So as you all know I'm tearing my '54 Chevy up for a repaint. On my driver's side the top of my door's never aligned properly at the B post, the passenger side's A-OK. So I did a lot of work on her today and this has been bugging me. The wife comes out and looks at it, and I'm crying about how*****ty this looks. I point out how the door aligns perfectly at the beltline but it's 1/4" off at the top. She takes one look at it and says the problem's not in the door but actually in the pillar. No kidding! It never dawned on me that when I cobbled this car together in my youthful haste I*****ed it all up. I decided to go with straight pillars, and as anyone knows that's a lot harder to do than slanted ones. When I chopped the top of the pillar out and moved it three inches back I totally got it wrong. The solution's really simple, I'm gonna cut a slit and make a false edge out of welding rod. I guess it's kinda fudging it, but it will look just fine. Sometimes the painfully obvious eludes me. PS, I love my wife, her name's Anna.
One rule building customs....the parts only have to fit one car...do what ever it takes to make em fit.
Nads, you've got the right attitude. Your wife points out something that you screwed up, and so you post "My wife's a genius" on the HAMB. Lesser fellows would have argued with her.
[ QUOTE ] Nads, you've got the right attitude. Your wife points out something that you screwed up, and so you post "My wife's a genius" on the HAMB. Lesser fellows would have argued with her. [/ QUOTE ] Gotta agree with ya.......This spring.............. I was******in to my wife about how hard it is to put the tiller on to the back of my tractor. She says "why don't you just build a "creeper" for that thing?" Why in the hell didn't I think of that?????????
Damn, nads, Im getting very curious on how your Chevy will turn out. Also I allways thought straight posts look a tad better on 53-54s.
Yeah, I found out my wife was smarter than me pretty early. When we were 18, our only car (vw rabbit) broke a clutch cable, and no matter how I tried the loop on the end wouldn't reach the hook on the back of the pedal. She looks at it for about 10 seconds and pulls out a c-clip, slides the pedals off this pivot shaft, hooks the cable on and slides it back together. Of course I told her I was just testing her.
shoebox72, I was breaking up with my ex wife 13 years ago. That was the whole reason I built the car, to keep me sane. It was built in a rented 10x20 garage and I really couldn't see the thing properly unless it was pushed outside. So yeah it came out a little wonky. Sailor how's your '54 coming? It's gonna be cold soon and you'll have lots of time on your hand. BTW was your Chevy built in Belgium?
Hey Nads. Due to my schoolnightmare (failed final diploma this spring) I have to push all fun things aside until mid december. After that Im going to compensate for a lot of stuff I have forsake, including the Chevy. Got some small stuff done this summer. It was not built in Belgium. An guy in my hometown spent some time in New York to work in the fifties. He bought the Chevy there in 1956. I have a pinkslip from 56 with his name and a Brooklyn adress on it in the glovebox. He brought it home to Haugesund in 1957.
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