Ballarat swap meet done and dusted! Had a few non payers which I dragged parts over for which will be the last time I do that without payment first. Kinda wrecked my trip. Super frustrating! Got a couple of what I'd consider to be nice items. A couple of original 32 caps for the roadster was a nice score for $10 each. Lower hoses I also needed for the roadster and they were $10 the pair. Improved A parts are for a future project...
It was by far the roughest part of the roadster. This photo is after I went over it with a pick hammer to find the thin spots, it was basically held together with paint on the top... must have held some water when it sat upside down for 40+ years on the farm!
I dragged some junk out of the shed to make some space... holy hell, what a distraction! I want to build them all! I had to give the 31 scraps a hair cut while it was down from the shed wall! Now I've got that out of my system back to the roadster. It's hard to avoid having a line up of cars I'd really like to own and drive!
Glad to see your back at it. Always amazed by all the good shit you find around your place and your scores at the swap meets. Seems like all the good stuff around my neck of the woods was collected during the WW2 scrap drives. Every now and then I do find some parts at decent prices at the Swap Meets; Puyallup, Spokane, and Kennewick. Have noticed that prices here in the Northwest are rising, but still cheaper than Southern Cal. Maybe the popularity of AV8 projects are driving up the prices. Always thankful for my small stash but like everyone else, always looking for more treasure to bring home. Seems like more and more projects are appearing here in the HAMB that we would have passed over a few years ago because they were to far gone. But now with scarcity and prices being the motivator, we're all getting handier with metal work. Really like how your '32 is shaping up and it looks like you've got some good Model A projects waiting their turn.
Doing some light filling and sanding today, and playing with this twisted deck lid I have. Got squashed in transit and has had some questionable repairs. Getting the radius to match the quarters.
Not a bad view from the beer fridge . Fridge is the first electric fridge my grandparents had, still going strong!
I had a fridge like that... paid $25 for it, used it as my only fridge for over 25 years... couldn't get a relay it needed... gave it to a buddy to store bondo, spray bomb, solvent, in...
That fridge is HAMB relevant... Kelvinator I believe had its DNA origins with the Crosley or Kaiser car companies. Regarding beers, I was told by a dad of one of ,y students who owned 8 pubs is that the reason they export Fosters is that no one in Oz will drink it. True?
On a tin hunt quite a while ago I dragged out a 1933 Graham rear panel... pretty sure it was 33. Anyway I sold the badge for ok money and saved the tail lights and sheet metal they mounted to. The mounting points are the same diameter as the pontiac lights I'll be using and will make a good recessed cavity to level the tail lights out, and make them look like they belong there. I plan to reverse the mounts from original. I've put them in a citric acid bath I'm running at the moment so they'll come out all clean ready to weld, in a few days !
Why not do something different and use those cups to mount the Pontiac lights proud of the tail panel instead of recessing them? Just an idea...
I did consider that idea. My thoughts are along the lines of subtlety. Making them sit proud could make too much of a feature. Less is more? I'll do some mocking up when they come out of the citric bath.
That's what I told the fellas I worked with when I lived in England for a year! We don't drink fosters, just export it☺.
After thinking long and hard about my plans to steel out these original doors, I've had second thoughts. I had some Tasmanian oak in the shed left over from the vanity I built for my sister. Whipped up a basic inner structure to see how functional it will be, and I think I'll stick with it! I'll put in some corner bracing to keep it square and stop any sagging.
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