Thread: Z'ed frame

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This is a rather nasty digital picture, taken of a picture in my "Build book". This shows a Ze'd frame that came as the result of a mistake I made. I built a 1931 Desoto coupe, and in a quest for the perfect profile, I whacked the top 3" and channeled it 6" over the frame. It had an absolutely killer profile, but -----------------Oh $%#@---when I sat in the darn thing I had to bend my head sideways to look out the windshield. Not wanting to undo the chop nor the channel, I reasoned "why not just drop the center of the frame and reconfigure the floor in the car so that I set about 4" lower"---And thats exactly what I did, and it worked out perfect. Now, in this particular case, the frame is only Ze'd directly in front of and directly behind the seating area in the car, but as you can see from the other pictures that I posted, the front Z can be as far towards the front as Hansens, or as far towards the rear as the 27 roadster that I built.