Seems to be some intrest in this so I thought I'd post some pics of the biggest challange I've face. Started when a customer bought a decent 32 Tudor in primer, decent intill I stripped gallons of bondo out of it. Someone even bondoed the inside to hide that there wasn't any metal left. Salvaged the upper cowl, door frames and window frames, rest went into the dumpster. Used a fair original hood & grill, repop fenders. Built the rest on an English wheel and a shot bag. As long as we were going thru this much work we decided to make it a Vicky. Hardest part was the owner doesn't want any bondo, many hours of metalfinishing with some leadwork in some of the weld seams. Came out so nice I really hate to prime/paint it! Now that I manage to pull this one off I'm gonna try and build a whole body from scratch, this time a radical chopped and sectioned Tudor, kinda of a Lil' Coffin style.
Nice piece! A friend in Oklahoma made a Vickie from a 28-29 Tudor some years ago, sold it to a guy in Florida who claimed in a magazine article that HE designed and built it. SO what else is new?!
very nkice, having just peiced my vicky race car together from several old bodies i know the amount of work and i didnt fab the panels , very very nice job.....
Hey, "Wow" don't cover it! Any idea how many hours ya have in wheelin' the back panel? Thanks for takin the time to post this. S****ey Devils C.C.
Actually the back panel was one of the easiest, maybe 3 hrs. The hard one was the upper rear roof, a lot of compond to that one. It took about 40 hrs to wheel all the panels and weld them in, about 4 times as long to do the finish work
In general I'm not a huge fan of the Vicky bodies, BUT very nice work. It is amazing what skill and hard work can accomplish.
Yeah, it's a street rod, actually it's gonna be a resto-rod. FI 5.0 Ford, A/C, all that. Washington Blue with tan big & little Kelsey-Hayes wires.Stock bumpers, cowl lights, door handles, ect. I let the owner slide on this one, it's slated to be a long distance cruzer, he already has two tradional rods, a A-V8 he built himself in 1957 and a 39 Ford Tudor we just got, nice old barn find that we're building a hot flattie for and adding a dropped axle.
I love to see this kind of work. Gives me hope that most anything is saveable. Makes me believe that even my coupe could be nice.
Amazing work! I've been busy with work, so haven't stopped by to say 'hi', but this is real motivation for me to get by your shop now! Going out of town tomorrow for a few days, will try to call when I get back...love to see that type of stuff in person.
Wow..awesome.. How many hours all total? I love Vickys, I think you definitely made the right call on that one.
take a ****ing bow dude! i can sit and watch my friend joel johnson for hours making things, it never gets old takes a real artist to create stuff like that.
If only I had the time and even just a fraction of that experience... Very cool dude! I love those Vicky bodies.
That's incredible! We get a lot of that down here, even when the original builder is sitting accross the parking lot from the guy who actually built it.
Very impressive! Good luck with the future tudor project, can't wait to see it. Love that '60 show car look.
Very nice work. Somewhere around my place I have a half started '32 tudor converted to a vicky ....as well as a '31 slantwindshield fordor converted to a vicky.
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