Projects My 34 is finally starting to look like a.........well, a 34 five window Ford coupe.

Took some pics of the 34 today and it is finally coming together. I bought the car a couple of years ago from a welder I met on a job site. We were talking about hot rods and he said he had an old Ford. His Dad bought it for a father/son project when he was 13, he is now 49. They put a sbc in it with a pg and he drove it through high school. Started tearing it apart in the early 80's and put a Pinto front end under it, it had the original, and a 12 bolt posi, and the rear end that was taken out was also the original. He has put a new firewall in it When I got it the body was setting on the frame with the rearend and front end.
It now has an early 50's Olds rearend with the Olds trailing arms, an old chrome dropped front axel with chrome backing plates and chrome drums with split wishbones, that came out of a 34 hot rod. The guy wanted a Mustang II front end so I got this front end on the cheap. I picked up a 331 hemi with 2x4's and a C4 that came out of a T-bucket that got rearended and totaled. Keeping the same SW gauges and dash that Welder Bob used when he had it. Picked up a third seat out of a mini van. It's got the original glass and the back window still rolls down and the front still swings out. Pretty much an unmolested body, no chop with door handles and it's all steel. Yea, I'm pretty happy with it.

 

Damn that looks real cool! Love the engine and rear end choice. Can't help but to get excited since the exterior reminds me of my '35!1 Keep it up!

 

I took down the original bumpers that Welder Bob had re-chromed. They are still wrapped in early 80's newspapers from the chrome shop. He had the grill re-chromed when he was in high school. He saved the money from a job he had washing dishes at a restaurant. Couldn't imagine a dish washing job now days that paid enough to pay for a re-chrome job on a 34 grill.

 

Damn, that's nice! Very neat car.

 

Wow, neat car. Glad you were able to "save" it. That old chrome frontend was a great score. Keep us posted with the progress.

Neal

 

I really like that thing! DD

 

very nice

 

very nice car. I like what you are doing with it. Great work!

 

Another story of being a REAL person, and treating people decent pays off. Great Car!

 

Looks great!! Glad you were able to re-hotrod it properly. Wow.

 

that car is coming together very nice!!!

 

Why can't I find stuff like that?

 

looks like fun!

JEFF

 

You should be happy - it looks great!

 

What a cool car, Hope you enjoy driving the wheels off it!

 

Great looking car. Keep us updated.

 

How much did you recess the firewall for the engine?

 

The car is looking awsome !

 

Great project. Glad our building a trtadtional style hot rod out of it.

Frank

 

Thanks everyone for the positive comments. Really looking forward to the first fire up and the first drive and getting the bugs worked out of it.

 

Man,thats gonna be SWEET.Well,it already is

 

Right on!