Projects 1939 Ford convertible mild custom.

I agree with Jeff

 

I agree with guthriesmith and MM1693 !! Drive it and have some fun!
Jag håller med de killarna! Kör den och ha lite kul!

 

Thats my plan, fix som small stuff and use it as a driver at the same time.

 

I like it.

 

What a sweetheart!!

 

Awesome

 

Not any updates, been driving it some but now its fall/winter time so there will be some work done soon.

 

Glad you had a good summer with it. Love the car. Put my 40 on the hoist yesterday, getting ready for new clutch. I'm also gonna switch to 12 volt. Winter work!

 

Great looking 39. Mine still has a Flattie but running an 8ba with a Merc crank, juice brakes, a Columbia, 12 volt and electric fuel pump.

 

So, the 39 needs to be a bit lower in the rear. Now it sits kinda level and i want that speedboat stance.
I got 2 inch lowering blocks and my plan is to use 4 inch instead, it's already hitting the frame in big bumps and i got about 2 inch travel to the frame now. I havent mounted the shocks yet because i knew the rear axle would sit lower than now.
Started on a little kickup today, dident have any material with the right thickness at home but i managed to do some cutting.
Im exited to see how this turns out.

 

Looking good

 

Very nice cruiser, roll-on summer.

 

Minor progress, made the upper and outer piece.
Got almost 5 clearance in ride hight minus the 2 that the new 4 inch blocks will add.
Might take some more but i will do the other side first and mount the new lowering blocks to se were everything goes first.
Also there is alot more work to do the inner piece of the kickup and i need to take off the rear axle to get more room to work in.

 

You may have plans to address this on the inside and I am jumping the gun, but I would recommend adding an extended full face plate that goes over the outer frame rail and what you added above. Rosette weld and perimeter weld. I would not trust just a butt welded arch added on top of the flimsy C channel frame especially as you have cut out the X member part.

 

There will be more stuff added, this is not finished yet.
Stay tuned

 

Looking good.

I'm sure you're going to add fish plates.

 

I will do box plates on the inside but I want to mount the 4 inch lowering blocks first and see exactly were the rear axle sits before i do that if I need to change something.

 

I would never attempt that kind of work with the body still on the frame. But that's just me.

 

Made a pair of 4-inch blocks and mounted them to see if there were enough clearence, everything seems fine so now i will start vith boxing the inside of the kickup.
This is how it sits now.

 

Stance looks great!

 

Looks great.

 

Yes-sir-ee!!!

 

Continued on the passenger side kickup reinforcment, rolled some thick plates for the inner structure.
Also made a inside boxplate, will weld it in place later today.

 

Nice Work.

 

That will do nicely!

 

Very nice!

 

Very nice, much cleaner than the large clumsy looking operation we see so much now days

 

Got the passenger side done today, did some repairs to the rear part of the frame that had alot of rust between the outer and inner frame pieces. Made the inner piece first and plug welded it to the old leaf spring beam where the old rivit were.
The new outer frame piece was also plug welded in four places to the inner piece.
Also welded the inside boxing plate.

 

Nicely done...made even more difficult with the body on the frame.