My home-made candy tangerine paint-job on the cab after I bolted it back on the frame. I painted the firewall Porsche "Biarritz White" which is a slightly creamy white color I found in the book at the paint store. I chopped it 4-1/2" and channeled it 6". I reshaped the lower corner of the cowl to clear the rear mount for the front wishbone. I Z'd the rear and notched the front. I've been working on this heap for 3 years. I had the body on and off the frame about five times already, and hopefully it's bolted on there for good now. It started out as just a beat up rusty '32 Ford Model B cab with about a 100 bullet holes and pick axe holes in it. I spent about a whole year doing metalwork on the cab to patch it up and straighten it out. Waddaya think?
looks great!! did you have to buld the doors? i have a real bad drivers door on my 34. im new to this are they hard to find? Again your truck looks great!!
Looks good from what I can see. We need some closer/bigger pics! Did you paint it in your garage? Did you tint your clear or use HoK Kandy or ? Inquiring minds need to know.
F**king beautiful, any more pics..of mock up stage etc so we can see the whole idea...? Lokks awesome so far! Cheers MAIKI
Paint on a hotrod! What's this world coming to. I think it looks great, the color will make it standout, add alot of chrome and or polished aluminum to the engine and you will have a real stunner there. Great job so far.
Thanks for all the nice comments! To answer your questions: The doors were a real mess. The lower hinges were torn completely out of the doors. The bottoms of the doors were rusted through, and the door skins were mangled and torn up. I cut away the lower part of the door skins and reworked the front side of the door and added bracing to hold the lower hinge in a better way than the weak way the factory had designed it. Then I cut away the bottoms of the doors and welded in new door bottom patch panels. I bought the patch panels from a place that sells reproduction Alfa Romeo parts and they also sell a few '32 pickup parts. The door bottom patch panels weren't quite right though because they bent one part of it in the wrong place so I had to slit them lengthwise and weld them back together until they were the same as the old ones. Once I had the door bottoms fixed, I cut away the door skin up to about 1" below the beltline, and then installed new door skins from that same Alfa Romeo place. I butt-welded the door patch at the top and folded the lip back around the door framework the old fashioned way using a hammer and dolly. I later installed bear claw latches. I mounted them down kind of low in the area where the dovetails were so that I'd be able to install glass windows if I want. I might just leave the side windows out though because that's how I'll be driving it all the time anyway. I did the paint in my driveway. I strung up tarps to block the wind. It's House of Kolors tangerine candy over a top secret mix of basecoats that I put on first. It's the first time I ever painted a candy job. It took a whole day from early in the morning to just before the sun went down. The hardest part was dealing with the little bugs that landed in it. When I was done there were lots of little "zits" on it from tiny gnats that had landed in the paint. I wet-sanded the clear down with 800 grit and then shot two more coats of clear on it on a cool morning when the bugs weren't flying and it came out like glass. Except for a few runs in the clear that I have to sand out and polish, I was pretty happy with it. Yeah, I could have just primered it. But I always wanted to try doing a candy paintjob. I like hot rods AND customs, so I'm trying to sort of roll the two styles together into one, making a hot rod with a custom sort of style. I'm going to be putting steelies with wide white bias ply tires on it. I'm making it on a pretty low budget. So far the biggest expense was the paint. Those HOK paints really add up. I'm going to be using a 327 Chevy for power with an old Offenhauser tri-power intake. I wish now that I had picked a more interesting engine though. I almost went with an Olds 425 from a junkyard Toronado, but changed my mind at the last minute. Thanks again!
Kandy in your driveway? I LOVE it! Both you AND the truck kick major ass. Keep some updates coming...
A "before" pic. This is what it looked like when I dragged the cab home from a swap meet four years ago. It sat around for a year while I gathered up parts for it and thought about what I wanted to do with it.
I'm trying to figure out how to fit a bigger picture on here. Is this a little better zoomed in? I don't have an easy way to make the file sizes small enough so that it'll let me put the whole picture on here.
Nice job Bolts....this is what I like, a FNG who doesn't waste his and our time with smack posts; instead, he's doing good work and posted pics of a fine lookin' hot rod. Keep up the good work, we need more like you here!
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