My 26T Coupe build thread

[roadster32]

My word Sir. You've got waaaayy too much time on your hands! Such craftsmanship. Wonderful work. perley

Rome wasn't built in a day mate, im always looking to make things differently, thanks

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[stovens]

Great way to keep the details on par with the rest of the build! Sorry to hear about the rain there! We have had unusually excellent summer weather here, which is making paint the exterior f the house a lot easier(but makes me sad the truck has to sit on the sideline while higher priorities get done. I think once I go out on medical leave for my knee surgery, I'll have a 6 week period to focus on the truck(hopefully).

[roadster32]

Great way to keep the details on par with the rest of the build! Sorry to hear about the rain there! We have had unusually excellent summer weather here, which is making paint the exterior f the house a lot easier(but makes me sad the truck has to sit on the sideline while higher priorities get done. I think once I go out on medical leave for my knee surgery, I'll have a 6 week period to focus on the truck(hopefully).

See now I'm jealous, wishe we could get just a few dry days !!! The willys is so close to being done I can taste it !!!

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[IC2]

See now I'm jealous, wishe we could get just a few dry days !!! The willys is so close to being done I can taste it !!!

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Steve - we even see news stories on the English monsoons:

"This was the unusual plea published in an editorial in The Times of London on Saturday, a measure of Britons' growing frustration with months of miserable weather.

"Let us make our position crystal clear: We are against this weather," the venerable newspaper wrote in an unsigned opinion piece. "It must stop raining, and soon."

The U.K. is slogging through some of the wettest conditions in recent history. Nearly every day seems to bring showers, sprinkles, drizzles, or downpours. On Saturday alone, England's Environment Agency registered some 75 flood alerts and warnings across the country, including the west England county of Shropshire, where fire and rescue officials received an anguished phone call from a woman who found herself waist-deep in water overnight."

And here - haven't seen enough rain this year to keep my grass green - it's crusty brown in most places. Hot - 90'sF plus, humidity way up as well.

[roadster32]

Well with winter virtually upon us its time to get some more work done on this build, I have a customers body due shortly so Gomez my trusty helper came over today to help tidy up my lockup and make some room.
The T coupe body is incredibly heavy and needs 3 people to move it comfortably, this is mainly due to the floor, seat, firewall being made in 3/4" wood and oak in the A & B posts

I wanted to start afresh so decided all the wood except the B posts had to come out, I thought this was gonna be a pig of a job but as luck would have it the original builder made such a poor job of glassing it in it only took 3 hours to get it all out
A lot of the mat had not been fully saturated with resin and no surfaces had been keyed up either, I'm surprised it all stayed together really, The use of polyurethane expanding foam to fill the gaps wasn't ideal either !!!

Here are some pics and a video clip

















A breif lesson on how not to fibreglass






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[bluestang67]

Finally put a voice to the hand LOL .

[stovens]

I get itchy just watching!

[roadster32]

I get itchy just watching!

Ha ha ha, It wasn't that bad really Steve.

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[40FordDeluxe]

Wow, you have a very cool project going on here! It amazes me what people try to do with fiberglass and they shouldn't even be allowed to touch glue let a lone fiberglass. Haha

[Mohead1]

After looking at all these pics and the total craftsmanship (more like ARTIST) of this build......im selling all my tools and sheet metal stuff, giving away my hot rods, and burning the garage......this is just amazing....you are one talented man. Extremely nice stuff, i used to think i was pretty handy with fabrication.....im not even CLOSE to being worthy....holy cow...

[roadster32]

After looking at all these pics and the total craftsmanship (more like ARTIST) of this build......im selling all my tools and sheet metal stuff, giving away my hot rods, and burning the garage......this is just amazing....you are one talented man. Extremely nice stuff, i used to think i was pretty handy with fabrication.....im not even CLOSE to being worthy....holy cow...

Thanks for the kind words mate.

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[Whiplash23T]

Going through the build log section and came across this one Steve, Do you still have it or is it long gone ?

[roadster32]

Going through the build log section and came across this one Steve, Do you still have it or is it long gone ?

No mate its still here, I'm waiting for the workshop to empty and then I will be back on it, I have 2 cars in the shop that are coming to the end andi've decided to not take on anymore full builds as the parts side has grown so much I can't do both jobs anymore.
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[Whiplash23T]

That is so cool that the Hot Rod Industry is going ahead in leaps and bounds over in the UK. I have a friend here in Auckland that has been in business now for a couple of years building cars from chassis to turn key and although he struggles with the odd person who wants the best top job for the cheapest price, he is doing extremely well. His name is Steve too funnily enough so guys with that name must have something special in the blood. Actually for a small population of just over 4.5 million people, we have quite a successful hot rod industry New Zealand wide. I will look forward to when you have time to clean the cobwebs off the T Coupe and start on it again.