Projects 30 Ford Coupe!! Quite the Mess

flop im sure it will look amazing like the rest of the work you do!

 

Flop,Hey did you find this car in Pittsburgh in a guys back yard under a tarp tent? If so I went and looked at it and passed waaaay beyond my skills...lol..Jim

 

If you can get PB Blaster were you live get some just took out on an a firewall put it on let sit for a day and have at it. Every one of the screws came out.

 

Subscribed!

 

I had a real hard time finding hinges for my A....ended up buying some from bluechipengineering.com. A little pricey but really nice pieces...subscribed to this build. I am in the patch panel process on mine now so I'll be looking forward to it.

 

thanks big creep!!!

chopped is the one you were talking about in every piece you could blow it in to &scattered all about by the ice company? i went and looked at that one the morning it came on clist . it was about 2 mins from my shop i offered the guy 300 dollars . this car came from shaler a friend bought it then i bought it from him for 300 bux .

roger i didnt feel like climbing in the car haha

sumfun i cant find these blue chip people..

 

Here's a link:

http://bluechipeng.com/

 

Kinda Pricey???
1930 - 1931 Ford Model A Door Hinges Full Set SS Pins

 

350 doesnt seem bad for new hinges in my book . one of those thing you cant get around. that means each piece costs around 60 dollars . i know i couldnt make a half a hinge in a little over and hour if i was working at 50 bux an hour ..

 

$350 doesnt seem bad for new hinges in my book . one of those things you cant get around. that means each piece costs around 60 dollars . i know i couldnt make a half a hinge in a little over and hour if i was working at 50 bux an hour ..

 

Flop,ya that's it.kinda like the scare crow in OZ a piece here a piece thrown over there.I talked to the guy before I went and looked at it said it wad "decent" drove an hour with a trailer just incase. I didn't offer anything.did he show you his fiberglass motorcycle fender he made..lol...Jim

 

exact reason i went he said ohh its in decent shape but didnt mention it being in pieces haha !!

he showed me an awesome red chopper in one of the garages






cowl removed looks really weird now!



late 31 truck tank at the top and the 30 tank at the bottom .the little differences are amazing

 

got my firewall back as well . aslot more work then taking it just back to stock .



the mess i gotta work with




cracks behind the rad support brackets . must have been a 30 because it doesnt have the supports behind them.



i dont know what these holes are for but they wont work on the hot rod .

so i shaved them but i didnt cut the reveal out . it had to be one piece before it was pressed soooo.... i put a cut and did some hammer and dolly work and thats an easy way to get it flat again



stock on the left and for the hot rod on the right



mine was a mess from the factory super lumpy in the curve in the middle and press marks every where . still about 47 more holes to fill haha

 

alll kinds of filling in the stock holes and shaving some indents.



takes alot of work to make it not stock haha

1 more heater hole to go

 

got my cowl back from the blasters



of course i had to work on it !!





made a sacrifice to the model a gods in the name of hot rodding



shaving the gas tank seam







still more work to go on the seam but nice to work on my own car for once .

 

started on the passenger side today

before



and after

 

well almost time to get the patches put in

fixed the inner structure tonite

thank god i had one side that i could take some measurements from

not the prettiest but it worked. from right below the bottom hinge bolt to the bottom of the post is 7 and 15/16ths



and the other side



and how it turned out





also got one side of the firewall spotwelded in again !

 

Somebody must have cut out those extensions to get it off the frame instead of cutting the bolts. I've never seen one rot that way.

 

agreed rustynewyorker . there should have been something left there.

got everything to line up with the help of a few cuts




annnd the finished product

 

Looking good!!

 

thanks trucknut !

got the passenger side cowl and gas tank finished up tonight .next lower patches and subframe connectors!!

 

great.

 

this thing is getting less shitty by the day .



re-riveting these rad support brackets really made my day for some reason!

 

I see you left your lip on the cowl, I welded my tank in also and cut my lip off. It was a good thing I saved it because a Model A has a lip like Model A's have visers, they belong on the car, I welded my lip back on. Nice work.

 

i agree with the lip but there are some nice visorless cars!

thanks no6

got some patches from snyders today . i expected them to be the full bottom but nope.

the tig likes those gaps tight!



all welded up



i guess they dont expect people to be fixing super rotten cars . so i had to add this piece



in place



this little piece was the biggest pain of the day took a few attempts to figure out how to make the weird bead shape



and this is it all said and done minus the rivet to the subframe connector

 

Thanks for the evening entertainment, great work as usual

 

WOW.. amazing repairs!!!!!

 

Fantastic workmanship. Another amazing craftsman to admire. You are incredibly skilled.

 

Nice work. You're right...lookin' way less shitty all the time...lol.

I sure learn a lot watching you and others here. Thanks Flop.

 

You're a bad ass