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Step 1399: Cut up an F1 shock mount and a Model A headlight bar. Weld them together. Heat the conglomeration and do bendy things. Decide you...
It ties in about as much as my other ramblings, seems like good info to me. It didn't look as dark as bronze, but I wouldn't be surprised if it...
Step 1391: Do torch things. Also hit the things with hammers. Make sure you use your nice expensive impact socket as a bending tool and turn it...
Step 1390: Quit crying and order 12' of 3/8" square stainless. Spend entirely too many hours machining it so it has a neat shape. Watch...
Step 1372: Curse the rat bastard that decided to make the original Buick grill shell insert out of whatever hellish mystery brass-type material...
Step 1352: Combine your two least-worst windsheild frames into one. The top portion had to be narrowed 1/4" and the bottom piece was rotted out...
An addendum to the hood pictures. I guess I didn't post a before pic of the '34 Buick hood. That thing was gigantic![ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Oooooohhhh, I like that. I was thinking about a little shot pin, but I never thought to reuse the hinges. Very nice.
That's a rubber strip cut from an inner tube. It lets the lower wheel curve the sheetmetal without stretching it. The frame is a '54-ish panhead.
Just kidding. I've been getting a lot done. I had to cut at least 12" off the '34 Buick hood to get it to the right length. I then had to cut...
Step 1234: Quit your job. I changed jobs in November. I didn't realize how miserable it made me till I got out. Now I have a 4 10-hour work...
I'm partial to an underslung setup. I have an Alfa 4 banger a '25 Chevy frame and another Mopar axle waiting for a roadster body one of these...
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Thanks! I'm in the middle of figuring out the hood setup right now, I'll post some better detail pics of that whole debacle once I get through...
Step 1227: Remake the bottom of the grill shell, make some side panels to fill in where fenders went. Hit all the things with hammers. Attack...
Step 1222: Annoy the hard-core Mopar people a bit more. Cut down a '34 Buick grill shell to fit. Narrowed about 3" at the top, shortened 5" The...
I posted a reply before the finished pictures loaded up. It doesn't look like much, but I'm so much happier with it now.
Step 1139: Guess what! Redid some more of my old work again! The cowl always bugged the hell out of me. It didn't flow right, it was too...
Step 1143: Continue the interior stuff. Cut down the VW beetle seats, make new pivot points and bend the backs to the right angle. Hopefully I...
Step 1142: Sell that Model T. Pause and reflect on a long long history of poor financial decisions.... ...and... ....continue making poor...
Be a Studebaker weirdo. No one will tell you that you are cool, but they are totally thinking it.
I guess I never posted a picture. People love that stuff. They really do exist, trust me.
If you buy this you will finally earn your father's love and approval.
I'll sell this stuff separately, I suppose. I may make some individual posts later with prices.
Whole lot of experts on here that never tried it themselves... I thrashed this car for about 10 years with thousands of miles and never had a...
The coupe body is very buildable, the belt line is really solid. It'll need all the normal lower patch panels, and the subrails arent great. Back...
I believe there's about 2 dozen posts when I first started that were complaining about people's computers and phones vomiting blood and bile when...
Step 1046: Do more steering things. Make it all adjustable. I guess I didn't take a picture while I built it, but I hollowed out one of those...
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