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Your truck looks great, Dave! Unusual, too. You don't see many people building that generation of Ford trucks.

Originally Posted by falconvan

Your truck looks great, Dave! Unusual, too. You don't see many people building that generation of Ford trucks.

Thanks, a bit unusual, high contrast colors and the interior design straight out of the 70's.....Where were you in '72??

I listed it on Racing Junk with a teaser add, as is, all done, trades possible... Have to see if it generates any interest....

Got another area cleaned up and some primer sprayed on the '57 today, progress is slow but it's progress at least!!!! Built some supports to hold the old Buick off the ground and installed them.. This was someone else's project before I got it, first thing for me to do is take the ill-fitting frame they put under it (Caprice, I think) out from under it and haul it away with the rest of the scrap iron!!!! Hopefully I'll have some time towards spring to get it into the shop and start doing some work on the body. Tentative plans for the Buick are to find an Eldorado donor car with a Northstar in it, then build the car as my rendition of Harley Earl's Wildcat cars in '52, 53, and 54. No way I'll have time to finish it this winter, but I'd like to get a frame designed and built along with some of the cut, chop, and rebuild on the body....

Spent the long weekend getting as much done on the scaffolding as possible. I have a couple things to do yet but I'm a little closer to calling it a done deal. the track loader isn't big enough to set the deck on the trailer & still pull the forks out of the receivers. That & there's no way to easily pick it from the end. So I decided a tilting storage rack would solve both problems.





Flipped the deck upside down & built the flip part of the rack on top.



Once I had it far enough along to bolt down to the trailer I worked on the storage for the railing parts



Got it this far along & then took it back off to do a little more work on the railing storage and the final welding & paint.

Here's just the storage rack



And here's the rack loaded with railing parts & the deck in the pick position. I used Some Roll on bed liner on the top for a non-skid surface.



And the deck in the storage position. I sprayed rattle can undercoating on the bottom side of the plywood just because I had a few cans on the shelf.




Still a lot to do but it's getting closer. "Z" had to go outside, in the rain.

Lots of good work Pro! Sure will pay off next time you have to get up in the air to work, strong and safe, great combination for work as well as race cars!!!

Thanks Dave. Next time up in the air is tomorrow.

Originally Posted by pro70z28

Thanks Dave. Next time up in the air is tomorrow.

Hope you bring us some pics!!!! I really enjoy watching other people work!!!!

I hope I get another chance to work on the scaffolding soon(Fabbing that is). Still a lot to do to get it set up the way I want. I need to stay on it. Sort of like building a house. If you move in before it's done, ............hard to get the punch list done.

I thought I'd give this thread some love. It's nothing too exciting, but it's progress. We bought a New Port wiper kit earlier this year. It's a great kit and perfect for a car that does not have an electric sunroof . However, we had problems. The main problem being that the passenger side wiper comes out just past the middle of the windshield right where the sunroof motor wants to go as shown in the last pic. We cut up the case of that motor because we thought we could make that work, but it didn't as you can see and we ruined the motor. Then I bought a later model sunroof motor that did clear, but did not "bolt up" like the original one. I made brackets before realizing that the sunroof structure I was going to attach them to is aluminum and I'm not set up for it with my mig.

We then gave up and bought the SPW kit where the passenger side wiper comes out much further over to the right with a remote motor (which would allow the VW molded headliner to fit also). After receiving this kit we decided it was not quite as nice. Also after all we had gone through a universal kit was not someting we really wanted to get into. if we were going to drill new holes in the car and lose money on the New Port kit we may as well just use it and move the holes for the wipers over one inch to the right and cut the top wiper bar to clear the sunroof motor. I will add the pictures of the solution later on, but the first three show the problem.





Also, I had an anti street rod moment a while back where I came up with an idea to adapt a "windshield crank handle" to the plasctic sunroof control panel. The VW sunroof knob is a dial that you turn so when you look up all you will see is the chrome handle to give a more original look to it. Now I just need to finalize/troubleshoot the sunroof wiring so it actually works

On most of the 30's cars it's really easy to run out of room on the overhead and in the dash!!! Love the fat fenders, but the payoff of having such a narrow cowl area is the penalty. Anxious to see the "after" pictures of your dilemma!!!!

Beautiful ride Tom. I almost had a 28 RP about 56 years ago. My brother bought it from a good friend of mine, I didn't know it was for sale, then my brother sold it before I knew he wanted to sell it. Do you plan to put a top on it? Once again, beautiful ride.

Jack.

These other pictures I have aren't as great as I remembered and I don't have one with the sunroof motor in place, but you can tell where it goes. You can see on the inside picture how little it really moved over and the cut in the top piece. It made it a whole lot weaker so I welded a rod to the back, but it wouldn't clear very far over to the right. I hope it holds up okay for a while. I at least can't see it flexing as it moves back and forth. Looking back the solution is nothing amazing, but it sure took a while to come around to it.







space sure is a premium Dave. Between the wiring, fuse panel, heater, heater flex hose, cowl vent, and engine computer we're about out of space under the dash too. finding a place in the dash to mount the headlight and wiper switches where there was space behind to fit them was difficult too. Then there's the e brake handle too interfering passenger space, but it's all working out!

Originally Posted by 35fordcoupe

space sure is a premium Dave. Between the wiring, fuse panel, heater, heater flex hose, cowl vent, and engine computer we're about out of space under the dash too. finding a place in the dash to mount the headlight and wiper switches where there was space behind to fit them was difficult too. Then there's the e brake handle too interfering passenger space, but it's all working out!

Dang Bobby.. I'm searching for room for my 8 track...

Well, looks like it all worked out just fine! On the Plymouth I'm finishing now I totally ran out of space, you can tell when you have something mounted correctly because it's the only place it could fit!!!!