Hot Rods The Wenatchee Roadster, 32 ford, trog bound

So a few years back me and @Marcy were visiting one of our usual haunts in central Washington and were told about some 32 roadster bodies, well of course we bought them, heres a link to a post about that:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...at-still-has-more-to-be-written.833988/page-3

After getting home i had starting putsing on a frame for the roadster parts i ended up with. well after racing last year at Trog East i knew i had to do it again, so im going to get this roadster together for trog east this year. so here a few pics of it and where im at. ill be trying to use as many parts that ive gotten out of our hunting grounds in washington so im going to call it the Wenatchee roadster!

and as usual ill do more pics that words!

pile o parts


more pill o parts, sorry there are no extra parts, this pile was parts for a pheaton and two roadsters

the ch***is during mock up

another mock up photo

the auburn dash panel i found in the junkyard

where it had been stored for a couple years in my shed

where the gauge panel came from, and auburn wrecker

old sectioned 32 firewall i found on the hamb cl***ifieds
some curved gl*** SWs going in the panel

yesterday after pulling it down from the shelf

starting to work on getting the rough body in shape, got the firewall on the ch***is, cowl fixed up and mounted on that, and started fabbing up cowl side door hinges as i missing them

stay tuned for more progress

 

Very nice start! I'll look forward to seeing it this year there!


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Looking forward to watching your build, as usual !

 

I like it. That firewall and those quarters were just begging to be built into a channeled car.

 

Oh damn it ***us, I'll be refreshing my app constantly now, I'm completely subscribed!


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very Cool

 

Wenatchee Roadster sounds better than " The Malaga Stash"..........................................or does it?

 

*****en roadster

 

I love builds made from old parts stashed.
Looks good with the channel.

 

I'm in. These threads are the reason I pay my dues. Or in the words of Nirvana "Here we are now, entertain us".

 

I like where this is headed

 

Oh my. Right in my backyard. Grand start.

 

Summama*****- snuck those right out from under our noses! Pretty nice to get stuff out of the high desert huh? I have lots of family in MN and seen some pretty rusty stuff. Congratulations, gonna love to see what you do here.

 

Yes.... another channelled roadster. I look forward to the build.

 

Jesus Christ ***us!!!! Where on gods green earth did you find all those parts????
I regret selling my '32 roadster, it was a fun car.

 

got a little more done on the roadster, started fabbing up some subrails for it out of some 3/16 flatbar, i heated it and curved it to match the top of the frame, also got the cowl side door hinges and starting hanging the rear body section on, i got the door gap to fit prett well. time to start making stuff permanent and strong.

 

Tag. Cool build.

--louis

 

Looks like a fun one.

 

Green with envy.

 

been working pretty hard on the roadster the last few week, worked alot on the subrails and have been working on floors and other sheet metal work. intered it in thr GSTA rod and custom show so i needed to make it look like something, so it's been getting cosmetic attention and it's turning out pretty good. i plan to race it at trog east.

 

Very Cool!!!!

 

Congrats on the treasure trove!!!! All great stuff. Did 3 roadsters off cowls/parts all that stuff looks just the way one would want to find it.
That roadster looks pretty darn Kool!!!!!
I dig when one takes pieces and makes their dreams become reality. That ones definitely "REAL"!!!!

 

Wow! That was fast!

 

Looks rad ***us! When you make your way back up here, hit me up. I'm working on a former bruce rig.

 

So, it was time to get back on the car last week cause i needed to have it done for Trog, so its been a busy couple weeksm, heres a pic of it at GSTA, it looked alot more finished that it was, lots to do


I had my freind Kathy Weeks at Weeks End Sign do my lettering as usual, shes a very modest person but very talented


This was the squadron my dad was part of, the Iron Angels, VF53, it was a fighter squadron that flew F8 Crusaders, my dad was a plane captain (mechanic) in Vietnam aboard the air craft carrier ship Bon Homme Richard (the Bonnie ****!) so thats where i got my inpiration from. This is my dads patch.

here it is all lettered up

so i had to finish up the rear floors, gas tank mount and batter mount etc etc



then it was onto the dash, i got the Auburn panel in Wenatchee same places i got the body panels from

i started with a 28 stude dash and just used the tunnel part of the dash

super happy with how it turned out

i like mechanical pumps but they can be touchy on a flatty so i run this airtex E8016s, it is a low pressure and does not bother strombergs needles and seats, i only use the airtex brand, they are the best. now you might think the think on the back of the pump is a filter, its not! its a check valve even tho everyone says its a filter, so put a filter behind it!

got the motor all together with the R&R manufacturing company heads ( Robert Roof)


Heres the dash all cleaned up, i just sanded down the frame and buffed it up, it will get replated at a later date, i filled it up with Curved gl*** stewart warnter gauges and what i beleive is an Es*** speedo, they had one very similar in a hudson teraplane but it has a white face
also did up a 40 ford rear for the car, ground the spring to fit in the crossmember etc etc

 

enjoying your build- fantastic-

 

Nothing like a channelled 32, I admire your work ***us, you took a pile of parts, and turned them into this.
Oh, and hats off to your Dad.....

 

Very nice build and fast! Congrats!!