Hot Rods The (mis) Adventures of a Compulsive Tinkerer

You can see our Morris woody in the above picture and you can just catch the corner of the rear fender - IN PAINT!! I mixed a color that the wife and I agreed on and shot the rear fenders. We like it so I’m finishing up the bodywork on the cab portion (ugh, I hate bodywork) and hope to have some color on the rest of the car soon.


I intend to run 14” wheels (gloss black) with thin whitewalls and baby moon hubcaps. So to be sure it would look like I hoped, I painted a white wall on the old tires with Rustoleum peel coat. It works great. Don’t know how long it will look good but it’s better than searching for and buying new tires and not liking the look.

The rear part of the roof is aluminum. I scuffed the existing primer and tried Eastwood Roll-on primer in black. I won’t use it again. Used as directed, it did not flow out and it’s going to need a bunch of sanding. Luckily, it will get a vinyl top in that area so it might not need to be paint perfect.

 

I had a feeling that I might have to sacrifice one or two projects, trying to be more realistic about my time/energy. So I looked at my ‘33 pickup to see what I should do to get it ready in case I decided to sell it. Welding in the floor and securing the rear cab wall was #1. #2 was to get a front axle in it so it’s a roller. A friend had a nice dropped Ford axle and split wishbones that I scooped up and prepped for installation.
I had forgotten how nice the F1 pedal assembly worked out. I didn’t weld it in because the boxing needs to be reworked in that area.



I did a little cleanup on the bones and welded in the bungs.

 

I’ve been helping a friend build a chopped and channeled ‘29 Tudor. It’s been slow progress due to his budget and the fact that I live in NorCal and we’re building it in the garage at my home in LA. The wife and I are down in LA for a little vacation and home maintenance so I put in some time on his sedan.
I have been bugging him to bring the body over so I can get busy mounting it and he finally found some help and they dropped it off. So the task for this trip was to get the body sitting on the frame.


Looks a bit shaky but I’m a one man band and my tools and equipment at this house are limited. So I had to improvise. My lovely wife was right there to help and call 911 if things went south. I think she thinks I’m crazy but now she’s convinced. lol.
I trimmed out the firewall where someone had hacked it up, the upper butchery will go away when we install the new cowl/tank. He wants to run a stock tank.


Someone hacked the floor out of the poor old beast, that’s ok because he wants it channeled the width of the frame anyway. Just setting it on the frame with 2x6s feels inspirational to me. I’ll bring down my welder and stuff next time. Meanwhile, I’ll have him get some box tubing and stuff for next time.
The engine, a ‘41 Ford flathead, and T5 transmission are done and ready to install. I wanted to get the body mounted without working around that stuff.
Hard to beat the profile of Henry’s old sedans…..

 

Looking good Bob