Hot Rods Big Daddy's 55 2 door wagon gasser

The floor pans look very nice Lloyd. And, sure am glad Danny is home.

 

Man, you Chevy guys are spoiled! You actually have choices of where to buy floor pans and other metal parts.
Us poor guys with other brands have to fabricate the missing parts. The only parts we can buy are poorly made pieces from flat 18 gauge some one else fabricated, for 3x the cost of doing it yourself.
You lucky bums.

 

Yeah I build a lot of cars for my customers that have zero aftermarket support. I make all of the panels. And I always tell them they should've bought a mustang or a Camaro. Make sparks, not excuses. Get to work

 

Just in case somebody thinks the floor in my 55 is bad, don't forget the floor, or lack of, in my 60 El Camino. I made that floor with 66-67 chevelle floor pans.

 

Lloyd is another metal whisperer.
On the other hand, I'm usually shouting at it.

 

Lloyd is a metal magician.

 

awwww you guys... all it takes is desire and an imagination. But it sure is nice when you can buy the actual piece you need

 

Or you could have had a "rust free" CA car! And the floors were just the beginning. Add in braces, rockers, and front fender patches as well. Luckily repair panels and patches were available from EMS but as usual my body guy needed to massage them to fit.

 

Made rocker panels from scratch for a 1939 Plymouth sedan back in the 90s when no one was selling Mopar repair sheet metal...Sheet metal brake / shrinker stretcher set .....Pocket mig welder....

 

Old pictures. That car with its hand fabricated new rockers and floors has around 100,000 miles on it now.
I have discovered over the years that some of those store bought parts don't fit so good either. But when they fit nice, it sure makes the job easier.

 

You go in for that Penis Enlargement surgery again?.....mine was a flop.

 

Money money money money money..... get my point? Spending all my damn money!!! My headers have plenty of clearance as far as the starter goes, and the steering box for that matter, but how in sam hell am I gonna get it in the car??

 

It looks like you might have to remove the front clip to install the engine.

 

That's what I'm thinking too... or hear me out, Sawzall the tops of the fenders out!

 

GO FOR IT LOL Gary

 

Put the tops of the fenders on hinges.

 

Yeah, I'm gonna sit it in and tack my mounts, and put the crossmember in, then pull it back out. I'm sitting here scratching my head on the Z bar pivot. The original is on a bracket that bolted to the bellhousing, the transmission in using has a pivot on it, but it's too big to fit the Z bar. But I'll figure it out eventually

 

1955 pivot ball is small compared to 56 and 57. Now you know. Get a 56 Z bar.

 

Some one already hacked the core support it’s hard to keep the fender to hood gap after thats done

 

Remove the front clip, make things easier for your self big guy. More room for other important work as well.

 

Removing the front clip will be fun with a cut core support.

 

AGAIN???

 

Now's the time to go to a flip front end, big daddy!

 

He took the piece out when he pulled his engine. I have it and it'll get welded back in. Hopefully the 6000rpm drunken launches fucks up all of the gaps

 

Nah. Got enough work to do but we'll see what happens my brother

 

Maybe I’m not getting something? But don’t fender well headers go through the fender wells? Ie install engine, then cut out the holes for them?

 

Got him! Yeah I was just messing around, trying to get somebody to call me a dumbass

 

Shit that engine with the headers looks like a big old bird of prey
Dan