I have been getting a lot done on my truck. Thought I would share a shot of it.
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I have been getting a lot done on my truck. Thought I would share a shot of it.
I see you have the test drive seat in place:LOL: :LOL:
Real nice work
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Originally Posted by cffisher
If I could just find someone to push me up the street!:3dSMILE:
:LOL: :LOL: :LOL: Nice progress and nice ride!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ken Thurm
These make such great hot rods, and yours is really something special. Just has a very balanced look to it.
Don
Thanks Don, I always follow you and your sons progress on your cars. You do real nice clean work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Itoldyouso
Ken
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Originally Posted by shawnlee28
Thanks, I am geting close
whoa, thats nice!
you gotta post some more pictures of that thing!!
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Originally Posted by zombie
Yes, please.
Don
I try to use swinging pedals when ever I can, it's just a cleaner set up for me. This is how i did the truck. I want to say something about my projects, when i say I there is a lot of help from friends employees and anybody else I can get to help me. I hate using the word "I" because it is never one person.I don't want to mislead anyone thinking "I" did all of this.
Anyway there is a 3/4" tube bent to conform to the cowl up against the firewall welded in place then a plate welded to that. This gives the base for mounting the pedal bracket. then there is cold rolled flat bar formed to match the dash with up rights to tie this whole thing together.Then by cutting the tunnel potion off of the stock gauger panel and mounting the gauger panel to the flat bar I can remove the dash and service the master cylinders and gages.
The rear frame is kicked up 9" and a smaller version of a model A cross member fabricated to use a buggy spring, but I am cheating here because the buggy spring really won't support much of the truck there is air bags that will really give the ride.
I try to use swinging pedals when ever I can, it's just a cleaner set up for me. This is how i did the truck. I want to say something about my projects, when i say I there is a lot of help from friends employees and anybody else I can get to help me. I hate using the word "I" because it is never one person.I don't want to mislead anyone thinking "I" did all of this.
Anyway there is a 3/4" tube bent to conform to the cowl up against the firewall welded in place then a plate welded to that. This gives the base for mounting the pedal bracket. then there is cold rolled flat bar formed to match the dash with up rights to tie this whole thing together.Then by cutting the tunnel potion off of the stock gauger panel and mounting the gauger panel to the flat bar I can remove the dash and service the master cylinders and gages.
The rear frame is kicked up 9" and a smaller version of a model A cross member fabricated to use a buggy spring, but I am cheating here because the buggy spring really won't support much of the truck there is air bags that will really give the ride.
I don't know what is happening here but this isn't working. I am trying this again.
Here are a couple more. with the dash in and the doors chopped and aligned and the motor . Fuel system is done I am using the early Olds spark plug dividers.
Had enough of this thing yet?
I particularly like the fuel hardline mounting from the log to the carbs.
Thanks you guys, I get my rear end back Tuesday, then I can put it on the ground. I will put a photo of it.
Finally it's on the ground!:D :D
Looks realy good. Have you had it out yet??
looks great
I have a ways to go, yesterday I mounted the shocks and the headlights. Today a friend of mine runs a body shop, he is behind a desk all day, so he misses doing the work. he worked on fitting the doors and squaring the body. Now I can make the floor. It will be all steel welded in with a removable tunnel.
Absolutely could not be nicer. I envy you.
Don
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Originally Posted by Itoldyouso
Thank you Don, could not ask for a better compliment.
I'd sell it..........to me!!!
Looks great.
REGS
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Originally Posted by REGs
If you were here last night about 11:30 you could of bought her cheap!:whacked: :whacked:
Ya.........but you'd be pissed later on when you saw me driving it!!
I'm diggn' the look & all the parts that have gone into so far. Keep posten.
Regs
Ken---Damn, thats a fine looking truck. How is it for room in the cab. A friend of mine has a stock 31 pickup, and there isn't really room for a human being in it.---brian
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Originally Posted by brianrupnow
Brian,
I have 44" from the top of the frame to the bottom of the roof. I'm 6' even and that was a real concern of mine. I didn't want to be cramped. When I laid out the truck on a napkin with my crayolas (I can't draw like you) the only way I would be comfortable is to have a 7" seat height and the pedals close to the firewall. So I put in swinging pedals and cut the frame in half picking up 3" of head room. It seems to give me good clearance.
Ken
Yes you are right, but sometimes when it seems everything is fighting you, ya know! So I just turn out the lights and go home.Quote:
Originally Posted by REGs
Ken
Ken,
Is that a bought frame or did you get some ideas from a morrison frame??
I dig the exhaust hoops you incorporated just in front of the kick up. Looken' good.
I've had a 46 & a 34 P/u in the past. Right now my daily driver is a ford unibody & my 66 Chev II C-dan is next to be finished (floors/tubs/motor - trans line up, plumbing & wiring).
After that it's back to a 5 window A-bone cpe.
Keep up the good work.
regs
Actually, Ken, I was talking about the longtitudinal distance from the center of the dashrail to the inside back of the cab. I built my roadster pickup to be 39 1/2" long, which is about 6" more than a stock model A 1931 pickup. I know when I set in my friends 31 stocker, that its definately the old "knees under chin" syndrome, and I'm only 5'7" (but I have a big gut)..
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Originally Posted by brianrupnow
An extra 6" in one of these things is golden.I wish I had (never mind) Mine measure 35". I guess thats the difference between a model A and a 32. So yours would of been 33 1/2" before lengthening it. I would of thought 32's where bigger than that. Anyway with how I did my pedals I don't seem cramped, yet, It's easy to say that without interior and steering wheel, that all eats up the space real quick. I hope it doesn't shrink to much.
Ken
i had a 34 ford pickup i was building when i was 11 years old it was chop and drop on the frame it did get very small on the in side finding a seat that were thin that fit good to the back of the cab was hard i used opel gt seats but should of made a bench. looking at yours just makes me wish i had it still .i could now easly made all the parts i needed for it .tried getting it back but it is junk now .
Pat,
To bad you can't get yours back in the condition you sold it at. I am using a Glide Engineering seat frame. I want a bench seat when I am done that's why I went to all the trouble to cut my frame and lower my floor boards. I will cut the center out of their frame and get it as low as I can for comfort and still retain the bench seat appearance. Although there won't be much padding in the middle. My wife stopped sitting next to me years ago so It won't matter.:3dSMILE: :3dSMILE:
Ken---Mine was a two door sedan when I started. I sliced, diced, chopped, and shortened it untill the cab fit me. I didn't even have a pickup or roadster pickup for reference when I was building mine.---I found out their measurements after mine was finished.
your.s sure looks geat. mine they drop from a loft all of 12 +feet on cement floor this was the guy i soild it to:mad: mine started as it was going to be a salt flat truck in the early 50.s and had the holes in the visor chop and drop . all the body was work in lead and a ardun flat head. it had some history. my dad got out of the army and pick it up 58/59 he put a hemi in it and i think traded a hemi for it :D
Wow, it sure looks proportionate, you did a heck of a job.
The good thing about these web sites is you get to meet a lot of nice people, the bad thing is most of them are to far away to visit. I would love to stop buy and look at all these cars.
Ken
i am glad you do not live close .you would have to wipe off all the droooole off your truck from me:3dSMILE:
Ken---Here's a picture of mine in the very early stages. I had it done this far before I bought a digital camera---Brian
I decided to make my truck a dump truck. Tomorrow I will install the gas shocks and bear claw latches and solenoids so it will open automatically. The gas tank will be under the bed so my bed will be empty.
yes i would do that to . why not show off that fine rear end:3dSMILE:
Been working on the truck. Floor and tunnel are almost done got the dash and gages in.