Projects 26 roadster build; Bang Bang

Looking good! Glad yer back...

 

Good on you for persistence! It will be a lovely hot rod.

 

Thanks for the kind words to everybody that's still following along! Trying to make it to RPM nationals in September.

 

You can do it. JW

 

hurry up

 

Glad to see this project cranking again!

 

any progress? Paint? wtf

 

what r u even doing rn

 

Hey! Gonna try and catch us up to where this is now. We left off in the fall of 23 when I was doing bodywork. Finally getting everything in primer.

 

Had to rebuild my door latches, they were broken and full of sand. Got some help from Bert's Model A parts bin.

 

My old compressor could not keep up with the paint gun so I had to install this vintage monster I got from a buddy. This probably took another couple months to wire and plumb before I could paint. Thanks to @PINEAPPLE and Alan for the help!

 

I am not painter and this was my first time painting anything other than the frame so it was a big couple days to get here after months of sanding filler and primer

 

Sadly, when I got it outside and in the sun, it was pretty clear this was not the color I wanted. I lived with it for a few weeks but ultimately decided I was never going to be really happy with it and I was going to reshoot in a darker color. I spent weeks trying to find a car or paint code I liked and was really coming up empty. Eventually I saw photo of a car at a local show on instagram and a friend of mine was standing next to it. I called him up and got the name of the car owner. He actually still had the old can of paint in his garage and was able to give me a paint code. I sanded everything back down to scuff it up and shot it again. I will never regret this choice.

 

Good from far, far from good. Let's get it back together!

 

Putting all that nice new chrome on was a great feeling.

 

Roll it out in the sun for some pics

 

Looking good! Better paint job than I could do.

 

So that gets us caught up to December 2024. Got everything wired, plumbed and ready to fire it and start tuning for a first drive. The universe had other plans.

 

Looks fantastic

 

You have done a great job on the whole car, it looks like a time capsule T. The color is perfect and i wish my T's body was that blue, worried what's under the paint on mine.
Looking forward to the start up and first drive....All too cool. JW

 

Well done on the colour change, it's a lovely colour, alot of people wouldn't have gone to the extra effort to change it.

Interested to hear what the latest curve ball is. There's lots of smoke in that garage!

 

That's a heck of an update. What happened during start up?

 

Wow, that’s gorgeous! 27 roadsters are beautiful cars.
Care to share the paint code?

 

Like others waiting to hear what happened. Trust u & family friends all well ready to fix any problems & be ready to roll on.

 

Thanks for all the messages! I realized I never took any pictures of everything that happened and the story is so crazy I have to figure out how to even tell it because no one will believe it, haha. I'll try and get this updated soon.