Projects RainierHooker's '28 A - Wartime Tub Build

Been working long, inconsistent days at work. But as long as I make it home with some daylight, I've been trying to knock out a few things a night, in the few minutes to an hour that I have.

Trying to stay on task...






Posted using my Lil' Orphan Annie Secret Society Decoder Pin

 

All that little time adds up quick. Before you know it you're gonna be staring at a pile of parts ready to be bolted back on.

Keep at it!

You're making me want to paint mine now...

Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!

 

Just remember, if I hadn't wanted paint, I'd be driving this thing right now.

But then again, shiny paint...



Posted using my Lil' Orphan Annie Secret Society Decoder Pin

 

Sills are done...



Posted using my Lil' Orphan Annie Secret Society Decoder Pin

 

Looking good...keep at it!

 

More painting...



And the conundrum...



...linkage. On my stock exhaust manifold I used one of the un-used holes for the intake mount bolts to mount my bell crank. On my split manifold, those holes are gone.

Weld a nut to the otherwise-pretty intake? Make a bracket off of the head-studs? Something else?




Posted using my Lil' Orphan Annie Secret Society Decoder Pin

 

Don't whack it, bracket. Great build.

 

The first part in paint...



...real paint! Even if it is just a measly hood shelf, this is progress.


Posted using my Lil' Orphan Annie Secret Society Decoder Pin

 

Purdy..


Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!

 

First coat...




Posted using my Lil' Orphan Annie Secret Society Decoder Pin

 

Beautiful!

Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!

 

looking good Evan !

 

Looking awesome mate, im painting my tub a very similar color.

Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!

 

Oo. I seriously cannot wait to see the entire car ***embled.. Keep it up!


Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!

 

Tub's looking great...cool blue color!

Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!

 

Awesome! I love that color!


Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!

 

Just a brief interlude, got a new, older, coil in the mail yesterday:


...it's an NOS Mallory-Holley "Master" Coil, patented in 1935. Bullet-shaped, brown-Bakelite glory.


Posted using my Lil' Orphan Annie Secret Society Decoder Pin

 

Took a break from wet-sanding to install the new old coil...



...Never-On-**** to Now-On-Sumthin in a few minutes flat.


Posted using my Lil' Orphan Annie Secret Society Decoder Pin

 

Very nice, love the car.

 

Second coat...



Posted using my Lil' Orphan Annie Secret Society Decoder Pin

 

Lovely!!!!!

Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!

 

Damn nice!

Stunning! What color is that?

 

Thanks all.

The color is simply "Dark Blue" from the Interlux Brightside line. It is a marine polyurethane made to be "rolled & tipped", that is applied with a roller and brush. I just went to the marine supply store, pulled chips and decided on this one. It it really close to the "Lombard Blue" in the Model A factory chip reference...


Posted using my Lil' Orphan Annie Secret Society Decoder Pin

 

Nice, I was thinking Lombard Blue. How does the Interlux paint 'flow' out? I've been doing some experiments with old-style enamel from the Geo. Kriby Jr paint co. and have found that a little boiled linseed oil helps flow it out perfectly. Still trying to figure out how to do lacquer...

 

I love it! Like Gary said, linseed oil will help it flow nicely but looks like you already have figured that part out. Nice.


Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!

 

The first coat laid down nicely. About half way through the second it started to show more brush marks, but it got much hotter today than when I did the first coat.

Interlux has a "brushing thinner" for their paint, and I bought a can, so we'll see how coat three goes...


Posted using my Lil' Orphan Annie Secret Society Decoder Pin

 

one step forward, two steps back...

I was never really happy with my rear doors; they were originally caked in bondo, had several sticks of welding-rod holding the variously dubious repairs together, and never really fit right as a result. I had kept looking for replacements, even after I started painting, and a pair popped up on good ol' ePay a while back. I said, to hell with it, ******ed them up, and they showed up on my front porch today...


...they do look crusty, but they are already straighter, and have more metal in them than what I had. Now to strip 'em, have a few issues knocked-out, paint them, and slap them on. I think I'll probably be causing myself more work in shimming and repainting door-jambs in the short-term, but I know that the car will be better-off in the long-run.

Now I'll just shut up and get back to work...

 

good move.

 

One thing I didn't consider till I was messing with the bell crank and linkage lengths the other day when I swapped betwixt 97 and 94. How about bending the actual throttle linkage through 180° which would bring it up pretty much inline with the carb and be pulling back in the right direction?

 

still looking good
keep the throttle linkage simple