hand made hotrod. who said it couldn't be done

Pat looking good ...Keep rolling ,What did the grille I sold you go on.....

 

I just found this thread and wow .

What gauge steel did you make the body out of?

I'm working on building (yes, your type of building, but not even comparable to your caliber of construction) a semi-replica Dodge M-37 cab and made the decision to use 18 ga. That was not wise

 

Pat, you are a hell of a motivator. you tempt me to buy a shitload of sheetmetal and start pounding away until i got a shoebox.

 

thanks john. its coming together slowly been working over alot these last few weeks trying to get some tugs and barges down to clean up the oil spill.

 

hold your horses john you will see very soon.

 

i used 20 ga. but its too little steel. the next car i build im going to use 18 and 19 ga. you got a little more meat.

 

try it out.

 

thanks , now sell me some tools!

 

ill have some updates this weekend

 

Can't wait.

 

Huh, okay good to know! I've also been wanting to ask (and since updates are coming why not ask now) did you have to make any of the roller dies you used? I'd love to see some pics or a description of how the heck you rolled the entire inner circumference of the back windows. Very inspiring!

 

Pat, maybe you know this but Henry did in fact use 19G steel. For areas with a lot of shaping see if you can find some AK/DQ steel. We have discussed it many times here, the DQ is for Drawing Quality for deep stamping like your qtrs would have been.

 

lets see you build one from scratch Tman....

 

Here is a link to one thread about AK Steel

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45165&highlight=ak

 

We will be doing an Aluminum nose on my brothers 27 at some time, I will be sure to post pictures when we get there

 

Here 38chevy454 our resident metalurgist and others talk about steel. I refer back to this from time to time.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1957&highlight=ak&showall=1

 

Just spent an hour here. Nice job!

 

wow... anyone that can build a vehicle from scratch gets three thumbs up from me.
check this one out on the welding web from awhile back, i was impressed with it too, even if it's not a full size...
Metal truck #2, this one I'm keepin' - WeldingWeb™ - Welding forum for pros and enthusiasts

 

yea ive read it here and there. one of the hambers on here 40streetrod hooked me with 19G. so thats what im going with. im not too sure what kind of steel it is but it is used in a factory to punch and shape steel drums. but ill PM you with some questions. and thanks for the links buddy.

 

yes i make all my own bead roller dies but the circumference is all hammer work. i broke my phone with all the pics of me making the dies on the lathe. and no up dates yet ive been fixing tugboats in norfolk all weekend.

 

thanks bud

 

nice job very cool. id give you 3 thumbs up but i only have 2.

 

cool

 

Thanks for answering. Did you get the radius of the straight edges of the doors from hammering too or did one of your dies "break" the 90 degree with that nice round edge?

 

as far as its got. 4 day weekend i should be able to get some stuff done.

 

i used the bead roller for the body line. but the line around the windows are hammerd but only on the doors. i got the bead roller after i started the windows on the doors. the beads around the rest of windows are done with the bead roller.

 

progress, paint done. better pics later today.

 

Wow looks great, just read the whole thread. Maybe someday ill have the skill but for now ill just stick with rusted henry steel lol. Very cool keep up the good work

 

Amazing work. I bet it takes alot of patience to do a project like this one. If you were to ever sell it what kind of pricetag would something like that have on it?

 

Man its lookin good! Great job.