COE COE Picture thread (imported from main board)

I did some dirt track racing with the truck. Was very Cool

 

Bad****^^^

 

KOOS - You wild and crazy guy...there is no way I doing that with my COE!!!!!!!

 

A nice truck but not a COE.

 

Were you racing or doing some field plowing with the front bumper? LOL

 

When I moved mine a few years ago. I really sweated when I had to back it out of the trailer and onto the ramp...

 

Sweated? I think I would have*****!

 

probably been posted before,cool truck!

my weekly metal work blog www.themetalsurgeon.com

 

Mike, how about some more pics of your COE? (I read ALL 112 of your posts to see the one pic you posted earlier of it!) It looks like it will be very nice! What chassis, steering and engine placement did you use?

 

Man that is a nice truck I am eying a 51 5700 coe. i have read lots and looks like the p30 chassis is the way to go. I am****uming yout engine mount is behind the cab for the cab to be sitting that low?

 

I need to learn how to post larger pictures...anyone have a spare 7 year old kid who can teach me how? (kidding).

Here are some new pictures never posted before...

Basic rundown:

Stock frame z-d at back of cab. Boxed in the front. Chevy 1 ton front and rear suspention. 4.10 gears. Front and rear sway bars. GM Car steering box inside frame rails. Ididit Column. Fatory Dodge dakota a/c. Fresh air vents under hood. 1960's Imperial defrost dusts in dash top. Cruise, tilt, power steering and brakes. Subwoofer under passenger seat. Lots of custom fiberglass work (see seat riser pictures). Overhaed console with map lights and sterea. Dual aluminum fuel tanks in front of boxes. Aluminum fuel "flip" caps. Tilt bed. currently 350/700R4 under the bed, but swapping to a 400 SBC in the very near future.

Flamed picture I drew a long long, time ago, is the goal...I would also like to mount an aluminum wing at the back of the cab, with led turn lights in the trailing edge and a cargo light on the bottom side.

 

I'll try to post more recent pictures when I "hit it hard" in a few weeks. I am trying to make it presentable for Frog Follies and get it road tested too. Sure would be nice to have a 32 on top of it. I sold my 32 tudor sedan body a while back. (really sorry I did that!!!!!)

 

very cool pics Coos,

 

the p30 chassis is made for this style of cabover ,i have placed the engine in the back before with no problems but on this build i put it in front under hood,lots of ground clearance for engine ,a little tight clearances with 19.5 inch rims, LOU

 

Very nice work! I love the details that you have put into it. I hope mine will be at that stage someday when I get my move finished. Too bad about the Tudor body, but sometimes you have to thin the herd to feed the other projects.

If you want to post the bigger pics you'll need to use a picture hosting service. I use Picasa by Google http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=157000 to post my pics. Its free up to a certain amount of pics. Once you have your pics uploaded to them you just insert the link (embed image) into your post and they magically appear like this one of my stalled COE project.
<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/kb1AUk_Z91DoU753KtAlb9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-b_b6nPgMr4E/S5e3oX_n46I/AAAAAAAAFa0/5cwzGFoc58Y/s800/DSC01923.JPG" height="800" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From 1939 Ford COE Project</td></tr></table>

 

Nice and rust free. But, where do you buy a custom radiator with a large hole in it to fit around the master? ... (grin)

Sold that sedan body back in 1993 for $900. Solid, rust free, one tiny dent on the cowl. Didn't need the money...boy was I dumb. That's the second time I messed up having a 32Ford. Passed up on a coupe when I was a kid because it didn't have a steering column. Come to think of it, that one was $900 bucks too. Next time I see 32 Ford for $900, I'm buying it.

 

Hi Mike
I have some of those photo's on my web site and lots more if you guys want to check them out
Just scroll to the bottom of the link below
http://www.ozcoetrucks.x10.mx/Index.3.html

If anyone else want to have their COE placed on this web site just let me know

Seeya
Bill

 

OUCH!!! $900!!! That even hurts me and I didn't own it. $900 was cheap even back then. I wish I would have bought more 32's back then.

That ugly master cylinder and rusty firewall has since been cut out and sent to the scrap yard. My COE was an abandoned project that was on a Dodge pickup frame and it was pretty ugly, both in workmanship and execution. I now have two Chevy crew cab dually chassis (one in South Dakota that's for sale and another one out here in Prescott that nicer and already lowered that I found over in California) that I'm going to use once I get the cab out here. Where do you have your radiator mounted in your COE? What kind did you use? I didn't see it in the pics but if it looks like your firewall it must be really nice.

Here's my pile when I picked it up with it still mounted what's left of the Dodge frame sitting on top of the Chevy chassis. Check out where they had the radiator mounted (behind the cab)! Yea, like that would work!

