Projects Midnight special Model A

Looks really killer Pete. Sinister comes to mind. Looks like a WW-2 "Pillbox" machine gun nest !!

 

getting it done, love it.
Cheers,
Drewfus

 

Got front end buttoned up tonight. Blasted and painted the backing plates and hardware. Installed new king pins....

 

Great Looking build. That chop changes the entire attitude of the car. I like how you saved the wood.

 

Now THAT'S A NAME for a heavily chopped coupe!

 

Looks clean!! Nice to know all of that is rebuilt and right!!

LOVE the "Pillbox"!!!!

 

Finished the drag link tonight.

 

My next chop just has to be "pillbox" style.

 

So my Pal Joe had this Hopped up flathead for sale.....Bored 1/8th over, ports de burred and some other cool internal mods done. I was on the fence but we struck a deal and now its going the coupe for the race. Im stoked to finally have a "built" flathead, something that will scoot down the beech. Last years engine was running on 5 cylinders, it felt like a tractor....

Big thanks to Joe......appreciate the hook up.

 

Ooh, my favorite color block too.

 

Yea.... Me too

Motor was run on the dyno, broke in and that's it.... Totally fresh!

 

Yes sir, your very welcome!!

 

Do I get to do a burn out?? Lol

 

Nice set up with that motor, very cool


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Sure thing joe.

 

So nice to have one that's totally fresh and ready to go!! Perfect fit for the coupe. This just keeps getting better and better! Can't wait to see and hear it run!

 

Me too bugs!!! Me too

 

Machined an aluminum fuel pump rod plug, now I'll bolt on the early intake.

 

Bolted the Canadian heads on....

 

Nice work Pete.

 

Cool hot rod

 

This weekends going to be a big one, new motor going in, brakes will be done and test fit the new reupholstered seat.

A lot of us local guys only trust Colby Berohkian to do out interiors... He gets the style and the period were looking for, his work is excellent and he's an easy guy to deal with.

 

Don't forget his pricing is more than reasonable. Nicely done Colby.

 

HOLY SHIT!!! That seat is sexier than a 4 balled billy goat!!! Talk about cush!!!!

 

Goddam Midwesterners..... Always with the animal references..... Lol

 

Lookin' great Pete !! Love that seat. A couple of the fellas like my "Pillbox" name. I'll never chop my coupe so you're welcome to it !!

 

Time for bed.....

After much wrestling and learning as I go about the technicalities of which flywheel fits what..... The Motor is in!

John Scholes spent all of his afternoon and night helping me.

We pulled the old 59a motor and thought we'd just drop the 8ba in... Wrong..... Side note, I'm literally sitting on my shop floor surrounded by what looks like a roadside bomb.... Absolute friggin mess!!

Turns out the flywheel I had accepted a 9 inch clutch.... But the holes were drilled slightly off thus not allowing all the pressure plate bolts to enter....we tried the 59a flywheel but it's slightly different, it rubs the block... No go.

A phone call was made to the flathead GURU Tommy Caruso.... We sifted thru his collection of flywheels, pressure plates and discs.. Came up with a complete 11" 8ba set up....

A huge thank you to Tommy and John for the help today..

 

Had to trim the troth in the crossmember for the larger 8ba pulley.....

 

Go Man Go!! you will be driving that thing around before you know it!

 

Good day at the Baghdad Hot Rod Shop! I even got a chaperoned trip to Tommy Caruso's place out of the deal!