Thread: My 1930 model a project

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Originally Posted by dubya31

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
Its bben along time when I moved the fender wells up 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
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 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 I all lines up now Still got alot of work to do before paint

Great lookin' ride!!!!!

What many people seem to have forgotten in their search for a "traditional" Hot Rod is that "traditional Hot Rodders" built what they liked in the way they liked doing it with whatever funds they could spare----usually someplace between $50.00 and a gaziliion bucks!!!!!!! yeah, there were hi-dollar cars back then, too!!!!

Hmmmm. Kind of seems to be the same today!!!!! If the guys on the Hamb or anywhere else get on your butt for the big meats tell them you had to go with big tires cuz all the guys in the copy-cat-crowd had bought up all the skinny's!!!!! Oh yeah, and you could also mention that you have a REAL engine and not some little wussy thing with a poser cam!!!!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Great lookin' ride!!!!!

What many people seem to have forgotten in their search for a "traditional" Hot Rod is that "traditional Hot Rodders" built what they liked in the way they liked doing it with whatever funds they could spare----usually someplace between $50.00 and a gaziliion bucks!!!!!!! yeah, there were hi-dollar cars back then, too!!!!

Hmmmm. Kind of seems to be the same today!!!!! If the guys on the Hamb or anywhere else get on your butt for the big meats tell them you had to go with big tires cuz all the guys in the copy-cat-crowd had bought up all the skinny's!!!!! Oh yeah, and you could also mention that you have a REAL engine and not some little wussy thing with a poser cam!!!!!

Yea I have seen alot of them look like they woul haul as# but only running 13 in the quarter blown That is one thing I was thinkin when pickin out all my mods on the engine. Didnt want it to look like it would run then civic beats me
I grew up luvin watchin the pro street movement, Rod Salsbury, Rick Dobertion, Pro street look just stuck with me. Bringing back the pro street look ,one car ata time

[QUOTE=PRO53;365610]Yea I have seen alot of them look like they woul haul as# but only running 13 in the quarter blown That is one thing I was thinkin when pickin out all my mods on the engine. Didnt want it to look like it would run then civic beats me
I grew up luvin watchin the pro street movement, Rod Salsbury, Rick Dobertion, Pro street look just stuck with me. Bringing back the pro street look ,one car ata time [/QUOTE


Yeah, Pro Street will always be kewl. Big and littles have been around since Lassie was a pup!!!!! I just really hate it when the "experts" have to catagorize everything and establish a bunch of stupid criteria about what constitutes a Hot Rod.....

Oh well, I guess it's far easier to just be a copy cat and make your parts and customizing choices by comittee rather then exercising a bit of ingenuity and building a car to your own liking....

Congrats on taking the initiative to design and build your own rather then getting in step with the "experts"!!!!!!

Dave, Could not agree with you more..... Man that could be dangerous to a fellers mental state.

The Hamb is a cool place, I lurk around over there some. Great fabrication going on there and cool ideas to be found. Same is true with the triple R and Killbillet. I remember some of why the "Rat" rod or traditional rodding thing got started. Its not hard to understand that some folks in Hot Rodding were getting a little tired of being PUT DOWN and even refused entry to some of the shows a few years ago. The so called Billet or Coddington Boydster type cars were in favor and "SOME" of those cats thought it was there way or the high way. Most of those cars were Bought cars and a lot of the folks building driving around Hot Rods that they had built themselves in time were at opposite ends of the rodding spectrum with the guys with enough money to buy anything they wanted. In time that evolved to were the High Dollar crowd didn't want those "Ratty" cars parked next to there's at the show and shine. Well this quickly turned into a Oil and Water type of mix, and some of those "Ratty" types split completly and went there own way.

That actually is a cool thing or at least it was in the begining. Those Traditional or Rat Rod guys, thought they had been put open just once too often, so they started laying down this set of rules for "There Interpretation" of what a REAL hot rod was. In a lot of ways they became what the hated the most. They became the most "EXclusionary" segment Hot Rodding has ever seen.

If you don't build it "There" way, and use only parts "They" determine correct your just not welcome. Just look at the rules for the KillBillet shows.....

I personally like Hot Rods ---- ALL Hot Rods, and I'll be damned if I am ever going to be told what to think is cool or not. I actually already know what I like and don't like.

And as to "TRADITIONAL" I would guess that means what who ever is talking at the time means as "TRADITIONAL" I never could find that Old set of Traditional rules, and I looked..

RS

I've just never seen where anyone gets off telling someone how there car has to be built.....Where I grew up, the guy writing the checks makes the decision and an intelligent decision maker considers all options available to him and settles on what is best for him.....

As for building a car, I'm as non-traditional as anyone!!!! I've never followed the fads, always gone against the "if you ain't got this you ain't **** crowd.

I'm just always pleased to see someone building what they want in a style that is all their own and to heck with what the "experts" deem as correct......

As for you agreeing with me.....I'm sure stranger things have happened, just that nothing stranger comes to mind at the moment!!!!!!

Boy,you guys would have fun down here!!!We have a 'this is how it should be built and if ya dont you are not really welcome'' brigade.There have been some quite spirited ''discussions'' on that subject amongst our rodding''elite''and if it aint a 32 or 34 ya not welcome either!!!
I believe in correctness to a degree with early iron,but it is up to the individual to build his/her car the way they want it,and not up to some one to tell them otherwise..
PRO53,your sedan is a radical rod,very kool,and its bound to upset some,tuff.
Anyway,someone define TRADITIONAL for me,traditional 50s,? traditional 60s? traditional 70s?.......where does it stop??



Finished ramble..

Hey thanks for the encouragement yall, was gonna change some stuff up again, but now going to leave it. Rolled the roof on an english wheel the other night. It didnt look very good So a different approach today, He some older picks of the car and changes. It used to have a roof, but I used to heavy of a gauge and I didnt like it ,was to flat

Not a bad price at all, beautiful work and is going to look very cool on the car, sweet.

The car is really lookin' good, 53, and some really excellent chrome work!!!! Never seem time to get much done on my own stuff anymore so it's great to see someone actually getting something done!!!!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

The car is really lookin' good, 53, and some really excellent chrome work!!!! Never seem time to get much done on my own stuff anymore so it's great to see someone actually getting something done!!!!!

Thats why I stoped workin on others. I started on this model a 15 yrs ago Worked on alot of others, time for mine
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 I hate blockin
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?

Can I ask who did the headers and how much? Love the look! Going to be awesome when completed!

Originally Posted by 34_40

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.

Originally Posted by PRO53

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.

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.