Quote Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe View Post
Very nice work Jim. Those welds and that hacked cut was really scary for sure.
The guy that built the 37 was an old school circle track guy(now in his 70's). His welds were VERY scary indeed but they were strong as hell. It looked like the guy just built the car form scraps he had hanging around. He was a good body man and his engineering was great but his welds looked like hell. He defiantly knew what he was doing. If you look in this picture you'll notice the spring is bent. In order to bend it it had to be heated. If you don't know what you are doing they will almost always crack and literally just fall apart.
The slave cylinder was a work of art (sarcasm). So much so my buddy hung it on his wall. Cut things out with torches and made "EVERYTHING". Don't have a piece of metal long enough? No problem; weld 2 pieces together. Literally looks like he held things where they needed to be and closed his eyes and welded them there. Another example of use what you have: He welded the BIGGEST power steering box GM ever made to the frame rail. It was gusseted, plated, welded, bolted and took my buddy DAYS to remove it. Damn thing had to weigh 100 pounds. Top side of the car looked great. Now having said all that. That car drove like a dream. Started and stopped perfectly. Tracked correctly. Didn't pull during hard braking. Cornered well. Suspension worked perfectly (original 37 shocks). You would think the car was sitting on a TCI chassis. Honestly I drove it. Either it was a fluke that it all just worked out (I doubt it) or that SOB knew what the hell he was doing. As scary as the welds were they were not going anywhere. trust me we tried breaking some and just ended up bending shit. He drove the car this way for well over 10 years and drove the hell out of it he did.