Projects Tucks AV8 Pickup build thread-----> BABE THE BLUE OX

Good news and bad news...I've had the doors annd back panel of the cab ordered from brookville since last nov, and they put it off another 3 weeks. This time they said the back stamping would be done in the next two weeks... but prior this this they had said that panel was done and were waiting for parts for the doors. So I suspect someone else got my back panel or they're all full of shit. Hoping to get my doors and back panel in a few weeks... but in reality maybe next year...

Meanwhile the cowl sides showed up today and I'm stoked!

started to strip the chassis and get ready to fit the Hemi in the Y-blocks place so I can fab motor mounts and check steering clearance. I may end up changing that-

 

Disappointing, but glad there's some forward movement on this one too!

 

I’ve been silently following, looking great. Nice to see this ‘32 again, I “built” that car about 7 years ago. I use the term built loosely as the new owner did a lot of great work to it, as the V8 and top among other things that I don’t want to take credit for.

 

That 32 was exceptional... Reminded me of something you would see in one of Vern Tardel's books. Nice work to everyone involved. They say a project car changes hands like five or six times before it's finished.

 

I believe I saw it in Colorado at the hill climb when it still had the 4 banger in it, and then at the roc with the v8. Really nice car

 

At the time it left my hands to the ,what I'm assuming is still the current owner, it had the B. I built it as a stock '32 with just fenders removed, juice brakes and a dropped heavy. Other than that it was all stock. Believe it or not I brush painted that black, wanted a authentic look but the brush marks self leveled and ended up looking better than I would thought. Sorry for the minor derailed conversation on your thread.

 

Yeah I believe it’s still the same owner.

 

It fits! My measurements were an inch off... I have to move my rad forward about an inch.. maybe less. I could move the hemi back one inch but it falls back into the cowl and I don't like the way it looks as much as where it is so.. I think it's gonna be tits where it is. If I ran a big block Chevy water pump this wouldn't be an issue bahahaha... but I just can't do that. It would be rude.

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I'm absolutely smitten... I love this.

 

Wicked cool

 

Bitchen! With the 32 grill and full fenders I doubt the radiator moved forward will be that noticeable.

 

thanks John!

Thank Tim, yeah I think it's only a half inch forward... so yeah I don't know that it's going to matter much at all! Stoked- it looks so rad!

I'm gonna start working on the cowl next along with designing motor mounts- the mounts need lift the hemi pretty high to where it looks right. It was amazing how much the suspension dropped when I let the weight of the hemi settle onto the chassis! Then I'll box the chassis and run brake lines and stuff and then we can body work and paint this MoFo!

 

Oh yeah!!!

 

I have this jig I made to lower the light bar... I bent it forward to clear the radiator moving forward. But then started to brain storm ways to get the headlights where I want them and came up with this-

I deleted the headlight cup from the bar and used pieces of another headlight bar to put the lights further back and down. It frames up the headlights and looks like a drop axle styled nerf bar. I LOVE it.

It took a lot of heat and manipulation to get the fender brackets and the headlight bar where it needed to be.

then I moved on to the rear shocks, I had some 40 ford? Style lever shocks I manipulated with heat. I'm running a 40 axle so when I went with spring over I cut the spring perch and shock mount from a model a rear axle and bolted it in place so I could run these dog bones.



rear shocks I can check off the list...

next I took parts from 3 different cars to make what you see here... cowl and subfloor. Working on getting the cowl cleaned up (sandblasted) and then I'll put it all back together with new cowl sides and a polished firewall. The subfloor is in pretty good shape... solid just lots of stress cracks.

I also mounted the cross steer column and it fits almost perfectly- clearing exhaust and oil pan etc.

More to come.

 

Think you’ll box the rails now that you’ve added the hemi heft?

love the nerf bar with floating headlights

 

Thanks Tim! Im gonna box the rails for sure- it might just be forward the k member.

 

Cool. Loving this project

 

Fabricating a motor mount, it's far from done. The idea was to reinforce the steering box, keep the rails clear for the fenders and try and keep them looking clean. Here's my solution, everything just tacked together at this point.

This should help keep the frame from twisting.

The radiator is just shy of an inch forward but the tilt of the engine allows me to tilt the radiator back 3/4" and a stock hood fits!

 

I still have this center mount from the y block, I think I'm going to use it and make a mount like the y block that bolts to the lower bolts on the timing cover, shaped like a J with the top of the J like a tuning fork and will be hidden under the pulley you won't see it and should help distribute the load/stress.

 

Looks good! That under engine brace/ cross member should really stiffen things up

 

Thanks Tim! - it should help a lot. I had a crossmember under the y-block sort of setup the same way. Now to weld it all up solid.

Viva the Hamb- Chadillac is mailing the cast iron part that holds the stanchions on the cowl for one side. I plan to mirror it and make one for the other side.

got an email from Brookville, sounds like they're just waiting on door skins for my doors and they'll ship them along with the back panel. I just hope it's within the next six months.... They outsource the door skin stamping apparently.

I think I'm close to being done with the chassis...just the boxing is left to do... and weld up my front crossmember... that and I'm going to shorten a non tapered axle to replace the one I welded. Sam's going to machine the splines.

Then I need to run brake lines...

 

Looking forward to following along!