The Jalopy Journal
If you happen to be at the show next weekend please drop by the booth and say hi! The car will be in our booth in the main hall towards the...
Final polish getting ready for next weekend! [ATTACH]
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Quality Restorations did this steering wheel. Yes, they do great work! They have done several wheels for us.
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Engine and tranny were installed today. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
No, Ron Dunn is no longer alive. Steve had bought the car from Ron's nephew. To our knowledge Ron did not have a chopped '40 convertible.
The chassis is painted a black that duplicates the original Ford chassis appearance as near as we could figure. The first version done in 1951 the...
Yes, we have the exhaust figured out. It was split behind the header pipe and there were two glass packs installed by Huth Muffler (originally)....
Crestliner steering wheel restored and ready to go. [ATTACH]
Moving into final assembly. The countdown to GNRS begins! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The hours of wet sanding are done and now Jay and Duke are well into the cut & buff stages on the Ron Dunn Ford. We'll be moving into final...
The Ron Dunn Ford is now in color!!! When the car was redone in 1957, Valley Custom Shop had used a custom mixed color based off of Chevrolet's...
If applied correctly no, it will not rust under the lead provided you have tinned the surface properly. However, over time the lead will expand...
Update: Body is in primer. Moving right along. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Hot off the press!!! If you have not yet had a chance, go grab the latest copy of The Rodder's Journal! The Ron Dunn Ford is one of the...
You are correct about Valley Custom Shop and their metal finishing. While there is a fair amount of lead in the nose and taillight areas, the...
Update on the Ron Dunn Ford: Lead work is finished. Interior and underside have been prepped and primed. Body is back on the chassis for final...
The work on the Ron Dunn Ford continues. The Rodder's Journal photo shoot is done and so it was time to unfortunately melt out the old lead and...
Restoration on the Ron Dunn Ford continues... These shots are from last Friday right before we loaded it up and hauled it down to The Rodder's...
We had the body dipped at American Metal Cleaning here in Portland. We have used them for years and prefer this method over any kind of blasting....
We have the body back from being stripped. Seeing the body in bare metal is almost like looking back in time. Very cool to see the metal work and...
We are restoring it to the 2nd version. There has been a lot of talk concerning which version to build but in the end Steve has decided to restore...
Chassis assembly continues... The body is in the tank right now but we should have it out by Monday. We plan to have the car sitting in our booth...
Quick update on the Dunn car... The chassis and some of the chassis components are coated and waiting for assembly. The front clip is currently at...
There are several threads on here that have many different images of the car. Here's just a couple of the more popular shots. First version (Photo...
We have been busy getting things together for GNRS, but we did find some time to get the body and chassis separated. This is the first time the...
True, we have tried to start this project a couple of times, but paying projects always come first. We are finally all in now and there is no...
Cloning the first version has always been on the drawing board. After the car is stripped we will photograph and document all of the cuts and...
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