Technical What did you do with your car today? * NEW*

Not much more than drinking beer and trying to figure out which car I need to finish first

 

Went for another drive with friends . Another 120 miles for some good food and ice cream.

 

good time to build some notches and fabricate all the brackets on friday afternoon and did the rear suspension on sunday since there is literally nothing in the way, waiting on bushings to fabricate the four bar but I have already built the upper crossmember and bag moutns, looking forward to getting back on building the skeleton for the back half.

 

It was a nice Sunday afternoon, so I drove up to Mabry Mill on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

 

I have been working on an additional brace to help the rigidity of the body. My first attempt did not go as planned, but I learned a lot for the second try. I still have more holes to add. My brake isn’t wide enough to make the whole thing in one piece, so I had to try to create two mirror images and weld them together in the middle.

 

Got a Hilborn Injection for my old Dirt Modified .

 

I came up with some marker lights with the perfect patina for my art project !

 

I made an adapter plate to mount my master cylinder where the booster used to be

 

I finished rebuilding the driver side front suspension. I’m hoping to finish up the passenger side tomorrow.

 

I watched my son, Jesse wash my 48 Ford .

 

wanted more filter area...
Cutting up two cleaner shells to make one...

 

Took it to Rebel Roundup 2024 NZ and was part of the Flag Drop Dirt Drag Demo, i had great fun as can be seen. JW

 

Bit by bit it's starting to look like something..........

 

Drove the 40 Pontiac to our Hot Rod Club meeting today. it rained alot yesterday and cleaned up the roads!

 

Bought a box of tubing to do the exhaust on the '55 Cheby

 

I nearly finished the brace I was making for the body on my ‘31 roadster, and got it mocked up in place. You can see there’s still two holes that aren’t proportional; I just need the extra dimple die to arrive in the mail and do a little fine tuning to get it permanently in place.

 

it was a long day

 

Not today but, Saturday I pulled the tired flatty out of the roadster.

 

Soon to be replaced with this

 

Not much; but hooked up the wiring for the park/turn lights along with connecting the signal wires on column. Now I could cruise the loop with my parking lights on like in the old days except Porky's and the loop are both long gone.

 

swap a 47 - 34 2 1/4 drilled forged one for a
48 36.5 2'' one then!!!
37 38 39 and 40
are 37.5 then, on the perch.......

that other one must be a chassis engineering early one
or a vintage chassis works to be 37.5 and 47.25 wide, with a 2 1/4 perch boss

 

I used a 47" CE axle with 35" perch centers on split '37-'40 bones along with a Posies spring and Pete & Jakes shock mounts on my '35 and it all fit together fine.

 

Finalized de-frenching the head lights on the 50 Desoto..They were added on without hacking the original openings..

 

Nothing major. Just a bit of fun putting a vintage Fenton valve cover on the 53!

 

Went to get some groceries..
Spring is slowly coming here.

 

After two events with grass/ dirt Drags it was time to clean it. JW

 

getting there

 

...got my 47 AD (yes, 1947) out today to run to next town south of here; on the way I stop'd by this guy's place to see if I could take pics of his cool old shop., been wanting to do this for quite awhile.

We had a nice visit and he showed me the inside of the building, which was built about 1959 out of all used materials....he has a neat collection of old gas cans, signs, tractors, gas pumps, tractor seats, etc.

 

on to groovy things now

 

I limbered up my 51,52,53 Buick pickup to haul some trash and realized I've had her exactly 50 years.