Follow me along and help me get a 34 roadster ready for a wedding!!

Chris you rule

 

Too honest! I had a freeze block start to leak on my 36 coupe. It was the one behing the starter motor on a Chevy. I bought a new one, thru it in the tool box and the old one quit leaking. Stayed in there until I replaced the motor.
Mike

 

I'd like to say I put one of those on when I installed my trans but it's all greek to me.... sigh.

Right now at this very moment your glove box door is being used to cut up lines of some of that Mason Dixon Meth. And he's probably going to use your fan as a ninja blade to go fight yaba induce visions of evil spirits in the woods.

 

Isn't imaging great, you can just skip your F up's....LOL.....important thing Chris is that you did think of it before it was a major problem down the road......literally! One less thing to eat at the back of your mind.

 

Yeah, better now then wen she's in and running. Total time was about 2 hours. Had to pull the drivers side header, chatter rods, intake, etc. Pretty easy

 

Chris: Wish I lived closer! I had one of them things a few years ago and after checking out the pics wish I had another one. Just rebuilt a 46 motor last yar, a great experience. Wish you well with the build as well as the marriage. Tim

 

Got a lot done today, starter with a trip to my favorite place in the world: Antique Auto Ranch. I was in search of some vintage hose clamps, and I got a whole slew of em. The Ranch is a antique junk yard, going up to 1960, but most of the stuff there is 1920's-1940's. Great place!!!






Heres what I picked up today:





Anyways, so got home, installed some better thumb drive clamps on the fuel lines, made the throttle linkage, cut the hoop off the front U bolt locator, put the radiator, grill and hood back on, and started modifying the seat frame work to move it back 3". Going good so far, should be fairly easy. Waiting on upper radiator hoses to fire her off.

 

Cool! the Ford store and the App store all in one day!

 

Great stuff....there....Chris!

 

Instagram? I need to follow you.. (creepy, uh?)

Oh, and that Antique Auto Ranch sounds like fun. I need to head up there some day.

 

Yeah it's instagram...I like that app!! Come on up anytime, I'll supply the couch, you supply the beer

 

Sounds like a deal! Mind PM'ing me your Instagram handle? Instagram is one of the few apps I obsess over.. I don't get enough car stuff in there though.

 

Done and done

 

Only spent a couple hours on it today. I needed a set of rumble hinges and ordered a set from Vintique. They fit like shit, the deck lid would not even shut all the way, the bottom would hot the panel below the decklid. Plus the screws were metric. What the hell is wrong with suppliers? Either way, went to the hardware store and got the correct 1/4" screws and some grade 8 bolts for the hinges (instead of the grade 2 they come with). The hinges needed to go farther forward, and did not want to modify the holes in the body to accept a shitty part, so hogged the holes out on the hinges. Once done...the deck lid fits extremely nice! Opens and shuts like new!!!

 

Nice job Chris.....hog them holes! or as we say "make that shit fit!"

 

I had a problem with a couple vintique parts myself..... Good thing you were able to make em fit! lookin' good!

 

ooo, that does fit nicely!

 

looking good nice fit. did u sell ur forty eight convert when u bought the 34?......Dave

 

No, right after I bought it my 41 popped up for sale so I bought it and my dad bought the 48 from me

 

kool!!! looked like a great convertible to build

 

Not mush of an update but I took the seat to a guy who a friend told me about. He is gonna recover the seat bottom pretty cheap. He found some material that matches the old faded 50 year old seat back really close. It will not match 100%, I wouldn't expect it too but it will work for the time being.

Also starting to mount the dash. I have run into a couple snags as far as were the dash mounts exactly and what these little "tangs" are hanging down. They have little nail holes in em...just dunno why they are there. Anyone have any pics of original roadsters with these??

 

Really hard to tell from pic exactly where these are. If they are on both ends of the dash underneath then perhaps they were for a package tray?

 

Chris. I would drop a bit of weld in those hogged out holes. Things have a tendancy to loosen up and vibrate and maybe get you out of line again when you least expect it. A little weld tto fill the "hog" would be good insurance.
Mike

 

Car is looking great man!

You're making good progress!!!

JH

 

They are not hogged out...the small strap thing takes nails, the dash board takes wood screws. Screw heads are a nice fit

 

Awesome job, commin along nicely!

 

My Chevy truck had a dash rail made of wood that went from the left pillar to the right pillar. Seeing that there is as much wood in that roadster, that would be my guess.
Is a dash rail offered in a wood kit???

Oh, and that steering wheel is beautiful.

 

My 33 has wood that the dash screws into. Is your wood missing where the dash and the cowl meet?

 

No, it's there...and my friend Randy sent me some pics to help clear things up.