<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/n62IY6pMreLjVMYGkchlUNMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5HwHZgQaAoo/SSro-S6PR2I/AAAAAAAAFa0/U8X8dWYiqGs/s800/DSC00275.JPG" height="600" width="800" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From 1939 Ford COE Project</td></tr></table>

 

Prescott...you're just a stones throw from my sister's place in Crown King (The Mill).

My aluminum crossflow radiator is mounted low. You could do the same thing, but you would need to build a panel behind the grill bars at the top to direct air into it. My grill is heavily modified with the grill bars lowered from stock. Notice the picture of my grill vs. a stock grill. I don't run a chin pan.

One more thing you won't see very often, the top of my COE grill is punched full of louvers. Talk about a bodywork nightmare...lots of compound curves.

(Hi Bill...nice to see you here.)

 

Your sister just had a close call up there in Crown King with that nasty fire they had back in May. It was heading this way too but they finally got it stopped. It finally rained here today after 66 days without a drop. That's the reason I built out of the trees on the north side of Prescott.

Nicely done, and it looks like the radiator should handle handle anything! I was looking at a double pass cross flow like this one on Ebay:

New Griffin # 128272X double pass aluminum radiator. 19" tall X 31" wide, universal fit, Chevy only. 1 1/2" upper outlet, 1 3/4" lower outlet. Passes fluid through 2 sections to lower temperatures by 20 degrees. Wide core allows for more cooling surface. Engineered with two 1" core tubes.

I measured and it is the biggest I can fit in there. What size did you fit in there? What did you use for an electric fan?
I didn't even catch the change in your grill until you pointed it out.

 

This thread is @ 143 pages & I did a cursory search under "white"... didn't really find any information about this kind of rig & will have to do some more digging to see where I need to look for a builder's plate, etc.

If anyone has intel on this ride, please feel free to contribute.

Pics taken in "Far SW Austin"... i.e. an "undisclosed location". I have a crazy dream floating in my head that I could get this up & running with a mildly thumpy 350 / Saginaw combo but have zero clue as to how easy it would be to fit it all in.

I'd like to pull up to the front of a customer's house (I'm a roofing contractor) & instantly get a conversation started about the truck. Maybe build a wooden bed on there with stake pockets & have a set of tool boxes behind the cab on runners that would allow me to slide the boxes out for easier access. Yeah, I'm a dreamer... but then I'm sure than 100% of this board is made up of crazy**** ideas.
















If anyone can shed some light on what that is behind the seats, I'd like to know. I also wonder how hard it would be to convert that into added seating (have 2 kids, but knowing the way these kinds of projects go... by the time I got this finished they'd probably be in college). Since it's so tight behind the bench, I imagine any added seating would have to be Jumper style (sideways).

I have no idea on the year but will guess it's a mid 40's to early 50's?

Also, what's that over the front window area - partial framing for a fabric visor?

I'm also curious if this is a tilt cab - don't see much in the way of engine access from the front of the nose.

Thanks, y'all.

 

BTW, the pic hosting came from me uploading to FaceBook & then copying the links... then adding the tags. No size restrictions.

 

You see that arm looking thingy, and in the middle looks like a latch contraption,
so yeah, its looking like it is a tilt cab, google searching i found a 49 that looks similar to the one in your pic, but who knows,

 

You are correct it is a latch with a hydraulic pump/jack to tilt up the cab.

Post #7 of this thread there is a picture of a white COE.

 

Markgyver, thanks for the heads up on post # 7. My pictured unit has a vent under the windshield, so it's similar but not quite the same. Also, I am showing cab only... would be nifty to have a sleeper.


NovaDude, can you throw the pic link in here? I guess I'll go a bit deeper on the pic searches.

Thanks, y'all.

 

Man that's a sweet find, I would give my left and right nut to find a white

 

Here are some more pics from an earler post.

Here is one that was for sale on racing junk a few months ago. I like the caddy Dagmars on it.

 

Another pic of the same COE.

 

Glad that Arizona fire is out. My sister stayed while the fire burned. She had to keep her generators running and save the food. Once the danger subsided to the town, she fed the firefighters. She was always packed to leave at a moments notice.

I think I used the same radiator you listed. I build a core support to hold it and mounted a large swap meet fan on the inside. The fan is wired with a temp switch in the block (with a relay) and a manual override switch under the dash. I used galvanized muffler pipes in long sections between the radiator hoses, I also have a lot of rust additive in the system. I will put a sacraficial anode cap on it too. With all the fluid in the system, it is tough to warm it up.

 

I had the Saltlakepinman make up some custom emblems. They turned out pretty nice. Anyone have suggestions on what type of adhesive tape to use. They are roughly 9" x 2.5" x .125" thick and being metal they weigh a bit. The pictures don't do them justice as they are actually nickel plated silver. I will be installing one on my Tourliner camper section, which is made of aluminum (painted).