Naked Picture

Here is Patty Wagon naked waiting for a new front end. I am having a hard time getting a piece of 2 in. DOM .120 wall tubing for the axle. I can order 20 ft. but I only need 52 in. Also I threw in a picture of her time when she had her clothes on. Just so Toymaker would know it wasn't bogus. Roy

 

Hey Roy I have a tube drop axle that the king pin bosses are screwed up on. If you need it let me know and bring your car out west and show us

 

Found a piece of chrome moly for the axle. Anyone have some wire wheels they want to sell? I found some on the net but they were new and way out of my price range. I would like to get rid of as much weight up front as possible. I really like Toymaker's front end it looks light. I found a picture of the Bean Bandits flathead powered rail circa 1955 with motorcycle wheels on the front. Joaquin Arnett was a wizard at getting the most out of a flathead with the least amount of money. There wasn't ever anything on the car that they didn't build themselves.Roy

 

You know Roy, Another wizard on flatheads was John Bradley.. Haven't seen him in a couple of years.( he has to be well over 80 now) His flatheads had pipes coming out of everywhere, And sounded mucho different..But hauled Ass...Wish I had one of his motors......Dick

 

Here is a picture of the Bean Bandits car. I watched John drive Gene's Brake Shop flathead at Colton a lot. That car hit 150 mph a couple of times was always in the 140's. John was the only flathead man I ever saw make 4 exhaust pipes on a flathead. He had a pipe on all sides of the engine. He had a twin engine flathead also, although the Brissette bros. were the first I ever saw with twin flatheads. Flatheads were a terror in the 50's.

 

I built a .120 DOM tube axle for my '33 Willys coupe and I bent it on the street, probably going over some rough railroad tracks. You may want to use .250 wall, which is what I ended up with.

 

I did a little research on the tubing I have. It is seamless chromemoly and it takes over 45,000 lbs to bend it. So I feel it will do the job. I don't think the frame can take anywhere near that kind of pressure. I am waiting to hear back from from someone on the wire wheels. Also Mr. Mac if you are lurking about contact me. Roy

 

Roy, what are you going to do with the old front end?

 

I was going to scavenge the spindles and tie rod off of it. But I would sell it as a unit if I can get enough out of it to buy those parts. Roy

 

Just make sure you give 3wlarry the first shot at it. He always told me if I swapped out that front end he wanted first crack at it.

 

Mr. Mac said he told Larry about it and gave him my phone number. I'm going to see if I can sell it on e-bay. I have some parts from my 58 Chev that I want to sell also. Roy