It's been almost a year, but I think it's time to start telling the Hamb family what we are doing. My son was never interested in cars, but now that he is almost old enough to drive himself, he is showing great interest. So about a year ago I told him he could have the pick of any of the parts he wanted and build himself a hotrod. This is what he picked: - 1946 Lincoln 66H (zephyr) frame, suspension and axles - 1952 Ford F1 Cab - 1947 Packard grille - 1947 Buick interior - Moon disks on the wheels - Open sides to the hood - 1930 (I think) Model A headlights - Brass era oval fuel tank mounted behind the cab - No bed/fenders, running with cab, hood, grill surround only - Way off topic straight 6 engine and 4 speed manual transmission So over the last year we've slowly been building, teaching him skills he never knew he had and I didn't think he would care to learn. We started with a frame We cleaned and disassembled to clean metal everywhere.. lot's of tedious work. We cut the frame just behind the rear crossmember, didn't want a hot-rod as long as the lincoln. Build front and rear cab mounts, and mounted the 1952 Ford F1 cab. Also decided to go with an F1 pedal assembly and a power brake unit. Decided to use the hood from the 1946 lincoln, which fit surprisingly well.. Just needed to trim about 2" out of the center. Overall look from the front is pretty nice. Then we mounted the straight 6, pretty long mounts that we are planning to complete by cradling them to each other. The 4 brl intake manifold and double exhaust are in the way of the steering so we're going to get creative with routing the column. We're planning to make the rear crossmember supported by a K type setup to the frame which will also help with another driveshaft loop. The rest of the frame will be boxed. To mount the torque tube suspension we are building a trans/driveshaft mount where a short driveshaft from the 4spd trans to the torque tube setup will transfer the power. To make this all fit we used an early '30 short driveshaft coupled to the original Lincoln rear end. Nice thing is that the Lincoln frame has a factory Z for the rear that is pretty radical, so lowering the frame is not required and we can run the stock suspension (with some leafs removed and upgraded to compression shocks) Slowly parts are coming together. The first wheel is on for mock up and fabrication. Not sure about the turnsignal yet (model and place) but overall we're pretty happy with the progress and teaching my son some of my skills.
Are you the guy that adopted a whole family of children? Mighty big of ya if you are. The project looks awesome man!!! I can't wait till I can build something with my son. I'm saving a '54 Chevy for him when he's ready. First things first.....he's gotta be born this July.
Yes, we did adopt all our kids ;-) we're a few days shy of a year as a family. Congratulations on your kid, teach him from an early ago.. Grace, my 8yo daughter actually did some of the welding on the cab mounts.
That's awesome!!!!! Man that car is going to be really cool and your son....and daughter are going to appreciate the shit out of it.
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