The Jalopy Journal
Thats funny that I've posted a bunch of pictures but not really a good side of the roof. The only one was at a 3/4 angle. Most of the shots are...
So to catch up with the build a little. I have done the following over the past few months. Rear Roll pan...great piece from EMS, but remember...
Don't worry man...its all about learning. I have the equipment to do my own rolled fender wells...but for my plans, I'll be finishing them out...
Working on a mold from the original window, going to have it formed by either a company in town or ship it out.
Its roomier than it looks...I had a buddy get in the driver seat to check and he's 6'5"...he fit, couldn't see out the window but he fit :cool:...
Well...I've been horrible about posting for the last 4 months. The summer in Indiana was the driest and hottest that I can remember, garage work...
Wide Whites are going to cost me $800...I bought the mockups for $100! There won't be any WWW until its finished because if I'm spending...
Jiging??? It was really just from the hip on jiging.<O:p</O:p <O:p</O:p 1. We found the spot on the 50 frame that was a) closest to the width of...
Car was missing all of the inner fender pieces and the original owner used some angle iron and flatsheet. It wasn't going to give me a clean look...
Well...its Friday and I have a little time at work :) So here are some new pictures. So earlier I showed the terrible channel & floor ORIGINAL:...
I like that setup. The mounts were in pretty bad shape from the previous owner so cutting was safer. So you are flush mounting the front or...
So once the suspension was figured out and mocked up completely it was time to put the body back on and start to put it all together. The S10...
1@1 I wanted it low and I wanted to have options...so I've used a bunch of different rims for mock up. I've used 15" with 75 series, 18"...
Thanks again for the words of encouragement. If anyone has every watched back from the dead II or any interview with Ian Roussel, he talks about...
Now back to story line :p Frame was notched, needed to get the rear done! Built my own 4 link, diff plate (by my man Craig), had to have some...
Doubts??? I have doubts everytime I'm out there with Louise...normally about half way through whatever I'm working on :D I'm trying to keep the...
Big A...I appreciate the support on my build and I'm loving the why yours is shaping up...and I'm going to pay you a HUGE compliment and copy your...
Thanks for the good words...but honestly I wouldn't have been able to learn from the others. I looked at a ton of them...they all had too similar...
Sorry about the Red Xs...I guess I messed up! I started organizing my Photobucket account after I posted them here...I'll fix now!
After the front was plated it was time to start on the air ride. Since this wasn't a bolt on rear end, it took a few different mockups for it to...
Speaking of the frame...I am building this to drive a lot! I have 3 small kids that will be in it, so I wanted it to be solid and easy to...
Like I said...the floor was shot and one night I was look through old pictures of projects, thats when I came up with the idea of doing a laddered...
I originally had a 4" channel but it was terrible! Sounded like a soda can when you got inside. The floor ended up being unsalvagable...so when...
Thanks! Those pictures are actually close to 2the yrs old. I'm trying to get more posted but I'm trying to keep to the timeline.
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I wanted as much of the original car used...so I practice recycling! I use as much of the cut out metal as I can...and it fits so well, especially...
So thanks to Craigslist and my wife being cool enough to drive 250 miles round trip on "date night"...I found a solution! I bought a 49 Tudor...
First attemp at the roof was a little tough...there was a lot of gapping between the pieces of the roof. The chop is a 5" chop at all three...
Lets cut the roof off...thats the easy part! It took 2.5 attempts to get it correct :) [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] It was...
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