Thread: 1938 Chevrolet coupe

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Very nice ...can't wait to see some more work pics!

I'm back, after working 12 hours nights for the last several months. 20141129_164205.jpgnow I figured out I am going to have to post a picture at a time to control the pictures.

These photos show I got the rearend narrowed 7 inches, the swaybar put in the frame on the rear. I don't have coil overs yet so I set it up with solid rods all around to set ride height.
The front end I wound up widening the frame rails 2 inches over the original frame to let all the stock ls3 fit in between.

Nice work!

Very nice.

Looks like you've flipped over this car!


Looks great!

20150312_151238.jpgOk next after a lot of measuring, it time to bring in the body an get it ready to see if it fits.20150312_151226.jpg
Time to break out the plasma cutter and seperate the body from the frame. Jonathan

After a lot of figuring. I decided that it would be just as easy to cut the body loose of the floor and remove.[ATTACH]
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I wound up with this.

Wow great project with cool parts and frame! Looking forward to following this thread too!

The body looks like it will scrub up good and apart from the panel damage of the quarter panel, appears to be rust free. I too will be watching this old Chevy Coupe been mated up to the excellent frame you have built.

Thanks for the replies everyone!
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Made me a cart an rolled it outside an sandblasted the inside to see how much rot I had one the lower sections of the body. Jonathan

I don't know what happened to taking pictures of mating the body with the frame? I got it mounted and figured out my wheel offsets an ordered my wheels an tires.20150314_152348.jpg
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So after mounting the body on all four corners. An getting the attitude I wanted. I replaced several sections on the lower rockers. It was ready for some wheels.

After going to the street rod nationals last year an talking to all the wheel vendors there an pricing wheels that I liked! I went with us mag. Thay were very informative an wanted to make what I wanted for a very reasonable price.
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The rims I believe we're called torinos,fronts were 18 X 10 with a 7 in. Backspace and the rears are 19 X 12 with a 7 inch backspace. Sounds wide but trying to put as much meat to the ground as I can.

For my tires I went with nitto nt05. The frontsecond are 285/35 r18 and the rear are 335/30r19. Front tires wound up being 11.5 inches wide, and the rear wound up being 13.5 inches wide.

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I was pleased when I got the rims an tires mounted. Plenty of meat to put on the ground. Jonathan

After looking thru my pictures, I realized that I ordered my wheels an tires to fit the frame ,an was going to make the body fit what I had. Here is my roller with the wheels on it.
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