Weekend is over- What did you get done?

Evening all:

I haven't seen one made for this weekend and I was feeling proud of what I've done so why not? What did you get done on your car(s) this weekend? What did you MEAN to get done on your car(s) this weekend?

I guess I finished stripping out the interior, uncovered some original carpet, removed some of the gl***, boxed my shocks to be rebuilt, and tried to find a chrome shop.

Anybody ever heard of this place?

[INTERNATIONAL CHROMIUM PLATING]
2 ADDISON PLACE
PROVIDENCE RI 02909

-Stizzealth

 

My wife's birthday was Sat. We did a Poker Run for burned kids in Dallas... Very cool thing to do on with a motorcycle... A big bunch of Dallas area fire fighters rased $30k for burned children to go to a special summer camp.

Sunday... we did mothers day stuff for the wife....

Pay it forward.... Next weekend is mine....
Jay

 

I made room for my New A Coupe project that should arrive this week!!

 

I made a adapter to make my floor jack a trans jack, and I welded on a Flowmaster exhaust on my neighbor's OT Camaro.

 

Worked on brake lights on 59 Ute

 

Got my Merc chopped and 1 side from 4 door to 2 door.

 

Brought this home,

 

I got my Scoop and valve covers installed.

I also solved my tire rubbing problem! I stole the front wheels off my Henry J. Problem solved! Now I need to get some 15" wide steelies for the back!

 

Dude that kicks ***!

Except you delivered it to the wrong address!

 

Nothing but sit and look waiting on parts.

 

Well, I managed to spill a couple gallons of gasoline all over my garage floor, then I fitted the fibergl*** hood and measured out where the pins will need to go (after I had DIRTYT dis***emble the funky hood springs...which resulted in one of them attacking ME at a high velocity!), followed by a little wiring work that left me realizing just how much MORE of that I will need to do soon, then I tried to loosen the lugs and I think the previous owner welded them on or some **** because all I managed to do was to loosen some rust inside the drums that now s****es when I push the heap in and out of the garage, then I tried to get the front seats out only to discover that they're unremoveable...and after that I went for something simple...like installing the new coil and checking to see what all is outta whack in the front suspension and steering!

So, all in all...I ended up getting an Accel coil bolted into place and the new hood set onto it!

(This damn wreck is gonna take a whole lot longer to get done than I had first imagined...story of my life! Ha Ha!)

 

Well here in Beautiful Southern Illinois Friday we watched it rain, Then Saturday it was sunny untill we went to watch some dirt track racing and watched it rain, then we drank beer the rest of Saturday night, and today my little girls and i layed on the couch all day and watched T.V. and listened to it rain. RAIN YA GOTTA LOVE IT

 

I put my sedan up for sale again

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264153

 

I tore the 32 Roadster ch***is apart last week and changed some things on the rear suspension, I am going to get the car farther along and sell it soon, I had decided to keep the front suspension I had on it for another car ( dropped and drilled 32 heavy with matching split bones) and replace it with a Model A MorDrop and hairpins that I bought out of the cl***ified section here on the HAMB .

On Saturday I made new upper shock mounts for the rear and tacked them in, cut the old split wishbone mounts off (never liked them when I made them to start with) made new hairpin frame mounts, squared the front end up and aligned the new brackets, tacked them in, and had a tape measure rodeo, when I was sure they were dead on I welded them up, then got talked into welding up a part for the neighbor lawn tractor,.... seen it was after 7:00 p.m. and went home.

Sunday was Church, than supper at the In-Laws,... (Baked Ham and German potato salad) then Church again,..... then the HAMB.

here are a couple ****py cell phone shots from Saturday morning.

 

Changed out my ignition condenser (almost stumped the Napa guy), loomed my new ignition wires, reset my carb linkage to tandem, discovered my gas gauge isn't working and started to track that down, and shot a coat of color on my front fenders. Also hit a swap meet on Saturday and p***ed up a '50 flathead for $100, I couldn't fit it in the trunk of the car and my 7 year old couldn't carry her end high enough.

Flatman

 

Found headliner bows and sunvisors (from Flat Top Bob) and went and got a hood for my 56 Pontiac.

 

went to a swapmeet all weekend, solds some parts, and got a few parts for my project as well such as: 40 ford backing plates and drums with all the hardware, a corvair steering box, one 40-48 ford wheel (now i need 3 more!!), and a drivers side 28-29 model A cowl panel to use as a patch.

 

got my motor done and back in

 

i am trying to learn how to paint. i painted the hood on my 52 ford and it turned out pretty good. not bad for a dumb ol' ******.

 

I got alittle time to work on my top yesterday. I got the rear window where I want it and slide my back door openings back in place.

 

I spent part of the weekend removing my old leafs from the rear of my Plymouth frame, setting up the "new" leafs (36 Chevy) and researched bushings, etc. Spent the majority of the time hanging with the wife and kids.

 

isn't that Tanya Hartings old house....jeffrey

 

cleaned up a m2 k-member cut out of an actual car(which is a hell of a lot more work than buying a kit). modified it for strength and mocked it up in the 51. painted the hurst front motor plate.

 

Where did you pick that one up? Looks like a nice one! Nice score!!!

 

"isn't that Tanya Hartings old house....jeffrey"

Yes actualy

I picked it up from the Hamb cl***ifieds! 15 minutes from my house!!!! itll be my semi-stock weekender.

 

i block sanded primer and tracked primer dust all through my house.

 

I installed two new Edelbrock 500 CFM carbs in the Plymouth to replace the 600's. Just in time for the new gas prices.

 

I put the pcv on the bucket, noticed the front tire had a slow leak. I took that off took it apart patched the tube, but decided to try a screw in valve stim instead to go tubeless. I also adjusted the brakes all around while I had the floor jack there, then just as I finished it started to rain.

 

I tore down the absolute NASTIEST 429 Caddy I ever saw, made a huge mess, and started cleaning it.
Also finished installing a shifter, and brake hose/wheel cylinder on a friends '63 Fairlane.
The car has a late 302 in it, and the P.O. had used the old, three bolt balancer, and a standard water pump, and mystery alternator brackets.
The goal was to use the proper balancer for the later motor, but retain the v-belt, AND spend no$$$.
Big h***le, with no machine shop capabilities, but its done.
Invented a cost-free solution: Cut and old fan spacer up, to move the water pump pulley forward approx. 3/8", made a bunch of spacers out of leftover Moroso water pump drive kit for the alt., found a belt that fit in a box of acc/belt stuff, and put it all back together, and re-drilled the crank pulley for the 4 bolt balancer.
Cost not a dime.
Took a while to get acceptable tolerances, though...

 

sanded and sanded some more then put in a little filler here and there waited then sanded some more and some more went and got a McDs sweet tea from my lil lady then came home sanded a little more then whiped the car down and sprayed some primer! YES!! the part that i thought was gonna be the worse part out of the whole car turned out to be the best; the top. i gotta sand down and do some more filler work to fill in the pin wholes all over the place and then take care of some the high spots...Sunday went the best saturday i just layed around it rained all day...
next week end im aiming to take it to the city for gl***!!! i cant wait!!!