Projects uncle Charlie's hot rod model A projects

Charley has also been busy rebuilding head lights.

 

Thinking of Charlie last night!

 

the new glass came in for the windshield. Charlie had the frame all cleaned up and I put it all together.

 

Another great project to follow!

 

Bob, Charlie would love a visit and you can see it in person

 

this is the roof I cut off a '65 suburban parts truck. I am thinking it is the perfect material to make the back of the cab.

 

I cut the panel in half to eliminate the step and squared it up. I ran a bead along the long edge.

 

I trimmed it at the lower edge of the bead. this section will be the upper part of the back of the cab and the bead section will over lap the lower panel.

 

I then planned out the location of the rear window. the bead will line up with the small lower bead of the side of the cab and I measured up off of that to place the rear window. the window is centered in the cab and centered up and down with the side windows. I then cut out the hole to weld the rear window frame in.

 

tacked it in place, then welded it up.

 

after welding I cleaned it all up with the grinder and DA

 

WOW awesome work

 

thank you.

 

went to Charles to test fit and trim. I measured wrong and the bottom section came up short. I will have to weld a piece on.

 

I aligned the bead of the top section with the cab corners and marked them to be trimmed. once trim we screwed them in place temporary.

 

nothing is in final, all the tin will get fitted and trimmed once all the parts are made. it will come back apart but this mockup is starting to look like a truck.

 

I am loving everything about this project....carry on!

 

thanks

 

What’s Charles thinking?

 

he was eyeballing the alignment
he likes the color of the back of the cab.

 

I like that!

 

I love this thread. Keep it going!

 

thanks, we like the way it is coming out.

Thanks, Charlie is happy to hear that people from all over are watching his project.

 

How are we going to get a Big Block in this thing?

 

spent the day with Charlie, he has been busy since I last was there. He made and installed all four shock mounts.

 

we also finished up, the grill shell. it was missing the front receiver for the hood hinge. we riveted that, and the crank hole cover in. I also banged a couple dents out of it and put the Ford badge on. we also replaced the hood hinge tube.

 

we also came up with a solution for the door latches. they would not latch without turning the handle, no matter how hard it was slammed so we added a wedge to the front of the catch we had used. it is a mismatch of parts but we made it work and the doors close effortlessly.

 

with the doors opening and closing and aligned we welded both cab corners in

 

once the cab corners were in I centered the upper half of the back of the cab, trimmed it to follow the cab corners and used the grinder to fit it.

 

then welded it on and finished off the welds.