Ok.. hears what i got .. if you don't know I am building a 1934 ford fordor for a customer that had been started by another man.. I have got it now finishing it..any way I have a jag frount suspension ..it's painted and chiping.. do i repair the paint ? witch means it will chip again... or plate it? I know what I would do.. but the owner of the car is still not sure.... so what would you folks do ? please help... thanks WACKER60
On a car with a very visible rear suspension nothing looks better than a fully chromed Jag IRS. Except, of course, a prettied up quick change. If the suspension is tucked up under fenders and behind a gas tank paint will do. Unless this is going to be some sort of show rod. Drivers should have chips in their paint.
4 posts since 2006 and half of them are from your split personalities today in some kind of time warp conversation with yourself? Strange, very strange.
This post got me thinking. Save those Jag rears. I did my first one 30 years ago...as in 1978. Could they become nostalgic? Not appropriate for this board but they are an old time hotrod suspension update. The next one was in fact a 34 4 door...front and rear. The owner loved it. You couldn't see it but it rode smooth and handled well.
We found 2 jag rears in a you pull it yard here last time we were there. I think I'll go see what they want for them on sat.
the rear to get out of a jag is from a XKE for a hot rod and the front suspension was cool looking too.
My friend Dick Valenzuela has owned his 32 three window for over 50 years. He was/is buddies with Jerry Kugle. Jerry's first product was a kit to put front and rear Jag suspension in hot rods. He gave Dick the drawings and he fabricated his own. They have been in the car for something like 45 years. Even by today's IFS/IRS standards it rides nice and handles like a sports car. As for traditional, it is very appropriate for a 60s era build. And there seems to be a lot of that going on here and now.
Not quite 1960's, but maybe beginning 1970's. I'm pretty sure Kugel was poineering his kits in about 1970. When are we gonna be nostalgic for the 70's? Wide O 50's, earth colors, all the trim and accessories, button tufted naugahide........ As for the original question, how about a quick zinc plate? Cheap and somewhat durable, with some shine to it too.
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