Hot Rods Mirrored Firewall….. Let’s see them

Let’s see them mirrored firewalls

 

I tried really hard, to find anything about something traditional vehicle related to mirrored firewall on the Google box, to no avail. All I got, was computer gobbley gue stuff about protecting your computer by making a same image of something ....

Would it be, that by using a polished piece of stainless metal as a firewall, to display a highly detailed engine, for use in a show car ?

 

My 32 ‘s firewall

 

A search here on the H.A.M.B., produced this borrowed image from user ---- SLAYER ---- from an August 14, 2018 post.

 

Bigger

 

Polished aluminum on the old T bucket.

 

I tried polishing my aluminum 'wall but can't keep it glowing. Best I can maintain is bright aluminum.

 

Nearly everything else is black!! I get no credit... it came on the pickup.

 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/tucks-29-roadster-build.827448/

...Hamber @Tuck has one in his Hotrod in build and its mighty fitting indeed...

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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Polished aluminum fire wall . It's very old and 1/2 inch thick.

 

...I think it would be the 2nd of two shiny bits on this T Drag Roadster...

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One more.

 

...Where the heck is Falfa...

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@Anderson posted this ‘32 in his GNRS photos, it is Bill Aiken’s restored car. Bill, RIP, was a noted Southern hot rodder and restorer of Indy cars.

 

First time,I added a shiny firewall,I hand polished a alum sheet in late 1959 to my bobtailed 1928A hotrod> repolished it a lot.
A number of years later I got call from a good buddy "Rosh",who I had helped build his T-bucket. The call was about some shiny sheet stainless he found were he was working! Rosh,said;"I know you love shiny stuff,so I have some shiny junk in my truck for you"! Turned out he was working @ MIA next too a full new remodel of a old artdeco building at MIA. Had ripped out a stainless steel artdeco wall{ of mirror finish SS with dimpels made to look like industrial rivets/a very artdeco thing !!!!
I thought it was awesome! Trashed my hard to keep shiny alum sheet fire wall,an used the scraped SS artdeco sheet too replace it !!! The SS was very hard to cut too fit,but still love how it turned out !!!

 

I used stainless in my Henry J

 

My '34 Plymouth coupe, built in 1974+, using a stainless steel counter top from a military kitchen they were throwing away. Polished, cut and drilled (the cutting part was a bi**h!).

John

 

Stainless is definitely the way to go for mirror. This isn't a firewall but we used a polished stainless panel in the bed of a '42 Willys pickup with polished stainless Chevy bed strips.

 

This is where I got my stainless, high quality and good prices, protective sheeting on both sides

https://www.coremarkmetals.com/304-8-mirrored-stainless-steel-sheet

 

Thanks for the link. My supplier retired so I will use these guys when I need some.

 

My floor over the 59 pontiac rear.

 

They have sales periodically throughout the year too, last week was 22% off hot rolled

 

Here's a lousy pic taken from a movie called Fast Company filmed here in Edmonton. That's my 34 Ford with aluminum covered firewall in the background. Was only onscreen for seconds but they sprayed something onto the firewall so it wouldn't be so shiny. It washed off.

 

http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-max-herman-hh-antique-engine-rebuilding-la-crescenta/

...when running a polished/chrome firewall having a polished build helps set it off...

This is the work of H&H Flathead's...no stranger to the Hamb...

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I’m bringing this old post back from the dead because I am genuinely curious.
Are you guys making new firewalls and replacing them with stainless/aluminum or are you simply making a cover for your stock firewalls

 

My firewall is 3/4" plywood with a 1/8" sheet of aluminum screwed onto it. On top is a fold-down panel with the electrical stuff behind it, held on by Dzus fasteners.