If you've been around for a bit you've read Austins thread on getting his dream car, A Long Time Coming Its a rambling thread, and a bunch of it has changed now, so I'm starting a different thread for my contribution to the project. For reference, he started with this car. Its been cool watching him beat out the body from parts that most people would have left for dead. But it was a massive project. and after my trip to Bonneville with Erik and his model A, I decided I selfishly wanted to cruise with someone else more often. So I messaged Austin about bringing his coupe over so I could help him sort the chassis out. and to my surprise he said yes. So last monday I went over and picked it up after work. and brought it back to my shop. My shop is a mess, but since I parked two cars outside, I can now fit one pretty easy. Soon after getting it to my shop I realized that to take the body on and off the dozen times it will undoubtedly have to, it needed some structure. so I fixed the door jamb. I actually cut and moved hinges, and Drilled/Beat out hinge pins, and then figured out the door was bigger than the hole, so it required movement to shut. I did as much as I could without bracing the door posts. After tinkering with it through the week, Austin came over Saturday morning, to help for the weekend. we started by welding in a tube structure where the wood would have been. I then had Austin cut a couple miters in the tubing, and bent them up to connect the trunk wall structure with the B pillars. (hard to see, but up by the bodyline) We also added bars to connect the header panel to the top of the B pillars, this made the body way stronger, and then I could move on to the bottom of the A pillars, and build a structure to connect the Firewall/A pillar/Subrail together. Most of these photos were taking by Austin, cause I totally forgot to take nearly any photos. like this one of me deciding this door was gonna be dealt with the NEXT time the body is on the frame. Given the limited time for help, as soon as we had the body in a position that we thought it would hold together (it didn't) we took out all the bolts (nope forgot two) and then lifted the body off I'm pretty sure this next photo is self explanatory. Anyways, so at the end of the first day, we pulled the extra sheetmetal back into the shop and this was the status. Sunday was much less exciting, much more digging parts out, and setting the frame up for a rearend swap. Before we took the old rearend out, I welded in some braces to keep the wheelbase. After that it was just leveling and finding the most-square parts to measure from. I added some crossmembers to the center of the frame to mount hairpins to, (sorry for the bad photo, I stole it from Austin cause I didn't take any photos) We then started making brackets for the front hairpin mounts, but it was getting late, and we had to do things like get ready for work the next day, so we spilt. I'll try to remember to take a few better photos when we start setting the rearend up, but I'll probably forget again. till next time! .
but images didn't load for me... but am jazzed you are helping out a buddy...to be a cruising buddy.... and let me know when you are roadtripping ...I always can use an excuse to hang out with the brass chainers
Been waiting for one of you to post gonna be killer. - and yeah only first pic works for me as well but I’ve already seen all the photos so I can say it’s rad
dunno why the images aren't loading, they load perfectly on every computer/device I have. I'll try it again tonight in the shop and see if it comes up.
They are showing blue question marks, on my iPhone. If you loaded them to a folder in your profile like you do sometimes maybe it’s set to private?
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