1940 Ford Tudor Build Thread

[firebird77clone]

Cars become quite interesting to a young man, just about the time girls do. Or at least: when they realize that girls like guys with cool cars.

My guess is that grandpa won't be outer of the picture yet.

[40FordDeluxe]

I wasn't able to get a lot accomplished this weekend. I finally sold off the 2001 Excursion I had setting in the drive way. But, the guy whom purchased it wanted me to deliver it, or he couldn't buy it. He offered to give me $115 to haul it the 75 miles to Garden Grove. I didn't really want to, but I really wanted it gone. He was the only one who actually showed up with cash to buy it. So I agreed.

A few weeks ago my middle brother borrowed my trailer to take his 3 bay Matco tool box to his job in Oskaloosa. He told me then that the trailer was blowing fuses on our Mom's truck. Of course he didn't look into it as to why it was blowing them. Haha Yeah. Apparently when my youngest brother borrowed the trailer, the LH brake/turn light was out. So instead of going and getting a new lamp, he presidential solutioned a marker lamp in there. Not only was the lamp the incorrect shape, he just twisted the wires, and zip tied them together. No tape, no protection. I wonder why it was shorting inside the pocket? Not only was that jacked, due to the continuous shorting, the trailer plug got hot and ruined it too. So I replaced the connector, and installed some expensive truck lite LED's to replace the old lamps. I've been wanting LED's back there for a while. But I would have rather not spent the money on the trailer now. I sucked it up and did it seeing how I do use it and it needs to be safe. I told my wife I'm about ready to sell this goose neck trailer and get a pintle hitch trailer since no one I know has a hitch for one. That may keep them from borrowing it. Nah, they'll just want to steal my hitch too.

With that done, I loaded the wife and kids and we began the trek. Everything went well and on the way back we were able to stop at a great restaurant in Osceola Iowa. It was really good. I told the family when the 40 is done, we'll have to drive down for their town car show and eat at the restaurant again.

Saturday was a no progress day for the 40. Sunday we went grocery shopping and I took the family out for breakfast. I was able to get the front suspension cross member put together and welded up. I also had the help from the boys to remove the front sheet metal off the car. I started making my marks for the cross member and the upper hats. Hopefully this week I can get the front cross member installed. That will be a huge step forward for this car.

Oh yeah, we did get more white stuff, and I managed to get the stacks set in the blue Ford. The laundry list is getting smaller. Hopefully the owner will be showing up with lots of C notes soon.

[Mike P]

Hey my thumb has looked like that a time or two!!



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[40FordDeluxe]

Hey my thumb has looked like that a time or two!!



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I'm sure it has! That one was courtesy of that stupid *** blue ford. I'll be glad to be rid of that pile of pain in the a**!

[34_40]

That sounds like my trailer. everyone else uses it more than me. Since we moved I forgot to renew the registration... so it's been pulled all over creation and it isn't registered! OOPS!
Last guy who used it complained the lights weren't working, so I asked did you fix'em? Of course he says no!! SO I says .. if you weren't worried about that then I guess you didn't care that it wasn't registered!

Do you like the new trailer lights? Expensive?

[40FordDeluxe]

I do like the new trailer lights. I put LED in most of the marker lights back when we were dragging it all over the mid west. The tail lights never got replaced because they kept working I suppose. Yeah, they were expensive. The 2 lights, pig tails, and tax, was around $140. I self tapped them in but will put rivets in them later on.

[johnboy]

Crikey but that sounds like my big tandem trailer too!
Someone would want to borrow it, I'd lend it, and when I wanted it I'd have to go looking for the blasted thing. Bob had lent it to Jim, who'd lent it to Paul, who'd lent it to Bruce, who'd lent it to David, and so on and on...
When I'd finally find out where it was I'd have to repair a puncture, a broken tail light, the plug because someone had neglected to plug it in and had dragged it and so on and on...
I finally fixed that.
A mate of mine owned the local garage, so I stabled it there, and painted on the side: '$50 per day trailer hire.'
Bryan, (my mate who owned the garage,) took 10% of that, and charged out the hirage fee, did any repairs, and charged out any damage to those that damaged it.
And I knew where to find the damned thing and at least got beer money out of it!

It worked well until some clown burnt it out. I actually felt sorry for him; he had his entire household goods on it...beds, linen, furniture, fridge, tv, tool boxes, bikes...the lot.
Everything he owned.
Bryan and I went to see him. "It can't have been us that set in on fire," he said, "we didn't throw any cigarette butts out the window; the windows were all wound up 'cos we had all our chickens in the car with us, and if we'd wound the windows down they would've flown out."
I couldn't look at Bryan. 'Cos I knew if I looked at him I would've burst into uncontrollable laughter.
300 miles with a car full of chickens and kids?
It doesn't bear thinking about!

But I still felt sorry for the man, and told him we'd reimburse his $50 for the hirage.
I didn't care. The trailer was well insured for more than it cost me to build it.

[40FordDeluxe]

That is craziness right there. Kids are one thing, but chickens too....... Nah, they'd be in a box duct taped on the trailer some where!

I wonder who that guy made mad, and if that was why they were moving in such a hurry the way it sounds?

[34_40]

kinda makes you ask... "You know you're a redneck when"???

[53 Chevy5]

I'm sorry, I'm just thinking about the Fireman who showed up to a burning trailer and a car full of chickens

[johnboy]

He was a redneck alright; even more so than I.
He was living in a rented house just south of Auckland and had been given a job just south of Opunake (which is ten miles from where we live,) and a house went with the job. He was living pretty well hand-to-mouth, absolutely broke (we've all been there,) and to save money on a removal truck hired my trailer. (It was a pretty big trailer, carried 120 conventional hay bales easily; that's a bit under 4 tons.)
There wasn't just a burning trailer the Fire Brigade had to contend with, they were on an uphill incline when they disconnected it, didn't put the brake on, it rolled backwards bouncing and swerving and started another four or five fires on the side of the road on its way downhill. With approaching traffic swerving all over the place in complete panic.
I'm told it did a couple of 360 degree turns on its wee run...it's quite a long hill.

it would've been bloody hilarious to watch.

Enough!

Sorry for hijacking your thread!

[40FordDeluxe]

Johnboy, wow, I bet that was a mess! No biggie on the hi-jacking. It is a nice twist here.

[vara4]

Ryan, You got Boxers????
That's the only dogs I've ever owned. I love them I got a bloodline right now I have 9 Champions in.
My records go clear back to 1968 on their Bloodline. my last male I bought out of Florida is the sweetest male I have ever owned.
But we have two acres for them to run, have had a lot of coyote's out here running around. They get peoples small dogs out here all the time.
I only let mine out in pairs just to be safe because I have seen them travel in packs of 10 to 12 before but they usually give my property a wide birth.
I think any of mine would be able to handle 2 by them selves but any more and I 'll let my whole pack out on them. Here is a couple of my pup's in the link.
I didn't know you owned Boxers too, great minds and all that. HA! HA! HA! LOL!!!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kurtva...posted-public/

[40FordDeluxe]

Very nice Boxers you have there! No, I don't have any boxers. My Aunts have had several over the years though. One of them has one that has congestive heart failure now and a lot of muscle issues, and hip issues. They are really good dogs.

[stovens]

Great boxers! My Pretzel is 50% boxer, then Heinz 57! Hey is a great dog with endless energy and enthusiasm.