Projects What!!? another 27 on 32 chassis!??. Scratch build body.

Glad to hear no blue paint - mine'll get repainted at some point.

 

My cameras battery went flat last night - here is another shot of the axle..

IMG 0050 by Mindover posted Jan 28, 2012 at 11:47 AM

David

 

looking great. just so im cought up. this axle was bent in the middle correct? so you repaired the center cold and used heat on the ends?

 

All it needs now is some holes.

 

Even your dustpan is cool David.

 

Very informative thread - thank you! (And amazing skills)

 

Yes that's right, straightening the middle cold meant that The shape was pushed out by putting an equal and opposite force on the damage to push it out. I could have done it hot.

David

 

Great job dropping the axle David. I'm subscribed to this thread and follow it closely.
Thank you for documenting your work progress.
Jim

 

Saturday fellow car club member Phil (monkeybiker on here) dropped off his '27 tourer body. I now have something to copy for the cowl and firewall panels. Drove a good few miles to drop it down to me too so thanks very much Phil, much appreciated.

IMG 0053 by Mindover posted Jan 28, 2012 at 12:07 PM

Friday I painted the sandblasted brake backing plates and other parts. I will paint them gloss soon. I am not after a show car here, I am building a car not a showpiece so a good finish is all I want on any parts, little chrome and no grinding off the forging marks on the axle and that sort of thing.

IMG 0051 by Mindover posted Jan 28, 2012 at 12:07 PM

David

 

Hi Jim thanks for commenting. It was a bit stressfull 'cos I had not done one like this and axles are not that easy to get here if I had mucked it up.

David

 

This thread is awesome. Thank you so very much for documenting and sharing with us.

 

zman, thanks, I am glad you like my build, like I said at the beginning of this thread I am motivated by posting my progress on here, embarrassment of not getting on with it keeps me moving forward.

David

 

The axle looks good David! That was a good project to do on a cold winter day.
Well, now that you have your pattern for the body you can go crazy on the sheetmetal.
Work your magic!

~Alden

 

Yep now all I need is some time to do it!.

David

 

Nice work Dave, that axle looks spot on

 

Cheers Bob, I wish I could have bought a firewall but looks like making one will be my next job.

David

 

started on the firewall onthursday evening and got some more done yesterday. I will post some photos soon.

My mate Glen came yesterday and cleaned up both my rear axles. I am working today but I have to work on a customers car so I will have to finish the firewall next week.

David

 

As promised here is a photo of the firewall so far... to this point it is made from two sections ( actually three but two make up one because my steel was not long enough if you see what I mean). the sections are gas welded together. I was very pleased about how accurate it came out, I had to work from the firewall still in place in the body and it would have been easier to make if I had a separate firewall to take patterns from.
I plan on making the rest of it soon.

IMG 0056 by Mindover posted Feb 4, 2012 at 10:19 AM

David

 

Here is another veiw of the firewall, the split is because I just tack welded the two sections. I will weld this up later.

This was made from 16g (1.6mm ) steel.

IMG 0054 by Mindover posted Feb 4, 2012 at 10:19 AM

David

 

Oh that view shows it up much better.
Very nice!
Almost makes me want to make a new one. Almost.

 

Great work as usual David. Latecomer to this thread, but caught up now. Taking a seat in the back of the class, notebook ready . . .

 

BrerHair! welcome to my thread! thanks for the kind words!

David

 

Will you make and show the process of making bucks? I have the same cab and plan to copy it as well - it is to be my 1st attempt at making a body and i am unsure of how to 'get there'.

 

If you have the original panels to copy you do not need to make bucks- I will be showing how I make the bun panels in this way as soon as I have time to make them.

David

 

sweet!

 

Probably going to be a few weeks though, 'cos I am jumping from the body to the chassis. I have the firewall to finish first and the cowl to make and the doors to make before the body I borrowed has to go back to its owner. The bun panels will be down the list because I own the ones I am copying, the rest has to go back as soon as possible.

David

 

If it's any help Dave I may have some spare Tourer rear doors...?

 

Hi Phil,

I will try to get all the info I need from your body while I have it but I will leave the doors to last. I dont know if the rear doors from a tourer are the same as the front ones for a roadster but you mentioned that you had some rusted out front doors, these would be fine as patterns if you need your body back before I have all the information I need.

Cheers,

David

Did you see I started to make the firewall? (above)

 

I did notice... excellent!