Thread: Got a new project w/ some questions

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and finally.....................

That last picture is so right, the way a nice timeless tudor should look (maybe a couple inches off the top)

I have a combination of A front rails and box tubing from the toe boards back. Building your own is quite a project to keep squared up unless you have a frame jig. I have never had that luxury and you have to weld very carefully to keep the frame from warping, measure weld, measure, weld. Almost every weld requires remeasuring. Then there is the issue of holes and boxing. By the time you get all the holes filled in an A frame and get it boxed you have a tremendous amount of time invested.

WB3 is right about a stock Model A frame..........I have one under my '27 and by the time I boxed it, filled the holes, added crossmembers, etc, I had more time and money in it than if I had just bought a reproduction frame to start with.

There are some very good reproduction rails out there now, and one '32 frame is even made in two halves per side so it is UPSable.

I just noticed your post. Those are the most simple of all, first one is unchanneled on what looks like an A frame, and the second one looks the same, except channeled.

Don