Technical What are you working on?

The fender to cowl bolts and the core support, think that's it Andy. Plus the hood.

 

New tailpan and rear trunk section in the '55. The ass rusts out of these cars. The pan and bracing carries the rear body mounts. The cars feel "soggy" driving from the flexing.

 

I don't envy you one bit. In a sick twisted way though, when I replaced all that shit on my pile, I had a good time doing it and learned alot at the same time. MAN!!! Am I messed up...
Lookin' good Brother!!! Keep it up!

 

Camaro in the background??

 

Tail lights

 

That aint no F body. Maybe Novi

 

I like the lights out on quarters like that rather than squished on the tail panel. A buddy asked me the other day why I didn't split the window on my 41 PU? Now he tells me! Love it.

 

Where’s the body line to be a Nova?

 

Well, its gots a B pillar. No F body ever did.

Those front fender honches are weird too. What do you say it is?

 

B post and roof line suggest a 300 series Nova. It’s the lack of the body line on front fender that has me wondering???

 

Might be a 66 Oldsmobile. Just saying

 

^^^^^ Model 330 sure has round flared fender openings.

 

And that has to be 5 X 4 3/4 on those lugs. GM. Intermediate. Mid to late 60' s?

 

You guys crack me up! @fastcar1953 guessed it 1st. It's my '66 Cutlass. I'm going to fix it up some day.

 

And ran when parked

 

Now that it's in the rotisserie, prepping to have the underside blasted. Broke the motor in so now I can pull the chassis apart to be stripped as well. Long time coming.

IMG_1101 by driprail posted May 23, 2023 at 6:54 PM

 

Traded Cheerio boxes and scissors (you remember, paper dolls) for plate steel and a couple of angle grinders with cut off wheel and flapper disc. I mean this CAD Table thing is just over rated fella’s.

 

^Nice fab work, Johnny.

 

Getting my monster pain in the ass ready for York Pa. Nsra nats. Right now and for the past 3 weeks I have been tearing my hair out chasing little annoying vibration- rattles inside the car. No problems with how she runs or drives just little noises.

 

Can't imagine that A making noise lol!

 

You can hear "little noises" in your A coupe?

 

Come on Billy! Nova is an F body

 

“X” body!

 

Ran into an issue recently coming home in my '39 Chev. Suddenly got coolant spray on my windshield, so being close to home I made it into the driveway. I shut it off, and looked under the car to see coolant dripping pretty steady off the lower radiator hose! Pulled the glass hood off, and looking from the top I noticed a cut in the lower hose near the radiator clamp! I removed the fan belt, and spun the fan to see it was hitting the hose. Grabbed the blades and tried to look for play, but it was solid. So looked at my motor mounts and saw both mounts had a crack in the inside frame rails above the frame mounts!
So yesterday I pulled the fenderwell headers to get room, and jacked the engine up to close the cracks. I ground the paint off, and mig welded the cracks. Then cut up 3.5"x6" plates to slide over the 2" box tubing, to plate the frame. Drilled holes to plug weld the plates, then welded them to the box tubing, and around the perimeter also. As a final extra support I made up another flat bar plate that I welded on the top of the frame rails, and to the top of the box motor mount brackets, so they'd be supported on the vertical, and horizontal planes. Maybe a bit of overkill, but after 6 hrs. of repair work, I didn't want to ever have to redo this again!

 

Short story was…

 

Cracked generator mounting?

 

Close. Cracked motor mount.

 

Good one. I had this image of that horse stepping sideways and the girl going headfirst over it's neck.

 

Finished the trunk latch, many thanks to HAMBer @rbrewer for giving me the '56 trunk lid years ago! Welded the emblem holes to make it a '55. Then on to the dash, HAMBer @pigIRON63 provided the dash repair section from one of his treasures. Thanks, guys!