Projects 59 chevy wagon in progress

Your detail is work is astounding Cody!!!Top notch as always.

 

Monday update time again , this past week has been kinda fustrating , it seem like im getting no where , everything is fighting me or seting me back , i did get some more of my chrome back, but in shipping some of the stuff got dented up and my horn ring was broken , the horn ring was comming back unplated any ways because when i welded the two horn ring together to make the one i welded it with aluminum welding rod (it welded fine) an i fugared they could plate it ,but appentarly it was diecast and plating aluminum is a different process than diecast and i didnt know it coulnt be done,well with it broke now,time to just start over , i just found another 64 pontiac horn ring and i cut the top part off the broken one so i can weld them up with a zinc rod and it will be good as new . also i did manage to put on the talegate straps and strikers .
these are ready to be chromed


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i was really happy with the way this turned out


heres whats left of the horn rings im just re-using the part on the right

 

thanks

thank you

your welcome

thanks againg jay ill email it to you soon

thank you

thanks

 

Tuff brake on the horn ring, other stuff looks nice...Jim

 

so today i spent the hole day working on the last bit of parts to send out to chrome plater josh and the crew a custom metal finishing to be chromed


the new horn ring and the piece from the old one before i welded them up with the correct rod this time .





all welded up and smoothed down


just a random shot of the wagon

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shit happens , live and learn and i learned on this one jim , thanks

 

Very neat build thanks for sharing.

Dave

 

Horn ring looks great, and that random shot looks b!tchin...Jim

 

I keep finding myself staring at pictures of this wagon... God, I love this thing.

 

It was a pleasure meeting you Cody.

 

Thanks guys

 

No Monday updates today , I'm on vacation with my family Down in Florida , I went yesterday an meet up with Nads and his family and had an amazing time , what great people , ill post pictures once I get back to good ol Delaware ,

 

It was a pleasure meeting you and your family as well nads , I had a great time and thank you for taking you time out of your day to show me all of your amazing cars

 

Enjoy the vacation, and the warm weather...Jim

 

Cody, I am curious about you welding up the potmetal horn ring...guess I missed it the first time you did it. I have a mirror base in my Merc I would love shortened about 1.5-2 inches. If were to get it all figured out, would you be willing to let me ship it to you and have you cut it and reweld it for me so it would be ready for me to send to Josh for rechroming?

 

thanks Jim will do

Dave the horn ring was die cast But anyway I welded it up with a muggy welding rod , I tried it by torch welding it and I had trouble with it , so I just tig welded it up with that muggy rod , it was quite a pain in the ass but I got it to work , I'm not sure if to work work on pot metal or not
But I would love to give it a shot the only problem is trying to find the time to do it but maby after I get the wagon done .

 

I was going through your thread, looking for these pictures. I have to make similar pieces for this 60 project. I have to get creative to shape things. Great work as always!

 

Nice color......good job

 

cool, yah it shounldnt be that bad if you make them in a couple of peices jj , i cant wait to see how yours turns out .thnks btw

thank you

 

Cool beans. I am in no hurry at all. I just saw that you had done that to your horn ring and thought, "hmmm, wonder if my mirror stem could be chopped down and shortened a little bit."

 

That is single-handedly the absolute coolest mod I have ever seen.

"Yes officer, that is my engine. My name is right there on the block."

 

cool yah ill give it a shot once I finish the wagon

thanks ,I pretty much stamped everything I could ,

 

Details... my god, all the details...The hours you must have into this thing! Its brilliant.

 

Thanks , yah I stopped counting the hours a long time ago lol but yes it's a lot

 

Hey Cody been a while, just checking on you. Great work the wag looks awesome. The linkage is pretty slick, amazing details. Merry Christmas.

 

thanks

 

sorry guys that there really hasnt been any kind of updates latley , i was on vacation an then the holidays , an trying to make up for the time i was off, i did manage to squees in a little time the other night on the spark plug tube but thats about it






now to the good part while i was down on vacation i did manage to swing by nads place , and let me tell you , nads and his family are great bunch of people , i must have hung out over there for 4 hours and just chitchatte and he showed me his car collection ,we just clicked and i had an amazing time , he also took me for a ride in his killer elky and then i was on my way . so here's some artsy pic of my adventure over to nads .





he was working on the caddy when i pulled up

 

You've got Gomez in your lap, that dog loves car rides

 

Where did you get the spark plug tube? Do they make reproductions? Wonder if you can get those for V8's?