Featured Hot Rods Building my first roadster in Kansas City

Really, just like you said, the perfect donor for this project! Excited to see it transform from forgotten 41 Ford to Hot Rod

 

Even if nothing else happens to be useful those way cool 40/41 round spindles are worth the trip to get them. And you can never own too many banjo rears.

Many other parts could be useful.

I, and about a thousand others, are watching.

 

I wasn’t even kidding! this is the list of stuff I figured I could pull off it before I even got it home. I’m gonna snag every castle nut and cool little bracket off this thing!

 

Hood off firewall. Wiring and hoses off the front chunk. Front bumper irons off. Probably some fender brace rods. Look under radiator for a couple bolts. Fenders to cowl.

 

I think it’s three bolts on back if each fender to the cowl, one more to the running board, and then I think there is one single bolt under the radiator. Then the radiator I think has one to three bolts each side plus radiator. Shouldn’t be too terrible

 

Btw, here's what Tim's parts car looked like when he picked it up at my place:

 

Was a good day!

 

Anthony would drive it…

 

A lot of good parts there.

 

@Six Ball ya know, it really is a lot of good parts and I ended up in a funny spot. I started changing my intended plan a little just so I could use a ton of this 41. Even then I felt like there was almost enough for yet another little modifed or something.

I spent a lot of time seeing how it all goes together and comes apart and eventually realized that this “back burner” project was starting to make me feel over whelmed with the space it was taking up in the shop and in my head.

So I came up with a plan.

I put some good wheels and tires on it, called my buddy up with the trailer and coasted up onto it and sent it to his farm. That’s part one of the plan, it will let the roadster take the right position in the roster of projects and give me back some room to work and think.

Part two of the plan is I’m taking the things I really want the most and hold true to the original plan in my head and the rest I ear marked for two friends who have hot rods in need of some of those parts in order to hit the road sooner.

They have shown up at the drop of a hat to help
me more than once and I feel better knowing those parts can help them rather than sit on my shelf or whatever I might do with them.

That kinda feels more in the spirit of Atch’s generosity as well.

on that note I got a front spring from him as well so after I get a few bits off the 41 and some from a buddy further south I should be able to put this frame back together with full suspension, brakes and tires for the first time!

 

That is exactly why I have most of what I need to build two more projects beyond my '26 roadster. I also have parts that need to be in other peoples piles.

 

It’s a slippery slope lol

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