a bit of a hiatus today. Waiting for a lower rad hose to arrive tomorrow so I can close the book on that project. the Hollywoods have arrived as have the tires and dummy spots. tomorrow it's back on the eyeballs to complete them to primer. then it's onto filling in the hood, then doors. The ugly news is the tranny leak wasn' a gasket, it' coming from the cover in front of the tranny. I'm fearing the torque converter seal is pootched. if that' the case, up in the air it goes. sigh...
Those lights look great. I was shopping for '41 ford , ended up with '41 IHC The '41 of all makes shared similar front end sheet metal. '33 ford bumpers suit these front ends.
I bought a beautiful 41 ford coupe barn find a few years back. A beautiful runner that I intended to chop. When I got it home I put fresh tires on it, skirts, real spots and shackled the buggy springs to lower it. I loved that car, too much to chop it. Drove the bag of it for a summer before it went to Germany. It was a mid production year car with 3 piece front fenders and the soybean fiberglass trunk lid. Henry had a good idea of incororating ford agriculture with ford automotive but it never flew. It did save steel for the war effort though. This old girl though is a prime candidate for chopping. Not a potential for back to stock restoration by any means. Oh, and the paint, well there's another story. I suspect it was enamel shot with lacqer thinner so it' got to come off. The old," solid old paint is the best base" analogy don't apply here. For summer it'll be 4 tone while it gets some road time. Have a look through my photo album for a lot of the cars that have come and gone just since I joined HAMB. Not all are hamb approved but have been a blast none the less. Iv'e been asked why I don't keep any of them and it's a simple answer. I love building. I'd ove to build and keep one for years, drive it everywhere, head to viva and other huge shows but I cant. My wife' disability is keeping me closer to home every year so I build them to a point where I need others intervention and let them go. I can't do exhaust, I best not do electrical, I shouldn't attempt interiors and water base painting isn' for me. That comes to my plan for this one. I' ready to settle down to a final build that I can take to a gated community when we sell our digs in the next couple years. A little fat bottom chebby will fit nicely in one of those cramped 2 car garages and make a great grocery getter.
[QUOTE="Lono, post: 12509556, member: 33062" Guess I'm going to have to start thinking of end paint colour long before I actually need it. View attachment 3855771 [/QUOTE] Black is always nice! But I keep seeing it in this krazy Magenta. (Must be the '59 Pontiac tail lights you mentioned. )
Black is always nice! But I keep seeing it in this krazy Magenta. (Must be the '59 Pontiac tail lights you mentioned. ) [/QUOTE] you are very close to dead on Mo.
Oh, man is that sweet. I miss the drip rail from the roofline but the rest is Mona Lisa! Interesting that it's another right hand drive.
I think I'll update with some green shag. Back up lights...back up camera... led marker lights; yeah baby we're rockin out.
Man....the more I look at those headlights the more I want them! Lol. I like what you are doing with the hood.
I thought the round went with car also I even changed the signal lights in front to round. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I love the frustration of buying parts off HAMB and the vendor not sending everything they offered in the picture. I hope he comes clean or guarantee, I'll be posting his name and the full message thread to warn others in the future. Nothing pisses me off more than this kind of bull shit.
no, I just don' like them in real life. looks as pretty as a 59 ford read end and that looks like ford hit the jcwhiteny catalog. I like the round lights but think I'll go another path to be revealed later.
I'm torn over doing door poppers or not. very tempted to keep the handles and locks. I've had shaved doors with vent Windows, shaved doors with choke cable releases... after the hood and door trim is welded up I'll need a plan.
Today' the day to turn mechanical. Need to get jiggy with the motor and see if the little 305 can be made to run smooth. It' got a new eddlbrock on it, new wires so there' been some intervention going on. If it' good, can be made to purr she stays (and the tranny gets dropped to fix the torque converter leak ), if not a 350 crate is lurking to go in its place.
bonus day. found vacuum leaks and a crappy edlbrock carb as the big issue. converting to a quadrajet asap. it was running like it had a lumpy cam, now mellowed out. wet dry compression test showed 160 to 165 across the board. also swapped out to old school spark plugs... running great. sure nice when all turns good at the end of the day.
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