Art & Inspiration Tech School Students Doing Good

Surface pattern for a firewall. 64 Chevy.

340 in a mid 60s Dodge ***embled from pieces by students. they rebuilt the drums as well.

 

Anthony,
In that last pic is that a special dress-up item on the B pillar?

 

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You’re in the reflection

 

Sure is
That’s my Amish straw hat.
When you have a lot of students on trips like this, it makes you EZ to find

 

SBC test for in a mid 60s Dodge

 

There's enough room in there for a BBC, or a Hemi!

 

Cast iron is cast iron
But free cast iron, now that’s special

 

Wonder when the last time a teenager gutted a model A tank in shop cl***?

 

Un-street roding old Henry rails


Nice weld on the shock mount
Knocked it off with a hammer

 

So...looks like you got the frame you mentioned.

 

Ain’t it pretty

 

Roached 32 rail was over 4 inches high at the nose.

getting closer. Buckle at the cowl area is walking out
Got all the street rod removed.

 

Pressure, stress relieve repeat

 

Nose of the rail was 6 1/2 inch high from datum (bottom of frame bench)
We’re at 2 1/4 now

no heat

 

Todays Sr. discussion:
Zero plane
Centerline
Datum
Or length,width,height and 3 box/zone vehicle construction. Center, front and rear. All in that order.

a lot of ugly still to remove from the rails. The plan is to establish original 32 specs then change to fit the A.
Cut the rear rails just behind the cab. Then section the center part of the rails. Remove a 1 inch section from the center, wedge cut the front section of rail. Probably bob the front.
The easiest way would be to fab a new top for the center frame section. Remove the top 2 inches, replace with a 1 inch tall section of bent angle (or a cut section of square/rectangle tubing). That would lower the profile and replace the crusty top portion of the frame.

 

Cowl parts were successfully separated. Students drilled out the spot welds for the firewall/cowl sides.

Parts are now soaking in mol***es

 

Automotive cl*** next door got a new tool

 

Nice!

 

How cool is that? I guess that's way better than the old traditional way of packing a tube with sand, heating it where you want the bend, then you and your buddy grab the ends and bend it around a tree.

 

Best set of cl***es I had was 50 years ago in autobody taught by Oscar Lewis.
Besides skills with the right teacher comes a lot of life lessons for 15-18 year old boys at that time , that remain with them.

 

I had a really great machine shop teacher in HS. Mr. Lowery. He spent a lot of time "resizing" cigarettes with a band saw that students had in their top pocket. Never realized what a great guy he was until years later after he retired and lived near a friend of mine. I would see him walking his yellow lab and and enjoyed talking to him about everything under the sun. The school district did away with machine shop after he retired.