Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Bob---Its a lot more fun if someone is wearing the pantyhose as you do the wiping----

Originally Posted by brianrupnow

Bob---Its a lot more fun if someone is wearing the pantyhose as you do the wiping----

You forgotten what Don's girlfriend looks like?

What would be real fun is use them to remove the fiber glass then return them to where you got them,and sit back and laugh. I know theres a mean strek in me somwhere. In Don's girl friends case I dout shed notice

Originally Posted by brianrupnow

Bob---Its a lot more fun if someone is wearing the pantyhose as you do the wiping----

Ya mean there's another way to do it!!!!???????

You guys are just wrong. Besides, I gave up wearing pantyhose after that one little "incident."


Thanks for all the tips ( I think). I took Brians suggestion to take a cold shower. I got used to them.........I was married 28 years.

Anyway, I did get some glassing done today. Before I can start putting the floor in I had to finish up some work on the interior of the firewall. One thing I had to correct was the hole where the steering shaft goes through it. Originally I was using a Corvair steering box, but when I replaced it with a Flaming River "Corvair" box, it is slightly different. The steering input shaft goes in at a lower angle, so I had to cut a new/ second hole a little lower. This left the first hole that needed filled.

What I did was slip a piece of pvc into the new hole to retain the shape, built a temporary plastic dam on the inside, and filled the old hole with Bondo. It will adhere to the wood and fiberglass pretty well, and I am going to put fiberglass mat over the outside of the hole to seal it up. The Bondo is simply a filler to take up the space between the two layers of glass.

After it cured I removed the dam and pvc tube and proceeded to glass up the inside of the firewall. I laid up two layers of mat to bond the wooden firewall piece to the fiberglass body, then I laid up one more piece of mat over the entire firewall interior to waterproof it an make it stronger.

My camera batteries went dead after the first few pictures, so I can't show you the final result until tomorrow, but these will show how I filled the unwanted hole. That white stuff you see around the edges of the plywood in the last picture is more Bondo. I filled up the entire seam and leveled it before I glassed mat over it, so that I would have a clean strong edge there.

Tomorrow I get into serious grinding of the entire surface of the body to remove the wax and get some tooth for the rest of the wood to adhere to.

Don

Yea we could be wrong but then we'd back you all the way
Thats a fare days labor. go eat diner

Jeez, I missed a couple of days and you almost finish your car. You got a lot done, looks really good !

Hi, new to this board and this thread.
This is a great project.
I think you can come pretty close to your goal of $3K

I built my first HotRod, a '27 roadster, about 5 years ago.
When I first started thinking about the project, I got connected with a club of local guys who had done it all before.
I bought a lot of stuff new like a frame and body and some suspension bits but I still managed it for just under $6000.
BUT, as mentioned way back in this thread, I couldn't have done it without making some new friends AND a lot of good luck.
I got a $200 donor Malibu with a 350 (recently rebuilt I later discovered) and a short tailshaft TH350.
I used everthing I could from it, engine, trans, wiring harness, steering column, seat foam, some brake parts, driveshaft (shortened), etc.
I traded, swapped and finagled for everthing I could.
For instance, I got a set of barely used Coker ProTracs on Cragar SS's for $50.
I traded the Cragars for a set of 15x10 slotted mags.
I bought a fresh 327 block crank and double hump heads at a yard sale for $200.
(yeah I know, deal of a lifetime etc.)
I traded the block and crank to a friend who runs a transmission shop and he went throught the TH350 for me. (BTW I just traded the heads and some stuff I got for free to the same guy for going through a BOP TH350 for my chopped and channeled '29 coupe with a 400 Pontiac in it.)
I got a set of round back spindles from an discarded axle my cousin had. I got a 3.00:1 8" rear axle for $50. I even scored a working 3x2 setup for $250. I got a '35 hulk out of a hedgerow for free and traded the rearend and radius rods with a guy building a "traditional" rod for a set of Sanderson headers with a little blue on them.
I could go on for a while but to make a long story short I really worked at finding deals and keeping a list of what I needed and what other people wanted that I could trade them. If I knew then what I know now I could probably have built it for even less.
P.S. Just so you know this wasn't a fluke, I'll probably have the coupe on the road this summer for about $8500 total.
If you are interested in more on the project, here is my site:http://home.nycap.rr.com/stovertown

D*** Bob, I thought with the beard no one would recognize me. Those Corporate types have no sense of humor.



Hey Smokey, welcome to the forum. See, you did it the way I originally intended, and you proved it can be done if you just have patience and use your trading and buying skills. I am still going to do it with the '29 cowl and doors I have laying around, just to prove the point. If I hadn't started digging this little T and decided to dump some money into making it a few notches better, I could have done it too, I bet.

The next project will be called " The REAL project $ 3 K." (this one was just practice )


Don


I just looked at your '27 site.........great car and pictures. I have a soft spot for '27's. Mine is on A rails and looks a lot like yours. I also am using a Montego rear axle, but mine is a '68 9 incher. Love the tripower setup on yours.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

YBesides, I gave up wearing pantyhose after that one little "incident."

Ya know, I don't mind a little b.s., but I can't let that slide. Most of you read Don's story about why he left the boat yard................something about new owners or some such story. Yeah right!

I've got spies. If you note the timing of the "lay off" it fits just about right. Apparently the Valentines Day office party got a little out of hand when Don showed up in costume!