COE Dough Boy's 47 Ford COE Build

Now you will need to change your Avatar so it has red wheels.

 

Wow, that seat base came out great! I like the red wheels as well..this thing is so damn cool...

 

That is just amazing.

 

Phoenominal workmanship on those seat pans!!

 

outstanding craftsmanship !!!

btw
thank you for coating a rim black and one red
... now i can look at them and try to make up my mind of what i`m going to do with my rims

 

I can't wait for the kitchen to be built . All stainless steel ? Quilted walls ?

 

Planing on doing both. Going for that 50's diner look and feel.

 

Holy ****. Nice fab work. I'm loving it!

 

Great job Son on the Build. As to the clean underware quote, that came from Grandma Payne, and I'm sure I p***ed it on to all you kids. Benny, I'm sure you were given the same information, sometimes you didn't listen to your elders!! I do read the thread boys.

 

Ha ha ha.... Awesome!

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Closing in on finishing up the seat skirts. Need to place the controls and work on seat belt hardware.




Chris made a hood blister and tig welded it in for the seat lever. We used a punch and flare die for the seat belt bolt. The last part is to mount the controls for the driver seat.


This is a Photoshop drawing of the seat setup. The seat skirt will be black and the plan is to have black leather with red s***ching and one red insert. The bottom detail will be made out of polished aluminium.

 

looking good

 

Just read this thread through from the beginning. Amazing work and great inspiration! I've wanted a COE for years but never had the money when I finally found one. One day...

Keep up the great work, looks awesome so far!

 

Instead of cup holders, are you going to install those cheese and pepper flake holders?

On a serious note, I've been wondering, is the metal work on the inside of the fenders, etc...finished just as nice as the outside?

I think the seat risers look good as-is . Have you considered leaving them open?

 

We how have the new custom radiator and are ready to start to build the frame that will house it. The frame will also be support between the two lower body mounts,and will also be attached to the upper part of the firewall.










It will look a lot better after we take off the cardboard and blue tape.


Chris cutting out the top portion of the firewall. There were a lot of holes in it and decided to replace it instead of welding all the holes in.


We maded the template for the new firewall and will start fabricating it next week.

 

This is like the most awesomest COE ever... the metal work is first rate!

Sam

 

I agree! This is coachwork-level building for a utility vehicle... what could be cooler?

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keep the pics coming

love the build
.... cant wait to see what you guys come up with for the back body

 

We need some updates!

 

Have some updates on the truck. It's been a busy summer with the family, but Chris has been working on it a little while we been off playing.

Chris finished up the new firewall and added some nice bead rolling detail.






Needed to move the steering column bracket on the dash to center it for the new column and new seat set up.


Ready to install and test fit the new column.


Column matched up great. Time to work on some brackets to support the column and dash to the firewall.

 

REALLY? You know what would be a fun family event...working on your COE!!! Honestly, you can not spend all your time with "those" people and ingore all of us here who care and admire you so much. It is just unfair. We are going through withdrawl...cold turkey style. I see only one solution to this dilema, and that is for you to send Chris to my house to work on my COE, (while you are off playing at the McDonalds playland with the wife and kiddies.). Then I'll post pictures of cool fabrication to the delight of trillions of loyal HAMB readers... (ps. If you are nice and give me a free pizza, I might let you have Chris back at the end of summer, well maybe not until after my next project is built too.)

 

Your work is so nice. I really enjoy updates on this thread.

 

good to see progress is made on your Coe !

when i saw you using the 42-48 dash I liked it so much, I took your idea and used it for my build too,
Now i See your using the same steering wheel and column as me
ok except for the column shift i have made a dash shifter

 

This guy already finished his. Probably wasn't fooling around as much.

 

DANG...That brings a whole new meaning to "pizza delivery"!

 

The amount of fabrication and attention to detail blows me away! I wish my 47 was looking half as good as yours


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Dang, that's nice tin-work; and both dashes are DEluxe....

 

I just happen to be on a first name basis with the Pizza King of Vancouver. He's a very important person and very busy but I'll see if he has some pointers for you guys. The last time I talked to him he I think he said he was in the process of converting a brand new Freightliner tractor and 40' trailer into a mobile pizza kitchen with a dozen ovens. I'm pretty sure that's what he said he was doing. I'm sure the first thing he's going to say is to quit fooling around so much with some old truck and get to work on the pizza or taco side of things.

 

GREAT WORK!!!! I wish I was helping out.

 

Had to pull off the steering part of the project due to some of the u-joints did not work out as planed. While waiting for parts we moved on to some other areas of the project.



We did away with the manual operation of the door vents. Had a good friend machine up some parts to make the setup work. Replaced the stock rivets that held the hinges together with br*** bushings and a rod that goes to the motor. Welded one set of bushing to the door hinge with a set screw that is connected to the rod. The other hinge has a free bushing that allows the door to open and close.


The motor was a little off set from the rod so we used a heavy duty spring to get them to lined up. When we test out the door it had a little delay and didn't have a smooth opening motion. The spring did not work out as we thought it would and now plan on trying to use a u-joint instead. It still looked pretty cool just need a little more fine tuning.


We had some rust issues in the front cab seam that need some attention. Decide to go with the one piece smooth look.






Chris was glad to see this part done. Said it would have been easier to have chop it.