28 Model A

[Desperado454]

Originally Posted by Bomp

Try as I might, I will never hit the Coool Factor like you on this build.

10 outta 10 you scored!

Yeah right man! Thanks for the compliment but you take the cake when it comes to cool builds. Also, take note there are zero camaros hanging from my ceiling...Ive got some catching up to do

Originally Posted by swamp rat

Great job slicing and dicing on the dash!

Thanks man! Still have some hacking to do yet to get the door panel pieces to fit, but here's the plan

Originally Posted by tommys72

Nice, I hadn't seen this build before. Glad I did now! Good work

Right arm! Appreciate it!

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Awesome work on the dash! That seat worked out very nice from where I'm looking.

Thanks man! The seat is sweet. I'll admit there was a point where I had to suck it up, set my man card aside and sew the cover back to together. The process wasn't too bad, almost enjoyable at times, and actually came out decent enough. Plan is to throw a mexican blanket over it or something so it doesn't look so modern but overall im happy with it.

[Desperado454]

I was running into clearance problems with my spring over configuration so I ended up changing it over to a spring behind setup. Cut the old brackets off the axle and welded up some new ones. I ended up using the old brackets as lower shock mount brackets so everything worked out pretty good. Here's what i got for the spring relocation project:

These pics are when I was getting the brackets properly spaced and aligned:




Since this was an afterthought the rear crossmember wasn't going to work in the shape it was as it barely contacted the frame anymore:



Here's how it ended up:



More to come!

[Mike Bradbury]

Looks great, good job on the fabrication. My 82 year old father and I are building a '29 roadster pick up. It is shaping up very slowly but it will be a nice rod when done.








This is roughly how we got it 12 years ago. This photo was taken after we took the fenders off. They were glass and we got nice Brookville steel to replace.

[Desperado454]

Originally Posted by Mike Bradbury

Looks great, good job on the fabrication. My 82 year old father and I are building a '29 roadster pick up. It is shaping up very slowly but it will be a nice rod when done.

This is roughly how we got it 12 years ago. This photo was taken after we took the fenders off. They were glass and we got nice Brookville steel to replace.

That looks immaculate man! Very nice so far, and no doubt it'll be a nice rod when its done.

Alright, just about caught up on this. Here's where i was fitting my new wheel patch panels. Can see my re-purposed spring brackets being used as lower shock brackets here.



Always envisioned the parking brake in the form of a lever mounted under the dash in the middle. An early 40's lever out a chevy ended up fulfilling the vision. Works great.



Bought a stainless tank from speedway but it lacked a sending unit and i wanted it to fill from the outside. Didn't like the center outlet on the bottom much either as it was lined up with the highest part of the rear axle. So I got a sending unit from bob drake and a tight stainless mandrel bend to make a filler tube with. Also, I made up a piece to mount the sender and fuel pick up tube on.

U-bend piece:



Ready to weld additions on:



Was making sure the gauge was actually going to work. It did!:



Here's the sending unit part of it welded up, was worried it was going to warp alot but it ended up being fine.



To finish up i removed the filler from the cowl with the plan to move it to the back. This is the first time i tig welded a patch into sheet metal and man oh man was it nice. Before welding:



After:



This is after it was ground down. Its not nearly as nice as the picture makes it look as there are some flaws and a little more hammer work to do, but it turned out miles better than just about every mig'd patch i've ever attempted and it was done in a fraction of the time.



More to come!

[Mike Bradbury]

Good progress, nice patch on the cowl. That is hard to get smooth

[Desperado454]

Originally Posted by Mike Bradbury

Good progress, nice patch on the cowl. That is hard to get smooth

Aye man, judging by the rear mounted tank you know the struggle of patching that area all to well. There are some tough bends to conquer there which go slightly beyond the capabilities of the english knee. Hammer and dolly helped me ton.

[Desperado454]

The last big projects before final welding were exhaust and floor. I have no pictures on the ol' photobucket of the exhaust right now so here's some of how the floor ended up. All the panels except for a select couple are hammered to the framework with some self tapping sheet metal screws for now.







Then it was separation time. First step was to finish welding the southern side of the floor.



After I finished that I took some pics





Pushed the body out of the way and started the teardown on the frame. Seems I only took 2 similar pictures of that.





Frame made its way onto a rotisserie for ease of welding some of the trickier to get to bits.



The game plan for the final frame welding involves alot of jumping and skipping around. Here's some welds in progress that turned out okay. All will be welded solid in the end.

[Dieselwrencher]

Man, that looks great! Nice fab work! I really dig the bead rolling work on the floors too!

[swamp rat]

My bi monthly (or so) Compliment, your doing great work! keep it up, i wish i had your talent!

[Desperado454]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Man, that looks great! Nice fab work! I really dig the bead rolling work on the floors too!

Thanks man! Doing that floor was my second kick at the bead rolling can and actually went decent enough. All done on the infamous el-cheapo harbor freight model no less

Originally Posted by swamp rat

My bi monthly (or so) Compliment, your doing great work! keep it up, i wish i had your talent!

Awesome, really appreciate it man! They go great along side my bi-monthly (or more) updates

[Desperado454]

After I got the frame all welded up I figured it would be a good idea to see if it was still square and level, so off the rack it came.



Sure enough it was a little twisted, was out about 1/4" front to back. Ive never straightened a frame before but I knew I had chains somewhere and a jack, so all I needed was an anchor point of some sort. After a quick scan I saw a potential idea. I'm sure there's alot wrong with this approach but I did achieve success. Anyways here's what became of my potential idea.



So with that out of the way it was time to start making my way towards the finish. Put 'er back on the apparatus and spent the day grinding filling and sanding. Hope to be painting tomorrow

[Dieselwrencher]

Very nice! Sometimes you have to do what you have to do! I will probably have to do the same with my 40 frame. I doubt i'll have a frame jig by then. Haha

[Desperado454]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Very nice! Sometimes you have to do what you have to do! I will probably have to do the same with my 40 frame. I doubt i'll have a frame jig by then. Haha

Thanks! Its all part of the fun of doing this kind of stuff

[Desperado454]

Got 'er painted!

[Desperado454]

Painted some more stuff tonight

[tinydb84]

Very look. Love the work done on this.

[Desperado454]

Originally Posted by tinydb84

Very look. Love the work done on this.

Thanks man!

Bolted the axles to the frame today and after that I painted some more bits and pieces. Going to put the brakes and stuff on next to get it back to roller status.

[Bomp]

Been awhile since I checked in....

Man are you kickin' it


Looking great, will have to make a note to look in more often.

[98Murray]

Looks fantastic!!

[Dieselwrencher]

That is looking awesome! Are you trying to get it drive able for this fall?

[swamp rat]

Nice work!!

[Desperado454]

Originally Posted by Bomp

Been awhile since I checked in....

Man are you kickin' it


Looking great, will have to make a note to look in more often.

Originally Posted by 98Murray

Looks fantastic!!

Originally Posted by swamp rat

Nice work!!

Thanks guys!

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

That is looking awesome! Are you trying to get it drive able for this fall?

I don't have much of a timeline in mind, but it'd be cool if it was. Should be possible though, wasn't planning on doing too much more to the body until after its been inspected and registered, so its not that far off really. Here's where its at, just about ready to start running brake lines:

[Desperado454]

Brake lines are run, only pic i have on file of that project.

[Desperado454]

Hope to have it running by next week

[COS399]

I'm late for the party but I'm here now. I love builds like this where you take something that wasn't designed to work together and cut, shape, and weld it into something different. Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work.