Projects My Whippet project became a 27 Ford custom roadster.

Last year in mid winter I picked up two 27 Whippet, basket cases.
One was a 4 door sedan and the other was a 27 frame cut roadster with no rear body.
I got home and immediately poster photos on HAMB. On my way home I picked up the rear body of a 27 Ford to put it together. Right away everybody explained that the beautiful flowing fenders were not Whippets. I researched and found they were the popular Ford fenders from about 1929. I then decided I had Parts for two Whippets and a Ford. I already had a real nice custom Ford rolling frame complete with engine , transmission and drive chain. I started on the fenders and running boards and since the boards had been cut and otherwise abused it took me several months to reweld extended running boards, patch and straighten the fenders , fill, fair and primer.
Along the way I found another coupe body that was very rough but much more than what I had. I had to do 11 weld in patch panels and cut 6” out of the coupe body to shorten it to become a custom roadster. All of the patches and body shortening are almost ready for filling and fairing. I also had to put horseshoe loop around the rear coil suspension.
My plan now is to finish the Ford hot rod. Then go to the 27 Whippet roadster and with minimal work turn it into a speedster. I have a complete rolling chassis with steering, engine , transmission, suspension, steering , front cowls, radiator surround, engine side cowls , and much more. I will build a rear body just like the old speedsters that guys raced back in the day. The Speedster will not take too much time compared to the Ford. Since everything is there it will take breakdown clean, paint and replacement, plus the rear body. Most of the old rear bodies were pretty simple builds and not done like show cars.
Then my long term project will be the 27 Whippet sedan. I included a photo of what has slowed me up on the hot rod this week. I drove my sons Z06 last Thursday and it seemed a little Squirrley when I drove out of our drive. We had some heavy frost on the cars and I blamed it on road Ice. As I entered the interstate I accelerated to blind in with the 70 mph traffic. As soon as I got into the driving lane the car broke loose into a complete 360 degree spin leaving the road at a 45 degree angle. The Traction control or ABS did nothing to help. ihit a huge pine tree at close to highway speed in a bit of a slide. The drivers side front tire contacted the tree ripping it completely off and putting the car in a brief pancake clockwise spin, with the car facing east in my original direction with the read of the car less than 10’ from the tree. At first it was diagnosed as a total, but yesterday o felt good enough to inspect and so far it looks like no structural frame damage and only will require wheel, a arms, a wheel, sway bar and shock, plus rebuilding the front end. The Z06 is carbon fiber and that’s what I have been doing for the past 20 years.

 

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