Projects SURVIVOR;Working on my hotrod 28A from 1959,rebuild

I use a spray gun for body and frame,, but cans "gloss black Rustoleum" for rear axle,and silver metal flake cans on front axle over coated with clear also cans. Both with cans so there EZ to patch up over time

 

I've always done all my own artwork myself,yet there are times when a pro fellow artist buddy { Mark Klein, http://2mkd.com/ ] just pop's something on ya,and this was one of those! We'd been talking about carshows an showcards a weekago just as part of are BSing. Here is what he did for me,fantastic nice in deed.
Thanks very much "Mark the Art" from "The Bat"
Now to do it some proud,I'll build a small custom stand for the super showcard!
The photo is a little washed out,so what looks white is shiny gold lettering that match up nicely with my polished brass stuff.

 

This passed week with all the rain here, it finiely let up . I've put in some time on my hotrod. The old alum slots that I been putting off polishing,well it was time. I picked up some Mothers an there polish ball plus some wet/day 1200 to mess around with the rims tell they looked Ok to me. The rears had been sandblasted to kind of just gray long time ago,but the fronts just showed a lot of age from never having anything done to them from new. How they were can pretty much be seen in post 181 before I worked them over. They came out nice enough,got my wife out side to have a look too.

 

Looking good Dana. JW

 

Good day, so took Moma for a ride,she enjoyed that. After I got my seat belt out from under my butt.

 

Dana, How long has that Nice Little Lady been putting up with Your Crap ??? (LOL) Hope Both of You enjoyed the ride...........Jeff

 

Yup,Jeff,long time,1965 tell now . Was "A" good day for a ride.

 

Cool car Dana,to bad its not on that other site still!!???
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Nice job Dana, happy cruising !!!

 

Those two pics say it all.......... way, way cool JW

 

Wow. Just read the whole thread. Very cool. Thanks for sharing, and hope you can cruise it for many years to come.

 

Ya what a cool rebuilt!!!! Love it Dana!

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We had a car show last friday down town Miami at SW8st n 15th,my buddys n I took out hotrods {Rush's 23T,Mark's 32 an my 28,this shot about 10min. after we parked,I droped the top down right after this photo

 

Nice shows for Independents Day/4th july,the one in Miami Springs give out prizes for bunting,these are all rods I helped build,the black one is my own.

 

Happy 4th of July, nice wee show. Your A really stands out......COOL. JW

 

We got to the show early to set up,in a fairly short time later about 200+ cars were there,I did get a best decorated Model A prize at the end. Had one prob about 1/8th of a mile from getting to the show,rod started running bad,was fine up tell then. Turned out got some crap in the neddle n seat,even though I have two filter in the line,one at tank n one after pump. So float was over flowing. Had to pull aircleaner n see it dripping in. Its a Holley 4bbl,so pulled the neddle n seat out,an blow that clean,run good after.

 

Mark,that owns the red 32 in back ground took this photo

 

My buddy Mark sent me a detail rear shot of my rod,the 1910 Rayo Driving Lamps/tailights and the art-deco rivit style stainless steel show up well on my bobtailed "A" roadster

 

This photo just makes me smile and the boss lady is still willing to get in and go for a ride,,you sir are a lucky man. HRP

 

Little Havana, cool. My mother grew up in Grove Park, right around the corner. Congrats on the award, well deserved.

 

Nice detail shot of nice detail ! JW

 

Great shots of the 28. Nice to see the Mrs enjoying it with you

 

Thanks guys,
Update,I never had the old speed-o working,it just filled the oval hole in the dash for years,but now it works,took some playing around,so did a little tech;http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/modal-a-oval-speedo-to-newer-tran.936686/

 

Found the little ride-along vid my son make back on one of our first test drives,the sound sucks,so turn that off or way down,but have a good ride in my hotrod.; https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...type=2&theater

 

It wont let me view it but i can imagine just how cool it would be. JW

 

Maybe I did a odd link,I'll try this,still awfull sound{don'y know what happened with it, so use no sound or way down on sound;

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=753413458035105

 

I got a extra Y-block to play with,going to try to do some things I always wanted to with it.
I pulled an cleaned up its oilpan and added a skidplate to its bottom of 1/8in. plate as a starter.
Fig on re-ring and bearings with a valve job,plus going to build homemade log intake for 4x2 using 4 Ford 94 at some point. The planned supercharger stopped short when I got to the point I needed a 7in. drive snout even thought I made the intake for that. Having fun running to shows nearly every weekend as my rod is now,just got ta keep something happening in my head for extra fun too.

 

Sounds like a good plan, what size Y- block did you get ? JW

 

Got another 292Y that rolls over smooth,same as the one in my rod that smokes now when ragged on hard. Thats kind of why I'm playing with fixing up a fresh "Y" and thinking about going for adding sexyer 4x2 log on it,I'll make the log.

 

Something fairly close in style to the pic above,but with 3/8in. plates to heads.
One side in pic looks like some one made it way too thin to hold a gasket.
Always interested in adding to what I know,so found this info on log intakes;http://victorylibrary.com/mopar/log-c.htm
But I'm thinking of making my own with devider for ports up a about 2in., in tube runners coming off head,idea being idal maybe better with those vs open twin port feed.
Looking around my shop there is some old cut off drive shaft tube I think will work for fab. the smaller 2.5in. I.D. one I'm thinking will do good for the logs vs I see what looks like 3in. logs on most photos I look at..
I'd like to keep plummu size down a little,again hoping for better idal for street driving.