Hi all Firstly I`d like to thank some important people who`ve given their time, knowledge, assistance and past on some cool parts to make this little hotrod more than was ever intended. My Dad - Al (Big Al) - Tony Cassar (lowlids) - Mark Anderson (hellrod666) - Terry Seaholm (WEBSTER . RIP) - Jack Butler (hotrd32) - Lawrie Kyte. I`ve been collecting parts and inspiration for my first hotrod build since around 2010. Almost all parts have come from HAMB members besides the engine block that come from a Fordbarn guy. I`m perhaps 75% through the build now without having always taken good pics of all the steps, so forgive me for the average photography or lack of. A good friend Big Al put me onto the start of the project which included a usable cowl and rear cross member and I`ve collected the rest along the way. I`ve always liked Tyrell`s roadster from the Pasadena Roadster Club so I aimed for something similar. Inspiration at the start... Mid 2011 I headed to the LARS with my parents for our first trip to the States. Was blown away by the amount of cool early hotrods and even cooler people. We were lucky enough to meet Mark and Terry at Limeworks Open House who we spent some time with over the weekend at the swap and later drove to Washington State to catchup again. It was the highlight of the trip, with their awesome hospitality and last minute garage crawls until midnight. Mark, the most generous guy I`ve met was beyond awesome passing on some cool parts one of which was the early Edelbrock intake off his car which is pretty neat to run. After getting home and moving interstate, it was time to make a start. Decided to box the front and rear of the chassis but I wanted to keep with the early style of the build, I came up with stepped boxing plates that rivet in. They took far too long to fab....guess thats why I`m still working on it years later...
Wow, veddy nice. I have been collecting parts for a similar project so I am interested in following your progress. --louis
Hard as it is to do around here, you boys from O-Z do it and make it look easy! Never mind the hassle of having to travel halfway around the globe for parts... Nice work on that frame, makes me want to start over on my tub! Great job finding body, all those pieces...Superb roadster.
Pat, very nice work. Amazing what hard work and talent can make out of a derelict farm found model A. Love the riveted boxing plates. Any recent pic's?. Al.
Beautiful period styled modifications. Thank you for sharing. Awesome and inspiring. Happy New Year also...
Thanks for the encouragement guys After getting it rolling I started on making an F1 steering box fit. Big thanks to Neil Jennings and Jimmy White for the heads up on the correct filler rod to use - 312 SS. It went pretty smoothly once i pre-heated to around 250 deg C, grinding the old flange off sucked though.
At around this time I headed off to the States again to hit the `14 GNRS up and hangout with Mark for a week. Was another great trip and ended up with afew cool parts mostly from Mark again who, amongst the pile, passed on an early Zephyr steering wheel - same as his roadster which is pretty great. On the lead up to the trip I was lucky enough to make a deal on the last dash Terry built, with help from Mark before he passed, intended for his own Model A roaster. Jack Butler was a huge help in picking up the dash and taking care of it until I got over there, thanks again Jack! To me, Terry Seaholm epitomised what it is to be a hot rodder, he had done it all and still had a huge passion for his hobby in his later years when we were lucky enough to meet him. He was well known for his expetese with early Stewart Warner gauges but above all he was just a great guy. I`d like to think when i get those gauges moving again Terry will be onboard for every drive.
Nice work, great job on getting the f1 steering box to fit, I tried a rhd 40 ford box but couldn't get it in with the starter in the way, so I used a rhd 32 box, also used rhd 32 pedals. all a tight fit though. Keep up the good work.
After buying a complete engine that turned out to be too far gone, the local flathead guru in town and now friend was good enough to sell me a nice 99 (`39-`41 truck) block and 8ba crank and rods to start my first engine rebuild. It`s a pretty basic street engine with a cam thats probably too big ha 250ci - 2 x Uncle Max 97s - standard valves - shaved Canadian alloy heads - Isky 400jr cam - adjustable lifters - ports matched and cleaned up - H&C duel coil distributor If I had my time again I think I`d go a new 4" crank, considering the cost to grind the original and all the time spent cleaning and tapping threaded plugs which was probably the worst job of the rebuild.
During the engine build, probably when I was sick of cleaning, I had a break and went thought the `box and sorted out the throttle pedal setup
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