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