spidr
King of Booty Fab
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2023
- Member Number
- 5957
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- 129
I hear this is where the cool kids all ended up? For anyone that knows me, I stepped away from 4x4s a few years back. We mvoed, bought a house, and I only work on them sometimes with my buddy at his shop. Lately, I spend my days building hot rods for myself. So for all my old friends, I missed you 
Some backstory, I've been very slowly picking away at a 39 Chevy business man. Weve chopped it, I've mocked up a 425 Cadillac Big block in it, one off independant suspension up front, air ride, suicide doors with a Thames grill. I want it to be a "nice" car and havent been in a rush to build it. I had gotten it as a bare shell, no doors no trunk, and no floor. Essentially a cowl and roof.
I bought a 1940 4 door parts car, and used a bunch of the parts. Swapped the cowl, used the 4 doors to make 2 doors, It was working out pretty well.
We moved into a home we bought the year before last, and had time and space to work more on it. One day I walked outside and tripped over a fender, and had the thought that maybe I had enough parts to build a second car. By dinner I had the rusty cowl, part of the old roof, and the rear quarters from the 4 door parts car propped up on milk crates.
As it progressed, it snowballed, as most projects do, and what was supposed to be a scrap metal lawn ornament took on a life of its own.
What I have here, is a 39 cowl, with part of the roof from the same. Doors are 1938 4door doors cut to factory 2 door length. Rear quarters are from the 40 4 door, as is the trunk lid.
The car was sectioned and 8" cut from the middle at the front, tapering to 4" removed at the back, 10" was cut off the bottom of the entire car, roof chopped 7"
The frame i designed in CAD, 2x4 box tube, with CNC plasma cut plates and internal fishplates to make the frame look mandrel bent. The 260 Olds motor and trans I picked up for a case of Corona. Blowers are 453, found on marketplace from a antiques store.
The front axle is out of a 68 A100 van, and the front wheels where given to me by a hot rodder I know, they where buried in the garden when I went to pick up the Thames grill he gave me for my other car. The rear axle is pathfinder, beefy diff, was free from one of our practive vehicles for the Volunteer fire departmen. We can burn cars without an axle.
The metal used in the rocker is 1/'2" plate that was buried in a garden at the neighbors and most of the tin is shelving from out garage that I didnt have any uprights for.
I used the factory external door hinges, as I used all the pocket hinges on my other car.
The subframe for the floor is all made up of a patio table i pulled out of the scrap bin, the grill is pieces of the 40 grill, with uprights from the old canopy i was building my car under after the wind destroyed it.
Rear links are going in and i'm using take offs from a Jeep JK, its going to be full air ride. Along the way I designed, and built my own bead roller, with a 40" throat, and a massive english wheel, that I also built a planishing hammer that will bolt in place of the dies.
I have bomber seats designed, and getting ready to cut them, aluminum with hard rivets, getting bead roller and dimple died, I've been using roof, floor, and firewall panels to teach my kids how to use the tools.
The other night a friend of mine picked up my new carbs, Sidedraft webers, and matching slot wheels 15x8.5 to match my fronts, my other car has slots as well, and since I have an extra pair we're going to build a air ride trailer to match, with 40s era fenders to haul my harley behind the cars when i feel the need, or even to camp in.
If it doesnt fit here, I wont update, but if you guys want to see more, I can dig through my archives and find them all along the line. I stared this car last spring, and progress has been slow this winter since i herniateed a disc in my back, but I'm aiming to have the car driving this summer. And i am sticking to a hard zero budget goal, with a few labor trades and diggin metal out of the scrap bin, including the parts from the donor car I was originally going to throw out, to date, I have under $1000 Canadian into this car, and shooting to be driving it for under $2500
Some backstory, I've been very slowly picking away at a 39 Chevy business man. Weve chopped it, I've mocked up a 425 Cadillac Big block in it, one off independant suspension up front, air ride, suicide doors with a Thames grill. I want it to be a "nice" car and havent been in a rush to build it. I had gotten it as a bare shell, no doors no trunk, and no floor. Essentially a cowl and roof.
I bought a 1940 4 door parts car, and used a bunch of the parts. Swapped the cowl, used the 4 doors to make 2 doors, It was working out pretty well.
We moved into a home we bought the year before last, and had time and space to work more on it. One day I walked outside and tripped over a fender, and had the thought that maybe I had enough parts to build a second car. By dinner I had the rusty cowl, part of the old roof, and the rear quarters from the 4 door parts car propped up on milk crates.
As it progressed, it snowballed, as most projects do, and what was supposed to be a scrap metal lawn ornament took on a life of its own.
What I have here, is a 39 cowl, with part of the roof from the same. Doors are 1938 4door doors cut to factory 2 door length. Rear quarters are from the 40 4 door, as is the trunk lid.
The car was sectioned and 8" cut from the middle at the front, tapering to 4" removed at the back, 10" was cut off the bottom of the entire car, roof chopped 7"
The frame i designed in CAD, 2x4 box tube, with CNC plasma cut plates and internal fishplates to make the frame look mandrel bent. The 260 Olds motor and trans I picked up for a case of Corona. Blowers are 453, found on marketplace from a antiques store.
The front axle is out of a 68 A100 van, and the front wheels where given to me by a hot rodder I know, they where buried in the garden when I went to pick up the Thames grill he gave me for my other car. The rear axle is pathfinder, beefy diff, was free from one of our practive vehicles for the Volunteer fire departmen. We can burn cars without an axle.
The metal used in the rocker is 1/'2" plate that was buried in a garden at the neighbors and most of the tin is shelving from out garage that I didnt have any uprights for.
I used the factory external door hinges, as I used all the pocket hinges on my other car.
The subframe for the floor is all made up of a patio table i pulled out of the scrap bin, the grill is pieces of the 40 grill, with uprights from the old canopy i was building my car under after the wind destroyed it.
Rear links are going in and i'm using take offs from a Jeep JK, its going to be full air ride. Along the way I designed, and built my own bead roller, with a 40" throat, and a massive english wheel, that I also built a planishing hammer that will bolt in place of the dies.
I have bomber seats designed, and getting ready to cut them, aluminum with hard rivets, getting bead roller and dimple died, I've been using roof, floor, and firewall panels to teach my kids how to use the tools.
The other night a friend of mine picked up my new carbs, Sidedraft webers, and matching slot wheels 15x8.5 to match my fronts, my other car has slots as well, and since I have an extra pair we're going to build a air ride trailer to match, with 40s era fenders to haul my harley behind the cars when i feel the need, or even to camp in.
If it doesnt fit here, I wont update, but if you guys want to see more, I can dig through my archives and find them all along the line. I stared this car last spring, and progress has been slow this winter since i herniateed a disc in my back, but I'm aiming to have the car driving this summer. And i am sticking to a hard zero budget goal, with a few labor trades and diggin metal out of the scrap bin, including the parts from the donor car I was originally going to throw out, to date, I have under $1000 Canadian into this car, and shooting to be driving it for under $2500
