It’s a masterpiece too. I remember the shape it was in when you started on it. A testament to your skill! Lookin good!
Thanks it’s sits low with flattened rear crossmember. Front is 4 inch drop axle with reverse eye spring.
Neat sedan you have there. Chop looks great. Did you lean the A posts back? Can we see a picture from the front?
A chopped '34 Ford sedan covered with dust from driving on dirt roads is a sign of the owner using the cra and not sitting in the garage, looks great! HRP
A gorgeous car. Our generation are not too good at identifying the hot cars or the newer generations. Gone are the days when my brother and I would play a game on a family trip identifying on coming cars before the other. All the makes and models were clearly easy to identify at distance. These days if its not a Mercedes or a BMW they all look the same. For those who do appreciate your car we really do appreciate the car and the quality of work you have done. I checked out your profile and looked up your build threads. They are nothing but spectacular and speak loudly to your abilities. I think we all have admiration for a job well done. It takes immense mental strength to to take it from its humble beginning and stick it out through all the hard times to see it done. My friends and I built a 4 seat Bearhawk from scratch to flying. The aluminum started out as a pile of aluminum sheets and after hand forming hundreds of parts created the wings. It took years to build a great airplane and when people look at it is all they see is an airplane. Looking at it does not show what it took to create it and only one airplane builder locally appreciates it for what it is. I don't know what the success rate is for a lot of people that start to build a car that actually will see through to the end but I know you are in a small percent of builders. Only 10% of scratch airplane builders actually complete their airplane. Congratulations.
When I have my 34 5 window out, people ask " what year is it" or just "what is it ?" I ask them if they have seen the movie Bonnie & Clyde. Their car was a 4 door with a few more bullet holes. Then we have a conversation about old cars.
I'm building any early style custom out of a combo of 38, 39 and 40 sedan body parts. That's fine. Then the custom work. Trouble is, no one will even know what any of those cars looked like to begin with, let alone have any clue about the custom work. I could just tell them it's a restoration of a 1939 Ford sedan and they would be satisfied without batting an eyelid. Left to their own devices they would guess VW (happened before with my 39 coupe) or worse, a PT Cruiser.
My brother has a custom license plate frame...it says, "Gary's 1939 Willys...not a PT Cruizer"...he got tired of fielding the question.
Even the Bonnie and Clyde reference isn't much help. That movie is over 50 years old. The actual event much older.
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