The Jalopy Journal
It's close but I feel like I have enough space. For how short the driveshaft is gonna be I don't expect to much deflection. [ATTACH]
Couple of minor tweaks and I fully modeled up the torque arm to get cut out of 3/8 plate[ATTACH] My plan was to use a chunk of an extra '40...
With the body on I could finally see how much room I'd have to the floor for the rear suspension. I'm 6'2 and I'm trying to keep as much space...
The kids had asked to bring the racecar for their trunk or treat at school. Not gonna say no to that. While I had the car on the trailer I decided...
So I still need to go back and fix all my photos. Kind of a bummer. But here's an update from the last year. For a quick departure from the...
Heres the rail my club the SuspectS built for TROG in 2021 named "Suspect Device.[IMG] And its current version from last year[IMG]
I cropped this out of one of the pics Xander Cesari took of my clubs TROG railjob back in 2021[ATTACH]
Yeah I noticed that. I'm going to have to go back and try and reload a bunch of pictures. Thanks for following along
Got a little sidetracked with Detroit Autorama, Cavalcade of Cars Old School review, and a bunch of family stuff lately. Im trying to get My 64...
I made a fun side project with the spring perches from the axle bells. I really dont have anywhere to store my air tools so I cut some notches...
So I kind of already showed it in the last post but I had @GearheadsQCE narrow down a Goldtrak diff and the '40 bells to work with his champ...
This is one of the ones Im most proud of. My 8yr old daughter started playing guitar two years ago and she really wanted me to stripe her guitar....
One of the challenges I've come across while building this frame is really the lack of reference points to work with. I'm sure if I had some more...
I spent a minute modeling up what I wanted the final design to be for the center section of the crossmember and sent it over to my friend to cut...
Oh man thats a bummer! yeah luckily my dad had a big piece of property to stash it out of the way though he was glad when I finally came to pick...
Even though I had spent all the time on the center crossmember pods?, bolsters? idk what to call them. I really wasnt happy with how they had...
There was a guy here on the HAMB (F6Garagerat) Who built a bitchin Model A pick up a while ago. He ended up using one of these Rock ends to mount...
Painted this for my clubs TROG car at last year's Detroit Autorama [ATTACH]
They turned out ok but I had to put more patches into them than I wanted. Plus having to clean up all the welds on the inside was gonna suck....
[ATTACH][ATTACH]Friend of mine had picked up a '36 truck that he just wanted the flathead out of so I started pulling the rest of the parts off of...
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used the flat on my frame table to secure the rails as I tacked the tapers in this time to prevent the same warpage I had before. Also picked up a...
Around this time I managed to find one of the things I had thrown away when I was younger. The Fordor seats are a lot harder to come by than I had...
Since the frame was going to be a bit longer than the race car I cut the frame table apart and rebuilt it. I also raised it up enough so I could...
Soooo that brings us up to last year. With the race car done I really wanted to buckle down on the '31. I turn 38 this year. Ive already missed...
So end of 2019 I had a bit of a side track. A friend of mine announced that he was gonna put on a vintage drag race at a local airport in 2020....
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So in 2018 I moved again and started setting up a legit garage that I could build out of. Picked up a 1964 Oldsmobile Jetstar 88 for a new daily...
@A Boner this frame ended up getting scrapped. The current frame I'm building has a much cleaner wishbone setup.
These pics Ive shared here before. i borrowed a set of wheels from a friend just to get a mock up of the car after the chop. 7.50x16 rears and...
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