Projects So this is how it starts T RPU turned Roadster

Thanks! It's really filling up quick.

 

Looks slick! The really was a nice clean bevel. glad my head full of old ford could be helpful

laying pipe in a ditch sounds like an outtake line from a bob seager song haha

 

Around here it was called snagging. And it was a dirty job! Was fun watching the welders welding on the live pipe when penetration was 101%…

 

Took the opportunity of a sunny day to get some paint on the bed, it sure did take alot more paint markers than I expected and I still have some to go.

 

Looks great man

 

looking good

 

Gonna buy stock in ****m. If everyone buys those pens for “painting” their cars, I could be a millionaire, or at least a hundredaire!

 

The time has come to tackle the missing sections of rocker/sill/subrail. None of the body started out life together, 2 separate doors, a cowl from a ditch *which started it all* and a center tub from a touring out of the rafters of a lumber yard.

The hope was to find a better body or a pair of subrails by now and avoid this. *That dream has failed to materialize*

Today time was spent finding the flattest spot of concrete in the shop to lay out the body on. I'm thinking I'll make a jig to weld the cowl and tub section to and get everything held in the right spot allowing the doors to be opened and closed before I try splicing in material to fill the missing subrail sections. I only need 6-8" per side. I'm planning on harvesting this from the rear of the tub section where it was also cut; each side has around 9" I can prune off with what appears to be the same profile as what is missing in the front.

A few days back the neighbor took a photo of me sitting in the car and I realized how high I sat even without any upholstery which led me to removing the seat riser. This ended up being a blessing in disguise once I started to get a game plan for the subrail repair as it allowed me to remove all the rivets holding the sill plate covers inplace.

 

I also sloshed some paint on various other body parts today, wheeled the bed over to the solar oven for curing which worked beautifully, all the other parts I had hung up where still tacky when I closed up for the day.

 

Sounds like a good plan for connecting the dots

 

I've long intended to make a small and a medium solar oven to bake enamel painted parts in. Who needs Earl Scheib?

 

Things took a drastic turn today. The body I missed out on months back in Chicago showed up local to me forsale by another Hamb'r.

 

Ooooooooh buddy!

 

I've been busy getting the roadster body set in place and a subframe built, found a old owner and got some photos from the 70's which has been neat. Settled on something like 4-5 inches of channel compared to the 10 or so the body once had.

 

Looking good! Gonna be cruising in no time!