Art & Inspiration Disassembled a front end and found a surprise…

Traded into a Model A project, disassembling some of the stuff I wasn’t going to use and found this. Figured I’d share. Yikes!!

 

Nice find, you better look everything else over with a fine tooth comb....

 

I'm hoping that was done for a mock up, not for driving! Wow.

 

Some of them "good ol days" of hot rodding were less than good!

 

That's a scary Mary right there!

 

The wishbones looked similarly as questionable on the split tie rod end. I figured it was just a "period correct" jam a drag link into the hole and stick weld 'er up. Wasn't expecting these though.

 

Damn! Those held up a long time! I figured a year or 2 at best when I made them

 

Glad you dug in ..

 

That looks like hardware store all-thread welded onto spring perches with the original studs through the axle cut off? Ford didn't cut corners when it came to metallurgy. Old Ford axles and related components are some of the toughest steel ever made. All thread doesn't have the strength the original Ford studs had/

 

Holy car in the ditch Batman! Yes Robin, it looks like the Joker is up to no good again.

 

1st pic looks like JB weld.

 

I guess when it underwent repair they destroyed the perches removing them which we've seen here and a garage of shame repair was enacted...and someone went on and drove on that grenade with the pin pulled but lived by the luck of the draw...crazy but not at all surprising...a solution that casts a truly different light indeed...

Makes you wonder what else they did...that shit could kill you......maybe they did contribute to someone's misfortune with the evidence hidden in the twisted wreckage...Fuck that is scary shit...

 

That’s traditional, run em, just stay behind me

 

The body filler to smooth off the rough welds...

 

Hoffman?

 

They're not broke! We should be celebrating the victory here!

 

I'd say chewing gum was involved.

 

Could have been a wagon on the farm...that would make the act of more forgivable...still dangerous as hell but confined to the ever dangerous farm setting

 

Aka Hillbilly style...

 

@el Scotto was it a stocker or Hotrod if there was anyway to connect that dot?

 

Or maybe chewin' terbacky . . .

 

Well, we had those 5 MPH suspension parts way before the 5 MPH bumpers. Good thing they never got over 5 MPH or they would have broke resulting in a fast stop in the ditch.

 

Well, isn't that downright homicidal?

 

It truly would be interesting to get a carbon date on that butchery...

 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/34-five-window.1121604/

...These weren't much better...

These also delivered without death it seems, were on a Hotrod...and yes they were replaced...

GasGas was probably thinking he was lucky his dad was still around to make babies...

​

 

Don't know.......sure looks like what you find under a 3rd grader's chair at the end of the school year.