Thread: My first rod!

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Welcome, and let me give you one word of advice........QUIT RIGHT NOW, that Deuce is absolutely beautiful.

But, I do understand you wanting to do some of your own touches. Let's see, it's November in Johnstown, Pa. .......where are the snow treads??


I've been in Johnstown a million times, I'm from the Mon valley originally, specifically Belle Vernon, then moved all around the area. Monroeville, Latrobe, etc. We used to go driving up into Johnstown and Somerset looking for old cars sitting beside barns and stuff in the '60's and '70's.

Enjoy that new rod, I know I would.


Don


PS: How do you work in that messy garage?????

Very nice rod!!

Nice looking roadster ... congratulations

Bob Drake has reproduction 32 Ford headlights with his " new, improved " halogen reflector kit ... already installed. He had a optical engineer design the new headlight reflectors and they are really a BIG improvement over the other halogen kits I have used. I bought just the ' KIT ' from Bob Drake and installed it in my original headlights. I had already converted them to halogens a few years back. I also updated to the new Sylvania SilverStar bulbs ... a few weeks later. I saw them on TV and tried them ... again ... a large improvement ...

No Help from me on the glue/windshield problem ...

Thanks for the tip on the lights... Does Bob Drake have them with the second element installed for parking/turn signals? Also, the more I look at the way this windshield is glued in, the more it looks like a near impossibility of getting it off without some moderate paint damage to the top of the cowl... honest opinion... does it look OK with the current windshield setup? I'm thinking i may just change to the big 32 lights and headlight bar, and "live" with the windshield as it is... maybe add a small oval inside mirror.

I think that it looks fantastic just as she sits.

But then thats just my opinion.

I had to install the turn signals into the new reflector ... he does not do that ... cutting and drilling them is not a problem ... they are some type of poly/plastic or something. I mounted the bulb holder behind the reflector ... sort of lowered or spaced away from the reflector so that my yellow bulb just barely sticks thru the reflector ... a little over half way. WORKS great ...

The windshield is NOT the way I would build one ...
But ... it was a lot less expensive than buying a chrome windshield frame, stantions and all the related 32 pieces so ... I guess that's what the builder did ...

I would have to change it ... before the new rod season ... you asked and I just told you the truth ...