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

[TurboTwo]

thumbs up for another early 30's original Chevy owner! we're rare

[buckroseau]

Figure I better post up some pics of some progress. Took some photos of the last month and I'll do my best to rememeber how it went and what I did. Probably be a lot like the begining of my thread, couple months behind

And, thanks to Brent for getting such a great site back up and running

Pics below I think are of some bear jaw door latches I welded in. I ordered the latches and the plates that fit the latches..makes it much easier just to weld in the plates.

[buckroseau]

Few more pics of the door action. I cut apart the pin assembly itself and welded the cage and nut to the back of my B pillar. Jigged up a temporary door assembly to link it together.....just so I could close the doors

[buckroseau]

I should have taken some more pics of this, but I didn't.....sorry. Got the radiator fabbed in. I bought a new 1976 Ford F-100 6 cyl. radiator for $120 bucks. I had to cut the front flanges off, and then fab up some new rear mounts and weld those in. I used some expanded steel for the grill. I used a couple pieces of angle iron on the grill, welded them to the expanded sheet metal and tapped them into the tin on the radiator. I had a new tranny cooler on the shelf and made a couple brackets out of some flat stock that spanned the rear of the radiator.

Also made a couple brackets that bolt into the lower support through the factory holes on the orginal grill shell. Then welded 3/16" flat stock to that and tapped those into the bottom of the frame to support the radiator and shell.

[buckroseau]

Mounted the visor in. It used to screw up into a piece of wood, but obviously that wasn't there anymore. I used a piece of 1/8" flat stock, welded it on the inside and drilled / tapped some 10/32 pan heads to hold it up.

Also tack welded a couple brackets in and got the dash mounted. There was an aluminum piece that ran in between the A pillars. That also used to thread into a piece of wood. I had to weld in another piece of 2" flat stock and drill /tap that into the flat stock..worked very well.

[brickman]

Your car is looking great Matt, I see alot of welding the mockup now, but everything is looking really cool.

[buckroseau]

Got a few hours in the on the chubby tonight. Nothing really special. The tin that used to cover the wood on the A pillar was missing on most of the pillar. Some was on the bottom so I continued off of that. Not totally necessary, but I wanted to keep it clean and cover up the 3/16" piece of flat stock that was welded in where the wood was. I used some 20 ga. I had and used my shear and brake to bend it up.

Anyway...few pics.

Matt

[CHEVYBOY]

WOW....Great build, your car is looking great, and thanks for giving me some good ideas...Keep up the good work

[buckroseau]

Not a lot to show, but got a couple half days of work on the chubby this weekend.

Didn't really take any pics because the majority of the work was tearing it apart. Almost all of Sunday's work was spent welding everything solid, since almost everything was tacked together.

Took couple pics of the frame outside on sawhorses later in the day.

Matt

[Itoldyouso]

Geez, I really feel for you guys in snow country, those pictures give me the shakes. We were just talking about that tonight, we had two halogen worklights turned on us to warm up our shop because it dropped down to 60 degrees in there. We commented how we see pictures with project cars covered with snow and wonder how you guys put up with it. Oh, that's right, the ice fishing is really good.

On the other hand, your frame looks terrific. Starting to shape up really well.

Don

[buckroseau]

Geez, I really feel for you guys in snow country, those pictures give me the shakes. We were just talking about that tonight, we had two halogen worklights turned on us to warm up our shop because it dropped down to 60 degrees in there. We commented how we see pictures with project cars covered with snow and wonder how you guys put up with it. Oh, that's right, the ice fishing is really good.

On the other hand, your frame looks terrific. Starting to shape up really well.

Don

60........how can you stand that kinda heat? Oh..must be dry heat


Did a little more welding on the frame, rear axle and front axle tonight. Little more tweaking to do here and there, but hoping to sandblast a ton of stuff in a week or so. Then get some of this stuff into paint.

Thanks, Matt

[Lowenbrau]

Nice work as always Matt. I was seriously beginning to worry about you when I didn't see any new projects starting. I was also thinking about getting the cable hooked up again since its a long winter up here without something to watch. I feel much better now to have found you over here.

[apeterson]

Hey Matt!!!

Steve told me about your car... so I had to check it out for myself!!!! I am impressed as usual!!! hope all is well...

[29bowtie]

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[brickman]

We have been 30 to 40 below our normal all winter so far, makes my garage hard to heat!! Once you get used to working on your ride with 7 layers of clothes, it's cool, lots of pockets!! The frame is coming along great, is it pretty much all fabed up or do you have more to do on it?
What color is the frame going to be and how close are you to laying down some paint. Maybe I should ask if you are going to paint it?