Projects Rusty 47 Ford Reserection

WOW. you have amazing tallent, very very nice work.

 

Simply amazine!!

 

Seeing it all in one color, even grey primer, must be pretty satisfying. Happy Birthday kid!

Brian

 

Looking good! Getting to that primer stage always feels like a big step forward.

 

This is looking really great.Nice work.

 

Hmm you are in Nova Scotia, Nads in So Florida, Fishbeck out in Cali................ You guys have got more patience than anyone I know! Thanks for showing us your work. I am forbidden to weld in 30 states! peace

 

Hey Steve,your car is looking great.

 

Recently found this thread. Amazing transformation that has undergone. Can't wait to see it finished.

 

looks great in one color I'm not a big fan of the non frenched headlight or the 42 grille, but i love big butt, so i will look your cars like girls...from behind

amazing work you did my friend , it's pure motivation

 

Steve, seeing your car in one color and knowing how much you like sedan deliveries I whipped up this version of your car. 'Course I'm not trying to suggest going in this direction, maybe on the next one

 

Aw man!
You do realize what you just did?
You showed Steve something he could do to change the car .. again!
Now we'll never see it on the road.
Please, no one show him how it would look with wings and a prop.

Neat rendering though. You sure know your way around those graphics programs.

 

Wow, that's nice. Someone get to Steve's computor and delete this section quickJim

 

I haven't checked your thread out for a couple of weeks now and the progress is awesome. Great to see it all in one color! Must be a great feeling. Keep up the great work Steve!

 

Thanks Joe and Jim. I thought Steve might have seen this by now, maybe he's too busy converting the car to a sedan delivery to comment. Uh oh!

 

Haha ya dirty bastard Eli what did ya go and do that for !!

He is good with the graphics but more importantly he has a good imagination for what looks cool...not related to Harley Earl are ya Eli?!

Too late !!

Thanks Farmer! It really is cool to see it, I put the skirts on last night,looks even better! When I am bored and in the shop at work I have been opening up the thread and staring at the pics lol

Nah I was stripping the front fenders last night ,fun times haha ! The funny thing is a buddy has an old (58?) International panel van, kinda suburban llike body, and I am gonna rob the roof off it this spring...just gotta decide what body to use it on . I was actually gonna ask you if you would do up a couple of renderings for me...I have that ol 50 Meteor (ford) 4 door parts car and a pair of tudor doors, and another s10 frame that was givin to me, the frame on the Ford is swiss cheese rotten. I am thinking about taking a weekend this spring and tacking together the start of a project to sell to generate some cash for rusty....although I will prolly end up wanting to keep it. Or using it to start the quick and dirty year round beater that rusty started out as...heres the thoughts that have been filling my head for the last couple of weeks...

1 . Sedan delivery ,using tudor doors, not chopped potential keeper /beater.

2. Sedan delivery chopped and slammed try and sell it..

3 Ute , 3 window using longer doors and pieces of 4 door doors to slant/re-angle the B pillar, similar to Billy Gibbons copperhead 3 window, I have the back window area from the 47 4 door roof , same glass the Aussies used on the ute's...this could also be chopped ..

4. Flatbed...this would be a keeper beater driver...it would be too ugly to sell lol, use longer doors , cut it in half to make a pick up cab, flat bed , or eventually use a cool rear end off of ? to make a box for it. The chassis I have is a long one so the wheelbase could be played around with for better proportions or left as a stock ford..either way part of the goal is to turn 2 yard eyesores into 1 ! Are you up for the challenge(s) Eli ?


Of coarse if I make it a Ute I could use that International roof to make a full kustom chopped Merc sedan delivery....

 

Oh no!!!
He's on the loose!
Run!
Hide the cutoff wheels.

As I recall... the roof on the International was huge. Plenty of material to work with but had some healthy ribs.
Utes look great, Steve. That's my vote.

Give Eli 10 minutes and he'll have some great ideas done up.

Have you done anything much with that English wheel yet?

I'm going to be traveling past your area on Tuesday and back next Saturday.
I'll shoot you a pm or something first but I wouldn't mind stopping in on the way back if you are around.

Joe

 

Steve I thought I was the only one that dreamed like that!! lol..

 

Give Eli 10 minutes and you'll have another 10 years of work, is more like it !

Reminder for me : never post a pic of my current old Yamaha café racer .... if Eli gets hold of that i'll have to oblige and it will be on on my hands until i'm 60.

 

Oh man y'all had me laughing my ass off with your comments! Thanks so much, this is what makes the photoshopping so much fun! No, I'm not related to Harley Earl, but my Dads name is Earl and he did have a '48 Harley.
Steve post a pic of your Meteor and I'll put together all your ideas, sounds like a killer project and a lot of fun to bring to life! I'm really looking forward to it!
Hermit I've never done a bike but if you have a pic send it to me and I'll do my best to keep you busy. Eli

 

Haha it hurts sometimes doesnt it ! I always have a million ideas floating around in my screwed up mind!

 

I thought you might enjoy that ! This car is such a pile of crap, it isnt even worth photoshopping lol! I will find some pics of a better car for you to use but heres the old sow.....










It loooks better than it is, it sat about 100 ft from the ocean for yrs, everything underneath is rotten ...just my style . I basically got it for nothing (bought 2 windows for the shop and he threw in the car...or vise versa !) I have scrounged up some better fenders, hood, trunklid, and even a nice meteor grille surround, so I have enough crap to try and do something with it, fool that I am!!

 

You are always welcome Joe regardless if I am here or not...Sat is usually my attempt at a full day inn the shop so I should be here...English wheel is still in the box ...mostly cause I havent needed it for anything, once I set it up it will be in my way...crappy excuse but I am sticking to it!

 

Oh here we go!! Starting on another project!! or getting ideas anyway!! lol.. I found I cant even have this stuff around..mind jumps from car to car.. too hard to concentrate on one car.. so I ended up getting rid of them all!! lol

 

Good god Steve! You might be just a little "touched"! The undisputed Rust King.

 

Lol ,Fitzee if I got rid of them all I would go crazy cause my brain would have nothing to think about ...BrerHair....rust taught me everything I know

 

Koolkemp, just checked out your build thread. Cool to see your work you just keep on pluging away and That that sadan delivery photo shop pic is so sick.

 

I was by Steve's place and a couple of pics.

 

Didnt get a whole pile done this weekend, today was a write off, but on Fri I got both of the front fenders stripped, soaked with phosphoric acid and wiped down, should keep them clean till I pull the front clip to blast it...








And I got a functional trunk latch set up, needs some finish welding, and install the release cable and find some struts to help it open..







The latch is from an old Saturn...early 90's I think...who would have thought that there was actually something useful on a junk Saturn

 

YOU ...Jim

 

You say that today might not have been a productive one but it sure looks like yesterday was!
Good stuff.
I'm glad your pictures look straight! The ones that flatheadfever took made me worried that these new glasses of mine were defective or you were doing some new change to the beast!
They are cool, artsy pics though, L.