Hot Rods 57 FORD Build #2... Glutton for Punishment.

Jeff
Those brackets are just plain beautiful. You are going to have a lot of fun driving this car.
Jay

 

what condition is your hood and fenders on your 57? any patching needed, and if so, how would you keep the "old" look like the rest of the car has?

 

Amazing those fenders survived 65 years without rust or a fender bender. Good Stuff!

 

Its funny how my bumper filler panel is in perfect condition, but the panel inbetween the headlight bezels is decently rusty

 

I'm not sure if it's original or not but my bumper filler panel had a real thick coating of some kind of undercoat that looks like it applied with a broom. It seems like it was put on there to stiffen up or make the panel more rigid.

 

#canadianhoarder

 

The dash and gauges are sweet !!!! Impressive

 

I'm lucky my '59 has very minimal damage to the body. I found a crease in one rear quarter the panel behind the door that had been pulled and filled with bondo... I'm not touching it. Every drain hole in the lower fenders and rockers are clear and open.

I fixed the front of the hood front inner structure with fiberglass cloth after I acid dipped the rust out of it. All the ragged stuff I used a cutoff wheel to remove it. It came out nice.

The back of my front bumper and filler panel were rusty. I wire wheeled them to bare clean metal, gave them a good lacquer thinner wash and a coat of POR15 on the back side of the filler.

The money side of filler panel I painted with the correct Argent Sliver spray paint. Made by VHT for wheels. I did the same with the back of the bumper. Better than factory.

 

None of it is too trivial. How we do stuff differs. No matter what the project is we may learn a easier/better way to do something by watching each other.
The fab and execution of a lot of the details on this car are so cool.
Keep on keeping on.

 

Will you be using a solid filler plate for the speaker grate? Or just reinstallig the grate as is?

 

As an FE guy, lt me say that's a beautiful mill!

 

Jeff
That is one beautiful alternator bracket.
However, the FE engine with the Y block color is not fooling me. It's still an FE.

 

Honestly now....... Jeff do you really really think that you could drive that 57 Ford with the nice patina to a car cruise and open the hood with that big disguised FE and pass it off as a Y block?

 

Sadly, I would guess he could at most car cruises in today’s world.

 

I think that I might have to agree with you.

 

Very nicely done, Jeff.

 

Thank you for the incredibly kind words, Jeff! You are such a gentleman. It has been a pleasure to work with on the gauges, thank you for the call. It was great to speak. with you. Your project is looking awesome and you're making incredible progress. It's really coming together nicely and I've always been a fan of 57 Fords, they look so tough.

I've always been a huge fan of your incredible art work. I have numerous pieces in my house and garage. After we spoke on the phone I said to my son, "I was just talking to the guy that painted that piece of art on your bedroom wall". His jaw hit the floor...it was pretty funny.

Keep rockin on the '57, you're sooo close!!! And the HAMB world wants to see it run!!

 

Very nice work but I have to say that you are the first person I know that is "anxious to get into the wiring".

 

the only thing thats annoying about wiring is diagnosing 65 year old wiring!

 

I love wiring!!! But I’m weird like that.