Greetings to everyone from New Zealand. 1939 Ford Coupes are rare here, so sometime some of us are forced to improvise! I had a beauty some years ago which I foolishly sold, now the prices and cost of importing a decent one from the USA are prohibitive. So, here goes..... I have a fairly decent 1940 Standard Tudor body and a fairly rough 1939 Standard Coupe roof, side sail panels and trunk lid. I have worked out how to construct this, but I am unsure about the curveture of the Tudor roof as compared to the Coupe roof. I will move the Tudor door pillars forward,to suit the Coupe doors which I have, and cut the roof across the top for one side to another.I plan to use the front section of the Tudor, firewall, front roof section, etc. The question : where to make the cut in order for the finished roof to look right. Thanks in anticipation.
I think I'd temporarily mount the doors to get an idea where things begin to diverge, then select a promising location and make a cardboard or plywood template to see if the profiles match.
If you have the whole coupe roof, why not use the whole thing, and section thru the windshield pillars? You say it's rough, but I would rather fix dents than weld right across the middle of the roof.
Hey Sal, looks like you have your work cut out for you. If it was me, I'm a take it apart the way it was put together guy, but that means the hard way, when a zip disc and a straight cut is so much faster and welds almost the same. I'm sure you'll figure it out and if you search, there is plenty of pictures and posts to guide you along.
Thanks for that, was planning to cut half way up the windshield posts in the time-honoured way, but when I got the roof section home discovered it was completely rusted out along the top of the windshield. So I figure I have to make the big cut........
So a goof I suppose? I thought maybe it was a reference to something else I don’t know about, hence my question.
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