I think the gray parts are rubber floor mats attached to the carpet. I though the dash was alum., however the book East vs West Showdown Rods, Customs and Rails. it is a galvanized steel.
LOL I was considering doing that with my A build but didn't want to move the cross member and had a proper main leaf ( by accident) to run my '38 axle spring over. If I had the right spring I would move my cross member just for grins. it is a neat setup.
i am a chevy guy so bear with me, what is the argument against spring ahead? is it a looks thing? or safety? to me it still is going the wrong way and is only half of what should be there.
The argument has to do with not being done properly as a rule. Lots of old cars they just used the later axle and spring for the brakes, juice brakes are better. Well if you don't move the cross member forward when you go spring in front you move the axle back, so you loose wheel base and you look wonky. if you look at old picture albums and old survivor rods you see a lot of them with the axle moved back when they went with a spring in front setup. Done correctly with the cross member moved and everything cleaned up it is a sharp setup or some of us think so. It is also an easy way to drop one. I like the look of the spring in front, some people don't but what do they know.
Sure there was [a period correct]...unless, of course, you believe somebody in 1956 figured out how to overcome the whole space/time continuum. Fact is, a lot of folks' definition of period correct is skewed. It means nothing more than 'correct for the time period'. Would a 40's part be correct for a 50's hot rod? Sure would. A 30's part? Probably so (generally speaking). A 20's part? Maybe. A 60's, 70's, 80's part? T-5? Vega steering box? Find me a single 1950's magazine that shows hot rods (or customs for the sake of 'diversity') with those later parts and I'll give you $1,000. Period correct means true to the period - and not just 'skin deep' it also represents the individual parts, pieces, styles, and construction methods that, together, make up a hot rod and 'set' it in an historical context. And yes, I'll kick a keyboard's ass if my message board gets littered up with modern crap But enough about all that... This thread is about actual era-built or true to the time hot rods...we can discuss definitions elsewhere if we need to... Let's keep this focused.
Modern crap: Sorry Mr White I absolutely could not help myself. I don't spend a lot of time reading old magazines, but I can recall the men who visited the Ol' Man's shop saying things like that is how they used to do it as early as say '58 or 9? Maybe '60 or '61. So as far as period correctness goes that would have been an old school form of period correctness. Wouldn't it? I think that period correct is more then a suggested guideline. If I am building an early '60s style car it is pretty cut and dried as to how it was done and what was used to do it. We may for instance argue as to whether Ansen Sprints were being cast and used in '64 for example but it is pretty cut and dried that no one was using Center Line Wheels Billet Series Scorpion Polished Wheels. So if I were to say, "This is my '60s style car" and it had Centerline Scorpions on it a serious keyboard bashing should ensue.
I like this one a lot! Looks so good, and got me all hot and bartered about Traditional hot rod's, and mostly about era perfekt rods. If I ever wins the big one in lotto I Wil buy this one!
Well I think I'm in love. Hey someone give me a spring, I got late model yolks. I'll do a tech on how to do it on your A and still have the fender option. That is sweet
That would be slick if you can pull it off. I'm not suggesting tons of new builds should have that, but you would be showing some of the great diversity of that era. ...and, so few would dare try it today. .
Yea did you move the X member or are you going to move the fenders. it looks like the axle is in the right place is why I ask.
Channeled and Full fendered with late axles front and rear was the plan all along. Also part of the plan was nothing newer than 53, all factory Henry hard parts and no hand carved pieces. So far I'm getting there. No I didn't move the cross member forward on the frame rails and Yes the wheel base is stock to a Model A. The Wizzard
Another real deal built in the 50's hot rod. This time a 33 three window, some updates made in the late 50's very early 60's-
I like that one. What are those seats, British? MG,Triumph? I have a very similar pair I'd like to use in my roadster. They are in a Studebaker Lark right now.
This is problaby the first channeled hotrod in Sweden. I dont remember the exact buildyear at the moment but it is early 60:s. A link to some other early builds from sweden. http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Sweden Same car before channeling.
Yes they are British. I find the magasin and check. I will check when I get home, but the rodding og this car started early, it was first a racecar and he borrowed the money from his grand mother, and started the first summer to remove fenders. Its pictured on kustomrama beside another channeled rod, both was very early channel job. It has a nice flathead with some Eddie Meyer parts, Evans parts and maybe an early Edelbrock intake. So nice
The small block Ford gives it a 60's vibe. I would change out the headers but it is a very nice anyway.
that's hilarious that you say that.. that's the first thing I'm going to change on it.. I'm thinking lake pipes, with cut outs hidden and letting out underneath the body. there's just something about lake pipes haha
you're right on that one.. I'd say it does look more 70's-current now that I look at it more carefully.. That's like my favorite era though.. especially 60's style
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