What did you do this weekend....

I picked up my New late 30s chevy 2 ton... my donor body for my fenderless project... Another one saved from a field...

What did you do this weekend?

 

After nearly 3 months of ideas and mocking some different grills up, i finally got them made. Took all weekend aswell.

Had them on the car for all of 2 minutes last night, removed and now s****. The mock up looked good, the finshed article looked ****** awful.

Oh well option 2 i think.

All good fun though!!

 

fixed rust and repainted a jeep wrangler. soooo exciting, but it pays the bills.

 

Got to do some practice welding on a rolling fire pit that lost a leg to rust. Practiced on the other 3 legs as well. Note to self, you need more practice!!!

 

Not a damn thing , waiting till Monday.
"AND THE BOWTIE ROLLS ON"

 

Started tearing the front sheetmetal off of my 55 chevy pickup to get ready for a 79 camaro front clip swap! Exciting and nerve racking at the same time.

 

Spent several hours cleaning a set iron GT-40 heads for the 302 I am putting together. Also checked the bearings for the crank and rods. I swear every time I even look at it money goes up in smoke!

 

Your truck looks like a 41-47

 

I replaced the heater core in my 2001 Dodge ***mins Ram. I hope I NEVER have to do that again. I got bandaids on bandaids due to sharp edged sheetmetal and little tiny screws everywhere. Good thing I'm up to date on the tet**** shots.

 

Finished my rear crossmember on my '32 frame, worked on the front bones mounts and boxed in the front frame horns.
Sunday was clean the house and paint the living room

 

Saturday I was fairly productive. I wire wheeled a few pulleys and parts, pulled some other rusty parts out of the mol***es bath and gave them a scrub, and added a few more parts to the bath. I made some measurements and took some pictures of the original Oldsmobile linkages I have that connect the carb to the hydro, and I rolled my other Olds 324 out into the driveway to fire it up. A few blips of the throttle had me grinning like a little kid.

Sunday, I took apart the original (I think) 34 seat to ***ess the frame and get rid of the old packing material. The bottom of the bench looks good with a few repairs needed. The top on the other hand is completely shot. In addition to all of the rusty broken springs, I had a mouse jump out at me. Decided junking it might be the best option. Also pulled the '57 Chevy rear out, as it's the next project. It's fairly rusty, so I spent some time getting nuts loose and pulling the rusted brake hardware.

Things always take longer than it seems they will.

 

Worked 16 hours on the car this weekend. Figured out a way to mount my carson top to the body. Welded everything in and made it look a good as I could. Started prepping the car for paint. Found out I really hate block sanding...

 

Finally decided to restore this fire call box that I was tripping over in the garage for the last year or so...

 

saturday we did some of our christmas shopping. sunday i made progress on finding my uncles old 1940 chevy coupe he built. i used the leads i had now i have to follow new leads. and the process continues.

hey if anyone knows people from spring hill ks pm me i would appreciate the help!

 

What year did they star using the brown steering wheel?

 

since im kinda crippled up and in pain 24/7 i took a hand full of pain pills and went out to the shop. pain pills kick in, no more pain also no more work .went back to house .sunday repeat of sat.today less pain pills little more pain but i will go out to the shop and get something done.

 

Not sure about the wheel, but the ribs in the firewall are totally different.

 

Took a long shake down run and tried out the four barrel and new timing setting in the 53, What a great weekend. looking forward to some real exhaust and new side gl*** soon. hint hint Santa.

MrC.

 

Flaked the roof of my 53

 

my dad started choping his 36 chevy i worked on a 66 mustang rear frame rails and help primer my cousins 53 chevy.

 

worked my 2nd job so I have the funds when I am not so beat. Lol

 

I have all winter to work
I went for a nice drive with some buddy's
Had so much fun I had to take to car to work today

 

I went out in the freezing cold weather with the nasty north wind in my 54 and put a half naked girl in front of my car and took some pictures for a couple hours. Can't post anymore pics right now as I am working with the local burlesque group on putting out a vintage pin up calendar.

 

I like cold pin up girls

 

Replaced the throttle cable on my '70 vw bug and took off the leaking fuel pump from my '55 country wagon (y block engine).

 

Started all 3 of my cars, pulled them out of the garage, swept the garage with the cars warming up, drove each of the cars around the 'hood for awhile and then put them back in. Put them in a different order because now I have to pull the carb off of the "50 and clean it out. Fuel line disinegrated and it ****ed some bad stuff into the float bowl. No big deal.

 

You have my attention!

 

Started all of the final welding on the frame.

 

Lots of block sanding. The car looks like this now after a pretty new coat

 

put the engine in the 50... one day at a time