Well I was going to make a thread for my car so I could ask questions but i guess i might as well try for this cool contest. I have been wanting to build a car scene i was a teenager ( well i guess that not to bad 10+ years ) and I have finally been able to get my life stable enough to do it. Its a 1930 Tudor Chevy sedan. It going to be a low dollar fun learning experience. I am hoping to be done by this time next year but...
It looks like you have a good start to it. Chevys aren't the easy ones out of all the builds but they can be fun. right up my alley. I will watch this one...ghost
Oh the learning has begun its taken 3- 4 days and two attempts to get the body square but i think I have got it within a 1/32. Its slow going, but having all kinds of fun. next its finishing replacing the wood brentthebarber best we guess its about 7 - 8 inches chop
Hello John, We are also building a 1930 Chevy 2 door sedan. Ours will be built for drag racing and run in the new Nostalgia events in our 5 state area of MN. Your cars body looks a lot different then ours does. Here is a picture of what our car looked like before we did the 7" chop to it. ..Monk.. FCC
well I always thought it looked like a model A. The guy said it was a 30 chevy and i took his word for it
I thought it looked like a Ford-A also. If you look at our Chevy you can see a few distinct differences. The most apparent is that the Chevy's did not have any sort of metal sub structure in the main body or doors, even the dash was mounted to a wooden frame. The same with the windshield pillars and header panel. Chevy basically built a wooden skeleton and nailed the sheet metal body panels to it. Another area is the fuel tank location, Chevy put the fuel tank behind the body and Ford put them under the cowl. Another area is the roof sheet metal, the area above the doors on a ford is a separate part from the back haft of the roof. On a Chevy it's all one part that wraps from the A-pillar around the back of the body to the other A-pillar. The windshield on the fords tipped out at the bottom and the Chevy's cranked up into the header panel. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking your project at all, what you are building is still going to be a very cool car. I just want to help you with any information that I have discovered in the co**** of building on our project. When we where looking for a body we looked at a lot of different bodies. We picked the Chevy because it would be the lightest weight when it was done. We removed all of the wood and welded the panels together and then we will mount the body to the ch***is roll cage and tin out the interior in aluminum. ..Monk.. FCC
well im a little embarr***ed now but Iam still learning. I guess i dident pay to much for it afterall. and no, but I do have a bill of sale that not right now lol. I am going to call the guy i got it from in the mornin . well i wanted a ford guess for wonce i got what i wissed. Flywheelers Car Club I wasent taking it as knocking I realy like the car and in the end no matter what it was its going to be cool. also thank you for your help and pics hopefuly this weekend i can put the subfloor back in. That I guess was removed when the car was channeled. on with the learning
I'm glad you got what you wanted after all. The Fords are a lot easier to rod. We wish you the best of luck with your project. The Chevy body is one huge jigsaw puzzle with a pile of small parts that make up the body. Even the door jams are fitted with about 8 sheet metal parts that had to be fitted and welded in place. We did not get a good set of A-pillars with the car so we just built a set of them when we did the chop. Would there be any interest in a thread dedicated to this project? Let us know. We will also post progress on our website. ..Monk..
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