A dropped 32 heavy for some reason just makes the car. I just think the are neat. Just like a 32 one year only.
not a big view but a 2-1/2" drop on my original Model A axle, '46-48 spindle dropped below unsplit wishbone. I've had the dropped spindles since the sixties, but cleaned up the angle on the end only recently. 2-1/2" or 3" was about as much as they were commonly dropped, per my memory. I think they start looking odd with bigger stretching drops.
Heres mine.....Although my build should (and will at some point) have a dropped Heavy B for now I have a relatively nice dropped 36 axle. I havent been able to save up enough for chroming so I spent a few hours with the grinder and DA and then shot it with some spray bomb clear. Works for me for now.... Before... During... After...
Took a pic of a mid 60s survivor rpu . He said you could buy these back then they were called "drop drilled and filled" and available commercially. He has only seen a few in his long tenure as a builder. I'd love to show you the whole car but he doesn't care much for Internet hot rodders and asked me not to post it.
Not that anyone gives a crap but I am not a fan of the filled end or the stretched look. I like the ends to be uniform with the rest of the axle. So I guess I am a snob of axles!
Here's another vote for @jackandeuces ... This is the one he did for me! Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I've been taking note of axles as far back as mid 1950s when I was trying to deside how to keep the hot rod 28A I was building low in the front. At first the droped axle thing looked cool,tell Jeff's dropped axle broke off in the heated bend going down US1 in 1957,he was really lucky an just slid to a stop. Jeff was in one of CC that I knew a number of members in,Hermem asked me to help him n Jeff get the rod back to the Gas Station he worked at a few miles away.. That was the point I desided to find a better way,the dropped axle thing didn't look cool to me any longer. I found a busted up 48 Ford missing motor an tran n rear on its side in the woods,but front axle was all still there. Looking 48 over,it had some factory drop along with spring droped out over the front so looked cool to me. By changing spring n cross member,I could get low an safe. I still drive my same highschool hot rod I first built in 1959,
That looks like a Blackie Green axle. Blackie was an old time fabricator in Vancouver. I bought one from Dickinson & Dunn in Victoria about 50 years ago and used it under my 40 delivery. Looks the same.
Yes,said "dropped heavy 32 looked perfect",but my point was I don't think so, an why! I do try to say why ,if I don't care much for something ,vs, just say ;It's not so great looking !{would be of no value to anyone}.
He said it came off a 60s show car called "psycho". He is replacing it with a 32 heavy. The rest will remain the same.
Some guys don't consider a dago axle very aesthetic; but then again they have a place in hot rod history along their own mystique.
I was thinking the same thing. I have one almost identical and the fellow I got it from say s it was done by Blackie Green. I think that shop is now run by his grandson.
I picked this one up early this year in central Cal wondered if any ID can be made by the style and different radius upper and lower bends.
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