roadster pickup body back from bodyshop

I brought home the roadster pickup body today from the guy who was doing my bondo finishing, and I must say I am very pleased. Take a look, keeping in mind that this body started life as a really wretched sedan, had the center cut out, the back moved foreward to the rear of the front doors, then had the top cut off, a new floor welded in, new bottoms on both doors, and new bottoms on cowl on both sides. I did all the welding, but thought I would be wise to take it to someone who does finish bodywork for a living, rather than do it myself. I am going to try to post one picture of the body in its most "dismantled" form, and 3 or 4 pictures of what it looks like now.

I can't figure out how to post multiple images, so will do it this way

i like it a lot have a great night
your friend emmy

xxx

This picture shows the body stripped right down to its absolute "undies" before I started to build it back up again with patch panels, new floor, firewall, etcetera.

Looks purdee' Str8 ............... good job.:)

This picture shows the body stripped right down to its absolute "undies" before I started to build it back up again with patch panels, new floor, firewall, etcetera.

You're doing a super job Brian! It looks great!

Pat

Amazing! Recent posts sound like you got the trans attached and the distributor in, can I ask about what radiator you are using?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Don--It may sound a bit dumb, but I don't know what kind of radiator it is. I bought this car as someone elses abandoned project. and all they knew was that it was out of some Chrysler product, it fits inside a 1929 rad shell, it has an automatic transmission cooler built in, and thats all they (or I) know about it.

On the last 2 rods that I built, I went down to the rad shop and scrounged around in their used tanks bin untill I found the biggest upper and lower tanks that would fit inside my rad shell, and had the inlets and outlets in the correct place, then had the rad shops build a core to fit the tanks. I believe this cost me around $350, and I never encountered any cooling problems. Both rods had small block chev engines, one a stock 327 and one a modified 350

Hey Brian, great job on the body!!!!! This is a really first class example of taking what you have and building what you want. Superb job, going to be a very unique rod when your are finished with it. Congrats on a job well done. I've really enjoyed watching the progress on the body and hope you keep us as well informed on the rest of the build process.