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Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by 66Special, Jan 14, 2015.

  1. 66Special
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  2. DF300582-2A59-4259-A0B3-340AE12670C4.jpeg D468268A-C14D-40A6-9EBF-30DC3D21B972.jpeg Fixed those pics for you. Great build you’ve got going on. Looking forward to seeing it in one piece.
     
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    Unfortunately seeing it in one piece may have to wait. I have to pull the engine out and tear it down and figure out why it wont hold oil pressure
     
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    Good looking car. Recognized that model a and roadster. Known your uncle and grandpa a long time. My parents won an nsra car as well.


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  5. 66Special
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    I've been fighting little to no oil pressure for over a month now. Finally took it apart last night and found I forgot to put this galley plug in . I'm going to send the block out to get hot tanked again because I wasnt happy with how clean the oil was looking but should have it back together in a couple of weeks. Then i can focus on maybe getting the car ready to take to detroit? Either way I should be driving the car this spring still Screenshot_20181105-214425_Gallery.jpg
     
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    https://www.instagram.com/p/BsTtglWAFaV/

    took my first trip up and down the driveway a couple weeks ago. I have been wet sanding this thing after work for about 3 weeks now. Car looks pretty much the same is it did in the last pics, just makes more noise now.
     
  7. Nostrebor
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    The first part of this thread made me itchy, and the last part made me happy! Very nice looking build you have going there, and I'm glad it got bumped up so I could discover it.:)
     
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  8. nor6304
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    good looking build Keep posting
     
  9. 66Special
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    I'm convinced that 80% of building a hot rod is just sanding. Heres a before and after on my drivers door which I am working on today. Not perfect but doing the best I can. 20190126_210951.jpg 20190127_183233.jpg
     
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  10. King ford
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    Great job young hotrodder!...just found this thread, keep posting please!!...good to see a young man that digs flatheads!...what paint did you use, urethane?
     
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    The black/base coat was acrylic urethane and the topcoat and clearcoat are poly urethane
     
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    Figured I'd share a couple of my favorite details on the car. The first one is a Hollywood tag light that my grandpa gave me to run on the car. This Tag light was on the back of his Model A Coupe in high school during his time in the Road Knights of Marietta Ohio. Pictured here with the last license plate run on that same car. (Although the plate was on the front) the second is the stock Model A gauge panel that we deepened to accommodate the Stewart Warner gauges. From the beginning I have been adamant about running a stock gas tank and stock gas gauge. To fix the hole left in the gauge panel where the stock gas gauge sticks through I took an old broken gauge my grandpa had and cut the guts out of it and stuck the lens and bezel in the hole. The sides of the gauge are still there and it makes a nice little peep hole for the gas gauge. IMG_20180812_214806_987.jpg IMG_20180812_214806_986.jpg IMG_20180715_195903_296.jpg 20180311_224530.jpg 20180311_224542.jpg 20180311_224601.jpg
     

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  13. 66Special
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    Not sure why Watsons T-bird ended up in there but whatever it's a cool car.
     
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    Well it's in one piece again but it's supposed to be about 30 degrees and raining all week so better pictures will have to wait. It looks like I will have do to some surgery on the decklid as something somewhere has shifted since the last time I truly fit the decklid (like 2 years ago). Rookie mistake. Live and learn. But it looks like a real hot rod in pictures at least. I'll use this rainy weather to chop my windshield. 20190216_173705.jpg
     
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    Gorgeous! Talk about determined...just fine and looking right!
     
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    glad you didnt let some old crotchety keyboard warriors make you give uk completely on sharing this with us because i love it! subscribed!!
     
  19. mkubacak
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    I love what you are doing. This is a great build.

    Can you find some different screws for your gauge panel. The phillips head screws just don't seem right.
     
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  22. Stogy
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    That's a real nice water bottle stand...:D

    Now I will continue with my cruise through your thread...;)

    All I can say is quality takes time...and you have achieved vintage Gold...​
     
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  23. Bandit Billy
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    Great thread, great car. Not too sure about this radiator cap tho
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  24. 66Special
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    Just working on putting some miles on this thing. My speedometer is WILDLY inaccurate so I think I really have somewhere between 2-3 times as many miles on it as it reads right now. 20190626_211712.jpg IMG_20190628_104549_965.jpg 20190628_171301.jpg
     
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    Put over 500 miles on the car this weekend on the way to and from Louisville with my cousin, uncle, and grandpa 20190802_091736.jpg Screenshot_20190805-234223_Instagram.jpg 20190803_223831.jpg
     
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  27. Flathead Youngin'
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    Man, I'd absolutely drive the crap out of that thing!

    You've easily proved yourself. Stop worrying about the "glass" thing. We tend to eat our own on here. Many here grew up during a time when glass meant deep pocket street rods, changing the original styling to look like Boyd Coddington, lasers and typical 70's and 80's builds. They conflate the two. It the style like yours or 60's style that is juuuuust fine! So, right now, put it to rest in your head and share up your stuff on here!

    Do me one more favor, right now, make a note to yourself to NEVER sell that little roadster. No matter what comes down the pike or what life throws at you, you must keep it. You built that with your grandpa. Let those two things sink in. YOU built it with your own two hands and the icing on the cake is your GRANDPA helped you do it! Enough said!

    I'll have to get up that way some time and shoot the crap with ya'll. I'm about 2 hours south of Columbus...
     
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