Hot Rods Model a gasser

I’d much rather look at it like it is than if it was all fresh paint.

 

I’m looking for original tail lights, and a gauge cluster if anyone has either for sale that would match the car? Everything I’m finding is repop chrome parts or just pieces

 

I've wondered, in the past, what was the color of the car?

@BRENT MAGGI

 

One of the guys that was involved with this car in the 50’s always says “the black coupe” It looks blue to me

 

It might be neat to polish her back up and see if the shine brings some of the color back around.

 

I’ve thought about it. I think a lot of it would actually come out decent.. hard to go back once it’s done though!

 

@Chris polishes up his old trucks and the transformations are great while still retaining a lot of the "charm"of their history. Worst thing that happens is that it sits around and returns to its faded, unkept look.

 

That's a bad ass car. Anyone can have a fresh painted car, that cars soul tells a story. I think a lot of you guys would be surprised how well that car would polish up

 

I’m not sure how this thing passed a visual inspection, but it’s registered now for when the time comes. Hopefully some original plates will pop up for a fair price.

 

The Motor builder called today, not what I was hoping to hear. It needs to be bored, decked, completely rebuilt. I was told the bottom end had been to the machine shop and looked good from the museum I made the trade with, but I guess not that good..

 

Not surprised .... we deal with this at our Hot Rod Shoppe weekly. The worst thing about it now is we have only 1 top-shelf engine shop that we will use, and we are lucky to get machining done in 6+ months, not to mention finding high quality parts.

 

I could probably come up with taillights and gauge cluster. I'll look tomorrow

 

I found an old cluster and lights yesterday. Thanks though

 

I made a new kick panel since you could see right through the floor. The old steering shaft was welded to the box, so I ended up getting a new box and making the shaft mount correctly. The motor is finally apart, nothing could be saved.. they said it looks like it had been blown up multiple times, so we’re starting from scratch.

 

The new one will get dipped in acid and dirtied up before it gets installed. I also found a little tail light I’m going to run instead of drilling holes in the fender.

 

Hmm, I'm not sure what to say about that story. I mean, usually an autopsy yields better results. Like bent rods maybe? Spun bearing in the crank? The block welded and patched with epoxy to seal the hole? What did it have for special in it?
Just asking, it's an interesting car for sure.

 

The cylinders didn’t look good, the rods had been ground down and he said the crank was junk. It’s getting bored, decked ect. It was running a isky reverse rotation cam but I’m not sure what the other parts were. The motor did end up being a 327. I’ll know more about what’s going back in it this week. He said he’s going to build it like bob sr’s Willy’s motor.

 

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Well Brent, if that's what you have to offer for cause of death, sounds like you've been given short answers when you needed long ones.

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Good luck with that.

 

Amazing Car! You'd be surprised what some 0000 steel wool and CLR can do for the body etc. Top that off with some WD40 on a rag. Might be what your after. You could try it on that taillight housing. Wear some gloves, DON'T get it it on the windows! Tons of B4 and after CLR videos out there.

 

I’ll look into it. I’ve been thinking about doing something on a small section to see how it looks.

 

I finally found a set of original 1930 plates for a fair price. Dmv puts a hold on them for 90 days before they can assign them I guess. The gauge cluster is also finished.

 

Going to add a new trans crossmember, so decided to box under the cab of the car. Also found a nice tach on eBay that says it’s already set up a built in transmitter to run with the mag. Hoping to have the motor back next month, should be able to make some real progress.

 

Some little, wisely-planned upgrades never hurt.

Thrilled to see this car come back.

 

Looking great!

 

Thank you

 

Don't mean to s--t on the mag rears you just bought but that car looks waaaay better with the correct, tapered barrel, reversed black steels on the rear. They are an absolute perfect contrast to the mag spindle mount fronts. It'd look good with mag rears don't get me wrong but you already got the look I'd leave it alone.

 

I like it with the steel wheels also, but think it will look good with the mags. Will see when they are on the car.