Hot Rods Modified Murray - or is it the "Butchered Briggs"??

Cannot wait until it is done........awesome!!

 

oh sweet jesus ! lookin good

 

wow, im loving this. cant wait for more!

 

Its looking good, keep us up dated with more pics as things are coming together.

 

Great work Scoot!!!

Love the Build, Design, and Inspiration!!!!

I wanna ride......


Thanks

 

How in the hell is someone supose to feel good about updating on their builds with shoes like this to fill?!!! JK! Looking good man. You can definately give me some pointers in the fab dept.

 

Scooter your car is so...well...I can only sum it up with a song...


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i'm confused. that looks nothing like my murray mower with briggs 7 stratton motor.

awesome.

 

Fuck, that's song is bangin! I have a friend that would always end his set with this song and it bring a chuckle to me every time.

 

How did I miss this one? Wow x 54678987656789876789.

 

Bwahahahaha!!! Awesome!!! Paulie! How'd you know my favorite song man??!!

What ELSE do you know????

 

Got the rotating assembly back from the machine shop and put the slugs on the rods last night... I'll throw the rings on tonight.





Next week I'll pick up the block and get it ready and up on the stand. Still need to pick up a few things for the Hemi and I also need to figure out my oil pump and pan situation. I have an oil pump that I really want to run, but it's center sump and it's pretty tough to find a center sump pan for an early 331. They're just slightly different. Thinking about modifying the center sump pan I have and just running it. We'll see. Won't know until I get the block back.

 

Dreddy, I was thinking more like this. Makes me wanna speak Spanish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHv3qO_Y8kk

 

Anybody else ever notice how much Glen Danzig looks like Sigourny Weaver?

 

Well duh, I saw all the Swayze posters in your shop and took a guess...

 

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! (crying) That is absolutely HILARIOUS!!!! (lmfao)

 

Thought you would like it

 

(thank god he didn't see my poster of "the Corys"! Fwuew!)

LOL!!

 

Oh the Wolf in the Danzig/Shakira video almost made me piss myself.

 

First, NEAT car! Its got the "look" and seems to be built to be safe.

Second, It looks to me like the body started life as a late 1931 slant windshield fordor. It could have been built either by Briggs or Murray, Ford speced things tight so everything would interchange between all the late fordors. He wanted to avoid the fiasco of the 1929 and 1930 fordors where parts did not interchange between the Murray and Briggs.

The nice thing is the doors and body had lots of steel framing on the late 31's. The earlier "Murray" and "Briggs" featured wood body framing, wood door framing, and wood sill structure.

 

Yes SIR! You are correct! It started life as exactly that. But since I can't leave anything alone, it "lost a little weight" and gained a little more motor.

Here's how it looked in the beginning:



Here's the thread that started it all...
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110340

I've done a a few threads on the progressive build. Here's a search link that I think will bring them up. Let me know if it doesn't work.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/search.php?searchid=5860002

Thank you very much for your compliments Karl!

 

Damn, it seems like yesterday we had to pick that heavy son-of-a-bitch off the frame!! Haha! It's definately come a long way. Keep going man, keep going!!

 

Yeah! No kidding!! Seriously!!! That was a fuuuuun day! Do you remember the look on my face? I was super stoked!!

By the way. The old guy that was helping us (my neighbor) Jimmy, passed away recently. That guy was soooo amazing! I have his '27 5-bearing cam, 4-banger motor and I'm going to piece together a '28/29 pre-war lakes roadster with it on his behalf. Going to be awhile though. Sad loss! I know he ALSO really dug helping out with this car. I wanted more than anything to take that guy for a ride. He would have loved it!

 

Last pictures for this update. Thought I would just add these here real quick.

Spent my Easter in the shop, but good progress. Spent a TON of time trying to get the B pillar door jamb right and the door gap straight. Spent the rest of the day finish welding and fitting up the patch panels on the passenger side door and cowl. Needs a little more bumping and some adjustments around around the door gaps and body lines, but it's going in the right direction.



Saturday I spent most of the time cleaning up the chop seams on the roof top center and the passenger side pillars and rear corners as well as getting the quarter windows ready for garnish moldings and felt. I'm pretty happy with the results. Shouldn't need much if any filler in those locations.



Alright... until next time...

 

Wow... looks good scooter... I worked today too, got my other header built!! Now I need to get back on the doors!! Uhhhhg!

 

Wow, looks great scoot! You are making good progress-keep on it. You should be feeling excited man. I can't wait to see this done

Dan

 

Damn Scooter! Perfect fit 'n' Finish on the body, very NICE indeed!

Nick.

 

Looks really, really nice! I like it!

Brian

 

Thanks guys!

I want to get everything to that level of finish before I do anything. I'm not afraid to use a little filler, but I want to keep it to a minimum, obviously. For me, getting that kind of fit takes awhile though. I guess the more I do it the better I'll get at it. I BOW DOWN to people who can get good straight panel fitment with minimal work. Amazing!

 

Your updates make me feel slow and low on skills... You are kick'n ass. I'm waiting on the video of the Hemi.... Or will it be my Poly 1st? (he he he)