Projects PAINT UPDATE 1950 Bagged ford Shoebox build thread

What car? ;-) Great pic!

I was trolling the Portland (I think) craigslist and found a listing for a guy who says he can rebuild the shoebox radio like the $600 repops (I know there is a kit for it) for about $300. I'll see if I can find it.

 

Haha. Thanks! Ya let me know if you can find that info. That would be great!!!

 

Found it! I'm gonna call the guy and see what he says, sometime this week.

http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/pts/3406944413.html

 

Says posting expired. If you talk to him please let me know I'm very interested! Thanks for your help

 

Strange, it still shows for me. The pics he posted look exactly like the repops I've seen. I don't know if it's against the rules to post someone else's ad here, but if so I'll delete it:

 

Sweet ride just came across this I live about ten minutes from angels camp aka anal cramp haha


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Ahhhhh......Much better! thanks to H.A.M.B member 333stu for wheel and horn ring! looks great!



BEFORE

 

Beautiful! I need to restore my wheel as well.

 

Alright! it's looking great so far. I want a similar trajectory for my 1950 Mercury project. I lowered mine 2 inches (so far lol). I rebuilt my rear drums like you did, but I converted to Disc in the front, keeping the 5 on 5 1/2 bolt pattern so I can keep the factory rear end.

I am watching your progress on this car, and I may have some questions later. Keep up the good work!

Paul

 

Wow.. steering wheel turned out great !!

 

Photo shoot at Blackwelder!

I asked Tyler what kind of car Blake's car is and he said "Umm Cop Car!" haha

 

Good pics !

 

Great project - just in time for the New Year!

Working on our '49 - new brakes and convert to 12 volt. Got new Coker WWW. Lowered the front with spacers and have 3" blocks for the back. Hope to be on the road by Spring!

 

Nice car Blake! This is jonny from Gambino Kustoms. Im sure you know about the kit already but we have a taildragger kit for your car and offer dropped uprights, mustangll, and the e level kit when you get ready to lay her out! (408) 561-5744 just ask for jonny or alex. thanks!

 

Where are you getting useable rear wheel cylinders? I have bought 3 and all leak thru the bleeder valve. Chinese junk

 

Nice looking ride :d

 

I have been looking at your car,what you have done,the future of what your going to do.My opinion for what it's worth and what do the the H.A.M.B. folks and your lady think. What is the coolest color for your car? I think it is VANILLA MILKSHAKE. .......?????

 

I have not made up my mind 100 percent but I'm leaning towards a deep deep midnight purple with white interior.

Pardon the non hamb friendly car but it's got the color i like


Deeper Thank this....I want car to look black but where light hits it I want it to have a purple look. Anyone got a deep purple car pic?

 

I just got them from autozone with zero issues YET...

 

I dig that color.

 

Thanks To HAMB member MO guy for the photoshop!

Here's a photoshop of what I'm going for color wise. I'll have new bright white walls and crisp white interior with shaved door handles and frenched lights!

 

Nice! I'm going with purple as well, but lighter. 2010/1970 Challenger Plum Crazy. I don't think my bodywork will be good enough to pull off a color that dark.

 

I've bought a bunch through Kanter, never had a problem.

Cool car, don't let anyone give you grief about the 4 doors.

 

thanks....i dont its going to be a family cruiser. by the time im done with it im sure i will have a kid and I dont want to have to get a car seat in the hardway when i can just open a door! ill shave all handles so it will be a little bit harder to tell from distance........hopefully

 

so my car took a crap on me last week and i couldnt figure out the issue. ends up my brand new piece of shit ballast resistor went to hell. i literally purchased 5 days earlier and didnt think that was the issue so i check everything else first like an idiot. i got new points, condensor, coil, spark plugs and it still ran like crap. i then thought maybe the timing was off so i bought a timing light and noticed when i put the timing light around the number 1 wire the light would only flicker when i first started the car for maybe 20 sec and then die. i then clamped the timing light on every spark plug wire and noticed only 5 of the 8 cylinders were firing. I then realized if the timing light only works on the number 1 spark plug wire for the first 20 seconds thats when it is recieveing a full 12 volts from the starter solenoid. I decided to put 12 volts directly to the coil and BOOM smooth as butter. All that crap for a ballast resistor. MrDickies recommended I get pertronic ignitor 2 electronic ignition and do away with the points and condensor so I did as well as a Petronix Flame thrower 2 coil and spark plug wires (which have not arrived yet).

with the pertonix ignitor 2 ignition and flamethrower 2 coil YOU DO NOT NEED A BALLAST RESISTOR!!!! for some reason if you research this online half people say you do need resistor and half say you do not. The directions state you do not need a resistance wire or resistor with the coil and ignition combo as well as customer service.

the car is running very smooth and i made a video just to show how easy it is. NO MORE adjusting points. i did swap so i nolonger have to worry about resistor about condensor and about points gap!

http://youtu.be/8unQ1QbbDlk

 

Thanks for the info.. i will probably go this route also.. are you still 6volt or go 12?

 

i switched over to 12V and used a speedway kit $150 first time converting and was not too difficult. def had to consult a buddy but i knew zero about electronics at the time

 

Nice car, I love the white dash and wheel, and well done with the 4 doors, you soon get used to shaven rear handles also.

Although I've only 4 cylinders, electronics in the distributer instead of points and condenser is luxury.

 

Been a while since update! Chipped some teeth in my tranny so I'm having one rebuilt by a HAMB member. In the meantime got some new parts!

Drop spindles
Trailing arm kit for bagging by jiminez bro customs
Maverick rear end for better highway speed and gas mileage

Stay tuned will begin laying her out and then off to paint and new chrom I'm hoping done by summer!

Jiminez kit


Drop steering and spindles

 

Oh and picked a color to paint. 1947 dodge LA Platta blue very classy in person...I snapped this at the local meet up. Classy and handsome haha. Still has classic feel

WHAT YOU THINK?