30 Roadster on Duece Rails Project-It begins

Hell... it should be ready for the Showdown! Looks good!
Clark

 

Lookin great Jerry! Keep it up.

 

Added a couple more pieces above the ****** hump to complete the floor

 

Some progress...
....Dug out my carbs, spacers, and scoops and took them over to my buddy's shop. We took off the four barrel intake and bolted on the Offenhauser 6x2 intake and the cross hoses and clamps. We installed the long carbs studs into the intake and put the carbs on. Eli started making up the carb linkage..he does all of his from scratch and its pretty cool how he does it, very old school. Hopefully we'll be ready to re fire the engine by the end of the week. Got some black spark plug wires that I need to cut and install..those grey ones are really bothering me, but they served their purpose to fire the engine up.

Also got the driveshaft in and made the hard line throttle pedal linkage.

Final body work is also done on the doors...the car will be going for paint as soon as the fuel system is finished........gotta keep on truckin!!!!!!

 

wow, you're already in the home stretch! You must not sleep, it took me years to even get mine drivable.

 

New spark plug wires on...carbs done....refired it..good oil pressure, the caddy engine sounds great.

It's alive and moves under it's own power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to try to get a video up and a few pics of it running

 

*****in! I want to hear it run. Make sure the video has audio.

 

congrats!!! let see some video now.

 

I shot some video for Jerry tonight . Not the greatest , but it'll get the point across . Sounds great w/open pipes for sure . The car's just hot-wired to run , as we've gotta make up the wire harness yet , once it comes back from the body shop . Gotta get the generator & belt back on too , so it doesn't burn up too . Well ... on to the video (more to come for sure) :



Man , I've gotta adjust the brightness on the camera before I shoot daylight stuff again , jeez !

 

That sounds sweet! Lookin' good!

 

Thanks for posting the vid allen

 

Looks great! That'll be lot's of fun to drive!

 

I love the battery cables just hanging out the space where there should be doors.

Hey, any plans for a May Hamb & S****ple?

Ohh, and as a heads up, we're doing the AstroMonkey BBQ again this year on June 27th. I'll post up the details and start a thread for it closer to the actual date.

 

hahahah...yeah, did you catch a glimpse of the temporary gas tank..the sound is not so great on the vid..but if you turn your computer up it's not too bad.

 

Thats the best when your rollin for the first time!!! Very cool!

 

Yeah, way to go. 363 days to the next Showdown

 

Update...took the roadster over to my friend Donny's place a few days ago for paint...should have it back by early next week...looking forward to seeing it all in one color..

 

Stopped over to Donny's place to check out the progress on the body work...he has the body work on the back corners where I sectioned it almost done and it primer. Another coat and some fine tuning to get the edges nice and sharp and it will be ready...looks great. Check out the before and after. I welded it up and grounded it down and got it as close as I could..but now it's the way it should be.

 

Great work great sound soon time to sneak it out on the road. I drove my 37 down the road sitting on a plastic bucket, man it felt great. I know how you feel ! wish I had your energy I build another rod.

 

the body is in primer....here's some pics......paint tomorrow..

 

finally come color! Heres the body after some sanding,blocking, and paint by my friend Donny. He's got the knack for sprayin. The color is a dark emerald pearl. Can't wait to pull the paper off. We touched up the frame as well. Came really out nice. It's coming home tomorrow for re***embly. Lot's of reflections in the paint from the clear and the lights but you can get an idea.

 

Jerry, you got a good eye for color , looks good in green. you gotta move for York.

 

Damn! Excellent color!

 

Looks good Jerry!

 

I think it looks great, Jerry........an adventurous choice of color, but I love it......very cl***y.......and shiny! ;^)

CB

 

hey jer, lookin good i remember painting my first BSA AND FIRST TRIUMPH EMERALD GREEN , AND EVERYBODY KEPT TELLIN ME IT WAS BAD LUCK. WELL THEY WERE WRONG IN BOTH CASES . SO DONT LET EM GIVE YA ANY ****. !! JUST GET ER DONE AND BEGONE ! PSYCHO

 

Holy ****! Love the color. Looking foward to stopping by and checking it out. Makes me want to build another car. Great job!

 

Jerry

That looks fantastic, I love the color...!

So, I'm guessing you won't be sleeping much when the paint is dry....

-Brant

 

lookin good cant wait to see more pics