1930 Chevy sedan build thread...trying for 3K.

[buckroseau]

First pic is a pic of a 1940 Ford front axle of a truck my neighbor gave me.

Next 2 pics are of a rear axle out of a 73 Ford truck a guy at work gave me.

Matt

[buckroseau]

I had some pics of it getting stripped down but, can't find them

The first pic is of the main pieces layed out in the driveway. The next 3 are after a buddy of mine came over and helped me hold everything in place will I welded it back together. Since this Chevy stuff was all held together with wood...and that all rotted out, I had to figure out a way to fab up some inner structure. So, I welded the roof onto the body, where before it was nailed together with wood. Welded the A pillars to the cowl and roof and temporarily welded the doors in with the correct reveals. Once the inner structure is built I'm going to cut them loose and get them hinged and closing.

Matt

[buckroseau]

Asked around at work if anyone knew of any old minivans laying around. Guy at work said his dad had an old Dodge van out in the pasture.

So, with that info in hand and the gas chop saw in the other

Someone back in the 30's or 40's had melted some lead and piece of tin into the stock opening on the roof. I used the shear and had to cut a little wider than the stock opening to match the radius of the roof. But, once matched....it was meant to be there. It's actually backwards on the chevy from the van, but there is more radius to the rear of the chevy.

Matt

[buckroseau]

Few more pics of the van roof welded in and A pillars an body/roof welded in.

Matt

[buckroseau]

I sheared a piece of 20 ga. steel at 3.5" and screwed it to the back from the rear window to the side window. Then taped off 3.5" on the A and B pillars. Fired up the sawzall and cut out 3.5" and droped the roof back down and welded it back on.

Actually went very well. I had to cut a relief on the A pillars to sway those forward to get everything to line up, but over all it was fairly straight forward.

On another note...I would say this about mid to the end of October now in these pics.

Matt

[buckroseau]

Few more pics after the chop.

[buckroseau]

While working on the body I managed to sorta accidently stumble across an older gentleman who I knew is into cars. During an afternoon at work I asked him if he could keep an I out for any older ford wire spoked rims. He looked at me kinda funny and said I got a stack of them at home 5 ft high.

Well, an hour later I was at his place picking up 4 wire spoked rims. Now, the price was the good guy price...with the V8 caps, but I did not take any before pics. They were bent up pretty bad along the edges, someone had taken a pry bar to them years ago to remove a tire. I couldn't bitch, because the price was right. After about 3 hours with the torch and hammer/dolly I had them looking pretty nice. The next day I brought them into the local tire shop and they spun the rims on the balancer to see if they were straight and would balance....sure enough, they were fine. I really wish I would have taken some before pics...they were bad!!! But, the pics are after sandblasting and after I shot a couple coats of epoxy primer and paint on them in the booth. The radius rod's on the pallet are off a 37 mercury I think, friend rounded those up for me also.

Last 2 pics are with the rubber mounted. I bought a couple motorcyle tires off ebay for $25 bucks a piece.

Matt