Projects Build- 1953 Ford Customline - The Faraday Roadster

This is the perimeter tubing done. I had to use exhaust mandrel on the tightest bend.

 

Front bumper and splash pan welded in.

 

Frenched headlight.

 

Is this the ground scraping silver Ford at BTT50's. The one that had no visable gauges or seams and looked like a low large pedal car?

 

Filling the gap in my hood.

 

My front fenders and hood are all welded to the body.

 

The grill area is blocked off and I have front body mounts near there. A majority of the wok on this car is where it will never be seen.

 

Filled a little in my wing window area.

 

My firewall is flat, square and way farther back than is normal.

 

Yes, I live in Minnesota and yes, I worked on this car in all weather.

 

Wow.........I mean wow......lots of work....and probably the only one like it you will ever see. It reminds me of something from a Pixar movie or something from a 50's Sci fi flick. Very interesting

 

February of 2013. I started putting a lot of sheet metal into my interior.

 

Filled the gap in my rear deck.

 

Filled the gas door.

 

Skirts welded in.

 

I didn't keep much of the dash.

 

Floor, firewall and kick panels.

 

My dash doesn't have a lot of stuff going on anymore.

 

My buddy, Beau helped me make this 10 inch wheel with his Harbor Freight tubing roller.

 

I narrowed the rear bumper a couple inches so it would fit tight up against the body. Then I made holes for the exhaust.

 

Awesome build, and the finished car really drew a crowd at BTT50's! It was so smooth everyone thought it was a fiberglass replica.

 

I took a '51 grill and built some pieces to mold it to the body. This part of the car started as an enormous rust hole.

 

The bottom lip of the trunk lid needed some rust repair.

 

This is mt intermediate steering shaft. I built it from scratch with some very primitive machining techniques. It is nearly 3 feet long and sits in the car totally horizontal.

 

Wow! I admire what you are doing, a lot of very creative work.

 

Sorry, I take back what I said earlier, obviously you've had a vision all along. Talk about thinkin' outa the box. Incredible desire to take on such a task.

 

I wanna see more! This is some interesting work!

 

This is part of my steering, there are 3 sets of u-joints. It works surprisingly well. No slop.

 

I recessed my licence plate into the trunk lid. It is also the latch for my trunk.

 

May 2013. Most of the metal work on the body is done.