Just in case anyone else is ever looking for it, the tread width on the Coker tires is listed on their website. The 7.5x16 Firestone tires have a 4.9 inch tread width and a 7.4 section width (which definitions read to be about the widest part).
I like your transition on the cowl from closed car to a roadster, doing what one needs to do to get an affordable end result is the name of the game........correct me if I'm wrong but I thought I saw the very cowl your using advertised but assumed it was a commercial type that Ford provided for specialty bodies like fire trucks, vending trucks etc. at any rate an excellent save & well done!
Been fiddling around; got the front steel wheels on (just transferred the Tesla snow tires over for now) and mounted the headlights. Tried to mount the headlights in the location as if there was a bar going across in front of the grille, to put them about where they be if there was a cross bar. Looked at a whole lot of pictures to come to the conclusion that's where I preferred them. Oh, and I couldn't help popping on the wheel trim since they were just laying next to my work bench; pure silly vanity.
Thanks! Someone started it for me a long time ago, so it was maybe easier... I don't know, because then a tree fell on it ha. I spent a lot of time with the hammer and dolly/gas welder and it's still far from perfect ha
Slowly plugging away; doing things with the family in the summer slows the projects down a little. Lot's of fiddling with fit and little things now that I've got it sort of built. Hope all your projects and endeavors are going well. Dumb question but it'd be helpful if anyone had an answer - My hood sides are cracked center bottom (both sides). I'm going to fix this soon, but they've both developed a bow due to this. I'm assuming the hood bottoms should be arrow straight?
Yes, hood sides are generally flat, but when they are latched they may tend to follow the slight curvature of the cowl at the rear and the grille surround at the front. Make them look right on the car, when latched, with good gaps and correct fitting tops. Photo above looks good !
Thanks everyone on the hood question! I've been doing lots of camping, etc with the kids so the car really slowed for the summer. Thought I'd try and do something meaningful so I primed my door pillar and took the car to DMV to get a VIN assigned. Maybe pre-mature, but I've found this can be good motivation for me. If you look in this picture, you can see it's now a registered car (license plate). Kind of morbid, but I also appreciate that if I suddenly passed my wife now has a title. I know it shouldn't have went on the trailer that direction. The trip wasn't far, and the gymnastics of turning the car around seemed like more trouble than it was worth. Hardest part was someone had cut the uhaul straps short and they JUST barely made it over the roughly 750 size rears. Regarding the prime, I was trying the Eastwood Rust Encapsulator Plus paint... seems pretty good; I think I may do the rest of the interior with it. Anyone put the single-stage Summit paint over the Eastwood stuff? Any problems? I think Eastwood claims you can bondo over it too, which seems iffy but I don't know (I've only painted one car, my MGA, and I didn't use filler... it still has little dents ha).
Thank you Sir; kind of odd, but as I sweated in line (literally) I realized I probably think of DMV like some people think of the dentist ha. Side note, whenever I get on this website I'm looking at your project!
Here's a funny thing (it is funny and amateur, I am not an artist). I encourage my kids to make things for the country fair (this year we submitted art and cakes); I think the arts and crafts of the county fair are awesome and am trying to encourage my kids (and their friends) to partake since I don't want it to die-off. So, this year, I joined the kid's paint sessions ha. Many of you probably recognize this scene since I stole it from a well-known photo (it wasn't a roadster). I just guessed at the top of the sign, since it was cut off in the photo (also, my grandma worked at the Pasadena Bob's Big Boy so there's a little nod to that). When I was done, I started wondering if this burger joint was still around. I uploaded a photo to AI, and was told that Pick-Quick is a well-known chain around Tacoma. I started looking at the Pick-Quick sites and, sure enough, the downtown Tacoma Pick-Quick still looks like this (except the surrounding)... and I got the top of the sign wrong ha (it's too bad too, because their top is cooler). My father-in-law grew up in Tacoma... I haven't shown him this yet, but I wonder if he'll say he's been there many times. Next time we go up there to look at the Lemay, we may have to stop at Pick-Quick.
Well, I kind of backed myself into a corner. For my MGA, my oldest was allowed to pick the color and she chose summit Green, which was perfect for a MGA. Now it's my other daughter's turn, and she wants red. I want that dark cherry color that's popular but I think red it will be ha. As a compromise, I think I'm going to paint the frame black... I think it'll cut down on the red, and I think it makes the body look a little lighter when the frame is not the same color as the body. I imagine that might be an unpopular opinion since in my photo collection of examples I only see a few cars painted this way.
True, very true. We all like the colors we like, I guess. And I do like red... I just maybe like that dark cherry a little more ha. But I love my kiddo even more and she is pretty passionately against the dark reds for some odd reason.
When you say red I immediately think of the McGee car, a gold standard in the traditional world of deuce roadsters but you are right the bright red and black frame will be somewhat polarizing with people, not that it matters, your car, your choice. I do think something in the dark (black) cherry with black frame would look good, pretty sure I've seen that combo before.
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