Projects "Fly'nBrian" '34 Roadsterproject.

your right, I didn't see it first glance. My bad.

 

Sold the grill shell! Happy feet! My wife is no longer irritated with me. About that, as for the rest...;-)

 

Happy wife, happy life!

 

More than odd; looks kinda wrongish without the hole, just saying.

 

Thoughts of saving the aged Haartz canvas on the top evaporated as I pulled, or tried to pull, the fabric off the bows intact. It was rotten, but held on by hundreds and hundreds of 1/2 staples and as many tacks. The material had to come off to be trimmed at the rear panels and curtain anyway, owing to the 2" chop (these bows are uncapped). In addition, I want to modify the 2nd bow to drop that part of the top over my head, like Chris's beautiful roadster, so it wouldn't look like a buggy top. So now, the question is, tan canvas, or black? I kinda like the idea of black, on black, on black, it'll make the car look lower and longer with a dark top.

 

Are you putting black guts in it? Then a black top would be perfect. Black car, tan interior, tan top is always classic.

 

tan

 

If you go tan there is a discontinued Haartz color called driftwood that is very cool if you can find it. You may call a few trim shops and see if they have any lying around.

 

Huge thanks to Chris, who's top chop I'm shamelessly copying. His top is perfect, I copied the way the 2nd wood bow is notched to drop down over the irons further. It was surprising how much, I took about 5/8" out of the curve of the bow, which dropped it almost an inch and half. Far enough that the upper mount hole in the bow now lines up with the lower bolt hole in the irons! I was so excited and pleased I mocked up the loft of the top with masking tape. Which also makes me think a tan top is going to look killer. Onward...

 

Use black duct tape on the other side?

 

I almost did before I came in, but I'm tired and hungry!

 

LOL! I did the exact same thing when trying to figure out how I wanted the top on my roadster to look. Only difference is I used the blue painters masking tape. Good to know I am using HAMB approved methods on my build!

 

I painted the steering column and wheel today, made some little stainless brackets for hood supports for the cowl, cleaned up the seat (brown vinyl) that came with the body. I kinda like the seat now that it isn't all splattered with undercoating and overspray. Oh, and broke the damned horn ring on the T'bird wheel. Crap...

 

Seat looks good.

 

Been working again now that the H.A.M.B. IS BACK UP!!! The new horn ring came today, and a box of goodies from Speedway that I haven't opened yet. Early Christmas. ;-)

 

Looks VERY nice. Gota love that steering wheel.

 

I don't know how a rumble seat latch is supposed to look, but this how I did it. My wife asked why I didn't drill the hole BEFORE I painted it, I had no good answer...

 

he, he, he...wives.

 

Just tell her you did it that way cause that's how they do it on tv all the time on those car shows. Beautiful looking car!!! My vote is tan top.

 

My pal Jake turned the Ford hubs down to fit the "good" Buick drums this afternoon, so rushed home and put the wheels on and got the car up on all four. I scored a set of 5 '49 Chevy 15's from him too, so now I just need a pair of 800x15 WW's (I have pair of decent 700x15 WW's now) to make 3 complete sets of wheels and tires for it. Wires and radial black walls, 14" chrome slots and bias belted WW's, and 15" steely's and bias ply WW's. I'm excited !

 

Every girl needs a few pair of shoes to choose from!

 

OHHHH YEA! A different look to suet her mood.

 

Brian's car reminds me a poem I heard once,
I like it in white walls,
I like it in spokes,
But I like everything better-
after a few tokes.

...or something like that, my memory isn't very
Wait, what was I saying?

 

No, no, no, I don't smoke it no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor. No thank-you please, it only makes me sneeze, then it makes it hard to find the door...

 

Brian, you've been busy! The road duster is looking terrific!

 

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.- Jim Morrison

 

I got the (rather clunky) gas pedal and it's cable mounted, so the throttle works. I'm pretty disappointed in myself about the job I did, and with the pedal after installing it. I missed the mark positioning it, ergonomically speaking, and ended up with three "extra" 1/4" holes in the firewall, which I wanted NO holes or wires poking through. In my defense, they're pretty well hidden, and I put some stainless carriage bolts through the holes (after polishing the heads), so they're pretty camouflaged, but I know they're there. The pedal is a clunky aluminum piece from eBay, that was cheap enough, included the cable, but it really looks cheesy. I think I'll get an early 50's Chevy floor hinged pedal and ditch the stupid spoon shaped pad it came with, which lost the little rubber strips even before I got it installed.

Win some, lose some, break even on some.

 

All I can say is please God don’t ever let me be caught quoting Jim Morrison or any Doors lines

 

Totally cool man, I don't remember much of the early 70's either...;-)

 

DUDE! Come on! I was in Paris a few years back with an extra day to spare. My wife (not a fan) cringed when she asked what I wanted to do with that extra afternoon. Pere Lachaise Cemetery was the destination to drop in on Jim... as long as we in town. She admits it was a good day. Before you slip into unconsciousness, take the crystal ship and break on through Blue One!