WOW, still got a little less than 2 months, already missed about 40 hours of much needed sleep in the last couple weeks and more to follow. And I always ask myself WHY!!!!!. I guess it is the drive, the desire to see that project move on its own power, the smell of the fresh exhaust burning when you fire it up for the first time, etc. I have been real busy at work, real busy at the Speed shop, and lots of family stuff going on. As you all know my pops is trying to get his 32 Coupe to the Roundup too so I have been going to his shop one night a week and thrashing on his with him. pretty much turns into a all nighter but thats what it takes to get it done. So finally I have some parts that I am waiting on for the Model A coupe I am building for a customer so with parts sitting in the corner and the 38 begging to be worked on the mad thrash began, this last week besides hanging a rearend for Big Tony I got the Hurst mount all bolted up, Thanks to Rocco and Cheaters, got the motor actually bolted in place in the front, Only to find out that the modifications to the steering box by the previous owner for header clearance would not allow me to run a stock wishbone unsplit. So I pulled the motor back out, put back in a stock steering plate, fix the funky metal they had added, tore the old fornt end out, and installed the dropped axle, reversed the eyes on the spring thanks to Tech from Loudpedal. Got the steering arms cut off the spindles and mocked up to see the drop. Looks like everything is going to be a go no. Goals for the week are 1. Make tranny mount 2. Hang swing pedals and master cylinder at firewall. 3. Make bracket to hold hydraulic slave cylinder 4. Fix firewall This is alot but I got to have a goal. Gots lots of measuring to do and parts to get at the parts store but thats the small stuff. Man i am tired just thinking about it. Focus, focus, focus,
It is a 1959-60 Pontiac 389 gonna run stock 40's 16x4 on the front and probably 16x 5-6" on the rear. Thanks Rusty
Yes I will probably keep the old sealed beam coversions kit in it. Not quite 40's though. Thanks everyone. Moving on to a different type era, being 38-40 style has taken some learning. Alittle different than 28-32 style but still cool. Thanks for all the positive reinforcement that I may be still doing something rite, Rusty
Are you making the Ansen-style swing pedals like you did for the roadster? How did you hang the 9"? Ladders? I might swing by there on the way home from work one day this week.
Good luck....BTW, that's my old 389 I built a few years ago. Still never been fired, eh? Don't be concerned with the valve noise going "click click click".. I used Rhoades lifters on a ram-air 3 cam...should be a great performer......photo of it on my engine stand... BTW, it's a 1960, 0.030 over 389 [was a 303 hhp engine] ......for about 396 cu.in.
Looking good! I wanted to ask, can any of that window glass be saved? I've never seen glass that bad, especially from a Texas car?! Will you be able to polish it out at all?
I don't think there's enough polosh on the planet to bring back the glass on that car. It looks like it the safety laminate stuff that's broke up between the sheets of glass. Rusty should probably frame it and put a backlight behind it and sell it as "art".
The glass in my coupe looked just like that when we got it. It was the laminate that turned brown and separated. It could not be cleaned. We wanted to get it on the road in a hurry, so we replaced just the front and rear glass, and rolled the windows down for the inspection. Slonaker
thanks everyone and yes Rocky that is your old 389, hopefully to be fired up within the next month, I am pretty excited about this build, Rusty
DANG!!!! i knew i should'a bought in...... hahaha..... Rusty, that thing is looking good..... im still gonna give ya a hard time bout the dropped axle.....
Is it okay to feel perverted looking at this? Ohhhhhhh see Rocky and I do make a good combo.......for the benefit of a TEXAN. Hahahaha wow. Poncho bits and pieces that we both had good intentions for and never did a thing with. I hope I get to see it in person.
Hey Rusty, what a rush sitting here looking at the 38, I can still see that baby smokin the hides at its home track in Grand Island, Ne. It was extra special because I had my 38 std. 2-dr. I'm hoping to make the roundup, I'll watch for you and say Howdy-Yer Pal-Sololobo
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