what did you get done this week end????

Brought home a s-10 frame for my 56 f-100.Now the work starts

 

Thats a nice 59 you got there! What are your plans for her?

 

lots of wetsanding and clear left to do...

bums me that the pearl isn't showing in the pics, but I'll be able to push it out in the sun in a day or two....

 

That can easily be a weekend of work . . . lots of beer and a ton of swear words. Never invite your kids to watch when you attempt to pull the valves out of an old flatty! Yikes!

 

Well I got the block all cleaned up for my "chicken shit" slant six build up. I finished polishing the crank, and got the block all cleaned, honed, and painted. I also spent an hour or two arguing with the local advance auto about their price matching policy, after a talk with their district manager they matched my prices, so I saved a few bux on my parts.

I also took, edited and posted up a pic for my avatar last night.

TopHat

 

Awsome Color, that is the color scheme my wife is pulling for on the 59 fairlane we just picked up.

 

Worked on stripping and sanding some more paint off the 51 Ford.

 

nothing with cars. tore out and retiled my entry way, grout is done, hang the trim tomorrow.

Wife is happy so its back to the garage.

 

Clean up the interior, add seat belts for the kids, new tires, spider caps, drop the ass 3", tune up, gas up, and cruise.
then body work and paint next fall.

 

Fired the mopar up. This was 3-1/2 years commin. It has been a long time since I felt the rumble under my ass. Off to the Exhaust guy next. Big smiles for me this weekend. For once I'll be ready for spring cruzin. Yaaaaa f'in Hoooooo.
Bryan

 

Sorry, This Mopar..

 

I sludged my way through ohio and now (Lville)kentucky clearcoating (Nyalic)12 new Kenworth Tractors in Chillicothe OH for ExxonMobil. I wanna go go home to work on my 40 Ford Sedan.....

You guys should try some of our DubleHorn clear for stainless, aluminum and chrome, just unbelieveable what it does to spotted and faded aluminum, looks new again.

 

awwww yeah. I finally got my engine mocked up this weekend!! Damn, now I have to go back to work

 

Spent all day Saturday doing the back splash in the kitchen to keep the wife off my butt. Today I was able to get the front clip off my 37 Plymouth for the small block upgrade...

 

That's a Peterbilt brother...

 

Stumbled onto a 327 Chevy motor with a TH-350 trans for a bargain price while going to look at a project for sale a mile or so from my place today...

...then drove way out to BFE to look at another project that showed potential, but even I thought the welds and motor mounts looked scary on that one, so they MUST'VE sucked bad! Ha Ha...at least I got to put a couple hundred miles on my cool little daily driver Dart and scored a good "builder motor", though!!

 

On Friday I had a road trip (500 miles) to pick up some parts for the 36 project...

Got a nice original hood, 4 glass fenders, headlights and mounts plus a really nice 36 grille.....


It's always a good day when a guy gets new toys to scrub up









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Saturday was spent dismantling a 37 stude instrument cluster and cleaning it up. The water temp gauge has seen better days but for the most part it came out pretty nice. I still have to pull the odometer out and clean the rollers up then reset the odometer back to all zeros...




I had to straighten the bezel first then scrub the cluster with windex and a plastic brush....


















The cluster has been safely put away and will eventually join up with a future 36 Ford as will the nice 36 grille and hood....


The next order of business will be to clean up and repaint the 36 grille but I haven't really thought about the paint color yet, It looks like the grille was painted a standard red at one time. It may or may not get original colors for now but I'm leaning more toward yellow bars and black surround or??




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put the '49 on the ground and roller her outside for a better "looksie" at the 2 door conversion and all her proportions

 

went and picked up my car from the glass shop(250 miles each way). it's been there a month. had a windshield intalled. i bought the car chopped. it is a nice job but with the way that it was done made it very difficult to put a windshield in. had to be cut on the bottom and tilted inward to meet the pinch weld. thanks to tony, rob and fred at revolution rod & custom/tri valley glass in livermore, ca. they were able to get it in. now i can start driving it with out my googles.

 

Welded some reinforcements into the back of the rpu cab...



Neal

 

nothing productive.
a trend i need to reverse.

 

Built a jig for the front end of my 50 for the upcoming sub-frame. Also, tore the rear end out...hub to hub and springs...anybody want it?

 

Hung out at Blackie's show.. Lotsa shinny stuff there

 

painted the floor and fire wall of the roadster so this week end I can put it on the chassis for the last time

 

I got my alum tank from the welder on Friday. On Saturday I fabricated all new brackets for it, took me about 6 hours to make them. Then ½ an hour to remove everything and start it all over. Dammit.

I hate doing things twice!!!


--mika

 

sounds bitchin!! i got a whole lot of nothing done,drank a lot of beer though

 

Did some panel alignment and gap consistency work onthe Vette this weekend.





Slightly O/T (yearwise), put the finishing touches on the teardrop hood for the Fairlane Drag car, just about ready for primer.

 

I got my Nash Rambler running! Drove it for the first time on saturday! Great weekend.

 

Did some wiring on the '50 Burb. Horn, converter lockup, stuff like that. Neatened up and cleaned up under dash.
Cleaned up under hood a few things. Measured up some rear AC lines to have ends put on them.

 

Got my ot mach one running for the first time since 1995! I have been restoring it all winter long. I purchased in SoCal when I lived there in the mid 80's, been 20 years since I drove the car. It was time, now if the snow would melt I could take it for a spin.....Don