She's come a long way......

But there's a lot to do yet!! I've got most of the sheetmetal work done and it finally looks like something.

Let's see if anybody can figure out what I did to the front end of the truck. Besides the obvious of making the fenders one piece.

The bumpers are 49 plymouth and I need 3rd one to finish the back bumper. Had to do a lot of reshaping to make them flow with the body.

It shoud sit about 4 inches lower and will have just a little rake when done.
Clark

 

Here's what I started with for the guys that didn't see my first post on this.
Clark

 

WOW! Nice metal work! What color you thinking about?

 

Recessed the grille?

 

Bob....a light blue metalic sorta like evil's car but flattenned.

Evel...Nope. It's very subtle.
Clark

 

made the "snorkels" on the hood smaller.... oh and looking killer man

 

looks like you pie cut the fenders and slanted the nose down about 2 inches.

 

Added one extra bar in the grille?

 

Cbang...nope.

I"ll let the cat outa the bag cause nobody will get it. I pulled it's lower jaw up a bit.

There was about an inch and a half between the bottom grill bar and the lower splash pan. I made a new pan and moved it up tight against the bottom bar. The big dip in the opening has always bothered me. That and the lower pan was narrower than the top piece between the fenders. now they match.
Clark

 

Nice...............

 

Moparman...the nose diving is an illusion in these pics. I don't know why they look like that. the pic from the back makes the fenders look right.
Clark

 

that thing rocks! tell about the window treatment, that really changed it.

 

coulda fooled me by the pix. I pie cut the fenders on my 49 Plymouth to slope the nose down as the 49 fenders run slightly uphill. I saw a panel like yours (prior to all the work) out in eastern Wash a couple of weeks ago for a good price. looked pretty solid.

 

55dude....I used the tops of 8 doors to make the windows. The roof is from a 57 Ford wagon and there is an extra door on the p***enger side now. just to make it easy to get in the back seat.
Clark

 

Another great build Clark, will we see it at Detroit Autorama in 2010?

 

Great job Clark, man what a cool idea.

 

holy **** clark looks like you pulled it off nice job.sledge

 

Very nice.

 

Here's a pic (stolen) to compare the front ends.

Jdubbya...plans are to have it at Detroit.
Clark

 

That is some sweet metal work and that roof looks so much better than the original, not so much crown, keep up the good work.

 

Came out real good Clark. Lotta metal work done on that one.

P.S. the wheel barn is starting to lean quite a bit more

 

looks great man!

 

i love it,awesome work clark

 

Amazing!

 

Clark--You reworked the bottom pan below the last bar where it usually dips down. Now it flows much smoother across the top of the bumper to give the grill opening a much cleaner line along the bottom bar.. Nice touch!!

 

Thats awesome I love the windows.

 

Looking good.How many doors total in building this?I like your style.

 

Beautiful work Clark.
Like it so much I went back and searched for a 40 Plymouth bumper I recall seeing in the parts section;
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=370967&highlight=plymouth+bumper
There's some others in there if you search, but the ads are stale.

 

I actually got a chance to see thing thing in Junior's garage when I picked up my '32. It was really impressive and I was drooling over it a bit.

 

nice, are those wheels blue?