Model A Sport Coupe Project for the wife

shes home...had to bolt my tail lights on quick..ha

it's balls to the wall this weekend. Hopefully by Sunday night I'll have it on the frame with the doors hung

 

I can't wait to see that in person! So did you get the house down the street?

 

I had the opportunity to see it up close and it is awesome! I can't believe it's the same body you dragged home from the Grove. Some killer body work and really,really sweet paint and buff. Get boltin'!

 

Go man go!!!

 

Body gets dropped on tomorrow...I'm rounding up the troops tonight.

I spent the afternoon going over the rear suspension and E brake setup to make sure everything is tight. Much easier to do it now then laying on my back underneath it when the body is on. Greased my tie rods and went to the hardware store to get bolts to bolt it down.

 

Got the body on this afternoon and hung the doors...Thanks to Buddy Palumbo, Little Marie, and JerseyMike for coming over to help.






















layed the top and visor on for a pic...couldn't help it. The top will have more of a crown in the front once I put the wood bows in...but wanted to see what it looked like on the body. When bolted down it will also come down and forward slightly..i'll probably pad and upholster the top in white next year.

Making progress.....

 

I like the top ... makes a sport coupe into a 3 window model A

 

Nice job. Love the top, too. Will it be a semi-permanent deal or perhaps easily removable for sunny days? Gary

 

One word, Jerry.......................*tits*...............

CB

 

Hey - Does this mean that Don can finally paint my car soon?

 

Yeah, baby!!

 

Awesome!

 

Looks great,now turn the frogmouths around LOL

 

good looking

 

ditto!

looks good hope to see it soon

 

Real tough man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Nice!

 

Nice top.

I'm going to use a removable fiberglass top on my roadster pickup and I am thinking of using black roll on bed liner to make it look kind of like fabric.

You do very fine work.

Dick
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Great job Jer. I can't wait to see it on the road
Those 6 x 2's are just thirsting for $5.00 gas!.............Woody

 

I'm giving that my vote for best hot rod sport coupe i have seen in my quick 28 years here...

 

Ahhh the little helpers! Makes garage time so much more fun when they're out there asking questions and trying to help!

The SC is looking great!

 

I love sport coupes even more now.Fantastic!!.

 

boy you didn't waste anytime getting that roof on! cars looking really good. that body came a long way in a short time. can't wait to see it covered in mud next month at the showdown!

 

It comes right off ..held on with about 10 bolts

..ha...I like forward..check out Norm Grabowski's T's throughout the late 50's...all facing forward..I dig that look

Geez.thanks



Had a little time tonight ..got my windshield back from my glass guy and hung it.

 

Sumbitch !!!!!....that is sweeeet.

 

Spent today doing a bunch of small things. Made the radiator support rods from some round stock, mounted my fuse box and dimmer switch, adjusted my doors again, painted my battery box, bolted the cowl down with some new hardwarde, added mounting screws for the windshield, and started putting a plan together to mount my headlight switch and ignition switch.

It's the little shit that takes so much time

 

Won't be long now!

(that's what the cat said when it got its tail caught in the door!)

 

Some more progress today.

Fab'd up some brackets to mount my radiator support rods to my radiator and bolted everything down. Also made some lower radiator to shell brackets so the thing doesn't fly off..haha

I got some more hardware ( I'm officially sick of driving to the hardware store, thank god it's only down the street).....and bolted my visor down for good.

Bolted my top down for good. I used bolts and wingnuts with washers for this...worked out well.

I then spent about an hour sticking body welting between the top and the body. I'm a little anal about this stuff fitting just right. After some cursing everything went together nicely and I bolted everything tight.

I then mounted my voltage regulator and coil with some O'brien truckers swag

 

More little stuff knocked out..getting ready to wire her up

installed my sending unit and mounted my gas tank, battery box, headlight switch, horn,and horn button.

 

So...you just about to get her muddy? Lookin good.