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pretty crafty Pro, nicely done, a guy has to make do with what he has. I enjoy your ingenuity, would sure like to have you give my old car a once over. Well done.

Little up date waiting on stuff for the 31 , so I spent my attention to the final coats of plastic for the 67 . Wasn't very much left but I didn't look at it while my eyes where on the 31 . The hood came off a race car that 4 hood pins . I welded in a patch for the rear one's and smoothed them out , and work the new door skin from the hem work . Hope tpo have it in color within the next month . This is the last besides the blocking it down some more.


I have estimators coming out for another garage to be built . Kinda a 1 car shop since septic and easement get in my way . I am planning a 16 x 32 should be plenty for the one car work I am planning on .

Where is Dave S when you need a master body man .

I'm here Bobby!!! Deep in the middle of about 3 builds!!! Walking through the garage right now is like running an obstacle course!!!! Thanks for the compliment, but I'm certainly no master body man, just an (old, beat up, high mileage) Hot Rodder that keeps pluggin' along! I gotta quit looking at them brand new '67 Fastbacks that Dynacorn sells!!!! Hood is looking good BTW, all that long flat sheet metal can sure be a time consuming affair to get flat!!!!

Like a fool, added a couple more project cars to the unfinished fleet... Interesting stuff, I'll get some pics up when I get the shuffling done!

Probably just keep all my stuff hid, Pro Z is making us all look like a bunch of chumps anyway!!!!! Going to be one wild 'maro, for sure!!! The more you look at it the more detail work you see! Subtle and fast, my favorite combination--Just too bad it's a chebby!!!!!

Well Dave your pluggin away is ahead of me yet . Yeah the flat hood does give a pain I heat shrunk it to tighten it up so as not to oil can . But just the weight of the jitter bug can bounce it .

Pro has had classes in patience and measurement 104 for sure . Amazed my self at the great pipe work he does.

Looks good, Bobby! Glad to see you're back on the 'Stang. How big of a garage are you thinking? Same goes for garage builds as hot rod builds; it'll take twice as much $$$ as you originally figure.
3 builds, Dave? Man, when do you sleep?

For the oil can affect, I've tried one of those metal shrinking disc with good results! It's tightens up the metal to keep it from shuttering all the time, pretty cheap to, the disc mounted to my 7" buffer. For 40 bucks might be usefull! Both your projects look great guys. Steve.

Hey Dave ,forgive my ignorance,but what is a "Chebby"??? Is that a model of car that you Americans designed and produced but was too ashamed to export overseas like that Edsel thing that Ford made???

Originally Posted by falconvan

Looks good, Bobby! Glad to see you're back on the 'Stang. How big of a garage are you thinking? Same goes for garage builds as hot rod builds; it'll take twice as much $$$ as you originally figure.
3 builds, Dave? Man, when do you sleep?

16x32 contracted and signed in at $11.500 heavy duty build also .

Here's some new pics of my '35 coupe. I hadn't seen the front fenders on in about 4 years so that was exciting seeing how it sat with the Heidts IFS. Also, it fired for the first time this weekend . It's coming along..brake lines are almost done and I'll have to finish up the radiator hoses and get a fan/shroud. We had it with Charlie Thacker in Louisa, VA for a while (he has done most of the good work, my dad and I have done the amateur work ), but despite the great work he has done for us the plan has always been to do a lot of our own work so it's time for us to do some things and finish up getting it road worthy.

Just about have the metal work done on my 36 ford slantback so I can start slinging some mud. I am in the middle of installing Hagen hidden hinges. Put in the Hagen fuel filler door the other day. Next I will put in the frenched license plate box. And the list goes on from there. that is a nice looking 35ford coupe in the previous post.

35ford coupe nice car. Love those old long lined fenders and running boards! Looks like a real nice hot rod.

Man, that '35 is really going to be slick lookin'!!!!!! Great stance and of course some of the most gorgeous body lines ever to come out of Detroit!!!!

Thanks a lot guys it's been a long 4 years and nice to finally hear it run. It's been a long 50+ years for my dad though . This is probably the nicest it's been in that time . You can kind of see the sunroof in the second pic. it's from a 98 VW..it came out real nice. most times when you see a newer sunroof in a hot rod it looks like a flat panel in a curved roof, but Charlie did a great job making it flow. The car is a bit further from stock than we set out to build, but its been fun!

Hadn't even noticed the sunroof! Kudo's to the guy who put that in, great job!