1951 Ford Custome Coupe Build..

Man Eric, the time off was needed cause now I feel it burning hot again.

 

Thanks, I appreciate it very much

 

Start one, show us how it sits now, and your plans. It will help you get motivated, we are like cheerleaders here haha

 

Thanks, I will for sure have some more posted by the end of the week.
Taking my heads in on monday, and going to buy some things for the engine this week.

 

Thanks.
Bako? thats where I grew up. how is it there these days?

 

Matt,

I have Photoshop. Ill take some pics tomorrow when im there and pshop em for ya!

 

The rear drivers 1/4 is almost done.
an artsy pic
I had to cut out the pass side windsplit before I finished the driver side.
Will be back on the shoe next week have a project for a friend *blown240*, he is getting a rear end treatment. Will post pics of that soon.

 

Keep it up... Im getting closer to working on mine.

 

I'm coming to your house to work on mine!

 

Mr Dickies, after mooneyes unfortunately we can plan a day and you can, we can tag team it.

 

nice work, any updates?

 

No updates, its been outside all covered up.
Been working doing my friends ride.
Here are a few pics. Once the rear is done I will post more pics or he will in a separate thread.



















Extended the fenders 2 inches, dropped them an inch, then took the top and dropped the rear ball of it an inch forcing a longer gradual slope, replaced rot, redid and made more bracing for the rear, cut and moved trunk opening a 1/2 back on pass side, on drivers only 1/4 realigned all gaps in trunk and decklid, going to slice in the windplits/tail lights from my shoebox and shortened 5 inchs into the fenders. Also shaving the key lock, and installing a Lincoln push button somewhere secret, and reworking the license french, he wants rounded corners.

Going to get the metal as perfect as possible before filler is applied, its taken a little longer then orig thought. but it will be done very soon. Going to get his car done before the end of next year, with a chop and other mods. A little at a time.
Have some other cars to do as well from the club, as well as wanting to heist this older guys 37 Ford Truck, he bought 60 years ago when he got married, he used to street race it and things, into traditional customs etc. His knees are bad, so I want to get it going for him as a gift.

I did buy a Lincoln push button to some how make a trunk opener without putting it on the decklid or apron. Not sure how thats going to work, but I will figure it out.
Also a 53-54 Buick headlight, looking for one more.
Once I get it back in the garage, things are going to start going fast.



But now I am thinking of going off frame.

 

everytime i try and upload pics on here it doesnt work.
Resize them in photobucket, then is get wacky on here.
Is anyone else having issues uploading on here?

 

Nice Work! I Like the pic where the dog photobombs the shot!

 

Thanks man.
Yeah I didnt notice that until the next day, Jude is a crack up.

 

Not sure what computer you have, but I resize my pics BEFORE I upload to Photobucket, then all I do is copy the label and paste. That seems the easiest and painless way I have found.
OH, and Great job on the Chevy...

 

I do the same thing,with the imageresizer.Sending that resizer for you just didnt work,my email was sent back for some reason..
That sideproject looks interesting,it would be interesting to see more of that.Keep up the good work,man!

 

Eric, what program do you use? I was using just the windows one, then gimp.
But I get pissed, for example I have 200 picks of this rear section of the Chevy. I need to resize all of them, and I really dont want to do them one by one.

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I stopped being lazy and googled it haha

 

I have a Mac, and I use a program called Image Resizer made by John Wordsworth vs 0.9.2

 

.... And I forgot I can do 100's of pics at a given time, just drag and drop.

 

I'll pat myself on the back here and admit I'm VERY computer savvy, but I still use an old fashioned way of resizing pics because it's FAST and SIMPLE.

Microsoft Paint. Open the photo in it, select all, resize accordingly. Most of the stuff I post here I resize to 25% of original, then I save it as the original filename with a "-25" afterwards, in the same folder. I can open, resize, rename and save a photo in less than 10 seconds. There's no way to do a batch at once, but nobody wants to see a large batch of my pictures anyway!

IMAG0001.jpg becomes IMAG0001-25.jpg and it's easy to see which ones to upload. Smaller files also take MUCH less time to upload.

 

I'm using Windows 7. I can select any number of pics, right click, and select "resize pictures." Then select the size you want. Also, you can set up photobucket to upload your pics to a certain size. I have mine set to upload at 640x480. It resizes them automatically.

 

Sweet, I will try that I have windows 7.
The funny thing is, I can design and maintain a network and troubleshoot most things, but I couldnt figure out how to resize multiple pics haha

 

.... Einstein couldn't tie his shoes....

 

Thats who invented one of my favorite shoes.... Slip on Vans haha

 

Vans rule !!!

Ok, get back to work on the sled.... Keeping your motivation going.

 

Havent had much time lately to work on the Chevy, but a buddy did come over to help with my 283 brake down.

 

Keep up the good work,this is kool,that will help me to keep moving on mine...!

 

Get back to work on my Chevy!

 

Worked on it a couple hours last night, also gave it a nice rub down with my balls.