Thread: Grandkids Coaster Car build.

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Today was frame day. My Granddaughter Elise even came out and showed about 5 minutes of interest..... before she decided it was more exciting helping her mom and grandma in the kitchen.



. We’re going to be holding the frame rails to the body and the full floor pan with nutserts and 1/4-20 bolts (a lot of them). With that in mind I finally ended up opening my poor old billfold and sprung for a bag of nutserts and box of bolts...... I’m now into the car for $23.13 .




I figured the easiest way to do this would be to turn the body over and get the side rails bent and fitted.








With the side rails on the next thing was to weld in some cross braces to hold everything together when the frame was removed from the body. Cade was really excited to watch the welding....something he’s never seen before, and he was ready for Grandpa to start welding even if Grandpa wasn’t.



With the cross braces welded in it was time to turn the car over again for the obligatory test fit.





I left short stubs out past the front of the car as bumper mounting points. After the test fit the car was turned back over, the frame removed, wire brushed, shot with some black paint and nutserts installed. So at the end of the day we now have a frame ready to build a floor pan on.




The last thing I would like to mention is that we are doing the majority of this build in the office area of the shop where I display my Dad’s and Granddad’s old tools. That was done mostly so as not to clutter up the main shop......but the more we do in there, it just feels like the right place to build it. Dad and Granddad are both gone now, but every once in a while I think I feel them looking in on us and smiling........and I smile back.




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Originally Posted by Mike P

With that in mind I finally ended up opening my poor old billfold and sprung for a bag of nutserts and box of bolts...... I’m now into the car for $23.13 .


Dad and Granddad are both gone now, but every once in a while I think I feel them looking in on us and smiling........and I smile back.

And there's more than a few of us that are smiling back with you!

You ol' skinflint!