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There are whole threads dedicated to this on the HAMB, this was my contribution to one of them; some like 'em, some hate 'em. "Well I've done...
Odd paint... this is the rear of my '40 out in the sun it looks gray, when you look past the car to the other parts inside the garage they look...
Paint day! :(or perhaps better stated as disappointment day... orange peel run amok! Played the reducer roulette game, had some fast, turned...
This is a familiar story to me too... I was very lucky, so naturally I thought my luck would hold... well it didn't. It was a C.L. purchase,...
nice lebaron... :-)
It looks great! Sounds great! Between your thread and 39 guy there is a ton of information for '40 coupe builders and owners. Thanks for...
They were sold to me waaay back at the start as car fenders, I put them in the attic until I was ready, when I held them up to the car , there was...
update: Well I found another set of front fenders about 30 minutes away ( I discovered I had originally bought PU fenders), they're not bad, but...
I'll add a few pics to my thread (I've hijacked yours too much already! :) )... Just came in to say I was stuck on getting the front...
WOW! It's beautiful! ... quality details are everywhere.
VERY NICE!
lesson learned, just thought others might want to know too! "Doesn't sound like a member of the "Better Buisness Bureau" does he? He doesn't even...
WOW... Did a search for auto transports, got some random site, so popped in my info, gottah start somewhere... Of course my email then gets...
[ATTACH] my chopped '31 next to an original (...it seems like every time I park next to a stocker I get the stink eye! o_O)
Pair of 40-41 Pick-up front fenders got these before I knew what the differences were between these and car fenders. They were actually sold to me...
body work under way! Bare metal, then Eastwood Epoxy primer pics, then a few pics of the rebuilding the bottom edge of the deck lid and then...
Ben! you managed to save THAT decklid! I'm even more impressed!
It is kinda tight... this is the exhaust from a Waldrons '40 kit, with quite a few mods. Their kit uses a 1 1/2 pipe to get through the opening,...
LOL! Got to keep the lines straight! I can stop at one beer, two not so easy because the third is so much nicer and easier! ..and after four!...
Put on some decent music or listen to a ball game, grab a beer (just one), and start taping... the taping is sortah tedious, but! it only takes...
Well I've done three so far all using the same "technique" (lol), Painted the firewall white then covered the entire firewall with blue 2" tape...
BEN! I am impressed! Your tenacity and ingenuity are great to see in a young man, maybe hot rodding does have a future after all! (Ben and his...
I swap back and forth between the two hood styles... 31 A, 4.5 inch chop, 50 8ba, 46: brakes, rear axle, shortened TT, and trans. 35 wires,...
My GF took this pic with her daughters in the rumble seat, and me filling up my 31 Av8! She loves to ride in it, but most of all I think she...
Hey Guys... I've liked the results I get with an epoxy primer sealing everything, bare metal, old paint, repair areas etc... BUT! Every time...
Thanks! Again...! It's what I wanted to hear! I was beginning to wonder if I had done something wrong, or maybe even if I had an earlier frame...
Sam, it looks like we have a very similar front end setup... Chassis Eng. sway bar with an 8ba... how on earth did you get the bottom radiator...
just do the sniff test, 90w stinks... Sorry to re-energize this old thread but it seems simple, unless you've got a brand new fluid empty trans
Finally an update (after waiting for exhaust from reds I gave up (maybe I was "exhausted" from the wait!)) and got a kit from Waldrons. I knew I...
And here's a pic of what my garage usually looks like... just before it pisses me off so bad I have to stop and clean it just[ATTACH] so I can...
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