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Projects The bucket of ugly! A de-uglifying thread...

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by need louvers ?, Aug 14, 2013.

  1. Jeem
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    My biggest concern was to keep those two KLUTZY kids (one of 'em takes after me so....) out of the cholla, so thanks for your wrangl'n duties, C. Hip. Early August, we're heading out to HB for an all new video at the beach. You in?
     
  2. need louvers ?
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    Thanks guys, but I'm gonna have to wait. Money just isn't something that there is lots of at the moment. Besides, if I keep working my buddy on this, I know I'll end up with the one I want.

    Ya Blue One, 4.89s aren't going to do too much around this joint! Just got back in from a run across town in Judy's little Honda, and running the speed limit at 75 and still had people crawling up my ass going 85-90. Terrifying, to say the least....
     
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    Early August, H.B., and video production..... HMmmmnnnnnnnn, let me think... HELL YES!!!! I see not a thing wrong with that scenario! Do we need mini bikes, or just my incredible charm and resiliency?
     
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  4. falcongeorge
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    Almost ALL my driving is around town at 40-45mph. Yesterday I drove out to Maple Ridge, thats the first time I have been on the freeway in probably 4 months, and that was only about 5 minutes out of a 1/2 hour trip! Honestly, stop & go around town, big gears dont even hurt mileage much. Sure make it a lot tougher for soccer moms in escalades and assholes in imports to pass on the right though...:D hell, you dont even have to downshift, its just whack POW.
     
  5. Tim
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    Yeah I think that stuff does, but I was thinking more along the lines of the longer snout etc


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  6. Hmmm....didn't think about that. But now that you mention it, my spare 6-71 has an abnormally long snout on it, wonder if it was for a 4-71?


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  7. falcongeorge
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    SCORE!!! turn a couple tricks if you have to Chip :D, you are gonna need that 2 holer!
     
  8. walker
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    Chip, how was the LARS? When you get caught back up give me a holler, would still like your opinion on my Duece bucket project.
     
  9. need louvers ?
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    Damn Walker, I've been going 200mph+ since I walked in the door and I flat forgot to call you back. Give me a yell when you have chance.
     
  10. steel rebel
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    Chip I forgot to ask. Did you remember to check out how the thin back rest padding felt or did driving the roadster just blow that out of your mind. Really driving with a near vertical steering column you just naturally lean forward. With your more horizontal steering you do lean back more so I don't really think it is a fair comparison anyway.
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    Ya, the thin stuff is definitely a do'er on my car! I won't have the top roll like yours on mine, though. I'm sure my interior plans will be construed as too modern for my car, but I'm shooting for easy, inexpensive and easy to keep clean. I don't currently have a commercial sewing machine, so it's all going to be simple flat panels with maybe a bit of piping at the top edges. The lower will have a single, simple flat felled seam to attach the facings to the top and that's about it. I am toying with the idea of putting an orange strip down the center, much like this concept drawing Jeem did for Rod&Custom magazine last year. 299823_3950865825163_850128862_n.jpg
     
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    Well, my 18 year old Cockapoo, Mr. Heihei Chan decided that he needed to go out at least twenty four times I can remember last night. Being that he can't get back up the stairs by himself, and that Judy sleeps the sleep of death, I had allot of time to think. Sometime about three A.M. or so, (second or third showing of Squidbillies on Adult Swim) I had an idea about how to mount my shock arms without pulling the whole front end apart! Then it was just trying to sleep enough have the energy to do it first thing! Out at five, it was only about 90 this morning, so I decided to paint the one backing plate I have prepped, too before the heat of the day set in.

    I kid you guys not, if you haven't used RustOleum's Appliance Epoxy for small stuff you are seriously missing the boat! This stuff comes out nice and thick, then lays down and fills in very nicely. It looks like very high quality powder coat when all is said and done. It does take a few days to truly cure, though. But after that it's rock hard and close to indestructible. Color sands and buffs nicely too. I have a pair of fifteen inch early Ford wheels that I sprayed with this stuff about ten years ago, ran for about a year, then dismounted and kinda put in the wheel pile. Although the outer rims have some abrasions, they have retained their shine and aren't nicked up enough that I wouldn't put them on some thing I care about. Hell, one of the four I harvested the center from for some widened rears, and it took a couple of hours in the blast cabinet to clean the paint off. All that for 3.97 a can at Home Depot!

    The reason for that little out burst is that I'm going to do the front brake backing plates for now and torture test them. If it works out well, I might actually paint the suspension components with this paint... We'll see on that though.

    The trick to get the arms on consisted of two minutes of grinding on the bottom of the arms, a bit of finagling with a jack, and holding my tongue with my teeth in just the right position to make it all work. Now on to tabs and Heim joints to do the deed.

