Hot Rods Thunderbirdesq Builds a Roadster!

Very nice. You gotta love a sweet roadster......

 

haha..I love it..sounds real mean

 

I was so psyched to see the ch***is finished up it got its own thread today... but for posterity's sake, here it is...

​

 

I almost don't want to spill the beans on this but...

I bought an old original 32 V8 radiator at Hershey last fall. It looked pretty nice but as I dis***embled it to prepare it for a 3" chop and a recore, I found countless repairs and cracks in the tanks. Not wanting to be constantly wondering wether it was going to come apart in the middle of nowhere, I regretfully decided that if I wanted to drive the car this spring, I would need to find another radiator. A $600+ walker was not in the budget and at this point, finding another 32 V8 radiator and having it recored was pushing it as well. Sooo, I bought a prefect, used, early mustang unit for $50. Added an inlet and an outlet, chopped the '32 bracketry to fit, mounted the '32 top tank over the stang tank. Then, I hammered out a filler panel to take up the space between the rustang top tank and the lower flange of the '32 top. The filler panel is mounted with two screws and folds down for access to the 7lb mustang cap. Pretty trick, I think. It will definitely do until I can scrounge up a nice '32 radiator to replace it with.

 

Beautius!

 

That looks awesome. Who can't love a quickchange and flatty? I like the Weiand heads and copper lines. Looks great!

 

When are we going to see the body?

 

You'll see it at the showdown...












Haha, just kidding... Kevin's almost done with it, he's painting it in the booth at his work so their paying jobs take priority and I guess they've been busy lately. I talked to him today and he said all the bodywork is done, it's in primer, ready for paint.

 

stoked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can't wait to see it done!!!!!

 

Nice job, and a wild headlight bar set up.

 

super cool.

 

You should be stoked....

Thats a sweeeeeeet little set up...

solid....

I like the cool personal touches(not the warm ones dude)

and that weiand set is bad.....jealous...

 

You should be stoked....

Thats a sweeeeeeet little set up...

solid....

I like the cool personal touches(not the warm ones dude)

and that weiand set is bad.....jealous...

 

that looks ***y !

 

awesome

 

Nice!!!!

 

Very nice!

 

someday i will have one .. but for now i will keep looking at this ...... nice ride

 

looks awsome keep it up

 

Body shop pics.

 

Lookin good!

 

WOW!!! Kevin, Jon... You guys RULE!!! That thing looks ****ing Dy-no-MITE!!! Oh man o man... beautiful... I'm officially stoked!!!

 

You should be! I smell a mag feature in the future... the roadster is coming along VERY nicely!

 

Thanks man....I was hoping you'd like it....I'm pretty stoked about it to....its as straight as she looks in the pictures....ill be plugging away tomorrow

 

Glad your happy Andy. Kevin and I were feeling pretty good about it yesterday.

 

We reblocked the body down yesterday and gave it one last coat of fill primer. Now it just needs 400 sanded and paint!

 

The body work looks really good guys.....I can't wait to see the purple paint!!!

 

haha...not sure about the purple....

 

can't wait to see it in gloss black!

 

nice, so very nice