Features I bought my 4 year old son his first Car last night ( a Henry J )

^ can't beat that



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im gonna assume my thread fits into the custom category?

 

my first car in 1958 was a 51 henry j with a supersonic six. he is now doomed to a lifetime of being a car nut.

 

what is the deal with small blocks with powerglide? when I built my 59 I took the powerglide out and replaced with a 3 speed th350. thought it was the correct thing to do, definitely nice on the fwy now. but when I took the powerglide out I thought I couldn't even give the thing away since everyone I know wants higher speed trannys. but when I took out and posted powerglide for sale, the calls went on for days and I sold it for same price as the 350 trannys were selling. I even told the guy buying it theres 350s online for same price he said noo I want this one. why are they desireable?

 

good job by the way starting them young, keep the tradition alive

 

Did you make the body mounts, or were you able to purchase them somewhere?

 

We made the body mounts, few bends actually fairly simple.

As for the powerglides, they are simple and reliable. And cheap to rebuild!

 

great build,and fine looking boy i have a 5 year old girl.says she will be driving my j to high school because, she will be the first to say Henry as she calls it, is hers and not for sale when anyone asks about it

 

o i bet he cant wait to get behind the wheel once its done ...

he looks happy to have some help him w/ the build ....

keep up the good work you 2 =)

 

Don't see too many Jag rears in a Henry J that's for sure.

 

Damn I have been slacking on updating this thread. We moved two months ago to a new house and are finally getting back to being organized. I will work on posting some new pictures.

And i just realized that the guy i had powder coat the calipers for the jag rear is the one that got fired at my work and is now incommunicado, hope i can get ahold of him to get those back

 

all dad ever bought me was a lawn mower and a weed eater when i was a kid

 

Let me know if you want to sell the power train

 

all thats left of the powertarin is the rear axle, there is a guy on the facebook henry J page right now selling a ton of parts. I purchased the rear seat i was missing from him.

 

Let me know if you sell the gas tank

 

I tell my wife when I get a new peice of junk car that it is for her!

 

I bet the (now )12 yr old is counting down the days till he’s 16 and driving age..... I know that I did.......

 

We is definitely now pushing to work on it! Today we pulled the frame to send it of to be sand blasted this week. I’m happy to be back working on it with him.

 

Both powerglide and the 350 have the same 1:1 in drive so there is no difference at highway speeds. The 350 just adds 1 gear before drive.

 

Lots of people run them in drag cars and dirt track cars so I’d assume when they are done with them they are less than rebuildable. Those are probably the people who were calling

 

I love powerglides they are simple and dirt cheap to rebuild.

 

fun times

 

Got the frame back from the sand blasters/ had them epoxy prime it also. Don’t mind the water spots on it. It turned out really well!

 

Making some more progress figuring out how to mount this jag irs ...

 

Your son will have the coolest car in the high school parking lot

 

Well the crossmember is basically done. I have the half shafts and lower control arms out being shortened by 3.5” inches

 

I used a Volvo 240 Rear (think mini Dana) and AMC disks up front on the one I had in HS. The disks were an old 70s trick, they use bolt on spindle snouts