Projects Rusty 47 Ford Reserection

Thanks eh!!

 

Thanks again Rik, keep that file for the next guy to chop one of these this much !!

 

The car looks great- now think about taking a 3inch section from the body-
should not take you more than a day or so the rate you go- keep up the good work. Thanks for showing all of us what can be done.Jim

 

Steve.. great as usual! Window looks sharp.
I just got back from CB.
I'm going back again the 1st week of August to (among other things) bring the A frame, tranny and cowl home (plus a straight-six BMW engine, tranny and independent rear suspension..who knows what that will be used for).
I have a long way to go to come anywhere close to where you are.
Keep on keepin on!
Oh.. heat? It's even hot in Yarmouth! Amazing.

 

COOL! That looks really sweet.
I was only in as far as PH.

 

Hahah dont encourage me , but the thought did cross my mind ...

 

Ya gotta get yer ass in gear and start assembling some of the parts pile you have collected !!

 

Yes.. I know.... I have 3 weeks in August that are MINE (well.. I HOPE they are mine) starting the 2nd week. Until then.. grrrrr.

Keep tellin me to get my butt in gear. I might get around to it again.

But you make me tired just reading about the work you have done.

A 3" section would be major custom but your other half may suggest you put that energy into the car in the next booth.

 

Luuuv droppin' by here every couple of weeks or so to check your progress. The quarter-windows look great. Nice to see that Rikster and others are giving you some good input. May I make a suggestion, koolkemp?...as far as the rounded door-corner goes, you might consider using a slightly smaller radius than Rikster shows in his photoshop, and which is in-fact exactly as a couple of the customs shown are modified. I think that to have a constant cross-section as shown in that area tends to make it look like a big piece of bent pipe, and that sometimes a little "conflict of line" can be a good thing. I wouldn't go too much smaller though, 'cause a fairly large radius there serves as a good "loft" or transition from the top of the quarter-window to the top of the door. As always, keep up the great work. Really looking forward to seeing you drive and show this awesome Resurection. - Rick

 

Thanks but I have one side well on its way ! my train of thought was to keep the same general "thickness" in the curve as the rest of the door top. I had to make a structure to replace the void left by the removal of the rusty driprail too, I am pretty happy with how its turning out and will post some pics tonight or tomorrow, I am heading out to the shop in a few mins to get back at er! The pass quarter window is all done and installed now as well.

 

Hey Steve...
Looking forward to update pics.
I'll be de-rusting a T door today with Evapo-Rust. I've decided to do the bucket I got from you.
Hope you have a productive weekend.

 

Hey Koolkemp,did you get the info i PM'd you regarding a '42 grille?

 

I am waiting patiently for some more progress pictures.

I just can't believe the work you put into saving this car and making it a coupe. Almost beyond comprehension. However, it does make the cars that to me prior looked un-savable, now look somehow savable.

You have some ninja skills.

 

With that trunk bracing it looks like your trying to add a ricer spoiler. Haha

 

I am totally impressed. What a motivator. Good job Sir! I cant wait to see more.

 

Ya Bandito I did but havent pm'd him yet ...been out in the shop for too many hours over the last few days !

 

Time for this weeks update...nothing too exciting but I did get a bunch of stuff done...finished up all the welding on the drivers side quarter window



...and decided to tackle the top of the door opening where the driprail was , these cars seem to have a large gap there...made even larger when you remove the rusty driprails !



here you can see the mismatch between the upper and lower portions of the A pillar width.



so after I cut off the remains of the driprail and used every type of abrassive I had to clean up the metal I started by tacking in a 48" piece of 3/16 rod

 

after a shitload of joining tack welds together it was starting to look better

I am liking the rounded door tops now too!



cleaned up all the welds on the window area and fine tuned the door gap along the the quarter panel with a little cutting and welding



So ALL of the chop related welding is done on the drivers side except for garnish moldings and I have to make a piece to ty the parcel tray frame back into the quarter window

 

I like it, good work sir.

 

I still had a little energy left this afternoon so I decided to start on the pass side door opening as well I started by rounding the door and cleaning off the remains of the drip rail and cleaning it all up







In the pic above you can see I had more gap than I wanted for the rear side of the door, so I started to add
ress that while I do the top of the opening.




This is where I ran out of energy lol this weeks goal is to try and get all the welding done on this door opening, finish all the chop related welding , and maybe get a bit of mud on the top ...next weekend will be hopefully repairing the top of the trunk opening and getting back on the repair (manufacture ?) of the trunklid , neither of which I am looking forward to but thats the worst rust repair left to do ...which I guess is a good thing !

 

Thanks Jaws I have eagerly followed the progress on your Chevy coupe , especially the chop !

 

haha thats what I said to Rikster when he teased me about my spoiler
wait till you see the sunroof

 

Really shaping up very nicely.

 

Nice job on the rounded door area.

Looking good.

PACO

 

One word ... Impressive.

 

"nothing too exciting but I did get a bunch of stuff done"

You often make silly statements like that.
Looks exciting to me!

 

Now that nice. Make a guy want to start cutting.