Hot Rods Upgrades on 32 Ford Tudor

Few years ago and on a couple separate occasions, I seemed to be a magnet for parts that had either come off of, or were destined for the rebuild, of a famous (or maybe infamous) Canadian hot rod. Some of the parts I’ve sold off, but I have kept many and am slowly ac***ulating the missing/needed pieces to eventually use both the front and rear brake kits.
The front SoCal brake kit may end up on the Tudor if the look works better with the wheels I’m currently having made. The extra polishing that was done on the Buick drums (covers) is amazing.
Still looking for a couple little parts for the rear brakes before they can be properly ***embled and used.
Bet you can guess why I was able to pick up these parts so cheap.
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^^^ wow

 

Yup, you got them cheap because they didn't work, ha ha!

Chris

 

This pup is all grown up now, but she loved being the inspector general on this project.
Three years ago she was inspecting the rear, and picking out her future travel spot.
It was like…no seat please…how about a nice big flat spot for my pillow.
Might not be an upgrade to most, but to her it was.

 

Might have to make this pic my new avatar.
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One of the final ‘upgrades’ I want to do this winter is to put the radio/stereo in that I had planned to install a couple years ago. I don’t really need it as I prefer to listen to the engine/exhaust and the rest of the mechanical parts as I drive. But my copilot says she would like to listen to tunes like we did back in the day. And I must admit that it will be nice to tune in local radio stations as we pull into new towns/cities on our longer trips. Hear what’s shakin locally.
I had already built the removable stereo mount and the speakers are already tucked in behind the interior upholstery, so it shouldn’t take me long to do.



Getting close to the end of my nit/upgrade list on this build, but I’m really bad at leaving something well enough alone, so we’ll see how long before I think of something else to ‘enhance’.
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What’s the hose/line looped up behind the rear body brace?

 

It’s a gas tank vent line with a rollover valve in it.

 

Cool, I couldn’t 100% make out the valve but that’s the only thing I could come up with for that routing as well. Thanks for the reply

 

Do you know if it ever got rebuilt?

 

My dogs would love that.

I have a harness so I seat belt them in the front seat. Mainly it keeps them from licking my face.

 

As far as I know, it did not.
Heard the body, engine, and a new set of rails went to a fella that was going to take it in a different direction. Last I heard it was going towards an IFS, four wheel disc brakes, yada yada real streetroddy thing.

 

That's too bad.

 

Agree.
Fun fact. The original owner of that car is the fella that came over to my garage and helped me prep/polish the Tudor for Autorama last winter. By the time my brother got up here to help, all the heavy lifting was already done.
To say that gentleman is a polishing fiend is an understatement. Put me to shame. Worked his fingers to the bone and did a way better job than I could have.
In fact, he made me do some of the areas (that I did) twice to get them up close to his standards.

 

Looking like you are making the most of the off season. I’ll have to check the car out again this summer to see all your improvements.

 

I’m groovin so hard on the new look in the engine bay that it has me thinking about running the Tudor next summer without the hood sides.

Have done this before with my old 5W, and then my old roadster, using some black leather straps that I got from Eric (RIP) on here.

Still have those straps thanks to Roger (Vicky dude) for sending them back to me. So may just use them again, but cruisin through some threads on here, I saw some ingenious solutions that use spring loaded pins in the hood tops with some hold down loops on the firewall and grille shell. Thinking of building these pieces to try it on my Tudor. Just need to make four pin brackets and four spring rods.

Might have to start another upgrade list.

 

Sorry I missed your post before. Thanks much for the compliment. Always nice when someone appreciates the effort that goes into these builds.

 

Thanks for the compliment. And Merry Christmas all.

 

Waited until after Christmas to do a parts run down to the warehouse in Montana. Dang there were a bunch of snowbirds heading south. Border crossing (southbound) was nuts. Northbound crossing was just me, myself and I….so zipped back through.
Picked up the new skins for the ET Indy wheels which were shipped direct, but still not here yet .
Had some of these 700r18s before and love how they run on the rear of these cars.
Bought the tubes for these, but still undecided if I’m going to use them. Seems like many don’t.