Projects 41 plymouth coupe 392 hemi build thread

Mounted the modified brackets and attached the bumper. It to a bit of tweaking, but now have it situated in the correct position. The bottom part of the bumper is in line with the fenders and equal distance from the trunk. I only need to cut the sides slightly to get it in line with the body when looking side on. Job done. Tomorrow I'm going to start on the new rear gravel/splash pan.

 

Thank you Moparts. I'm glad I've moved it forward. It somehow looked a little out of place in its original state.

 

Eric, thanks for the info & pics on the rear bumper.

I plan on doing much the same thing on my 40 Chrysler to both the front and rear. Perhaps weld studs into the bumper for mounting. Clean up the welds and sand smooth b/4 replate or paint (haven't decided yet). The bumper guards wont be used

Gatz
2nd pic is at the front nose.

 

No kidding! I went back and looked at the overhead picture you posted last year (page 44, post 867) and it kinda looked like a Platypus. Your idea will improve it a lot, that's for sure.

 

Thank you gatz. The plan is to have the bumper completely smooth, meaning studs welded in and re-chromed. (and no bumper guards.) Going to start fabrication on the gravel/splash pan today.

 

I think your going to get it just right with those bumpers well done.
Mines a 47 and ive got mine in pretty tight but could be tighter I think.Keep up the good work.

 

One man's junk/garbage is another man's treasure. Although I don't think there's much value in rusted metal debris unless you could deposit it into a scrapped junk car for added weight.
I have a small jar of Bonneville salt scraped from the bottom of a record holding Studebaker that I think is cool, although perhaps odd or garbage in the average persons view.

 

Looking good.

 

Thanks OahuEli! It was waaayyyyy too big for sure.

Thank you 47PLY! I like what you did with your bumpers.

Thank you BACAGrizz!

 

looks great eric as usual. I dig the bumpers. What are you doing with the trunk lid at this time?

I am kind of down and out for a while because of my heart problem coming back... so keep it up because I need some good reading!

 

Thanks Scott. I'll continue with the deck lid after I've done the splash pan. I just needed a little break from it.

I hope your heart condition will improve soon, I'm looking forward to you finishing the Apache and Plymouth!

 

Next: the splash/gravel pan. I started by tracing the the bumper outline onto 7mm wood, cut it and started hammering away. After a few hours of hammering and a few fitments, I got the correct shape.Next I made the outline of front of the pan. This will eventually be bolted to the bottom of the body. I created the lip on the inside for extra strength.

 

After a bit of tweaking, I got it to fit. The bumper is going to be mounted slightly higher to bring the pan up a little bit. I still need one day of work on this piece, including the mounting/modifying the 3 brackets from the old pan.

I would like some input from you guys if possible. What to do with the sides of the pan?? (last pic) Any thoughts are appreciated. I left it oversized, so any modifications can still be realized.

 

looking good erik, I would tuck the end more in flowing into the fender
Art

 

Thanks Art. I know I need to do something with the ends, just don't know what yet. I can follow the flow of the fender, or the bumper, or the back of the body, or ......choices, choices.

 

that is what I shoud do.
Jurgen

 

How about some photoshop help from someone?
I know,thats a really small detail,but photoshopping it could save your time if you dont like the first version you'll make.No refabricating it,you know...

 

I'd say make it flow with the end of the bumper, or get real crazy and extend the bumpers around the corners a little more! I always found it odd on my 47 that the bumpers were longer on the front than the back!

Either way thats great work as usual on the splash pan...Again you have raised the bar!

 

how about something like this...

kinda flow with the body and bumper.

 

Thank you Finnrodder. If possible, I want to ensure I don't have to make a second one. Maybe I'll just fabricate a few small pieces and see which one looks best.

Thank you for your input n847. I like the fact that the fender is completely visible from the side, so I won't extend the bumper. I'd like to somehow close the area around the ends of the bumper, without creating a distraction. Get it flowing somehow, that's the idea.

 

Thank you for your input Allen. That certainly may be a way to do it.

 

damn, I am going to have to do that with mine, good job on the splash pan

 

Good idea! I'll whip something up after work today.

 

Could you narrow the bumper to pull the edge in closer to the body? Or re-bend the bumper a little, again to pull the edge in. I think that now the bumper is closer to the body, the amount it sticks out past the fender becomes more visible and detracts from "flow".

 

I think the nearer you can get the ends of the bumpers to the rear fenders the better and the narrower the splash pan. The better it will look and flow.

 

How about just radiusing the ends to turn into the body smoothly?

 

My thoughts exactly. Builtfercomfort, I believe you and 47ply pretty much nailed it. The first photo shows the bumper shortened to get the bumper ends in closer. I trimmed the pan to fit, also extended the bumper ends to continue the curvature, the net effect being a rounder bumper.



The second photoshop hopefully will convey what I was trying to do. This bumper was just shortened. Of course these two are not to exact scale, just kinda sorta close.

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Good thing is that looks like perfect and bad thing is that Eric have to do some extra fabricating,if he likes that idea.

 

good job, Eli, looks fantastic!