What Are You Doing With Your Ride This Weekend ?

getting the TT ready for VooDoo Doughnuts!

 

Took the truck to go see a shop tour at a friends place. Got back and noticed I broke a shock mount. So now i will be fixing that today. Its been a long cold winter in NW Iowa and the roads around here show it.

 

My son and I are putting in flipped drag link steering arms on the 59 so the steering wont rip off the brake line and make the bump steering a little better.

 

i've been cutting a door in my T, heres a few pics, hope to get somemore posted soon
JimV

 

Dash & steering column back in my 47. Have to go back and fix the floor opening for some strange reason something changed since mockup. The column was still 3/4 of an inch out as the rag joint was touching the header. Rewiring the headlight buckets, the old cloth wiring was shot.

 

Sold the one I had to a friend, said he was going to put it in a shoebox he was building, still setting where I unloaded.

 

I'm getting ready to drive the hell out of my T today! 77 degrees... baby!!

 

keep on lubricating the door latch ***emblys in my 54 so all of the doors work as well as the two i did yesterday.

when i started none of them were what you would call "smooth operating" and they didnt lock either.

 

Thats about double what we get today

 

Been motoring around town with The World's Most Beautiful Granddaughter.

All the little girls in her dance cl*** were dazzled by my coupe; she sort of said, yeah, that's ours, what's the big deal? Sophisticated, and only five years old.

 

Wiring up my headlights and changing the coolant.

 

Took it out of storage and driving it for the first time this year.

 

I took it to the track and did some ch***is tweeking on a damp track.
It was just like being on a dirt track..BIG PHUN!!
I got in about 30 laps before the rain came again.

 

did'nt do much yesterday,but i'll finish that today

 

Working on a dual MC mount for 49-51 Mercs.

 

Got the doors back on the truck today for the first time in two and a half years.
Fitted not too badly,they just need a bit of fine tuning.
I'm starting to see light at the end of the tunnel!

 

Found two major wiring issues I hadn't caught before and corrected them. Moved the electric fuel pump to a better location and I did it with out getting gas all over myself and the floor.

 

Was going for a test run. Rained out.

 

>>>>>Sittin' here in my Motor Home watchin' it rain on my '27 T ,,been rainin' for two days now ,,...so i polished up a set of Vintage '60's Edlebrock Finned Aluminum Valve Covers fo the Blown 355 in it ,,,hope'n it quits rainin' & warms up so i can put em on ,,no shop to werk on it in you see ,,just a gravel parking lot ,,

 

Making custom rear shock mounts for the coupe. Paint then install them. Getting a little better at welding.



Rich

 

Converting to disc brakes on the front of my old Dodge. I have the right side finished and tore apart the left side and found a worn out upper control arm bushing. Work stopped. I will order one tomorrow and hopefully finish everything up by the weekend.

 

WTF i didn't know about that ... was it A bodies only swap ?

 

I spent today ordering some parts for my 40 chevy and my wife's 37 chevy. When we get exhaust on her 37 we can start some shakedown runs...

 

Setting here looking at the Comet without a rear end thats off being checked and straitened, and it's hard with this great weather. changed the grill replaced the turn signal switch and added new busket seats last weekend.

 

Took the 65 out to play Saturday and finished tearing apart the 64 so I can put it on it's new ch***is. The 64 bed is sittin on it's new 4x4 ch***is.

 

Painted the window trim, Fulton visor, finished the white stripes on the Bel Air's quarter panels and began rehanging some stainless.

 

Didn’t think id ever find a real 35 three window seat close to home. Got one today along with the everything else inside from a good dude here on the hamb.
Thanks Joel

 

tapping foot looking out the window at ****py *** rain
at least its not snowing lol

 

Worked on the rear frame section on the 55 Buick. Ordered a set of chrome valve covers for the 455 Buick, mainly to keep my spirits up as the project seems to have stalled a bit.

On to next weekend....

 

Yesterday I got the quarters welded to the subrails on the A. Today I moved the Studebaker out to clean the garage floor. Getting ready to bring the A home and hopefully spend more time on it. I have a very understanding wife who has forfeited her parking spot in the interest of hot rod building.
Greg.