I went to a yacht salvage yard in Newport Beach, CA Saturday. I was like a kid in a candy store. I had been there one other time, but this time I'm building a custom so anything that was unusual might have a purpose. As it turns out, I bought this killer fuel filler port. It's solid br*** that was chromed. It's almost like a shallow funnel with a knurled cap connected by a chain so as not to loose the cap. Etched in the funnel, is FUEL. I buffed it up and installed it Sunday. Since shaving my fuel door and reloacting it to the trunk, this was a perfect way to acheive amore finished look. I'll post pics one of these days. You never know what you'll find and where.
I wish there was a salvage close to here. I've been looking for one of those stainless cup holders they used to use. They looked like they were made from wire and had a pivot so they could swing back and forth. I'm not sure about yacht parts, but there was a bunch of hot rod and custom parts came out of the Mare Island Naval Ship yard back in the old days. Like to see a pic of your new filler, sounds slick.
My fuel seperator is from a 1940s cabin cruiser. Its 10 inches long and beehive. Ive never seen another.
You didn't see any slick gauge panels did you? A lot of the old wooden yachts had some pretty good looking panels
Like this one? http://www.overtons.com/cgi-bin/overtons/detail/pdetail2.cgi?r=detail_view&item_num=35233 $9 and comes with the cool nautical theme koozie
That sounds perfect....Aero parts are fun too... even just running through an airplane junkyard is a kick and your imagination runs wild with what you can do.. Which Salvage did you hit? The one on old-Newport? You might trek up the coast a little to the one in Seal beach right across the street from Captain Jacks...
There was a lot of other cool items. The steering wheels, all sorts of sizes were so tempting. There was one that was aluminum 3 spoke that was begging to be hole drilled for a Bonneville look. Many neat gauges too. They even had new parts like automotive relays for $2 each. They're like $6-7 at the autoparts stores. I almost forgot, they had some really great looking exhaust manifolds. Downright hot rod menacing, just waiting for a home.
I have been installing boat parts on my '50 plymouth wagon for about a year. I did the fuel filler, red and green lights, tie-off for a hood ornament and burgee pole. Also gonna install waterski to the roof rack and paint (Jerry's speed and marine sales + service) on the doors with misc. boat items in the back of the car. Also working on log style wet exhaust manifolds and through the transom exhaust (out the back fenders). HEY its Hot Rodding use what you got!!
In the marine (boats, not leathernecks) section at my local ACE hardware store, I found a *****in' 7 place fuse block and a cool 3 position ignition switch. Both have an industrial, very business like look to them, they are built very robustly and they are fairly cheap (about $12 apiece). I bought 2 of each. Great stuff for wiring up a simple hot rod.
Does it look like this? This one doesn't have "fuel" on it anywhere... Oh, and sorry some of the pictures are blurry
It sort of looks like that. I'll try and get a pic tonight. It has a distinct funnel look with a completely smooth cap.
Those are cool! I had one of those in my coupe for a while, but then I changed the dash, and it didn't fit anymore....
Even if they are expensive, here's a place with some alternative shapes and designs for Duvall type Windshields. http://www.californiacl***icboats.com/garwood1.htm They also have a bunch of other funky little parts. Like this deck vent...
I saw one of those deck vents , in br*** , made into a motorcycle aircleaner cover . Pretty ****ing cool .
The windshield stanchions on my roadster are off of a boat.... Might end up using some other marine parts...
also porkn******, do a google on "barbuoy" or "barbouy", they used to manufacture them in the '70's, fairly heavy gauge wire too.
A friend of mine used a small boat windshield on his '29 on Deuce rails. It took a bit of tweaking, but not much. It looked real good. He bought a small boat folding top, and used it to make a top for the car. It all looked real nice, wish I had a pic, but I don't.
The local boat supply store has a really nice selection of stainless fasteners and small doo-dads.This fuel tank came out of a dead sail boat .It is stainless , holds 14 gals. of fuel ,has baffles and a provision for a sending unit.I got it for pinstripping a car and it fits nicely in the back of my model A.
Great idea Mike. Great post, I've got a gas tank out of an old Biesemeyer drag boat in my truck. Also, from the Marine store, I bought a flush mount stainless fuel filler with key just like they sell in Street Rodder but for a heck of a lot less. Mine says GAS but you can get one that says SEWAGE too.
When I rewired my car I bought the fuse panel and maxi fuse holder's out of a marine cataloge. Good quality parts at a good price. Alot cheaper then buying a complete fuse box and harness from painless.
me and 62wagon made a trip out to one a few weeks ago. he got a nailhead out of a old boat and i scored some cool deck vents to use and wishbone covers and a mallory unilite dizzy. we saw all kindsa cool guage panels and a bunch of other neat junk. a return trip is planned soon
I've seen that gas cap for sale in the mags too, what a joke. They are pulling them off the marine shelves, tripling the price and reselling them to some poor soul.
The radiators in both my projects have four 1/2" female pipe couplings in the top tank (instead of the usual 1 1/2" single hose ******) so I'm using this marine thermostat housing....it also has four 1/2" female pipe threads in it....
hey was that the yacht place on Newport Blvd? or was it another place? I've been meaning to go into that place just havent gotten around to it yet
my dad used to chave a couple of those from when he bought sold and traded golf carts. so try one of those power sports places that have golfcarts and ***ories
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