    Oh, got one of my Corvette valve covers and cheapie breathers on too! the other side is forthcoming soon SAM_6426.JPG SAM_6427.JPG SAM_6418.JPG SAM_6431.JPG
     
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  13. falcongeorge
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    You do know that once you get the other one on, you are gonna realize just how bad they need to have a 4-71 between them, right?;)
    What this place REALLY needs is a "shut the &*%$ up and give it a rest George" smiley...:D
     
  14. Then I'd have nothing to laugh at each morning:D
     
  15. need louvers ?
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    Nah, your too busy buying up all the cool stuff in the Great White North...You'll be too busy soon!
     
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  17. dana barlow
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    Chip,this is a tech I did some time back,low $ hotrod upholstery; http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/tech-sew-at-home-upholsrety-hot-rod.604077/
     
  18. falcongeorge
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    Feel free to start crossing stuff again, hell it worked last time!! I'll probably be too busy with the divorce lawyer!!
     
  19. Roadsir
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    I'm digging all the little updates....That is a Hot Rod!
     
  20. need louvers ?
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    Yes I did Dana, and thank you. I have been following along since you began the tech piece. I just had another local member here in town contact me today and offer the use of his commercial machine in exchange for helping him get it up and running and started on it. I think I will take him up on that! Although I have done lots on household machines, too. I used to spend ten hours a day surrounded by them!

    The idea behind the pleatless interior is actually two fold. Without an adequate machine it would have been time consuming to hand stuff the pleats, (but a perfect excuse to use a late friends pleat stuffers... Next time Larry.) but also because our dust here is so fine that invariably it would look dirty within days with pleats for the dust to settle in. Flat should be much easier to wipe down once a week. Also, with a minimally stitched flat panel job, if I do get it dirty or ripped up or need to replace a section it'll be pretty simple to do just that.

    The last thought is, if you go back and look at some of the drag roadsters of the early sixties, the showier of the batch often had simple naugahyde glued to the inside just to line the body and make it a bit more "showy". Kinda looking for that look, too.
     
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  21. need louvers ?
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    Thanks Roadsir! It's been cool keeping tabs on yours as well. I can't believe after all these years that I knew where that car was. I lived about a mile and a half from it the whole year of '81! Now that's a hot rod!!!
     
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  22. daddio211
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    Love the progress man! I think you should put a Model A shell on it though....

    HEY! Quit hitting me! It was a joke... ouch! Damnit Chip, quit hitting me!
     
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  23. need louvers ?
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    You know my feelings, sir...:)
     
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    Damn, new favorite picture alert! H.A.M.B.er Bodi and I stopped at a favorite dive bar this evening for drink after some damned good pizza at a new place down the street in this still somewhat "dodgy" part of Phoenix... This is a little Tiki bar called the Bikini that has been in it's turn of the last century building UNCHANGED since the mid fifties. Ten years ago, ElPolacko and I used to occasionally kinda push the career drunks aside at the bar long enough to have a drink (gin and tonic, if you must ask...) at this then crumbling institution. It was purchased by a fellow hot rodder locally and now is breathing comfortably again... A beer tonight was a must to celebrate Bodi's seasonal migration north in a couple of days (Check out last years thread "The Butter Knife of Patriotism Tour, for a fun read). Bodi snapped this bitchin' "City Nocturne" shot as I left.... You can almost feel the 100 degree evening temp in this shot. bodi and me at the bikini.jpg

    God, I love my friends! My city too...
     
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  25. need louvers ?
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    Had another seriously cool game changer tonight thanks to another H.A.M.B.er across the country that I'll start another thread on in the morning.... Thanks Harm2K!!!
     
  26. falcongeorge
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    That IS a GREAT shot. I was just thinking when I picked the wife up tonight, perfect night for an open car.
     
  27. falcongeorge
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    Someone gave you a 4-71??!!:)
     
  28. jerry
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    No. I know but I can't tell!


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  29. Phillips
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    Heck you can smell the heady mixture of spent fuel, oil and hot pavement. And I swear I hear Meat Puppets' "What to Do" from a passing car window!
     
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  30. missysdad1
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    In my old and grizzled opinion, there's an element of the "stance" concept that is almost never addressed: what the car looks like with the driver/passenger in it.

    A lotta times the car (this applies to motorcycles as well) looks like pure art all by itself, but looks well beyond awkward when the driver is added to the mix. It's a variation on the "why-do-really-fat-chicks-always-drive-iddy-biddy-cars" concept...if ya' know what I mean.

    Closed cars are just as likely to suffer from this syndrome, but open cars seem to be even more so. Perhaps it's because the driver is right out there for everybody to see - and that's often the problem. T-buckets seem to be the worst - probably because of the raised seating which almost everybody adds to make 'em more comfortable - but "east coast-style" channeled roadsters of the A & B variety are all too often guilty as well.

    Chip has addressed this before in this thread, but it's refreshing to see a bucket that's fitted well to the owner's presence, not to his absense. Chip's car looks "right" with a driver aboard, a fact which underscores his plan to add minimal padding to the buttox area and backrest. Harder on the glutius maximus but much, much better for the visual balance.

    Good eye, Chip, good eye.
     
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