'34 Ford coupe with 32 grill. Would like to use '34 hood without side panels and mate it to the 32 grill. Need to lengthen hood 6 inches as frame is Z'ed. Workable? Ideas or suggestions?
Sure that's doable. Just make patterns slightly over size in length for the extension, Figure out what you're going to do about the hinge business. Fit, trim, cut, weld, finish, paint, enjoy.
Never saw a '32 radiator shell on a '33/'34 that looked good. '32s are "straight up & down" cars - '33/'34s are "leaned back" cars.
you should be able to make it work start longer and work it out , had a freind put a 34 car grill on a truck with hood and sides and it was wild
well then... back in the late 50s through about 70, there was a well known local Autorama/drag 33/4 5w in the M*** and Ct area, known as the Ice Box. Radical chop/channel, had a chromed up Nailhead when I saw it, but I heard it was once a Cadillac. Anyways, it was about as cool as it gets, and did have a chopped 32 shell with a chromed spiderweb grille..in the Pre-rat days There is one rear pic in "Cool Cars Square Roll Bars" car is now missing, last known location Fla in the late 70s with a sbc, unfinished, not complete. There is a bounty out on it, a local guy wants it badly.
Never seen a channelled, fenderless, fifties style model 40 that didnt have a deuce grill that looked good. Thumbs way up to the original poster for ignoring modern fashion trends and doing it the way it was done, not the way guys nowadays think it was done.
George, at least thngs have changed a bit in the last year or two, as far as some guys here wanting to save some of the slightly "different" styling on the MAJORITY of most home built old rods. 33/34s around here, many were channeled and a few chopped, and the cycle fendered ones rarely ran a 33/4 grille because it did not look right with or without a hood They sure as **** did not all look like Spencer or Grabowski built them my poser highboy "old time style" car just did not look right to me until I fell into a cheap set of full fenders. It never looked right, because I never saw a fenderless highboy around my area as a young guy. Not a single one
I have always wanted a channeled '33-'34 five window with cycle fenders and a chopped deuce grill shell, ala Griepsma's three window, but with the prices even rough five window bodies are bringing, I really doubt I will ever be able to make that happen now.
Not sure why anyone, EVER, in any era, would take off one of the best looking grilles Ford ever put on a car, and replace it with somthing else. Let alone one that looks that out of place on a 34. Just cause they did it "back in the day" doesn't mean it didn't look like ****. http://jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=555025
Never say never. The older car guys have been p***ing away in large numbers it seems. More and more unknown old projects and body shells are coming on the market. In the next town over from me, there is a guy in his mid 70s that still has his channeled 34 5w last driven in 1966 by him. He been through some rough times over the years, and sold the radiator and grille shell, and then sold the old interior. I never thought to ask him what year the grille shell was. the rougher ones that were not worth fixing 20 years ago, are now being pieced back together. It's just a matter of how much work you are willing to do.
"Pretty Big Words..." Too funny. I Just re-read my post, and I don't think I said that. I think it Looks great except for the choice of grille. Sorry, I'm not gonna let "HERO WORSHIP" change my opinion. Do we have to like everything everybody did "back in the day" to be "traditional".
I searched for this car for about 20 mins today for reference but could not find it. Such a rad example!!! Is this the same car that later had flames from bottom up?
This is Jim Griepsmas car. It appeared on "The Life of Riley" tv show later than the photo I posted above with the flatty, by that time it had a hemi with 4x2 and the flames you are referring to, and appeared on the cover of Hot Rod. It was a pale green color. It was also in Hot Rod Deluxe lately, a photo of the car, its owner and his kid in the garage. For me the car is an absolute icon, I have been in lust with this car since I saw the photo I posted above in Hot Rod magazine in the early seventies.
Heres the Hot Rod cover. looking at this, i think the flames you are refering to came even later. This is the version of the car that really does it for me.
Ok, that's got my attention.. bring them on. JJ, ever hear of the Ice Box? M*** built. It must have been in a magazine or two. Was white with chromed door hinges..just like the old house iceboxes were. Rear full nerf was chromed with the chromed bar stock insert spelling out the name. It later was medium blue metallic 40 years ago when I last saw it in my old town. Talk about freakin tuff, I was just telling a friend today about seeing the Ice Box coming around a S corner back then...it looked so cool. That friend had ridden in the car a few times back then. to tell the quality and style...it was for sale in 70/71 for $3500. Do the comparative math...it was gold chain priced back then.
F&J, got any pics? Love to see it. Maybe we can turn this into the "channelled '33/'34 with deuce grill shells and cycle fenders" thread. I love nerfs too. All this stuff was commonplace back then, and is virtually extinct now.
It didn't sound like what the OP was describing would agree with my personal sense of proportion, but after see the one in post 14 I would have to change my mind. That looks killer. Doug.
The only pic I have is in the Cool Cars/Square Roll Bars book on Northeast Rods from the old days. It's just a rear 3/4 view, but an early pic when still white. My friend says some of the Boston old timers knew the car and builder very well. I can't believe it was never discussed here before...except when I started a MIA thread on it a few years ago. It was drag raced too. Must be in a magazine. It went from CT to Fla 25/30 years ago as a project when the new owner moved down there...sat untouched in a Fla residential garage for 20+ years....then the trail ends. Might have been ****ty 70s brown metallic then, sbc,..
Too bad I am out of the country for a month as of tomorrow night, or I would go on a hunt for photos of '33/'34's with deuce grill shells.
Here's the car that generated the thread. Thanks for the picture D Rod. Mine will never be that quality. I like the idea of a hood without side panels. Was a 32 hood adapted to the 34 cowl or was a 34 hood adapted to the 32 grill. Interested in build details. Thinking about the curvature of the hoods. Thanks also guys for the 32 vs 34 controversy.
Looks way cooler than I thought it would. I'd do it on the right car... Although the blue car above is too long in the nose for me...
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