Customs 1952 pontiac the golden indian

green fleetline wasnt it? yea it had the same grille that im using for this car. yea i doodle from time to time.

 

You call that doodleing? real humble of you, 1st quality a real craftsman should have imo.
Yeah it was a green fleet, very nice car, yours is not gonna be any less im sure.

 

p*** side mounted most of the major fab is done just doing the frame on this side and raise the x member then its complete dis***embly sand blast, kbs coat it with a semi gloss black top coat, and powder coated parts throw some new front end parts at it then get to the motor. keep watching, im hoping to have the body back on by this summer.
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allright heres another small update, so after kicking around what i was gonna do with the shocks, and fearing i would have to eliminate the sway bar, i think i solved the problem and can retain both. so i was detoured on where i routed my brake hose, but that can be retained also with a little changing in the frame mount bracket. so heres what i did with some s**** tubing and the tiny bit of gas i had left in the welding tank.

first i made the lower mount out of o s**** piece of 2x3 3/16 wall, took a inch and a half cut and split it and drilled a hole on each end.

the mount actually came with with the rear shocks, they worked perfect for mounting off the control arm.
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then out of the same tubing, i made the upper mount along with some of those left over universal 4 link tabs.

 

i had to make sure the lower mount was out of the way of the tierod through the turning radius and it has a minimum od a half inch clearance at the max turn through the range of motion. i also mocked up the tire to make sure every thing was clear.
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also mounted the upper bumpstops and a slot in the frame to install and remove them. more to come .

also rebuilt the frame

 

so i got another small update, shock mounts done, put it all back together to put it on the floor. more to come stay tuned. also mocked up thebumper to get an idea where it will sit, this is close ride hieght is about an inch or so above where it sits. maybe 2 in the front.

last pic is a photoshop of how it should sit.

 

ok a little more done, made a cradle for the gas tank and worked on the front bump stops , im going to modify the plate that comes off the frame a little bit, so ill have to cut the tackwelds and do that . i want the frame to clear at least an inch and a half fully deflated in case theres ever any kind of severe failure as a fail safe. one thing is for sure i wont build the next notch so high, so heres some pics and stay tuned.

 

that is bad *** i wish i could do that to my 4 door chief

 

been slowly starting the clean up and rebuild process.this stuff isnt as exciting but its a part of the process. i inspect wash and completly clean anypart being reused,heated and bent the steering arms, rebuilt the rearend the rear brakes, the kingpins, the centerlink the mastercyl. etc.made new rubber bushings for the control arm shafts, completly cleaned out all the petrified grease and replaced all zerk fittings. im sandblasting and cleaning all the parts in the witchs brew then painting everything. the rear of the frame is done and just a little more blasting and cleaning in the hard to reach areas and the rest will be done. hope to have it re***embled soon. so hope fully more pics soon.

 

kbs coating is pretty awesome too.

 

Cars looking good Eddie, I was just asking about you the other day on the Rodz page wonder how your car was coming along. When its all said and done they will be doing movies and books a articles in books about you.
Keep up the good work and i can't wait to see more progress pictures and the finished product!!
Ben

 

Alrigh so i decided against the silver and had the frame sandblasted, on a side note American fabrication in bakersfield are some real nice people, so any ways got the frame back sameday and went to work


One this i did thay may seem dumb is when I was cleanin up the frame i found a date that looked like, dos 5-18-52 pont , so i wanted too preserve the message, i ***ume dos is date of service? Any ways heres what i did

 

Some new grade8 hardware goes nicly with black

More come

 

lloking sharp love me some early ponchos

 

just saw this thread. very nice build so far and refreshing to see someone taking the time to **** weld all the sheetmetal work.

 

lookin gawd!

 

moving along hated the mismatch shocks so fixed that and have been running air lines and replaced alot of hardware and cleaned up the stuff im reusing.


and heres my shop helper, she keeps me inline.

 

More progress, brakes, brake lines, fuel lines. Air lines, squared away more to come soon

 

looking good!

 

Looking sweet! Looks like you're getting close to putting the body back on!

 

Thanks guyes, Actually im gonna get the motor/trans in and the exhaust done then throw the body back on, motor looks like it was was a freshly rebuilt motor, imma go trough the trans on it and stick with a single gl*** pack on it if i dont change my mind and build a header and intake for it