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

Saw this one at SEMA, tried real hard to take pictures that didn’t ruin the image of hot Rod greatness as it’s all modern same-same under the beautiful black wrapper!


There was a guy also taking pictures of it and he kept calling it the nicest 57 Chevy he’d ever seen!!!! I thought about moving the sign, but that’s probably frowned upon….

 

I absolutely love doing the wiring on projects, my favorite part of the build. Glad to see you are picking away at the car.

 

That is exciting! I do know exactly what you mean, I find it relax as well.

 

Want to come to Oklahoma for a week or so and help me and my son wire an Edsel? Wiring has to be about my least favorite part of working on these old cars.

 

First: You find wiring relaxing? Seriously?
Second: Where have you been? This is the best thread here. I follow it religiously. You were gone so long I almost took up drinking.
Just can't wait for the "dump the clutch" video.
Oh, the wiring looks great.

 

I would in a heartbeat! If I thought I could make a living just wiring cars that’s what I would be doing.

 

fly me out there with a soldering iron, shrink and a multi meter and it'd be a fun time! would get me out of school too, is "wireitis" a diagnosis?

 

For a temp exhaust i was going to grab a muffler, strap it in, and dump it before the axle on the drivers side (using the y pipe) the future plan is two true duals, nice long 30 inch glass packs and two small cherry bombs above the axle.

 

My '59 was the first car I wired 100%. It went pretty well and I made a harness board for it, did all the breakouts up front which helped a ton. I had 1 mis-wire in the tail lights and a solder sleeve come loose on the HL switch. It was around 50 wires total.

 

You should seek professional help...
I don't mind wiring but I sure wouldn't say it's my favourite!

 

I feel like if I was seeking help this would be at the bottom of the list of concerns about me.

 

ha you and me both!!

 

I have always liked wiring cars. I bought a '64 Caddy around 1975 with a partially fried under hood harness.I also had an OT Mustang with some torn out wiring. Both cars required a trip to the junkyard for "new" wiring and a trip to the library to make schematic copies. Both cars charged right away and everything worked. I'm lucky to have enough patience to do that.

At work in 2013, I was tasked to reverse-engineer a pair of harnesses supplied by a customer we were partnered with. I had to beat the wire-list out of them and questions were slow to answer, the partner was located in the Middle East. One was around 100 wires, the other was 1200 wires. But I did it, I tallied up the hours I had in it, over 900 hours. In the end I supplied the formal wire list (from-to) and the CAD drawings.

 

Looking awesome man. This is the stuff that isn't sexy but if you don't do it right, the car doesn't work.

I know some guys like to hide all this kind of stuff, but I sort of like having it out in the open. Not just because it's easier to work on, but because there is a sort of beauty in the mechanical aspect of the car. It's a machine.

 

i havent looked on mine, is that front chrome able to be detatched from the rest? i think it would look very neat with a full smoothed steel look like the rest of the dash has.

 

Jeff is the body currently clear coated? Curious as I'll be leaving the OG paint on the 56 for now and I'll need to do something for a clear coat

 

Getting closer after every lonely night…

 

got it, makes the build a little bit simpler too.
I do love the way the chrome is on the '57 ford dash, it covers just enough of the dash to be fancy; but not too much that it becomes too over the top, like what some Mopars and a much of GM did in the later 50s. some people like the over the top-ness of those, I've always liked more calm levels of chrome.

 

Yeah- but you have such a cool shop!