The Jalopy Journal
There it is! Never heard of Falcon Knight before. Thanks a bunch for the info! Now I'm off to try and find the rest of the car.
So I dug this grill shell out of an old trash heap and I was curious to what it might be. I've done plenty of searching through google images of...
Then the body. Used a brush to paint the inside and the bottom because I learned from my mistakes :) [ATTACH] Then I loaded it in a pickup and...
Then was the fun part, time to make things fancy. Engine went gold, chassis went black. Made one hell of a mess painting the chassis...
As you can see on the above pictures, I cannibalized some original 1950 exhaust manifolds to make junk headers. I mostly made them to check...
I've been plugging away at the roadster far more than my sedan, summer is almost here for convertible season! The pitman arm was touching the...
Thanks for the tip. Is there anything specific that has to be done before/ during break in? I've heard special oil to help break in the cam and an...
My goal is to have the little RPU running first, just in time for summer. The sedan will follow shortly after, so it may go without updates for a...
I had a few days off work so I hooked up a 4 link suspension system to keep the 9" in line. Having the body separate from the frame was taking up...
Some tires showed up! Running firestone 6.40-15s up front and 8.20-15 in the rear. Wide whites of course! We decided to get big tires on the rear...
Thanks for the picture and info! I've been puzzling and puzzling now my puzzler is sore, with this new found info I'll puzzle some more!
My apologies, I haven't been active here for a while, so all my progress seems to be packed in bunches. Below the door on the ex-phaeton was an...
Put the body back on and managed to get my hands on a 1950 ford f-1 steering box. Upon further research I found most people shorten the sector...
Next thing up on the list was getting the engine/trans mounted. I bought a sheet of 1/8" sheet metal and plasma cut my pre made template out x4....
Haha that's funny, car parts seem to come out of the most unusual places. Good guess, yes, central Alberta to be specific. I always found the...
Lots of trucks in his collection! And apparently he has a 51 monarch somewhere, but I didnt get to see it. Unfortunately this is the kind of guy...
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Just keeps getting better and better. Great find! following along
I did a bit of body work on the convertible but it was getting a little tricky to see the high and low spots so I scooted to the next city over to...
Thanks guys! I was a little skeptical at first of how it might turn out but I'm really happy with the finished product. Dash pics next post!...
A couple months back at a swap meet I saw a real old wooden steering wheel, sitting with an equally old guy. He seemed pretty excited with this...
No unfortunately the other piece was missing when I got the car, so I had to make do with this one. I'll keep my eyes open if you're looking for one!
It seems to me that the history is never truly lost until there is no one left to care. Maybe the record holder is pushing up daises, but the kid...
Thanks for all the support, guys. Its greatly appreciated! At this point I was tired of looking at rust all the time so I rolled it outside and...
Back to the sedan! I ordered bear claw latches because the original latches were no longer existent. But the doors weren't swinging yet so I had...
My apologies, been away from the computer for quite some time. The engine is a v8, only sliced half the plastic open for pictures. Within a few...
Then got distracted once again, the phaeton's firewall was quite ugly. The rest of the car looked pretty decent so this was bugging me. [ATTACH]...
The sedan was getting a little jealous of all the attention I was giving to the convertible, so I decided to even it up. I used the same method of...
Back in the RPU department, we sent the 8BA to the machine shop to check it all out for cracks and what not, so I decided to try to teach myself a...
Roughly Mid October 2014 I was working with a construction company building a shop waay out in the boonies, overlooking a coulee. It just so...
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