Hot Rods The latest project at Jokerr Fabrication

It has been a while since I have posted any pictures from my neighbor Joe Kerr's shop but since early this year he has been building a 33 coupe for our mate Marty Bachand (who already has a nice glass bodied 34 that he drives the wheels off). There are enough photos in the bank now that it is time to start a build story on the car.
We start with Joe and Willie Trump picking the car that was acquired for the build up at Marty's place in Illinois.

Joe and Marty with the car loaded and ready to head south to Brownsburg


First item on the agenda was to un "street rod" the chassis



There was also a little chassis work required in a few other areas--this was not quite up to Joe's standards

This is about all of the "keeper" parts


Despite some of the fabrication indignities that took place in the past the cars is a very solid unit as seen by the floor


The first actual fabrication involved bracing up the body in anticipation of the chopped roof to come


Even the rebate for the top insert is nice although it will not matter as the top will be filled after the chop is done


We are lucky in Indy as we have a Redi-Strip facility just north and east of downtown, about 30 minutes from Joe's shop



With the shiny stuff removed the body still looked good--very good in fact, for an 80 year old car.



Well, that is it for now but check back in the upcoming weeks for a series of updates on the build progress.

Roo

 

Wow, that looks like a nice start! What are the running gear plans?

 

Cool - what is the final plan?

 

Dang!! that body looks factory new!! . Definitely keep us up to date. Joe does some nice work. Tim

 

Nice!

 

Roo, I'll be up for the PRI show. Can I get a tour? Gary

 

Love these coupes, can't wait to see more

 

You will have to wait until you see the photos.
Roo

 

Yep!
Roo

 

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Tune in boys. This is about to get really good!


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Wow, that is one nice body. Looking forward to this.

 

teaser, teaser, teaser

 

Proof that just because you have a welder doesn't mean you can weld..........

 

Great start on a primo body.

 

Waiting and watching. Joe Kerr does some righteous work.

 

Great save, nice body. Glad to see that terrible shoddy shit gone.

 

Looking forward to the updates!

 

Nice coupe

 

Marty B.---- It's gonna be hard to top your previous model 40s but Jo Kerr is the shop to do it---Torsion Bar suspension? I'm subscribed----lets watch the build!! BILL RINALDI

 

Subscribed, MINT body!! Can't wait to see this come together

 

Here is part two of the build story, with comments from Marty. With his help I am going to try to post a couple of updates per week until we catch up with the build itself.

Great floor, a little too nice for carpet



Great roof, too nice to fill


A little patchwork

And some more, but not much

Starting to lay out the chop






Roo

 

Looks like a huge chop. You going for the Pierson brothers look?.....


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You will have to wait and see--more photos coming about the middle of this week.

Roo

 

Is that frontend 4 sale? It is mustang 11 right?

 

Sorry for the delay in posting the next installment but I was busy in my shop and then we had the PRI show from Thursday through Saturday. Getting back on track now and there should be a regular flow of updates. Here are a couple more of the laying out of the chop and then some shots of the roof coming off and then the back part being aligned. The next installment will show the "A" pillar re-alignment.

The cut line around the "C" pillar was dropped to where the contour would be easiest to align and stepped up in the window openings for the same reason.


And away we go!

Look Ma, I'm a roadster



Back on and aligned at the rear window opening


The "B" pillar portion of the rear window opening was removed up to the drip rail and these pieces of flat stock were rosette welded in place to strengthen the join.

Then the inner pillar structure with the upper door hinge mount was welded back in place

Now the outer sheet metal is added

The gap in the upper portion of the opening is next along with welding the "B pillar skin.


The weld across the back of the "C" pillar is next to lock that area in place



Then the lower rear portion of the quarter window surround is removed so that it can be moved forward to make the back of the window opening flow.


Again the vertical cut was placed to minimize major contour adjustments.

The finished product


Roo

 

Very nice!!!

 

This is interesting ..... Thanks for letting us follow along.

 

Looks great!

 

Nice, real nice.
-Pat

 

We'll this looks like it'll rule!!! Thanks for all the detailed pics.