Hot Rods The Official Chuckles Sedan Build Thread. (1930 Tudor)

It's time to build a real traditional hotrod! I will update this as the build progresses.

I've had this body for a while now, and decided to make it the shop car. Its going to sit unchanneled with a 6" chop on deuce rails with wild ex-dragboat nailhead power. I dont have enough room at the shop for the body and ch***is, so the body is getting done at home, and the ch***is at the shop.

I have an old rusted out 48 F1 that will donate its shock mounts, and steering box to the cause, and also a 1962 Buick that is donating the front drums and rear axle. Wheels are 16" 36 olds Artilleries. Tires will be 6.00-16 and 7.00-16 Firestone blackwalls. Not sure of color yet, but I know it will be PAINTED.

My buddy Cab gave me a set of Guides and some split bones that he bought for the coupe-de-cab and never used as well (thanks homie!)

I plan on using some kind of 6 deuce intake, probably will make a log type one in house.

Anyways....step one. Body off and in the garage.....I'll have some chop pic's for y'all in a few days.

 

sounds awesome already!

 

Sounds good, just don't make it a "clown" car! Ah.......Chuckles, **** never mind!

 

Hahahaa....no clowns here! Chuckles was my Dad's (RIP) nickname...I named the shop after him.

 

sounds good man! keep us updated!

 

Can't wait to see what you turn out Scotty...whats it gonna be? Like 3 weeks till its finished

 

Dave, you should have been a comedian. This one will take at LEAST 6 weeks hahahaha.

 

Of course....its got a WHOLE body, not just a bed

Remember we expect updates with pics from your super new camera too

 

looks good.... how much are you taking off of the top...? Keep us updated as you go......

 

I will be keeping an eye on this thread. Similar to what I want to do. I'm even using a 62 nailhead also.

 

Worked all weekend on it!

Braced it up with some 3/4" conduit and screwed the subrails to a wood frame to keep it all from moving.



Marked out the chop and wacked the roof off



Set the roof back on to see what I had.....I likey.



Welded her up with the little Lincoln



Cleaned up the welds





Scored this off the aution site, and ordered all my patch panels today.



I've decided to paint it GLOSS antique white with black beltlines. The frame will probably be black as well....I dont quite care for the matching highboy stuff unless its black. woo hoo! I am so blessed to be able to finally have time to build this thing.

 

Looking cool big daddy!!

 

Jeez.....isn't it finished yet?



Looking good Scotty

 

Lookin' good, Scott. I'll bet you're glad now that no one stepped up and bought this thing when you had it for sale. I'll have to watch your progress........

Here're a couple pictures of Marcus' A Bomb
Craig

 

CRAIG!!!!

Cool to see you on here man! I was out at your sons place last week checking his out. The dash he did is rad. Come by the house, I'm here hammerin away every night hahaha.

 

shhhushhhhhh!!!!!

 

Nice work man. Glad to see you got to start on this thang. NAILHEAD!!!!!!!

-Tyson

 

I ended up giving it a 5.5" haircut.

 

So that's what the visor is going on! Looks like the finish matches perfectly, are you sure you want to paint it?

Brian

 

Sounds like it is going to be a cool ride when it is done. Makin great progress on it so far. The chop looks killer.

 

Lookin' good so far...makes me wish I had my '29 Tudor back

 

Yes, definitely painting it. The patina thing isnt what I'm going for on this one.

 

Well....got alot done. The body looked straight, but it is tweeked pretty bad. Nothing lined up....it was kinda a nightmare, but i'm out of the woods on that finally. I have most of the mangled roof straightened, and the doors are fixed. The p***enger door looked like someone ran over it with a truck. shotgun hole, broken hinges, broken/bent frame....it was bad. I put a lower patch panel on (fit like ****) and patched the shotgun blast with part of the drivers side panel.







Welded the holes in the firewall shut...



Sandblasted the crusty old visor and welded it up.




Reinforced the roof where the wood was with 1" square tube. I will do the same with all the side supports as well.


Found a good use for the hood.....





Startin to look like a hotrod........

 

mmmmmm......parts....

 

Looking great! Got any pics of the roof? I'm planning to do the same thing soon.

 

Looking good so far
Keep us updated

 

Wow, you move fast! Lookin good so far! When you're done we'll have to line em up next to each other and snap a pic, Mines gonna be wimbeldon white with black wheels and frame...

 

That would be rad! I was checkin out your build thread last week....yours is coming along nicely.

 

Scored a vintage Mallory dual point distributor and some rad buick artillery wheels......all 5!

 

Man, thats gonna be one NICE Sedan once you're done!
I'm looking forward to the next installment.So many great Model ''A'' builds about, can't be bad!

Nick.