First time I'm looking in your build thread, dreddy. This thing is awesome! Now I'm looking forward to seeing more. Congratulations and good luck.
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First time I'm looking in your build thread, dreddy. This thing is awesome! Now I'm looking forward to seeing more. Congratulations and good luck.
Out#@$%Standing! Looks fantastic. Wow you've been really busy! Keep up the posts. Really like the dash mods!
Thanks guys. Body is cinched down and gauges are in the firewall.
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So I crammed for several weeks to get ready to drive my coupe to the Roundup. It was amazing.
Got the manifolds on and the car running:
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My good buddies Bob, Mark and Jeff came over to help motivate me. At this point I was up for like 2 days straight..
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I have this bottle of water that was blessed by OZZY. I use a little in every car I make. It never lets me down.
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Slowly getting close to driving:
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Took it out and around the block. Damn it feels good!
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Shift knob
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Drove to work:
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Temporary interior
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And for it's first official drive why not go 50 miles to eat some BBQ with one of my best friends? It'll cruise at 75 laser straight with almost the entire gas pedal in reserve. Way faster than I'm willing to try, and that's saying something, cause I'm nuts.
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On our way back to Austin
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Did a little cruising and met up with some pals at the Continental club
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Next morning Getting ready to cruise to the show:
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Where I promptly swapped plates with cooler ones.
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My friend Matt took this pic
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Won the Mad Fabricators pick! It was an incredible honor that my buddy Piero thought enough of the car to pick it as his favorite. What a great weekend!
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Next Step: Shake it down for a few weeks then yank the body for some Paint and interior!
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Fantastic metal work! I had a '29 roadster body with similar rust but just did not know such restoritive metal work was possible so I sold it and bought a 'glass body. I still had a challenge with the 'glass body but I have to say your work is amazing; expecially the later dash and the window sills.
Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder
Way to go Dreddybear! Congrats on the award too! Looks fantastic, glad your enjoying it! Great work with cool details. Thanks again for the great pics of all your hard work. It's good to have friends who help motivate us!
That's a great update! You've got some fantastic pictures there, and the car's coming together as a great period example. Stance is right, and it's got to be a ball to drive. Really like that picture from the driver's seat over the six bellmouth carb scoops!
Awesome work! Great pics!!!
Wow, you have awesome skills man! I love how your car has turned out. That dash is awesome! Great work and congrats on the award! That's awesome!
Little Video I took. Taking the body off next week..
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Nice job Dreddybear!
Building momentum to remove that body...............
The little coupe is looking very nice, and I LOVE the split log four carb manifold! Might be a b!tch to tune, but the look is very cool (or kewl, as Mr Severson likes to say...)
Very nice! It looks and sounds awesome! Do you guys have any model a sheet metal parts laying around down there?
Sorted some things.
Ariels. Yes!
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Exhaust through the rear with bezels.
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Visor added plus some other things..
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Collection is growing..
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What's in here? My buddy..
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Score!
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Even perfect metalfinished cars get bondo. This one is NOT perfect!
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Slave workers doing their thing.
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I guess they might know what they're doing if what they drive is any indicator..
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Looking good, love the early tach
Nice additional touches there dreadybear. Love the dog too! :) Always nice to have a buddy when working on the truck or car, Nice vintage gauge collection too!
Very nice work! I love your little coupe. Nice metal work touches too. What color are you going with?
crikey- just read thru this thread from the beginning- very impressive
thank you for taking the time to post the pics and commentary-looks like a fun little coupe.
Shiny Black.Quote:
Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe
That's going to be awesome!
Love shiny black,you are looking awsome. We're all just a little def in what we do,part of the fun and always enjoy seeing nice work like you are doing,even if my own designs never have rear tires as high or higher then the reardeck,I can still like your rod a lot.NICE
Got a few things done
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Turned out great! Really has a good look.
Mick
It sure looks awesome in black! Great work!
All that work paid off! Great build !
Rich
Definately turned out niceeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Great job, posts some videos!
Car looks awesome!! Also like the silver one! A buddy mine has a faded red Chevy pickup just like that one, too! :3dSMILE:
Great looking car. I love everything about it! BTW, how do you have that registered in order to run an antique plate in TX?
Great job, well worth the wait.
Jack.
Little update. Got some glass in it. Drive the p out of it. Found some wheelcovers I like. Etc..
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What a FANTASTIC COUPE! The paint and the peaked trunk lid look really good, and the car is a "Cad" at heart! The part I like best is the open roof. Any plans for a green plexiglass insert or a canvas cover? I recall there was a model of VW sedan that had a sliding canvas roof (my Dad had one!). Maybe the repo/repair kit for the VW could be adapted to the A coupe. A sliding white canvas roof would show good against the dark paint, but since you have no snow you can enjoy summer year round! Maybe the easiest thing to do would just have a top shop make a white top with snaps around the edge. Take a look at some dune buggy tops where the front edge folds backward into a slot in the front edge and then just has snaps around the sides. Back on page 4 you mention plans for that so I hope to see the details. By the way what is your rear gear ratio? My roadster is as far back into my garage as I can get it while waiting for the snow to go away!
Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder
Great job you did there, looks sooper !!!
Dreddybear, the coupe looks great! Nicely done. Are those "Lyons" wheel covers? they look perfect on your coupe.
Mick
Fantastic! Like the wheel cover choice!
Thank man. The top is almost done, it's going to be 3" pleats, white vinyl...Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Shillady
Yes, Lyons 16" caps. Been looking for a while. They still need a pretty good polish but I like em :)Quote:
Originally Posted by lurker mick