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Yea I like fenders too, I have a 4r model a in the pile I plan on doing full fendered, in a gasser stance. Need something to haul the family around in :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bluestang67
Yea the metal work in your abone is lookin real good.:3dSMILE:
Thats why I stoped workin on others. I started on this model a 15 yrs ago :eek: Worked on alot of others, time for mine :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dave Severson
I still have one of my friends model a roadsters in my garage I need to finish
Damn started doing some blocking on one side with 80 grit, still have some fillin to do and some body line work :rolleyes: I hate blockin :3dSMILE:
Going to be painting it white and a .004 blue metal flake flames. Just dont know which to paint first? The frame and bottom side and flames are the flake blue, then the body white. The base for the flake will be black base. Any ponters or say so's?
Is this one of those slave laborers? If so where did you get him? I need one for my Ford Truck body!:3dSMILE::LOL::3dSMILE:Quote:
Originally Posted by PRO53
Yea he works for chesseburgers and rootbeer :LOL::3dSMILE:Quote:
Originally Posted by stovens
Trying to show them the ropes :D
Can I ask who did the headers and how much? Love the look! Going to be awesome when completed!
Headers and sidepipes with supertraps was 550.00. Jet hot coating. Wolfscoatings out of lamarque TX. They look shinney I just wasnt as pleased with the outcome, wasnt smooth enough on the spraying. Alot of it is smooth some of it isnt.Quote:
Originally Posted by 34_40
Well, in that first pic they look nice! Sorry to hear of the "issues". I want to have my block hugger headers done, I guess I'll contact Jet Hot to find someone in my area possibly. Thanks for the info.Quote:
Originally Posted by PRO53
The price wasnt bad, never called anybody else. Do you want the #? Its not that bad just felt since there exposed on the car I wanted better. Unless better would have been another 500 then they are great :LOL:Quote:
Originally Posted by 34_40
Still workin at it got the car blocked in 80 grit, Added some more SlickSand , workin on the Jambs still, about to start on the 180 Block, Man blocking SUCKS:D
I did find a vendor in CT. Thanks for the help! With your attention to details, your car will be a show piece for sure!Quote:
Originally Posted by PRO53
:No show piece but a nice driver. Thanks though:DQuote:
Originally Posted by 34_40
Any updates Pro , looks like maybe you should be near color .
I which, I hate bodywork :LOL: I stopped to finish up a model a roadster for a buddy that has been sitting in my garage for a year, to a stopping point again on his car, so I get to start working on mine again now:D Got the passenger door and the inside of the door smooth, so now I am working on the divers door jamb.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluestang67
I keep finding things to smooth more, once you put color on a car everybody will nick pick it, that whats nice about primer rides. But I want color on this car so I am nick picking it before somebody else does :3dSMILE:
Yeah i have heard of the nick picking , but hey there are various levels of build . Some show and some drivers that really look great . Just keep up the good work
Well between work and family life I finally got back to blocking with the second round 180. Feels real good too :D hopefully should get it primed thursday and then when I get back from Disney in florida, in a week will start on round too of some 220 or alittle finner. That Slicksand primer works awesome.Got my younger son to start D.A. the bottom of the car, he cant touch the outside :D I keep finding stuff to change :rolleyes: Before anybody coments on my brake pedal. I have a new one bent in 1 piece to install, that one looks like cra# :LOL:
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Here are my seats I am useing, so its my color combo I am going with.Some sort of white? Or? I am going to shoot a blue metalflake, round an .008 on the cage, the inset in the dash and I plan on running a soild color blue flake flame, outlined in another blue with some old school striping throught the car my guestion is would a cream white look good or a bright white, flake silver? Interior will be in white with a blue metalflake trim accents. Any color combos with the bluemetal flake would be hepfull. :D Had to use small seats not much room :p
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i like it !!!!!!!!!!
john
Very cool and classic look!:cool:
Has anybody seen any model a's with a paint scheme like this? Was thinking maybe something like this too? Painted with panels?
