Projects Rusty 47 Ford Reserection

Im tryin Joe ! Ya made it home ok with all your treasures

 

And heres where I am at as of today, before and afters of the completed upper trunk opening . My welder is making a funny noise hopefully it will hold out till I can afford to get it looked at and fixed...A friend is having a car show at his shop in a couple of weeks and he wants me to bring the unfinished car over so I am trying to get it presentable , with a coat of epoxy urethane over the first round of mud work so hopefully I will have a few updates over the next 2 weeks ( as long as the welder dont die!)

pass side before, no special yool used , just a chunk of the sedan lip, reshaped and other pieces welded together



after..



drivers side before



after...

 

Wow! talking about wanting something bad..Jezz! great job...

 

Great trip, other than the many construction stops. Haven't unloaded anything yet but looked at the T hinges I had left in molasses for de-rusting. Lookin good. Maybe I'll post a pic in my album later.
I keep thinkin' about putting that rear suspension I got this week into the T... but sanity shows up long enough and reminds me to keep this one simple.
Good luck with that welder.

 

Nice job on the upper truck area & the rounded corners. Very tasty. I think your round corners is very tastefull & flows with the rest of what you have going on.

PACO

 

For me thats what sums it up ...how bad do I want something ..... cant afford to buy a nice one so I gotta make my own with what I can scrounge up ! Thanks eh!

 

just gone thru the thread, great work, good call on the rear quarter windows too. Will you be showing the suspension mods as well, be interesting to see how your gonna drop it.

 

Yep I will , since I dont have enough heat to do bodywork in the winter , I wont be doing stuff like that till it gets closer to winter..

 

Looks great.i have alot of catching up to do!! started on my project last week.

 

Thanks Fitzee , drop me a pm and let me know how its going! I started the mudwork on the roof yesterday, gotta get some epoxy on it to make half way presentable , I am gonna bring it to Chads show in 2 weeks , he wants it there so people can se something in the works.

 

I haven't had the time to check your thread lately. Man, what an improvement with those windows! You nailed it! Love the rounded door and trunk corners too. You are systematiclly fixing all the stuff that has driven me nuts about these cars as customs forever. Looks oh so good...

 

Your welder could be suffering from fatique. You are wearing that puppy out. Lookin good. Pat.

 

Thanks ! I dont care too much for these cars except as customs ...and I have seen alot I didnt care for , but this ones being done my way

 

Ya like I mentioned I cant really get mad at it...it prollly shoulda died years ago!!

 

Been on the fence about turning mine into a taildragger. The more I see yours, the more I want to start cutting. What an awesome job, do you ever stop moving?

 

holy crap! first page i was like wow this guy is good. then i thought i'd skip to the last and see how it looks, and wtf! its a chopped coupe!!!now i gotta read the whole thread. beautiful. great job!

 

Go for it man ! Yours runs and is in one piece at least ! And you already have a 55 Chevy, cant get any better than owning a taildragger and a 55

 

Thanks man! The whole thread should keep you busy for at least an hour

 

Outstanding post and build. Need louvers told me about this and said I had some competion building something from nothing. I would say its more company than competion. You are like me in that I do not have alot of money but alot of time and drive for something that we want. Keep the build thread going and really nice work so far. You can see my build at the link below.

 

Lol I have been following your build since you first dragged it outta the gully In fact it inspired me to drag home the jewel you see below last summer hopefully it will one day become a Westerguard stlye taildragger 3 window ...ya gotta have a pretty good imagination like I do !!





I have also found the 37 wreck below , which I have to try and pick up in the next month or so....the plan is to use the 37 ass end to make my own bastardized 3 window

 

Talk about the builder of lost souls ..... I can't wait till you start this one!!!

Ratty 46

 

^^^What he said, I love your Resurrections. Haha

 

you have some amazing talent. the roundeed door tops made a big difference. this is an awesome project.

 

Very cool keep the post going and I will check in from time to time.

 

THIS can be saved ????? And I thought I have a rusty /dead project .....
For sure at the end , skills have improved

 

I'm already excited about the new project. I should drag a California car back there and see what you do with it.

 

Someday before I die that is a dream of mine lol! Just to have fun and make a custom out of a nice car....maybe one that even runs !!

 

That one wont happen till I scrounge up enough junk to make it worth starting on ... still need a frame , the hacked up one under it is a 46-48 frame, might just build my own though ...need 4 fenders , dont have to be 35-36 Ford and I would like to find a better set of doors so I can cut these ones up to make the curved B pillar area on a 3 window doors. Once I get enough junk scrounged up to make it worthwhile I am gonna lock myself in the shop for a winter with about 30lbs of mig wire and see what I can tack together ...then I will build the chassis , I am really looking forward to starting it , Westergard style taildraggers are by far my favourite era of customs....

 

Thanks for the kind words , gonna get some epoxy on the roof this weekend and try to sandblast and finish the welding on the godforsaken trunklid !!

 

30 lbs? I know you well enough to say that 30 isn't enough! Between the "adjusting" of the designs and radical mods....

Hope to see it at Chad's next weekend.

What product did you use for the rust.. a phosphoric acid of some kind I thought but which one?