodder, it would be one less nice car getting distroyed. But I was always wondering what would happen if you lit it on fire again and let it cool slowly, would it soften the tempering process that happened from the fire and water? I don't see trash at all, I'm glad you saved it from the scrap yard and I hope she sees the road again.

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I definitely would've dragged her home as well. Good job.

 

One thing about a project like this one, you sure can't hurt it!
Get the body bolted to something solid and start jacking the roof back up, it might even come somewhat close to original, who knows. You have nothing to loose except a little time.

Donuts & Peelouts, When a body is really bent up, the best thought is to get it as close to the original shape as you can, then tap the high spots down to just below the surrounding area, with something having a close contour behind it. Eventually it will have some filler in it, the idea is to have as little filler as possible. If you have a high spot, the surrounding area needs to be built up for the high spot to blend in, requiring a lot more filler. The secrete to filling low spots is to stop sanding before you remove too much filler and have to add more. Gene