My 26T Coupe build thread

[Whiplash23T]

Come on be honest, you just don't want that bright English sun glare reflecting of those backing plates . Now ,I have been doing some reseach and as you may know, I have,or thought I had , decided on the colour of my bucket but now I would like to know,what colour is that Bucket that you build? You know, it has a chopped '32 griile,caddy aircleaner,sits prefectly on the road with those chrome steelies and white walls and is painted Itoldyouso (Don) pink. I love the colour but how would it look with the heavy flake as after seeing your '32 ,thats the finish I want..

[roadster32]

It was a special mix i did at our local paint factors Whip, i just mixed it up till it looked like a mettalic bubblegum.
I have some Pink flake which is absolutely awesome, Sue had me repaint our kitchen doors as she wanted something unusual so i did them in gloss black with pink flake insert panels. Its an amazing colour, If your serious about flake i can send you some samples.
i was originally going to use it on my 26T but thought i would go different with the copper flake.

Come on be honest, you just don't want that bright English sun glare reflecting of those backing plates . Now ,I have been doing some reseach and as you may know, I have,or thought I had , decided on the colour of my bucket but now I would like to know,what colour is that Bucket that you build? You know, it has a chopped '32 griile,caddy aircleaner,sits prefectly on the road with those chrome steelies and white walls and is painted Itoldyouso (Don) pink. I love the colour but how would it look with the heavy flake as after seeing your '32 ,thats the finish I want..

[roadster32]

Well not much progress but its getting there, here is the suicide mount all finished and polished.
Perch is welded in at 10 degrees, 7 is the castor angle and the other 3 degrees is the cars rake.







I got one side of this joint perfect but *floop*ed the other up so decided to polish out the weld completely.







Here's some polished holes just for Brizey






The joining of the 2 halves is imminent so the joining plates were cut, they have been sized to snugly slide inside the box section and are secured by a bolt to pull everything together nicely and inline (this will be done on the jig) the bolt goes in the centre hole and the other 2 holes are for rosette welds then the bolts are removed and again rosette welded, then the joint is welded and polished out.







Polishing has vastly improved timewise due to my latest buy Its a 4HP 3 phase Pro polisher 2800 rpm that i'm running off a single phase to 3 phase digital convertor, its an amazing bit of kit that i reckon saves me 50% polishing time as its impossible to slow down and you can really lean on stuff.






My rad supplier in the states made me up a chopped radiator in ally, Looks like the grille shell needs a bit out of it










I will be losing the brackets from the sides as the rad will be mounted on some custom stainless brackets with the original Fords springs and bolts, in stainless of course
I will be welding some 10mm ally with tapped holes to the rad sides to take 2 bolts to hold the rad brackets.







Rad brackets (yet to be polished)





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[Itoldyouso]

Steve, that is one SERIOUS polisher. I could really hurt myself on that one. Bet it really has sped up your work time a lot.

Rest of the stuff you are doing is just as nice as the first batch........simply stunning.

Don

[Jack F]

Jeemaneeze 32,

After looking at this build project I'm going to delete my build project and sell it for scrap. What a hell of a build.

Jack.

[roadster32]

Thanks Jack, appreciate the comment.

Jeemaneeze 32,

After looking at this build project I'm going to delete my build project and sell it for scrap. What a hell of a build.

Jack.

[roadster32]

I've got most of the bits for this project squirrelled away but was lacking some door handles, had a look around but nothing floated my boat so decided to make some with holes in them to follow the theme in the car.

Luckily I had some 10mm stainless offcuts in the bin so a shape was drawn and cut out with a 1mm cutting disc, as this was easy to hold in the drill vice I drilled the holes before cutting out.





Once the shape was cut it was linished smooth ready for polishing. At this stage the shape was put into the handle with a soft sander and a curve was put into the handle by clamping in a vice over 3 small pieces of bar.






Here we have the polished handle, next I spun up a couple of pieces of stainless bar to weld to the handle to act as a extension, I forgot to take a picture of these I think





Here we have the handle welded up and the weld polished out, I'm pretty pleased the way they turned out
I robbed the baseplates off some old handles so these will be rechromed.











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[roadster32]

Sure is Don, it warrents a bit of respect !!!

Cheers for the positives.

Steve, that is one SERIOUS polisher. I could really hurt myself on that one. Bet it really has sped up your work time a lot.

Rest of the stuff you are doing is just as nice as the first batch........simply stunning.

Don