i admire you grit you have a ton of it nice work your.your a brave young soul i think foose had a job looking for some one like you it's a thought. good luck on what ever you do robertbandit
Awesome build...!!! Keep it going... Oh,, and Mark T is one of the good ones.. He hooked me up with my A frame...
Well i put in another good day of work and I have a few pictures to show for it. I got the passenger side cowl pannel and lower body line made up and tacked on, looking good so far. I hammered this guy out of aluminum. I wasn't sure if I could make these or not so I just started beating on some sheet. After about two hours this is what I came up with, now all I have to do is make another one. I taped it on to see how it looked, it's not perfect, but not bad. Thanks again for all of the compliments, it keeps me going. Untill next time. Alf
alf, you are your own biggest critic. this project is great! this thing has a lot of potential. can't wait to see it finished. If I were you, I would go about getting it running down the road. Even if it isn't perfect, or necessarily finished. so what Im trying to get at is don't lose momentum.
I'm back with another small update of my build. I spent some quality time with the shot bag and made a second turn signal tear drop. Pictures bellow. There's the pair. They actually match pretty well, I'm happy with how they turned out. Here is one mounted. I cut small pieces from a plastic amber lense and used a small propane torch to shape them. They are held in with silicone. I also made a rubber gasket under the housing. There they are all mounted up, I finally solved my turn signal problem. You can see the set of wire wheel adapters I ordered from Speedway sitting on the hood. I had to get these since I'm running the later drums designed for steel wheels. One more picture, looks good to me. You can see my emblem I made with my initials "AMP" in the background. I carved this from a bar of soap and sand casted it out of bronze in school a couple years ago. Thanks for looking, I should be back soon with another update.
Looking for a beginner car in the wyoming or montana region will pay 200 or 300 for just the body please reply if u know anyone that has one
Are you serious? This guy is pumping out some seriously awesome work and all you have to say in your first post ever is I'm looking for a cheap car body? Back to the roadster... It's looking great man. I hope I can sculpt something as beautiful as your roadster to cruise in one day!
This makes me wanna get off my arse and get into my straightforward fixer ( with an eye to future). Subscribed.
Thanks for the compliments guys, I'm glad you like it. Yes that's a 75 Pinto 2.3 and 4 speed, there are better pictures on page five I think. I tried to make it look a little more vintage with some Ford green paint, a homemade header and intake to run a carb with less junk on it. I had it running at one point, it sounded good, but I'm having problems connecting the pinto transmission to the Nissan rear.
Dude ,Thats nice ,If your worried about the blinker tops vibrating off ,I used twist and turns sidemarker light sockets from a chevelle Only thing is You have to remove headlight to get to to them . Real simple ..... I think your doing an awesome job ...
Nice work, I think your project is a classic example of going after a dream and the most valuable aspect of reaching your goals, and that is, you have to start somewhere.
I love the stance!! It looks awesome!! I didn't find this thread until now, but I'm glad I did. Better later than never. I'm also glad you decided to turn some of your attention back to this and work on getting it finished. It looks pretty good, especially for a lot of sheet metal work. I'm doing a lot of sheet metal work as well on my A Sports Coupe.. Trying to make it different. Don't you just love making a lot of work for yourself? I don't have a build thread yet, maybe in a couple months.. But I started off with a lot more than you did and yours looks a hundred times better though. I'm also liking the wire wheels too. I'm starting to think maybe I should get wires for my A. Thanks a lot, man! Haha. Keep up the good work! I'll be waiting for the next update.
I think its kool - I like scratch building - you can make all the suttle changes you like as you go - no fear man - keep it up - jaxx
I too like the big rear tires, your turn signals turned out real well, your hood sides need a detail, got any thoughts? this thing is shaping up real ice, we can actually see you learning from post to post, have fun.
Thanks again for all the compliments, it's nice to know what other people think of all my hard work. I have made some progress lately, as well as some changes to the design. Pictures bellow. Like I said earlier, this car being so low has created some problems, the tie rod being one of them. This picture shows the tie rod I built a couple summers ago. I figured despite the drop, the gussets would make it stiff enough, but I was wrong. When sitting still (not like this car has moved under it's own power) I can turn the wheel and see it flex in the center straight section. So I decided to add some small gussets to the inside of the bend as seen in the picture. Here's a close up of the added piece. I made them so small so they don't hit the frame whe the suspension compresses. I realized, after doing this of course, that the bend is putting leverage on the straight section of the tie rod causing it to deflect down. The more I look at it I think I can bend the spindle arms down more and run a straight rod, but I have no idea how much travel this suspension will have. Anyone have an idea on the travel of a Model "A" front suspension? After failing on the tie rod I moved on to the gaping hole in the cowl. My original plan was to run a cowl vent to make the car look more authentic. The problem was that the vent I had for it was a cowl side vent originaly and it was a very odd shape. So a couple years ago I had cut it all to pieces and welded it back up as straight as I could. The more I got looking at it I realized that it just looked like crap and wouldn't have fit right, so I abandoned the idea and started making a patch for the hole. There it is all welded up. While I let it cool between welds I passed the time by removing the surface rust on the cowl. I ran out of sanding disks so I couldn't grind it down. Here it is straight on. I just thought the car looked cool with the engine showing, I love the look of an inline in a roadster, it just looks right. I'm also thinking about running the header opening through the side panel with a removeable plug and then having a smaller pipe going out the back, we'll see if I go through with it or not. Just another picture I thought looked cool. To answer the question earlier about the plain looking hood sides, I totally agree, and I plan on having a row of louvers punched in them, but I don't know where to get this done. Honestly I want to do it myself, but I don't have the tools... yet. So that's it for now, thanks for looking. Alf
look at these pics from 3 years ago man. your skills have improved 500 percent. keep at it the car is looking great
This is inspiring. I'm just starting on mine -- front half from a '30 Ford, but the back half from a John Deere Model 30 combine. I've had some negative feedback much like early in your project. Glad to see you were able to push through the negativity and realize your vision. Untame
I looked up the tires you are running because they have about the perfect height ratios. The fronts you said are 5.25-5.50-17 Excelsiors. I looked them up on Coker's website. They're 28.5" Tall. http://store.cokertire.com/525-550-17-excelsior-blackwall-tire.html The rears are 700-17 and based on the tread pattern are the ones below. They're 30.7" tall. http://store.cokertire.com/700-17-firestone-blackwall.html
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