So first off, if you know who this great little faded yellow model A pickup belongs to, then you all understand who's getting ready to punch out the louvers for the Danny Brent sedan. I pulled the apron out just after the roadster show, picked up a new one this morning at CW Moss. I was working this week in Arizona so I drove it out to my friend Chip at Central Arizona Louver. He saw all my posts on here and Instagram and volunteered to do it for me. We're going to be making a slight change from the original on the new one. We will have the louvers and the center portion facing outward. Explained to me why most people have them facing inward but with all his wizardry and magic in many years of experience he knows how to make this change. My goal is to have the car at the Father's Day roadster show with at least this change, hopefully I can get the windshield done in time also.
I just picked up a louver punch. I was thinking of doing some pointing forward and building an air box over my dual strombergs - kinda like a 1950s ram air set up.
I am a fan of louvers but not gratuitous ones. There's no reasonable point to louvers under the doors of the yellow pickup and just because you can punch three rows of louvers in a hood doesn't mean you should. JMTC and not my vehicles, though.
Hillbilly logic says inside-out louvers are aerodynamic drags...... but I don't know if that would hold up in court as an actual fact. My intelligence hits a low ceiling on that one. It's more like going up the down staircase, however.
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