Projects Build- 1953 Ford Customline - The Faraday Roadster

In October of 2010 I bought a rusted out four door from a farmer for $250.

 

OK...and? HRP

 

OK......................................

 

It aint worth anymore 5 years later.

 

The first step was to remove several bags of filth and mouse leftovers.

 

Pulling parts off. Throwing most away, cleaning up some.

 

The first weld of many.

 

The last year of the Ford flathead. This one was well beyond saving.

 

That is my first door to be welded in place.

 

Is the top of that door missing? I assume your fixin to build an open car?

 

Here are the two driver doors skinned and welded in.

 

Bye bye roof.

 

Tipping the body onto it's side.

 

Large chunks of the car spent about a year in my basement.

 

Pretty much everything got stripped off of the frame. In the end I used so little of it, I could have scrapped the whole chassis and been ahead.

 

This is March of 2012. I built a very tough x-member for the frame.

 

Sorry, the last one was out of order. September 2011 I welded on an s-10 subframe with a pretty healthy step-up.

 

I bought the cleanest car I've ever owned for 700 bucks. After I pulled the drive train out I gave the body to my pal who made a gasser out of it.

 

This is the Corvair rear subframe. I am adding 4x4 to it to graft it to my frame.

 

I pie cut the rear end of my frame to make it kick-up.

 

Here is the Corvair subframe connected to the rest of my frame.

 

A little 12 gauge to hold it all together.

 

Zig-zag.

 

I used the original rear part of the ford frame, but flipped upside down.

 

That second cross bar is a very burly engine mount. Rubber mounted with earl Ford F-1 mounts.

 

Smoothed out rear bumper.

 

November of 2012. Time to bring those body panels back out of the basement.

 

I cut the windshield frame loose and moved it back 18 inches and chopped 1/3 off the top.

 

I grafted roll bar tubing along the top of the doors and windshield.

 

The rear deck was lengthened by a foot. There is some mock-up stuff happening in this picture.