40' buick gets a 4" haircut

Nice match!! But you already knew that."Keep cuttin"

 

Bad Bob, I did see that car at GNRS last year....beautiful car, I took many pics of it to study.

 

i would'nt count on it!!

 

Any construction photos of the skirts?

 

Flipper, I guess I should have explained a little more instead of just posting pics. I started with some 18ga. strips 1 1/2 wide and put them in the brake so I would end up with 3/4 legs. then just shrink and stretch until I acheived the shape I wanted for the opening. Then I transferred the marks to the car and cut out the opening and edge welded the "new" fender lip in. Then the other pic shows the skirt frame, same thing alot of shrinking to get the skirt frame to fit in the newly installed fender lip. Once both parts fit the contours of the fender right , I took the skirt frame to the donor roof and positioned it on the roof until I had a good matching shape, and just cut the panel and weld it to the edge of the skirt frame ( at the 90 degree brake of the frame). I put a 5/16 pin at the top of the skirt and 5/16 caged nut, one in the front bottom and the rear bottom corner. The plan is to insert the pin at the top and slide the bottom corners in and put in a 5/16-24 bolt in and go. I hope this helps explain the photos, if not I could take more pics for ya. Jeff

 

you can check out issue #9 of Traditional Rod and Kulture for more info as well.

 

What was the donor roof that you used for the skin?

Did you butt weld the skin to the frame or overlap the two?

 

Flipper, I will take some better pics tomorrow and post. I'm not sure what the donor roof is off( suffer from CRS) and the skin is welded over lap. welded to the verticle leg at the 90 degree brake (corner)and the horizontal leg fits into the wheel well. I'll get more pics, that will help explain. cya, Jeff

 

something with a low crown (early to mid 60s on up) will work. depends on the car your doing them on. on my 47 Chevy i used a 65 Ford roof and it worked perfectly. my Chevy has a little more shape to the rear fenders (and therefore the skirts) than Jeff's Buick. something we just figured out the other day.

if you have a junk yard around or some old junkers in the back yard just build your frame work and then lay it on the potential donor roof and move it around till it fits good. if it is'nt close move on to the next car.

 

I think all the fab work etc is totally professional and well done. I just don't like it on that Buick. Something looks out of proportion somewhere. That said to each his own and Good Luck with it

 

very nice work!

 

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uhh. wow. dragn ass an knockn yer head. looks a million times better. NICE!!

 

how about a picture of the front view....c'mon don`t keep us salivating!!

 

Nice car and outstanding work but you are TOTALLY going to here "Yo dats GANGSTA!!!" from the uneducated young'ns...

 

here's a front shot..... kinda! finally tried my hand at leading too...

 

Nicee...i think im going to go out and secretly chop my dads 41 chevy coupe now..ha

 

man that looks good. i too like the quarters just the way they are.

 

Hmmmm... since I can't find any '38 Buick skirts I think I'll just borrow Mike's ideas..

 

Well, I haven't post much on my buick in a few years.....got sidetracked for a while. Anyway Iv'e been back on it and here are a few pics of the latest stage of the build. installing a 65 mustang gas tank, dual master, getting ready to have body and chassis blasted clean real soon.

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Great job Jeff! Love the lines!

 

Car is looking great!

 

Hope you don't mind, I had to fix it, to see it all come together. Lookin' awsome.
Drew

 

man that car is flippin sick!!!! very nice work

 

Great build

 

Lookin very good


One of these days Im going to make it out to your place

 

Thanks Gasser, for fixin' my pics.

 

working this week on opening up the stamped exhaust ovals in the frame, I have a 1941 motor with the two carb split exhaust and want to run both pipes down the drivers side.....here's some pics. Jeff

first 5 pics are of the rear opening and the last two are the front opening.

 

WOW, lovin this build. The car has a really nice flow to it

 

any update, great car..