Anyone using old road signs for floorboards.

I'm working on a T V8 in the "old skool "or should I say "preskool style". I can't seem to find enough old embossed steel sings. Most are printed aluminum type. "Also gona git me a wheelborrow for the firewall inset"

 

Around Ohio, I found most of my early purchases had old license plates integrated into the floorboards (we catch the problem early). But in 2001, I bought a '49 Shoebox Ford that grew up in New Mexico, and it came with a genuine 1965 New Mexico highway sign. Unfortunately (for collectors), I pitched it and I'm replacing it with a new EMS floor.
Sorry.

 

You are aging yourself if you remember wheelborrow fire walls or is it something you seen in an old mag. I first saw that years ago I thought it was a neat idea,why not. Some say why, some say why not!!

 

I was thinking of using old floorboards for road signs.....

 

Back we we lived in Iowa, the exit sign on the highway that went through Clrainda coming from New Market strangely disappeared. I was around 10 then but I can remember my Mom reading it in the paper and telling my Dad about it.

He worked at the City Barn then at Clarinda, and took us by when the Highway Dept. but up a new one.

Years later we were putting a new top on his '29 Sedan, and when we pulled off the cloth ..... There it was! All my Dad said was "Hmm I wonder how that got there??? and gave me a silly grin.

 

Haahhaaahaa!!! I could use for example a small town's one from Finland: KÖYLIÖ! Or how about KEIKYÄ! Or PÖYTYÄ! You're killing me... You can find those on the wreck yards.

 

I want this one for my garage.



Exit 69
Big Beaver Rd.

 

I worked for the government for almost 30 years......I was the sign guy....

The old steel signs are way too heavy and hard to work with. And the new stuff does not weld......very good at all. Also........it is a state law.....to have one........in my state.....punishable.....by 30 days in jail / $1000 fine OR BOTH....

Not only that.....they bring big money to the collectors...the old stamped steel ones....

 

So you're shooting for the cobbled together, POS look on purpose?

JH

 

<-> as long as you don't use the "i go both ways" road sign. <-->

 

he-he-he it's all the rage.

 

Well, my Chevy has one in it, cut in half and part on each side. Might be porcelained steel, haven't figured out what it's for. I figured when I got to fixing the floors I'd give it to a friend who collects old signs.

I found him a Texaco round 8' diameter gas station sign, the one that went on the pole out front, he tells me he saw them with asking prices in the $1000-$2000 range at Carlisle. I paid $30 for this one and swapped it for some hauling.

 

Jaker (aka Jake the Fake) here is...

I'm sure they were obtained legally though

 

I'm asking myself the same thing. Why not do what another hamber is doing and put plexiglass for a floor, then there's two of you that will have the cool floor

 

Not for floors but how about seats

 

looks comfy

 

It's actually not too bad. Will be better when I get the bottom cushion made

 

Best sign ever:

 

All the signs I have are WAY to heavy !!! and I hate wheelbarrow fire walls .

 

I know that sign!!! it's in the motorcity, near the GM Tech Center. I feel funny saying it but... "I used to go down Big Beaver road". thanks for the trip down memory lane!

 

Hey, Thats I-75, Troy, Michigan. I come that way all the time. Shaun.

 

Here's another Michigan road sign....on M-37 south of Baldwin. The state finally gave up on replacing it as it was regularly being stolen.

I guess the turkeys will have to start looking both ways.

 

I used to work on Big Beaver, and take exit 69 all the time. Now I work one mile south of Big Beaver, there are signs all over but the I-75 sign is the best. You can get T-shirts that have the sign on it. Made in Detroit I think sells them. I have seen them in Royal Oak. Best sign ever...

 

Well if you don't think it was done you don't come from my area.

One of my favorite cars used an old stamped steel stop sign for a firewall. It was nicely done and he painted it but the s-t-o-p letters were plainly visible. I thought it was brilliant. They bring big money today so you won't see that anymore. License plates from the 30's with the date exposed make great access doors.

I think I might cut a useless hole in my plywood floor boards just so I can patch it with tin from a "Prince Albert in a can" can. I've picked up a couple cheap ones just for that purpose. I think anything with a recognizable depression era logo can be used as recycled raw material for an old hot rod. Let your imagination go wild. It doesn't mean it has to be shitty work. It does give a poor boys working out in the back yard using what ever was available to them flavor that I like.

As a side note... out area had a hard time keeping parking signs up. It seemed every dirt racer at Dorsey speedway used the channel metal posts for rub rails down the side of the body.

 

Isn't that the exit ya' get off at to go to the K-Mart Headquarters building?

My old company had their branch office close to there. Never made the connection between the exit # and road name, but I do now .


Also, how about a road sign used as a rear firewall in a '40 Coupe race car

How many old race cars do ya' think used that trick?

 

So far, at least I don't think, my work will be shity. I don't have a way to post pics right. It's not the idea to make it a p.o.s., but to make a 40's style. although a lot of the work "back in the day" wasn't the best. They didn't have mig & tig and plasma cutters ect. Just my way of reliving the past.

 

Dammit Jean Jacket....

I have road signs for a floor... they were used in a rushed situation to get my car to Paso... then as it turned out I'm too lazy to put a real floor in. They worked pretty good, but we used them because they were available and in my garage at the time, we didn't search them out.
ha ha 'rat rods rule'

here's a picture from the lsr-2004

-Jake

 

Last time I used a STOP sign, the damn thing was tempered aluminum I think. That sign did not want to bend, was a pain in the ass!...........OLDBEET