It's a grown men's machine - And I love it!!!

Talkin' about the LOUVERS PRESS here! K-Member and Oldbeet had a great louvers party today. The machine works very well and let me tell you: Those guys are PRO.



We started with the tailgate from K-Member's badass truck...





It turned out VERY well! Looks bitchin' in flat black with some pinstraiping...





So our next target was my Model "A" Coupe's deck lid. She was a 80-years old VIRGIN with no holes so we punched the hell out of her!!!






Watch your fingers. Please.







Did I already mention that it was HOT... Well, it was! What the hell, some more beer with BBQ...





Here we go... It's neat isn't it! It's pretty much as beautiful as a louvered Model A deck lid can ever be... Excellent design done with good eye + high-talented and motivated guys + professional tools = The best result you can get!





Of course we needed to fit the finished lid into K-Member's Coupe. Looking GOOOOD....




I had great time, again. I have an awesome deck lid to take back home and put to my car. Thanks K-Member and Oldbeet! Let me say this one more time: If you need some holes punched to you steel, just let K-Member know, you won't regret!

I try to finish my new Youtube movie named "The Saturday Louvers Party" by tomorrow...



--mika

 

Cool post. Good pics, thanks for sharing.

 

Too cool wishn i was there

 

Awesome. Good pics too.
Tito

 

Sweet.

 

One more photo. Some Bonneville salt race style here... Combined to early backyard hotrodding... Note the pretty good-looking decklid there....

 

Very impressed. I tried briefly doing louvers with an ancient "Pullmax" in the Navy. It's harder than it looks to do em clean.

 

So Keith's gonna give up being a tattoo artist and become a louver artist!
Thanks for the pics Mika. Keith

 

Keith, I think I will still keep the day job, though I am fealing a little "PUNCHY" today. Thanks for comming up today Mika, great pics and I had a damn good time. Here's a pic of the owner of the coolest deck lid in Finland.

 

Oh by the way...nice work Keith. The lid looks great!

 

Mika, we had a good day. Was a pleasure puttin 100 holes in yer lid....OLDBEET

 

Too bad we didn't have time to do the hood after the tailgate and decklid....

 

Ya, up and runnin 3 and 4 inch dies!!!!............OLDBEET

 

Thank you, thank you very much.

 

OK guys, are you ready? I hope you enjoy. Here you are:





--mika

 

Good job Mika!!!!.......OLDBEET

 

Thanks 'beet! Glad you liked! --mika

 

Great video...cool cars in it too

 

Looks great guys. Mika, each video gets better and better! Watch out Hollywood!

 

He will be famous when he gets some handsome charactors on video!
Good music.

 

Haha... It's so much easier to work with actors who are not hiding and running away from me like those babes in my previous attempts... lol

Glad you liked the music, it's always difficult, somehow. So who wants some more louvers? Anyone?

 

don't see the link for the video?

 

Should work but you can always try this straight link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUedq77WYwI

 

how long did the whole job take??

 

That crisp "pop" is sweet ! makes ya feel good.

Those were 3" in the deckild right ?

Do you have any 4" pics ?

Thanks for the kick in the ass, I've been working on one for a year, time to finish it.

 

Big thanks to FEDER, as he supplied and did all the fab and welding on the frame. This thing is stout, on wheels and weights in around 1000 pounds. If it wasn't for him we would still be building the frame...........OLDBEET

 

About 3-4 hours, most of the time spent on design and layout. And a couple beers............OLDBEET

 

+ some smoked sockeye salmon and BBQ'ed giant shrimps... I just got my mouth wet again! She didn't let me bring the lid into our studio but I go check it in my storage room every day...

 

hey K-member, i dig those hubcaps...cause i got a set! you don't see many of those! Hollywood i think? mine are a bit rougher, got them from a hamber a couple of years ago. i'm curious, what size wheel do your caps fit, and what size wheels are they on? my caps fit 14" wheels, but i'm gonna weld em to some 15" trim rings to make em work, looks like you did the same thing?

oh yeah, nice louvers too!

 

Ray, those are mine and they are 14 inch screwed to 15 inch rings. Funny I got them a neighbor that was moving ($23) claimed he stole them in 1959. But was always scared to put them on his car as had never seen another set. Been in a box in a burlap bag, but are rougher than they look........OLDBEET