The cancer was pretty bad in some areas the guy who owned this thing before our customer bought it covered things with alot of bondo and other items
You got to love a customer that likes to work backwards. I had a 54 F-100 customer that way too. One thing leads to another. BTW, the wiring in that car and this 54 i did must have been done by the same guy! What a mess...
NO Shit!!!! a Rat's nest..... it's all been rewired we put a Haywire kit in his and now has power everything....
1. Side shot of the cover 2. All welded up and smoothed 3. Shot of the body work and surprise,surprise more ROT!!! 4. The rear valance was full of bondo 5. New valance in 6. All smoothed out 7. All taped up ready for primer
1. All in primer 2. All cut in and sanded ready for the final paint... 3. Finally in black waiting for it to "Flatten" The paint is Vansickle implement paint found at Hirsch farm supply the customer wanted something cheap due to the fact he lives on a nasty dirt road "drives 2 miles to get to highway" 4. Starting final assembly 5. Trim goes on and hood fitment 6. Shot of engine bay 7. Quick shot of dash
The Old's motor is sitting on the shop floor waiting for someone to buy her!!!! if anyone is interested send me a PM just for reference it is a small block 2bbl run's like a champ and gets about 18mpg!! Mark
1. Ok the final product after final assembly After driving the car this thing was a handful to drive!!! after tacking some measurements we found the front end was welded on 1 1/2 inches out of square! ( we did not take the body off per customer request) so back to the drawing board we went the front stub (nova) out of square and the leaf springs etc. (nova) were too long for the frame and were at the wrong angle and caused the suspension to be nonexistant we fist cut the old stub off and started with 2x4 tube for our own stub and a MII for the crossmember. 2. here is 3 pics of the old stub after we cut it off
1. The driver's side 2. Passenger side you can tell the distance between the walls it was off when we measured from firewall to a location on the old stub it was out 1 1/2 3. The new stub extensions all tacked into place. Dad used his CAD program to get the correct angles and such and made a template to use to get them dead nuts... 4. Shot of the drivers side and it was welded in and also boxed for stiffness.. 5. This was a relief area that we cut out to clear the coilovers 6. All smoothed out and top hat welded in.. 7. Shot of top hat and member welded up
Thank's to fellow H.A.M.Ber Fordsbyjay! i was able to finally post fullsize pics!! Here is a shot of the crossmember fully welded
In this pic you may notice the extra braces in to prevent the crossmember from rolling or twisting under hard braking.. This shot we were mocking up and taking our final measurements to ensure being sqaure And here is the new stub all welded in and ready for primer Here is a shot of the motor mounts welded in All primered Finally painted!!
I wanted to just through a few pics of another customer's car in... It's a 41 The lower dash panel was hand fabbed by me as well as the "turning" if anyone notices it has a 41 ford steering wheel and a late model chevy column..went through hell getting it to work This was a shot of the custom pedals i fabbed and drilled for him And finally a radiator cover i also made and "turned"
Ok a quick shot of the front end all assembled and motor back home! Mocking up for coilovers Coilovers all in
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