been working on this car for a while so decided to post this one now that i am getting back to it well i was building this car for a guy a couple years ago and he got in over his head, and i ended up with it after everything was said and done. then sold it the current owner first time around i was going to run a jag. v12 had the frame all set up for it. it was going to be on air front and rear.. the new owner wants low with no air ride, small block with a muncie.. so pretty much started over. cut the front rails off. made some new tapered front rails, new rear end. kind of getting ahead of myself on the build. i am working on the floor skeleton while i wait on parts to show up . here is where i am now tapering the front frame rails, new rails on the old frame and the start of the floor
mock up motor in and trans in. just need to finish fabing the mounts. works some more on the floor as well got the motor mounts mocked up...i am kinda going for the look of the mounts looking like i used part of an i beam axle, and the hole to follow the rest of the gussets and brackets trans mount all fabbed up and the front suspension mostly mocked up. just need to get the tie rods in some carbs thrown on the intake, spindles, hubs and wheels. got one side of the wishbones mounted through the frame, there will be a removable recessed cover to access the tie rod nut and cotter pin.
cut access holes in the frame to get to the nuts and cotter pins for the tie rod ends, on the wish bones. welded some tabs i drilled and tapped to hold a flush mount cover on, used some allen machine screws. body back on and mounts made for the air compressor and tank ride height aired out rear tire up above the bottom of the rear side window
passenger cowl panel i made, removed the wood track on the roof, made roof bows out of 1x1 that are arced like the originals finished up the rear of the roof structure, fabbed and installed the driver side lower cowl panel, then rolled it out side in between rain showers to get a good look of it with the hood
half of the roof skin louvered, still needs some final finesse but looks killer. also started welding some 1/4 round around the hole in the hood to give a more finished edge finished louvering the roof.over 600 . and whipped up a grill shell insert for it. finally getting back on this car, the owner bought a new house and the car was put on hold for a while. started working on the floor
cardboard templates for the floor fitting the sheet metal access hole to get to the body mount bolt, and made the cover for it started forming the rear section of tunnel
today i worked on the floor some more. first i made a cover plate to cover the access hole used to get to the air management system from inside the car if ever need to. started on the center sections of the floor, and made a nice little sill plate area to dress it up a bit
What gauge of sheet metal did you use to make your roof insert? And is that a 2 !/2 dye? I've got a 28 sedan roof to do, and I like your layout.
worked on the steering a bit on this car, started with a volkswagon bus steering box. the sector shaft was about 3 inches to short for cowl steering. so i took the sector shaft out of an f1 box, which is the same OD as the volks shaft. machined the f1 shaft down to get the correct length when added to the volks shaft, with a shank to be pressed into the hole i bored into the volks shaft to keep everything aligned. machined the volks shaft down and bored the hole, pressed the two shafts together, tig welded it up, and machined it smooth. and viola you have a nice cool looking box that will work perfectly for cowl steering. and it takes an f1 pitman arm which is longer than the volks didnt take a before pic, but here is one of the style box form the web volks shaft volks shaft, with the machined f1 shaft got carried away and didnt get any pics of the shaft during pressing, welding, re machining, and pre assembly box done
The work is first-rate and I know you're building what the customer wants and I think he'll be very happy, but, personally... I like the shape of the one in the background better. (and no, I don't mean the Merkur/Sierra, though these days in the US it's probably rarer than an A anyway...)
worked some more on mounting the steering. made another bracket to to help support the box, it has some 1.5 inch spacers to allow room for box clearance, and bolts at the top to allow for easy removal bolted up to the box for the first visual all the holes drilled and bolted together, there is an access hole to get to the steering box adjustment screw
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