37 Chebby Taildragger update...pics

You got a good eye. Thanks for the tech photos too.

 

Damn that looks good.

 

Well Keith, you seem to be pulling off the near impossible task of making a car look good from every angle. Looking great man, should ride great too, I think you made good choices for the suspension set-up.

Keep it up!

 

schweeet

 

Keith, are you going with bumpers or not?

 

Thanks guys, I couldn't wait to mock it up and put air to it so I could see how bad I fucked it up!
I tell you, it's easy when you can go to guys on the HAMB to ask questions and get excellant advise, they make even a hacker like me look good!!!

Yea Thomas, I'm looking for a decent pair of 37 Master Deluxe, simple and smooth that'll be tucked in close. I've still got some things coming in the front and rear, but I can't give away all of the secrets.

 

kieth.. show them the tail lights..

 

yes !! because of the hamb intervention my eyesite was saved. i done learned my lesson!!

 

OH NO...not this shit again!!

 

'41 Stude

 

hey what are the hubcaps?? i like those

 

God Bless the taildraggers!!!!

I have a friend building a '36 Ford five window. I'm trying to convience him to
make it a tail dragger. Thanks for posting the pics this should sway him to tail
dragg it.

Happy Trails,

Mick

 

I bolted up the other side and pushed it outside. I know what I was planning for the front, but lets see what those wheels of yours will turn up??
I'm always open for ideas. Thanks

 

very nice job.. is that as low you can go in the front? would be cool with the nose on the ground but then you'd have to probably change the tires.. good job though i like the ass end.. sexy!

 

geeeez toad , what a waste of machinery........................wheres the straight axle??????

 

Nice keep the updates coming..I Love The Draggers!

 

You're way too funny dragrcr50...if you only had a clue of what you were saying and how funny it really is!! Inside joke!

 

Hell no !

LeadSledMerc,great work,cool car ! I'd keep the stock grille, clean the hood sides and put on some nice looking headlights,lower than stock of course and partially frenched into the fenders.Praised be the lowered.

 

Oh I get it and I really do like it that way , you do great work ,very well done i think ..............

 

I don't think the front would look right if it were too much lower. The tucked and tight bumpers will take care of a lot of any height concerns. Are ya gonna use a split bumper to let that grill stand out?

Olson

 

that coupe is bad to the bone.....the skirts are friggen huge and awesome.

Great work, keep us posted.

 

Keith, I think you should keep the grille. That thing is sweet. I was thinking of doing what Frenz mentioned on the lights, mount them A lot lower than stock. As for hood sides, let me finish the visual in my head.

 

Yeah, I gotta keep pestering you, where are the skirts from? Are they aftermarket, where did you get them?

 

No problem, I meant to get back to you when you asked last time.
I picked the skirts up off eGay real cheap. They are marked 36 - 46 chevy in marker on the back side, but other than that I don't have a clue who made them. There layed up glass with riveted and glassed in brackets.
LSM

 

Frenz, I agree with you and speedaddict about dropping the lights, but I'm still up in the air on the grill and hood sides. There's a certain grill I'm looking for that would "fit" if I can find one, but that stock 37 grill is a nice fall back.
Planning on using 38 buckets with the shallow stamped standoff sections from the 38, but I think I'm going to hang them off the doghouse. I don't want to totally lose the 37/38 look, but I do want them in tighter and lower. Here's a mock up from yesterday.
Thanks a lot for the ideas and comments.

 

i reiterate boooinng!

 

Personally I love the stock grill but it depends on what else ya do. Your thoughts on the headlights I think are dead on...of course then ya gotta do somethin' with the hood sides because of the stamped spear. That's a great part of the 37's design, but they will look pretty odd if they don't fall in line with the headlights.

The stepped reveal on the hood has gotta stay.

Olson

 

Absolutely Bitchin ride brother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

48 poncho

 

perhaps a 40 chebby headelight bucket with its length would look good real tight as near grille as possible and should clear the hood panel??? see i like these things too............