The first step.

Today, after a lot of sickness, I finally got to work on the cab for the pick-up! At the Pirate shop, there was only me and Victor, so I'll wait with the subframe, which was my initial priority. Therefore I started with the cowl, placed it on the empty frame and made a replacement piece for the drivers side bottom.





Keep 'em kruzin! Dannerr

First things first...

It has been a while, since I thought, I was just about to start the project. But then a carcrash, finding a new winters car, working overtime and two weeks with fever had me in a hold with the progres.
Tonight I was by the Pirate Kustomz shop- it is wednesday!- and we actually started the project!... Well, we started cleaning and then found a space for me, where we put in a frame to use as reference.


And if I'm not bussy building a mini-bike, I'll start building the subframe for the cab next week.

Keep 'em kruzin!

Dannerr

A carb for the pick-up.

Found a Stromberg 81 carb for the model B engine through the Danish Ford V8 club, so now I just need to overhaul the engine and carb, and build a manifold for it, so that it'll fit the fourbanger! That ought to give it some go, "as we did in thee fitties!"


Keep 'em kruzin!

Dannerr

All sorts of meters...

As I was trying to clean up the garage, I stumbled upon my collection of different meters, which was expaned at my birthday with this Volvo 444 gauge cluster:



Still thinking of using the Chevy piece for a gauge cluster, here with some Smiths instruments:



So many to choose from, so little dashboard space! Thank god, I don't have to choose tonight!

Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!

Dannerr

Small steps

Yesterday I was at the shop agsin, this time I tried to save the door post, that was already nailed to the corner.
That gave me an idea: I might actually be able to make money on the rusty pieces! So one of these days, I'm auctioning off original model A nails and two screw-heads, scavered from the rusty pile of parts, I hope to one day call a pick-up! Not to make more money, than to by new ones for the cab-to-be!


I've had some people asking me about, what the big difference in the parts are, since I can't use the cab corners, which I tried to capture below:






It doesn't align, when the door fits in the door post.

Next week is pick-up free wednesday, since I'm helping the piratez building a buck (a wooden skelleton) for a speedster project for one of their metal shaping classes. A rather different project for me, since I'm a metal guy!!

Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!

Dannerr

So it begins...

I've thought a lot over, whether to make the pick-up from the spare sedan parts, I have, or to use the fiber roadster. But my plan was to build a pick-up, so that's what I'll do.
Started out last wednesday with the roof posts (over the doors), and tried to straighten them.



Then the plan is to use the one-piece back of what seems to be a Murray fordor (ford-or, ha ha!), make it fit the tudor doors with beads and upper roundings, and then make the back out of what pieces, I have left over from other bodies.



More to come, as I continue.


Keep 'em kruzin!

Dannerr

The sedan, who thought it was a pick-up - and how I didn't notice!

I have for several years now been waiting exited for the time, when I could start my rebuild of my pick-up. As you might know by now, I bought a rolling frame last winter, I'm meadling with engines and gears for it, and was planing on starting the rebuild of the cab this fall, hoping to have it ready for next summer.
And so I began, full of hope and good ideas, last night at the Pirate Kustomz shop, starting the mating of the cab corners to a '30/'31 door, in order to begin the reastauration of the beads. And then we discovered, that it didn't align with the beads on the doorskin, so Tim told me to go find pictures of a '31 pick-up to match. And by looking at the pictures online, it hit me: a '30/'31 pick-up cab rear piece is a one piece, not two corners, an upper and a lower midlehalf, like the parts, I have!
Our best guess so far is, that it is a converted fourdoor sedan, and NOT an original pick-up cab, as I was told.
The question now is, if I should build it as the pick-up I meant it to be, build the spare tudor or build the fiber roadster, that came with the rolling frame...

I'm still thinking...


Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!

Dannerr

A loooooong way to go!

Having bought the cab some years back, I haven't wasted time thinking about the condition of it, since I knew, i didn't have the time to fix it the first couple of years. Neither have I thought much about storing it a warm and dry place, so it has just been laying in my garage next to the pigsty. Whether it is the swines or the condition I bought it in, I can't say, but the cab is in very bad shape! Mostly the rear corners is my concern, since that's the parts, I haven't found as spareparts - the lower cowl panel and door bottoms are easy to get.

I knew, the lower corners were gone and that they had some ugly welds, but haven't noticed the rust pitting through and the notches/groves and top corners is not pretty either.

But hopefully I'll learn to fix it, using the expertise and help from Tim at Piratekustomz on Amager so it'll be a fine car again soon. My plan is to see, if I can meet a deadline of attending Bedrock 17th-19th of June!

Local swapmeet findings

I like going to swapmeets! You never quite know what you could find and often you run into a good bargain!
Along with the guys from Pirate customs, I went to Græsted to the club "American Horsepower"'s Swapmeet today, hoping to find parts for the A-PU. Didn't find any Model A parts, but got a passengers side dash ornament from a 1955 chevy for dkr. 30,- (roughly $5-6), one like this: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3447/3237521249_abb298fd61.jpg
Besides that, I found a set of 3 Schmidts gauges- ampmeter, oil pressure and vaccummeter- for $9-10. The plan is to turn the ornament up side down and install the gauges in the black net, and place the stering column in the hole for the watch. And so I have a cool gauges holder!


Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!

Dannerr

New customized Visa-card

In order to keep my mind and my money on the project, I ordered a personalized Visa-card, with a picture of the '31 PU project:

Hopefully that will help me stop wasting money on unimportant things like food and rent, and start making me concentrate on getting the pick-up on the road!

The right conditions

The project with the pick-up has been laying still for some time, only advancing in number of parts. I have prioritized my time to finishing my school, so all car, bike and moped projects has been on stand by. But now I've finished school, and some of the sparetime has been spent on collecting the parts in my new garage, at my in laws place. My farther in law is a retiered (and some times borred) carpenter, who used to have his own company with 30 emploies. So in the fall he desided to build a garage in one of the sheds for me, supporting the rebuilding of my pick-up. He will also come in handy, when I get to the point of building a wooden bed!
Yesterday - being a former mechanical engineering student, now an unemployed bum with no future plans! - I spent a day picking up the parts for the body from my other garage, 120 miles south of the new one:





The recently painted 17" wheels and pretty clean parts, such as tools, '30 radiator shell and headlights went in to the car.
Back at the new place, I blocked up the frame, tore off the wheels, and just as a mock up, I placed the firewall on top, giving me an idea about the the size of the project!





The back pieces (top and bottom behind it):


The back corners of the cab, which needs a great deal of repair:


So now I have really good conditions for begining the project!

At the moment, I can not see any other option, other than using wood for the rebuild of the cab. But maybe I'll end up building a steel skelleton for it, and perhaps start selling it, if I can make cheap enough.
And if things go as planed, the pick-up will also be equiped with my hydraulic Model A brakes!



Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!

Dannerr