Just found your thread, and I like the look of your ride. I'm building a 31 sedan chopped 4 1/2" and channeled 4". I'm using a 65 409 with six 94s on a 200r4 tranny and 9" rear. I want to raise my rear wheel wells to fit the rear tires and also want to flush fit my doors. I would appreciate any picture of your method for the doors and the rear wells, and any advise you can add. I'm still working on the floor framing and reskinning my doors right now, but the flush fit is the next step.[ATTACH]
Sounds like a nice build, lookin forward to seeing some more picks :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dubya31
Its bben along time when I moved the fender wells up :rolleyes: I think I did 2". I marked it about 1" above the body line, cut rolled on offsett bead( with eastwood tool, tacked the welded. As far as the doors go, never again :LOL:
Lots of work, suicide, flushed, radiused, bear claws(small). Cut the hinges off because they were to rusted, welded up openings, cut the back and top of door openings, about 1\8 gap all around, mounted hinges. Pulled off doors. I bent some the offsett lip up on a brake for the door to sit in, but, to many curves didnt work. I used flat sheet, and 1/2 sq. tubeing to make the step for the door sit in. The front of the door was already done, just top and back to do. Too much work :LOL: Not perfect bad as a hobby builder I dont think its badd. Look at my picks in the other pages. The only reason I flushed I could not get any body lines to match up.I had a ruff beat up body:D I all lines up now :LOL: Still got alot of work to do before paint
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Wow! Nice work on those doors. It is the little things like that which really make a great rod. Looking forward to more updates.
I know what you mean about body lines. My body was a real turd. :CRY: No rust, but I think it was used to plow fields. I had to cut the doors diagonally and reshape to get the A pillar and the belt lines to line up. I think I'll tack the doors were I want them and then cut the rear pillar and top to get the right gap to recess them. I was planning to make the recess fron 20 gauge on the brake, but I would like to see what you did with the flat and 1/2" square. It's not going to be easy, but I want the flush fit.
I never knew Henerys bodys were so far out of wack :D The 1/2 tubeing made it easier to curve to match the body. That is also what I used for the rain gutter. Heated, welded to body, grabed the plasma cutter and cut the top of it out. Then lots of grinding:D to make jambs, frame the opening with flat steel, then useing the tubeing to make the step, the flat steel again over the top, lots of tackeing but works :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dubya31
I was wondering where you got your rad shell?
Ebay a couple of years ago, I chopped it I think 3" or 3/1/2. I will makeing my own grill out of 250 sst rod. I didnt want the standard chopped 4 1/2 sppedway sell's to much chop for mine. I just reglassed it and doing body work on it. I am tired of body work :LOL: :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by dubya31
Havn't seen this thread before, looking very nice, love them seats.
Yea! I like the look of the longer shell, it suits the Pro Street look. Ive managed to get my body back on the frame. I reversed the firewall and the clearance is good. It was probably more work than building a new one, but i like the look. The body is chanelled 4 1/2" and all the floor framing and body mounts are complete. The floor and wheel tubs are next. I'll try and post some pictures soon.
Well pretty excited, all my paint is comming in tommorow, pinstriping paint is ordered, striper lined out :D Should start start the spraying this weekend :whacked: Going to start with the cage first, then the inside, tape it all off, then bottom, tape it off then the outside. Been along tome comming 15yrs:rolleyes:
Well got the cage painted and flaked:D Now just to start painting eveything else this weekend.
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I like that color, nice werk!!
Well between trying to keep my shop warm was in the high 50's :whacked: when I was shooting, added some acclerator, wasnt real please have to come back and color sand the dash. It still has to be stripped anyway. Try to go for one more coat of clear to smotth it out, what happens then a run driverside:mad: Of course thats whats 1000 grits for :LOL: Trying the best I can for a back yard kind of dude:3dSMILE:
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hell 50 is a heat wave here in mich :) i shot paint were i chip the ice off the top of the can to get it out to load in the gun:LOL:
What ya use an undercoat gun to spray it :LOL:
I was mad I got a run, I once heard that it wasnt a run, its a flow check in the clear :LOL:
Bottom done, now to start on the outside :D I am so STOKED It has been around 15yrs in the makeing because I keep working on everybody elses stuff and other projects. It feels real good to be this far. I cant wait till I fire the blower motor off :)
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Looks really clean and nice underneath! Always great to get the bottom done and start putting things together!
Nice, meticulous work. I am impressed!
Got it shot Sat. Started at 11:00am didnt, finish till midnight. Now I need to color sand the clear , pinstriper will stripe, then relear it and the cut and buff. Not a pro, just a novice guy messin around in his garage :D
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holy moley that looks great. good job. man, them flames are cool.