sandmountainslim
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Attempting a Rat Rod A-Bucket roadster which I am calling "Project A-Bomb"
The components I have to begin with are:
Frame Rails
2.3 Liter Ford Engine and Trans from an '88 Mustang
Front Axle, drums and Wishbone from a '48 Ford Coupe
Grill Shell from a '23 Ford Model T
Cross Members from a '22 Ford Model T
and today I acquired the rearend from a '94 Mustang.
The kicker is the BODY....I no longer have a roadster body and do not wish to go the fibreglass route again so I am starting with this Cowl Top/Gas Tank/Dash from a 1928 Ford Model A and gonna try to build from there!
They sell repro side panels and firewalls and body panels for a Model A but a friend of mine is good at metalworking and we have the sheetmetal so we are gonna try to construct the cowlsides and firewall first, get 'er mounted up on rails and then build it into a Bucket style roadster using steel tubing and covered in sheetmetal.
This is gonna be a rough go but I think worth the effort. Wish us luck!
Dunno if anyone has ever rebuilt a Model A roadster from just a cowl top and dash before!
Here is the Cowl Top when I started
This is the first day of working on the project
And this is where we got to today
This weekend we plan to start on the frame and once the cowl section is mounted on rails we shall attempt to fab some body panels for it.
Wish us luck!
Wp
The components I have to begin with are:
Frame Rails
2.3 Liter Ford Engine and Trans from an '88 Mustang
Front Axle, drums and Wishbone from a '48 Ford Coupe
Grill Shell from a '23 Ford Model T
Cross Members from a '22 Ford Model T
and today I acquired the rearend from a '94 Mustang.
The kicker is the BODY....I no longer have a roadster body and do not wish to go the fibreglass route again so I am starting with this Cowl Top/Gas Tank/Dash from a 1928 Ford Model A and gonna try to build from there!
They sell repro side panels and firewalls and body panels for a Model A but a friend of mine is good at metalworking and we have the sheetmetal so we are gonna try to construct the cowlsides and firewall first, get 'er mounted up on rails and then build it into a Bucket style roadster using steel tubing and covered in sheetmetal.
This is gonna be a rough go but I think worth the effort. Wish us luck!
Dunno if anyone has ever rebuilt a Model A roadster from just a cowl top and dash before!
Here is the Cowl Top when I started
This is the first day of working on the project
And this is where we got to today
This weekend we plan to start on the frame and once the cowl section is mounted on rails we shall attempt to fab some body panels for it.
Wish us luck!
Wp