The Jalopy Journal
We do a few long trips every season , we have always some roadside repairs , loose fender, ignition , broken gas pedal cable , stuck brakes...
Things will be slow for the time coming , last Friday night a fire that started at the neighbor destroyed my shop. I was able to save the coupe ,...
I took it al of and did it over but now with faced paint and primer showing. [ATTACH]
Not everyone is gonna like this but i do . No i don’t own a shop and this is not a real barnfind or survivor but had to try some logo and fauxtina...
Assembly time ! [ATTACH]
Painting without a paint booth in a dusty shop …… what can possibly go wrong Glad it is satin paint [ATTACH]
Fender fitment check , had to roll it outside to check the lines. Happy how it turned out, now some final tweaking and get it ready for paint....
Door panels also black now. [ATTACH]
Now what are you going to do with the sun visor? You know that they are “not cool” as we all learned on another thread. LOL I like the sun...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Final layer filler ,tomorrow last time sanding before paint.
Bench in black , not completely dry yet but I like it. [ATTACH]
Wanna go with a full black interior but my bench seat and door panels are too nice to not use it. I colored leather before but on the bottom of...
Shot some filler , looking good but still a million spots that need some attention ...... in the end it is al worth it they say:( [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
In between bodywork started to make some interior panels that will get upholstered. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Hope to have it ready for primer and final sanding by the end of the week . also gotta start to make some interior panels. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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I bougth a 168 tooth flywheel and test fitted the flywheel and adapter that I kept in storage for years. [ATTACH] I could not find a 51 borg...
Bought a 283( I know chevy in a ford ) that I will put in with a adapter to mate it with the stock trans and driveline. Will get nice valve covers...
Didn't had much time to work on it last summer but we are back at it ! Close to finish the welding ,chasing pinholes and fight oil canning and a...
I guess it is shrinking a bit but still the best forum. In The Netherlands we used to have a pre 66 forum and some us car fora but they are gone...
Working on this fordor to coupe conversion. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Had to do the panel between trunk and rear window over since it didn't look right, I used parts of the old roof but it had too much crown. A made...
Love how jou use the parts that another would pass ,for us on this side of the ocean that's what we have to do. great build !
Filled the quarters using the rear door skin, starting to look like a coupe. [ATTACH]
Panel above decklid filled using roof parts. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I will make new rain gutters out of round bar .
Spent a whole day to square things up and to get left and right side the same. Now filling in the pieces using parts of the Fordor roof. Tomorrow...
Flattened the roof to get the roofline how i like it. [ATTACH]
I only know that long door coupe and fordor quarter windows are the same. The coupe parts i have are from a long door coupe. Business coupe...
The quarter windows are exactly the same
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