Paul, You know I love the Olds stuff. I AM TOTALLY DIGGING THE BLOWN 371 MOTOR! It looks real good. I gotta feeling that you are gonna finish this one first. I wish I could come over and see it like I used to. Keep going. I just chopped my 34. Finishing up in the next couple days and I will post. Cheers Dale
I can't wait to put my 6x2 setup to the test on my coupe!! This is good insperation to me Paul! Haven't worked on my A in awhile.. kinda got to a stoping point and burned out then bought a 66 nova and been building a full tube chassis for it.. Yeah.. i know quite a change from what we do on here! lol. But looking at this today has me thinking and motivated! Very nice stance and one good looking hotrod my man! KEEP GOING!!!
spent a couple hours trying to make something ok out of crap.. I had a left over '32 dash from a previous project it was hacked, patched, brazed and bondo'd I warmed it with a torch and scraped the worst of the filler off, stripped most of the crap off with paint remover and grinder chopped the top off it and the bottom off the stock A dash rail and tacked them together cut out the poorly done patches filled them with new steel and hacked a big hole in the middle
got most of the welding done and ground still need to spend some more time working it smooth but here it is screwed in place for a trial fit with one of alchemy's dash panels hanging on it
Paul I have real problem with your car I wished it was mine ! I have been helping a friend build a 31 on duece rails channeled 1 " and I sure want to build an A next. I have a 303 maybe a mini blown olds next for me !
thanks Paul! thanks Terry! ironed out a few wrinkles, drilled and tapped the panel and bolted it to the dash this is as finished as the dash is going to get for the moment it's just about ready for some filler and primer but it'll stay naked till then. the aluminum panel will probably get polished and I will need to round up some gauges to compliment the package
It came out real nice Paul. Great job. Gets me motivated to start chopping my 50 dash apart for the A.
making seats, borrowed a mold that was taken from an old race seat never done this before and might never do it again but, what the hey number one mocked up in the car and number two on the mold
been busy working on everything but this car so yesterday I took a few minutes to pay at least a little attention to it and ventilated my Alchemy '32 Pierce Arrow dash to accept a few gauges I had laying around
Thank You, I'm digging the blend of styles it adds to the project, I went with the similar to stock gauge placement with '60s era Stewart Warners and used the 2-5/8" gauges on the ends, it'll get a Superior wheel on the Chevy van column. Sent from my DROID device using the TJJ mobile app
heyitsnate was kind enough to lend me some very cool old headers from some long ago hopped up Olds motor, I think they are just the style this car needs so I'm going to try to recreate them here I bought some nice heavy flanges from GOATROPER02 a while back and fabbed up and welded on some starter tubes
started chopping up some 2" 14 gauge tube I bought locally couldn't find any 4" 14 gauge plain steel tube for collectors to match the originals so I'll use a couple Olds oil filter canisters for collectors finished welding the first set of tubes and blended them nicely
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