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Hi. I am new to this site. I have posted some, but still looking around. I am trying to build my first, and probably last Street Rod. I am doing it by myself, except from the help from people online. I am trying to build a 37 Ford Tudor Sedan. It has a 350/350 and a 8" Ford rearend. it has a Mustang II frontend. It is lowered 3" in the front, and 2" in the rear. It is all steel. I have had to do alot. Even had to learn how to weld.. I am still learning that part. Oh, and my name is Al..
Hello Al welcome to chr. nice ride,great choice of body styles.
Welcome again Al, now I had said that some 45 years ago, and Im still doing this, its in our blood....:LOL:Quote:
Originally Posted by slantback37
Thanks.. I did a Honda before this.. A deal on a 33 Ford fell threw. I have never anything this involved before though. I thought more than one time to just give up, but something just kept on telling me to keep going on. Sure was nice to hear it fire for the first time. I had to change the distributator, and wasn't sure I had it in right. Now I like the car, and will keep it. Going to try and get the bodywork done next Summer, and the next year paint it. Al
Welcome Al!
Thanks.. Al
I've always liked 37 Fords and yours is shaping up nicely. Keep us posted on the progress.
Don
Gonna be real nice when finished. Welcome to CHR!
Keith
Welcome to CHR Al,,neat car,,keep at it man,,thats a nice start..There are some very knowledgable people on here,all you gotta do is ASK,and someone will help you..Hope you have a sense of humor too,it helps..;)
Al,
Welcome to CHR. We like to see pic of your progress.:whacked: I'm with 406Rich; I "built?" my 34 the first time 44 years ago and am now in the process of rebuilding it.
Jack.
Welcome Al and I too adore the fat fender '37 Fords,so keep at it and it is okay to walk away from the car at times when nothing is going right,just keep coming back to it and you will conquer it..
Welcome Al ......... glad you're here :cool:
Well it does keep me out of trouble.. I guess the Wife always knows where I am. Thanks everyone for making me feel welcome. i will try not to pester you much.. Al
Al,Al,
Pester us with pics.:):cool:
Jack.
Boy. I have alot of them.. I took pictures of it before I got it, and all along the build. When doing it alone.. It was a bugger taking the body off the frame. Putting it back on was a peach. Ran into a major problem.. I already had the engine in the frame. The body was hanging about a foot above it all, and I couldn't set the body down. The other owner had set the motor mounts back 9". Well it took me three trys, but I made my firewall out of 16 gauge sheetmetal.. Al
So are there any others here from Minnesota??
Also.. how about with 37 Fords?? Thanks.. Al
Al , once you start driving it, given all the safety factors are in, and nothing else you`ll find it hard to take it back down for something else.:LOL:
Looked like this when I started.., and now.. Al
Al.
Looking good.
Jack
Al, I am partial toward the slant back as that was the first car I learned to drive. When Dad bought that car I was 12 years old. I couldn't sleep for looking out the window all night.
That body style is really neat. You don't see many of that style. That 350 is going to be stronger than the 85 hp that was in Dads 37. Good luck with it.**)
Thanks. I drove it around the block a few times this past Summer.. Couldn't go to far though.. No Windows.. I can sit in the car, and wonder how may of those cars hit something backing up. can't really see a darned thing threw the rear view mirror. I am installing a backup camera. It will be near the top of the decklid in the third brake light. It shows 180 degrees back there. I am going to mount the screen in the header panel where the speaker would have gone. Also have to try and figure out how to build a platform for a 10" screen. I will have a usable back seat, and already have a 12 Volt DVD player. Al
Don,
Love your taste in make and model.;):cool:
Jack.
Now that I have new seats for it.. It is starting to look alot better. I will be building the door panels soon. I have a bunch of stuff comming from Autotrim.com I'll have to send more pictures of all of the problems that I ran into. I will show a couple now.. To set this up.. I had to make my own firewall.. Took me a couple of trys, but I did it. The other shows how the guy before me used old school to lower the rear of the car.. See in the first pic. I never knew that the motor mounts were set back 9"!! I already had the engine in the frame, and was lowering the body, and the darned body wouldn't fit. I was alone, and couldn't raise the body back up.. The next thing was to cut the firewall out in order to fit the body.. The second one was just scary to think of driving around town like this. Al
Thanks Jack, It was a blast to build as the last rod I built was in 1957 it was a 32 5/W . The 32 is still in show condition. Sold in 1966.
Al is that 9 inches back going to influence the interior look?? Your shifter will be back a ways uh.
I cut out the old mounts, and moved the whole works foward..