The Jalopy Journal
One of the patch panels, wasn’t quite the right profile, so rather than scrap it, I will use it on the bottom of cab. I was going to repair all...
Beyond, the purchase and shipping price I don’t have have a lot of money tied up in these trucks, I don’t have the money to put into them, so I’m...
The top is open at the moment while I figure out how to cap it, the American doors have a flat panel that unscrews to allow the glass to be...
Hey Guys. I finished the welding on the driver’s side door skin last night and ground back the welds, this is how it’s sitting this morning....
And speaking of doors, I purchased this bare 32 Roadster Pickup cowl years ago that’s also in need of a pair of door, so I will be fabricating a...
Once I have completed this one, I will take a reversible pattern from it to reproduce the other side, which I expect will take far less time. And...
The other thing I have to do is figure out the capping at the top and bottom of the skin. The American doors have a 14 gauge panel that unscrews...
The hardest part so far is getting the returns on the inside of the frame, these needed to be the correct width for the Bailey channels to fit....
Hey Guys. Another long overdue update. The triangle was flattened out and re-done in the centre. And I began work on making the upper frame....
The second length of angle will sit just below where the floor sits. There are three points of reinforcement that tie the sides together. [ATTACH]
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The other big development was ordering a full slab of 3/4 inch thick form ply for the bed along with 1/8 sheet of regular ply and lengths of 1 x 1...
Hey Guys. The pickup was back in the workshop last month so I was able to get much needed patterns of the sides and the tailgate. This is the...
Have you thought about cutting it down into a pickup ?
I disagree about the club coupes don’t look as good, I seen this one at the Street Rod Nationals this year. [ATTACH]
The main flaws were the length being about an inch too short and the triangle being too far to the right. I will flatten out the right hand flange...
Hey Guys. I got the first one made up with mixed results. [ATTACH]
Tomorrow I start on the real deal, this is the steel I’m using and it’s top quality. It’s been cut out of the roof from a mid 1970’s Ford Falcon...
After trying out some scrap I was happy with the results and ready to proceed, I was considering doing a test one on a smaller section, but...
Hey Guys. I was keen to add in the raised section on the upper part of the door skin today so the first thing i needed to figure out was my...
Once I’ve figured that out, I will move onto doing the actual ones. A couple of observations, the swage along the bottom was added to give the...
The only downside with doing it this way is not being able to finish the ends of the swages. I may end up using some pipe to punch a half round...
The second time around I wasn’t going to repeat the mistakes, so this time around I used a step die combination rather than the usual half round...
Hey Guys. This was my first attempt at making the inner skin, I used sheet metal from old shelves that I salvaged from work. Needless to say it...
The plan is to reinforce the perimeter with RHS and make the inner skin removeable for easy access. [ATTACH]
I also made a secondary pattern out of cardboard to trace over the sheetmetal. The three quarter inch strip will be added to the rear of the...
After fine tuning the pattern last night, I fitted it up to my door for a rough idea of what it might look like. [ATTACH]
As I outlined earlier, the doors in mine were framed with timber and I wanted to replace it all with steel. I brought down my door for a...
Hey Guys. The local rodder has the 32 pickup back in his shop to finish the wiring and get the upholstery done, so I took the opportunity to take...
Then once you have a pattern you are happy with, transfer it onto a sheet of MDF. The MDF pattern will be needed as the template to cut out around...
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