Thread: New Build-1946 Ford Tudor Build

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Dave,
Interesting info. Salt certainly tears a car apart. I do feel lucky to have a solid start to be sure. Thanks. Don

The areas that do have some rust are pretty easy ones where it will be easy to put new sections in. The guy we bought it from said it was in a warehouse from 1970 on, and the license plate was last dated 1964, so that kinda bears that out. SInce we have always lived in areas where cars were rust buckets after 10 years, to us this one is a really good start.

There is a thread on another forum where a guy is bringing back a 47 that most people would have taken to the crusher. I mean, not one panel was without large holes in it, and yet he is still forging ahead and doing a great job on it, and is actually converting a sedan into a coupe by grafting on the entire rear section. People on that forum keep making comments that he certainly has more ambition than they do, and I agree. I bet he ha put a thousand miles of weld into it already. Gotta give him credit.

Don

I had a keys cruiser that was like a fred flintstone car, where you could put your feet right thru the floor onto the pavement. It was only 15 years old, but new stuff rusts down there in 6 months or less. I've never lived in such a corosive environment as Big Pine Key. I had a beautifull paint job on a 84 Jeep cj7 there, within 6 months, I had to buff it with a mild compound to get the oxidation off and the shine back. I owned that Jeep for 3 more years in California, never needing any of the same here.
I think the dakotas and Arizona are good places for tin, because it's to cold or too hot for them!

Stovens,
I think you are right. I have owned a few "Flintstone" mobiles myself. Dan and I had a VW beetle back in high school with nealy no floor pans in the back. As we were going to school our school books would shoot out the hole in the floor and onto the road!!! One day one of my moms plates from breakfast on the way to school shot out the floor hole!!! DONT TELL HER!!!

Don Jr.