Thread: '37 Oze build

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Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

I'm glad to hear you decided to keep stabbing away on it instead of sell it and take a loss. That really sucks about your grill. It does look better than the other one from the pics I remember seeing on here. Hey, at least your ac works!

Actually, my A/C doesn't work yet, but it's the minimum I need to drive the car for very long in the summer. Right now, I take it out in the morning when it's cool. The side windows don't roll down either, since I never glued the run channel to the body. That has to wait until after paint.

The car might still end up a rat rod, but at least it will have a hinged and latched hood and a couple of tolerable seats. With any luck, I might finish the body work in the next 4-6 weeks. Then I'll decide whether to go farther with the project. I don't work many hours each day, with all the yard work I have to do. I'll have to remove the dash to get the A/C ducts and vents installed.

Did your Gibbon body come from the shop in Nebraska? My brother bought a '33 from Gibbon, probably in '92 or '93, to rebuild the steel bodied '33 sedan that he rolled. He thought that his body was great. He claimed that it took little work to get the body fitted and ready to paint.

I haven't mentioned all of the issues with the body, to spare OZE some embarrassment. Another big problem is sealing the trunk lid, so the car can be washed or driven in the rain without filling the trunk with water. There's a gap of 1/4 to 3/8 inch between the lip that holds the weather strip and the trunk lid. Oze recommends a weather strip that has a thickness of 1/8" at the peak. All it does is serve as a decorative cover for the lip. I have seen an Oze with a flat foam strip applied to the trunk lid, to make a seal. It's not pretty, but it might do the job, if combined with the thin weather strip over the lip.

I could also post some pictures showing the poor trunk lid fit and lengthy runs of external corners around the trunk opening that had to be rebuilt due to thick gel goat the was full of big holes.