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
fredag den 21. oktober 2011
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
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
torsdag den 22. september 2011
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
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
tirsdag den 20. september 2011
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
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
torsdag den 8. september 2011
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
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
torsdag den 24. marts 2011
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.
lørdag den 19. marts 2011
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
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
onsdag den 16. marts 2011
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!
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!
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