Projects My new 33-34 3-window adventure! Would love to know any history of this old hotrod!

I really like the look in the photo...looks like a trip back in time.

 

Man, how could you not put it back like that picture!!!??? It fookin' rules!

 

Sweeeeet!!! I love how finding an old Ford puts a big smile on your faces!!!
Model 40 3 windows are the best! (and that's coming from a Deuce guy!)
I'm fortunate to own a '34 3W too.


I wish these old cars could talk and tell us where they've been. I think of them as "time machines". If we could only figure out how to make them take us back to the 30's, 40's and 50's for a ride.

 

Congratulations. Nice to see hot rods like this come back to life. Looking forward to the build.

 

I look forward to your build, and the continuing story, sometimes that
is the BEST Part....We all seem to be looking for THAT car, the one
that RINGS that bell when HOT ROD comes to mind......

 

No big news to report. I'm in the parts collecting phase still. I've picked out a dash from my dash stash. I'm kind of a nut about dashes with glove boxes.



I also saw these neat old photos on the Ford Barn from AngleDrive who lives in Florida.

A roadster with a 32 shell!

 

Good to be at the bottom !! ( ... if you're a dash anyway ) Nice ! Can't see the roadster pics' though ... is there a secret handshake or ala' kazam' rabbit hole to find ?

EDIT : Dude ... that's an awesome roadster !

You know what's funny ? The era with the frame Z's and removing leaves/or T springs etc ... the Model 40 front had a tendency to get wiped out ... because it hung lower. I know west coast guys had brains just like the east coast guys had style. East coast/west coast whatever ... some guy somewhere ... gets tired of wiping out his grille with his low bad*** 33/34 .... right ? Are we alone here or what ?

Here's one from SafariKnut - Olds powered.


...and another freshly stolen from Garage Journal ... it's an oldie ... the guy has a tool stencil walled up ... so he can remember his monkey wrench placements.



... inspirational purposes.

 

There. adjusted the format a little bit. They should be seen now hopefully.

 

So...? What dash are you going with?

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/members/bsa_bob.106439/Iwaited 24 years for a henry ford steel deuce 3-window that only my wife ,me and the owner, knew had it. She would start to say thing s about it in a company of builders and i'd whack her. Quiet dear your talking to much . got a Great story about this deuce ,i will never sell... 2nd owner done in the 50s .My slim wife in her mini skirt , the ole guy was broke only one year. great story If anYone wants to hear it. Good things come to hose who wait PATIENCE as somebody said here is the key GREAT FIND !!!! man--glad you waited and i don't even know you bob s

 

Share the story bsa_bob. Maybe start a new thread so this one doesn't get hijacked.

 

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You could post a link to the thread on here though

 

so sorry about the hi-jacking Wasn't intended I jus get hyped up on hotrods, as always havhttp://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/members/rockfish.219/e .for 60 years ! Don't know how to do links!

 

All you have to do, is highlight the address bar, right click and select copy, then paste that in the posting on this thread.

 

Datt body! Can't wait to see what you do with her!

 

This photo man... its so good... so good! I love all the history with this car- its that connection with the past links you directly to the photo.

Can't wait to see more.

 

Argh... That looks good...

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/members/rockfish.219/

 

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I still think this is one of the coolest pics I have seen. A great snapshot of the car and owner at a point in time. Cool

 

Amazing project . Sometimes all the pieces just fall into place and find a home.

 

Hey @Elrod ..... pursuit of other interests found me this. Microfiche' stash of the 1949 San Bernadino streets address directory for your car's wooden header address ...... one H M Jones. Maybe the kid's dad ? Mom ? Grandpa ? Wish it was 1959 but that's all I got. Who knows ..... but it's worth a bump !! Got the neighbors on blast too. Have fun.

Social media help this kind of thing ..... now that there could be a name ??

 

damn good start looks like you are going to have fun

 

Been busy with Trog, my other coupe, driving our 1931 cabriolet through Yellowstone, and collecting parts for this project. I realized that I haven't posted pictures in a while.

I lucked out a while back by finding a guy who had pulled an Early Ford V8 club concourse winning 1934 cabriolet body off of this frame and put the original body on a cornhusker frame and generated a street rod ***le for it.

So, I picked this fully restored ch***is from him with ***le for a song. It also already had a Volvo overdrive spliced into the torque tube. I have one in my 1931 cabriolet and love it, so was super happy to see this.

 

It was advertised as running, but when I got to the mans house, I tried turning it over and it was stuck. He said he had blown a head gasket a few years ago, he drained the oil, put new oil in it and squirted some WD-40 down in the cylinder.
I got it home, pulled the head and yup. found some crud in there. cleaned that up, and finally got the engine to turn over. I plan to pull that cylinder and change the rings just to be safe. I'll then put that engine aside and put in the big boy.

 

Couldn't help ourselves. Had to throw the body up on there. My wife helped

 

Dropping some steering arms to clear the 1939 Lincoln brakes and the old chrome 1934 axle I found

 

The dash I'm using has these metal glove boxes moulded to the back of the dash and they are deep. Too deep for the 34 firewall, so had to section them.

 

It's coming along GREAT. I like where this is going.