Were has all the chevys gone

Yes,I'm afraid that's ture,I remember seeing more then a few old Chevys just laying apart on the ground around there rolling gear and frames,after the wood rotted they fell apart,vs the Ford's stayed together by having more of the body part hooked together by there design when the wood would go bad in the Ford's they still looked like a car and so were kept around better. Plus there were many times more Fords made.

 

Check your facts,1929 Chevrolet outsold everybody,thanks to the introduction of the "Stovebolt 6",which prompted Henry Ford to develop the V8 Flathead.

 

Man, that is some awesome metal work. Keep it up!

 

heres my 34, almost done

 

I'll second that vote! E-ville!!

 

With regard to all the sheetmetal falling apart. How does one go about getting the shape back using metal instead of wood, without first using a wood structure for a template in shaping the shell? Always been curious about that one as my uncle is willing to give me a 29 but didn't know how to do anything with it.

 

Here is mine. All the wood in the doors has been replaced with steel, the rest can wait for winter. About twice as much work to build as a Ford.

 

There was a chopped 34 ish chevy at the swap meet in Springfield. I think somebody from OKC bought it (that was also setup at the meet). I saw a pretty solid late 20s/early 30s chevy coupe on a trailer on US65/ then I44 headed in yesterday morning as well but never saw it on the grounds.

 

Got a 28 Chevy 4-door. Lower wood is pretty rotted on it. I'm in the process of tearing it down so I can replace the wood with steel.

 

1" square tubing for support is one way.

 

Weird but true, early Chevrolet cars are opposite of 70s Ford/Chevy engines, here's my '31 though; good wood, only because low miles/nice weather...

 

So I have searched all over this thing for posts on earlier Chevys, and found very few. I didn't check today and posted my own, not realizing you started this one yesterday, effectively making me look like an ass...... but it is money, because at least I am seeing some other guys put these babies back in action.......

Here is mine so far -

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=287130

 

I found three..make that 4 (37-38) chevy trucks in an area about of about 10 square blocks.
2 not for sale...Well this was a year ago. If anyone is interested I can help.
Found two sedan delivery bodies also. 39-40.

 

heres mine needs work but solid

 

I'm doing a 32 ..5 window that was in good shape, replaced all the wood with metal and it came out great.

 

This car belongs to a friend and club member, a -33 Master Eagle. One of just a few sold new in Sweden.
Soon to get rid of that crappy slantsix ,and getting a 454 Wortec engine istead.

 

Here is mine 35 master deluxe.And not a chevy but a Pontiac 6-29 coupe that I am just starting to get to.

 

For some reason both restorers and hotrodders are commonly allergic to woodwork. I'm going to take it as a challenge instead, when I get that far with my project. There is a picture of my Chevy -28 project in the Banger meet thread earlier this year. And what comes to Finnish lanquage practises a couple of pages ago... ...well it was understandable. Go for it, Learning lanquages always pays off. This English is probably almost as full of mistages anyway.

 

36' Chevy truck here (look at my album). Once I come across the right Chevy coupe I will buy it. Ford is a much easier build (part,etc.) which may be the smart choice for many. Bottom line- all the 30's cars would make killer builds.

 

That's farking rad! Here's mine.

 

No they weren't.

The production info is easily available for most manufacturers
and GM built on average 1.8 GM's to 1 Ford/Merc/Linc.

GM from 1927 to 1954 built almost Twice as many GM's as Ford Built car's and truck's.

In the 30's GM did use a lot of wood but not so in the 40's.

The Ford's engine (Flatheads) and general drive train were made to last with regular maintenance. So when a 30's 40's Ford Car was parked in the back, it was probably driven there although well worn.

The scrap drives of the War time took many a non running GM but people may have been more reluctant to get rid of a car that still ran especially if you couldn't buy anything thru the war years.

The Flathead/drivetrain is the reason that many Ford's never got scrapped. They were easily fixed with inexpensive parts available everywhere and to this day they are still revived after sitting in barns and yards for decades.

Even thru the depression, people could still find a few cents to fix a small problem on the Ford but could not find the money to fix a broken camshaft ( Quite common on all 1935 thru 50's GM 6 cylinders)


I pulled my 41 Ford Flathead V8 Coupe from the bushes in Sask. and got it running and driving with only minor expensive (about $125) after it had sat in the same field for 35 years.
Sure it has low oil pressure but it probably had that when they drove it into the back 40 in 1962 as a 21 year old car with 90,000 miles with it's original V8. (They don't need a lot of oil pressure anyway)

Sorry to say that the original GM 6 cylinder (their main engine) had a very poorly designed splash oiling system as well as camshafts would break and spread pieces into your engine for almost no apparent reason even if the engines were fairly new.

But there's a lot more to the story than that, Just do a google search on "Planned Obsolescence" to read how GM's CEO -Alfred Sloan- invented the idea of a death date into it's 1927 cars. A practice that is still widely used in manufacture today.

"""A manufacturing decision by a company to make consumer products in such a way that they become out-of-date or useless within a known time period. The main goal of this type of production is to ensure that consumers will have to buy the product multiple times, rather than only once. This naturally stimulates demand for an industry's products because consumers have to keep coming back again and again."""









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Where are they all? Where they should be, melted down and made into Fords!!

There are not that many around here save the odd 34 Chev! I know a guy that has a full fenderd 34 Chev with a Y block in it!!

 

34 chevy have original doors fenders grill and title still in good shape

 

dammit!!! i cant lie its not mine just storing it for a buddy.......

 

By 1937, the Chevy bodies had become pretty much all steel, so they are much easier to work on. They look good too! I've got a 37 2 door (with fairly rad chop) and a 37 Coupe project in the works (see pic). I also have a 36 standard coupe, but with a wood body structure it will be much more work. I'll be replacing wood in the 36 coupe with square metal tubing, probably as a class project (for tech college evening mig welding class this winter).

Hey, the structural metal work in your Chevy is great. Are you planning to put a rear door in your delivery? Looks cool without it, but just wondering what your plans were.

 

Here's mine. Been driving it since 1981, 327, Turbo 400. All I have had to do is replace the radiator core, water pump, and front brakes in the last 26 years. Had to redo the top wood and wood around back window when building, was quite a chore but has held up well. I boxed the frame and x-member to take as much load as I could off the body.

 

Here's one of mine a 32 Chev. sitting on essex rails.

 

It's been a long accepted fact that more '30s Fords survived their years in the junkyards and woods because they had less wood in their body structures than Chevies. The Chevy metal was as good but the framing went away. And as far as Hot Rods go, more guys got into Fords in the beginning because it was easier and cheaper to hop one up than it was to do a Chevy (More bang for the buck and more abuse tolerant).

 

Here's one, ZZ-4 and a Sentricon System

 

I know what you are talking about here is a couple pics of my rusted sheet metal 28 national...ghost