'41 Ford Business coupe, progress pics

Put some bags in this week............................

and four bars..

 

Watts link lets us sit this thing on the ground

 

Here's the bead roller we made so we could construct the floors and trunk...............
Hooked it up to a planitary roller we don't use much.

 

That's a great bead roller. What's the throat depth on it? Looks like 4 feet.

 

I need a frame like that for my ride. Guy before me cut out the x-member and then boxed the nose with a nova, but it was done all wrong. The rails are too bent to try to replace the x-member. grrr In time!

 

Yeah, real lousey job with the Nova clip, the rails are buckled and not worth the effort to straighten them out and box them then fab up new crossmembers. We haven't got that kind of equipment anyway. We just missed out on a 41 frame here on LI. Pete's got a lot of friends in the roundy round circle and they've got the shops and materials to help him get it all set up. Only a matter of when. Maybe he can get a government bailout? Nah, he's one of the honest ones, they'd never give him one.

 

awesome work, nice car! i like the home made tools and stuff. nice work. i also agree about the tail lights, look like early 90s to me

 

The ass end is just crying out for 50 Lincoln taillights, just my .02.

 

Skirts fit nicely. I can't wait to see more progress pictures.

 

Thanks guys...............I don't like the tail lights myself, I'll try and talk the owner out of the idea.
We bought a '41 frame and ended up using only the rails, fabed the rest............

 

It's lookin great!...Thanks for the updates.

 

Nice looking fab work. See how much people here pay attention to what is posted and just go off in the wrong direction from what's been explained in the initial post? Happens a lot around here.

Frank

 

nice work your doing

 

you do really nice work..

 

Your right about shooting the person who would use the poor street rod looking tail lights. Street Rodders have different way of looking at things, it's not my style and their just too many Street Rodders to shot all of them.
This car has so much going for it a very cool ride. CRUISER .

 

Man....that frame is built like a brick shithouse !....I wish mine was that cool....Today I went to see a buddy who's working on a customer's car.....a shoebox, with a beautiful chop, and some really nice custom body mods with split 55 Pontiac bumpers, and some traditional touches that make it demand respect......then the customer installed a DVD player complete with under-dash flat screen and a billet steering wheel that would make "pimp my ride" blush......what can ya do ?........

 

How is this car coming along?