Projects Time to redo my daily driver.

Turned out great! I love everything about it!

 

looks great! Very nice job.

 

Wow!! A talented guy like you with an obviously wonderful family behind you. I am simply amazed and have the utmost respect for your expertise and drive. Carry on!!

 

Thanks !!!!

 

God Bless your family... I love how you rebirthed the truck

 

Very nice work! You've done that truck justice. Made it look nice, yet still very useable.

Devin

 

Nice job!




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Cool ass project

 

My favorite Ford- This looks so good in White. Like that they left the door handles.

 

Turned out awesome - I love that old truck!

 

Nice new Avatar.

 

Drove the truck a bunch this week.... including in one nasty rainstorm. Found that my vent was leaking badly ..had to dismantle that and used sealant on the underside of the gasket...so hope I got that fixed.. I also had to move / adjust and tighten a few mounts to eliminate a few squeaks that developed. The new rear springs settled in someone's it it starting to ride smooth again... it was pretty jarring the first day or so of driving it.

 

The truck has been working well... crazy part is it is now getting pampered in garage.

My wife was saying that the truck turned out too nice to keep running in the salt....and I kinda agreed so I ended up picking up an off topic 500 dollar winter beater 75 international scout....

I miss driving the truck in the snow but feel better about it being treated preserved more than I have in the past. In the future I may repaint the rear fenders and touch up a few other things that I rushed when I was doing my rapid 10 week redo......

 

I loved this truck before and it is even better now.
Happy Motoring.

 

Figured I would post up an update...

Stupid me, the truck turned out a tad to nice to abuse like I used to.

I have been using it but have been wasting too much time trying to protect the bed when hauling crap.... I miss letting the scrap yard just use the magnet to pick the scrap out of the bed....

So last spring I decided to start throwing together the model a pickup project as my around town scrap hauler and make it my primary beater.... while working on it I also spruced up the outside of my shop.

Somehow by fall I managed to take it from a cut apart pile of model a parts to a running driving licensed truck.... it was a lot of welding but is turning out well.

 

So first off. Here is how the outside of the shop looks now..

 

Oh man, your shop is awesome!!

 

Great gob!

 

And here is the before and some of the during shots of the 31 pickup.




So that was the initial pile of junk...

I was given a badly sagged frame 2 years ago (was given it for the 39 wide 5 parts that were swapped on it in 1958 to use on my 38 standard to update the brakes)




Then i was informed of another pile of model a parts. Which I then went and hauled home as well.


That load was a good haul... I now have most of a roadster body to build in thr future!!.. In fact I had to break out my 1925 huckster to haul most of it since it is my only machine with an 8 foot long bed.



I sure surprised the guy showing up in an even older truck that get old parts.

I also picked up a 1934 bed cheap that i was going to cut down to look like a 31 wide we'd.



And the last main puzzle piece was an engine which was given to me from a friend. (It was laying outside in a barnyard for a long time) but wasn't too bad inside.

So at that point last spring my total investment was at 1250 bucks all in.... for a bunch of junk..... next all the work began.......

 

With chains, jacks, and torch heat. I managed to get the frame a lot better, and I tore into the engine and did the valves and cleaned it all up and got it running with spare parts I had and put a new clutch in it.


I really lucked intona guy who wanted to trade my rougher 34 bed for a nice 31 wide bed so that really gave me a jump start.


I then began major rust repair..... pics In no particular order.. and I really didn't take many pics off all my repairs and fabrication.. was in a hurry to get it done in my free time.

 

The old daily turned out nice, and I understand the mixed emotions about driving it in the salt now that the truck looks so nice.

You have probably said what color it is somewhere in the thread but I missed it, I love that color green. HRP

 

I had a bunch or really junk doors so I cut them all apart an made to decent ones from the pieces.

 

I lucked into a cheap NOS drivers side wide bed fender at a swap meet but had no passenger one so I cut down and made one from a rough coupe fender.

 

So at that point I had all the metalwork just about done.. I wired and plumbed it up and drove it on its maiden voyage the mile over to my shop...

Brakes sucked.... steering was loose, and a bunch of junk shook loose from the block and gas tank...

 

So a lot of mechanical r&r, back flushing, cleaning out and general tinkering....

 

Ran it a fair amount and even got our tree with it at Christmas.

 

So NEXT on deck...

Our older daughter just turned 13 and wanted a 48-50 bonusbuilt ford in the worst way....

So this summer I will be helping her start on her first car.





It is a very solid 48 f-3.

She wants to keep the faded paint for now and the flathead v8 and build a flatbed with a small enclosure for her musical gear so she can handel driving and hauling gear for her musical gigs on her own when she is older.

Here she is performing.......very proud of her making $$ playing 2+ hour gigs on her own at 13 years old!!!

 

Neat old Model A pickup, too. Reminds me of @Hitchhiker 's

 

Thanks!!! I kids picked this paint chip so this is the paint code.