Imported my ‘46 Super Deluxe into the UK from Connecticut, been working on the rear end and drive train. But now it’s time to lower the nose. But by all that’s holy what the hell is this lash up? I know the previous owner used it as a tail dragger, no maybe to keep the nose up when dropping the rear?
That is some hillbilly engineering right there. There are plenty of proper front tube shock kits out there for our cars
Yes trying to get a Pete & Jake’s but everyone seems out of stocking. Already got a posie reverse eye waiting to get fitted, along with poly bushes
I’m more of an early V8 guy, but I wonder if the P&J front shock kit will work without removing the factory sway bar. Honestly I think the existing mount could be cleaned up with a bit of grinding and detail work and be satisfactory.
I'd completely remove that front mount and maybe use pieces of it to fabricate a cleaner front mount that only bolts to the frame, and didn't have all the other bolted pieces.
Well, look at it on the good side, at least they used the original shock mounting holes and didn't weld that hideous bracket to the frame.
Hello, A new look in a new place would go over big with everyone that sees the coupe. In So Cal, there are tail draggers, but the original look of a 46 Ford Coupe was lowered all around and/or a lowered rake. No radical rake angle, but a lowered front end. It was the classic 50s to early 60s custom car hot rod look. In 1957-58, my brother had his 51 Oldsmobile sedan on a lowered rake angle. But, remember, the lower the car, no lakes pipes can be used on a daily driver, unless the roadway or driveway entrances are level. My brother’s friend in his lowered rake 1956 Chevy racing at Lion’s Dragstrip. The acceleration power lifts the front end, so it looks level. Jnaki When it was our teenage cruising hot rods era, a friend had a 46 Ford Coupe. It eventually got a bright Purple paint job. On chrome rims, it looked great. But, a few weeks later, we drove the Purple 46 Ford down the coast to get some white two inch tuck and roll upholstery in the whole car, including the trunk and headliner. It was difficult to tell the border crossing guard what took place, but the conversation was a weeks stay in Ensenada on the beach was all it took to get a pass through the crossing. A day’s tuck and roll upholstery would have cost more for the “duty” tax. But, if the car was in Baja Mexico for a week, it was fine. YRMV The lowered rake was more in style with the teenage cruisers and teenagers in our area of Long Beach. But up the road in Compton and Bellflower, there were other custom cars that were low to the ground. That was a whole new ballgame. No one had lowered in the rear 1946 Ford Hot Rods. YRMV
Not really a Frankenstein at all, that’s bone stock Ford with the exception of the upper shock mount.
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