The Jalopy Journal
These are the bead roller dies I’m using, they are one off designs that I got machined up at an Australian shop called Speedwerx. They are the...
Hey Guys. A long over due update. I made up a secondary patterns for the sides. Because the sides are too long to make up in the bead roller, I...
With the frame now running parallel with the edge of the roof, I was finally able to bend up the strips that follow the contour of the timber...
The other thing I’ve been wanting to do was finish the frame that incorporates the header panel. So I dragged out the original one to compare it...
The other thing I did was work on the top edge of the cab, where the turret fastens, directly above the b pillar. It features a stepped inward...
It was getting dark out, by the time I had tapped and drilled the holes. The bolts are just temporary ones for the moment. I want to get shorter...
Hey Guys. After carefully removing the remaining timber roof bows, I was able to use them as patterns for the new ones. The hardest task with...
Hey Guys. I’m on holidays now, so I can finally get stuck into getting the cab repaired. Last weekend I bent up the flat bar for the band that...
1928 Model A Ford Roadster Pickup.
A very rare factory 3 window Plymouth. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The other thing I did was pop the roof back out, I did this by flipping it upside down and jumping on it. Because it missing the centre bow, it’s...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] The strips appear to be 10 mm wide half round aluminium. To keep the clean look of them, I will only be fastening them every...
The other thing I have to figure out is what kind of drip rails to use. This is what a restored one looks like. These trucks are very rare, not...
And here is the frame sitting inside the roof. The original has bowed timber to follow the contour of the roof edges. The roof was fastened to the...
The other thing I need to do is replicate the corner gussets, I’m thinking 3 mm plate for this. Another important thing to keep in mind when...
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Needless to say until I get a pattern from him, the doors are on the back burner. The other thing I have been trying to figure out is the framing...
Hey Guys. It has been a few weeks since I have done anything substantive on the truck. I was intending to replicate all the framing in the doors...
Thanks for that !
I need the measurement taken from the point where the sub rail lines up with the cross rail. [ATTACH]
I need the measurement of the raised section right up to where it steps down. [ATTACH]
Hey Guys. I’m in the process of repairing this sad set of sub rails by fabricating the missing sections the fasten under the sub rail extension...
Before I do any of that, I want to get the tailgate made up. The first pickup bed will be the junk one. I’m using sheet metal I have salvaged from...
I’m not sure, I will go to the trouble of making a hardwood floor, it’s labor intensive and expensive, but I will take those dimensions and visit...
I also have floor plans to go off. [ATTACH]
The other pattern I took was of the front panel. I accidentally cut the upper half off before I made this one, but I wrote down the dimensions of...
The small rectangular pattern above, is the inside measurement of the swage that sits between the hinges. [ATTACH]
So I took the blank pattern I had created and placed it over the inside of the original tail gate and began tracing out the radius and marking out...
I was going to take patterns from the tailgate when he informed me he had an original tailgate. It turns out, he’s had the tailgate for years and...
Hey Guys. I spent the morning cutting and sticking cereal boxes together to make up the blanks for the tailgate and front panel. Then I went down...
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