The Jalopy Journal
I scored a matched set of national flippers. They were too shallow so I ditched the inners and made my own. Now they fit a 40 ford wheel and with...
Heres some random pics of whats been going on. Unfortunately the other day my motor started making lifter noise , so in between this pimer and...
Working on it. Doing bodywork/paint prep. Won’t be much until it’s all painted. Once the parts are all blocked out and taken off for primer they...
I’m not doing them , rear fenders stay the same
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Wow! Never seen that but those look exactly like the first version I made, but didn’t like the way they shot out so straight on the bottom of the...
No. I did see somewhere a totally stock set of 32 skirted fenders. I think ford made some but no idea why or where
Thank you! I was worried it would look weird or it wouldn’t come out as cool as I thought it could
thanks! I hammered the edge on a wood form, then you kinda clamp the wire with vice grips as you go through and hammer it over. If your bend...
And now you’re all up to date. The next thing is trimming shaping and welding these in , then things are coming apart for paint . At that point...
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As you can see above I made a model and Jason killlpack made one too a long time ago. Now we get into the real work . Pretty straightforward....
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you can kinda see em. I put my phone flashlight on the engine facing down and used the holes in the side to reach through and set them up . The...
It’s from Sid Chavers .
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This next bit took one year . I love Carson tops on early cars. I thought I’d take a crack at making one. I’ve seen some on 32’s and I think some...
Yeah it’s a lot of work!!!
I used a 34 rear crossmember. My door openings are flat, to me it looks fine. There’s a small high spot on the cowl bead kind of in the middle of...
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Ok so I put some fenders on it. Then I bought a complete rootleib hood and cut it up to fit some 32 Chevy master deluxe hood sides . The Chevy...
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The way you see this car now is not how I pictured it in my mind at all. I’ve been working very hard on version 2 which I’m trying to finish by...
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[ATTACH] I’ve been through a few of these early sbc motors now but still managed to make a few car shows this year, and get the interior finished....
I’m going to do a write up in my build thread , until then I can dm you? mine is for an early car so everything is smaller
[ATTACH]Little something I’ve been working on for a few months
Here’s 2 different looks. Stock Chevy , and white with chromed everything. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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