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Productive night tonight. Fabricated a rear floor, freshly bent with trusty old Ford and Wood precision bender. Pretty pleased with the end result I also acquired this piece of antiquity, been told it is Model A Ford. Its in poor/fantastic condition for ratrod. Nothing the welder wont fix...

Well Ive tagged the bodybase, polished up where the welds go and secured it to chassis. Lanced off all the old tack welds and ground/polished them flat. Now the bodybase is flat with no protrusions, ie slag or weld. Floor needs to follow this perfectly...(RED ARROW) Ive made a rough template...

Finally some decent side profile pics. Now to swap MIG to ArgoShield and into it.......once funds clear...

Well its a stat holiday tomorrow here in New Zealand. On Saturday one of my car club mates came around and helped me clean my shed out. So guess what????? Buick and associated parts are being moved across town to my house. Progress shall improve dramatically as of tomorrow. Photographic evidence...

Well I havent touched it in weeks, but things are happening. I got GIVEN 5-1/2 sheets of nice surface rusted raw panelsteel by one of my panqelbeater clients. Stoked. My late grandmother has left me a sizeable inheritance so Im going to buy some proper whitewalls for it, pull the engine down and...

Thanks SF. Well its all over and done with and now the dust has started to settle a bit I might be able to get back into this. Getting withdrawls....

Went around today, not for work, but because my Grandmother passed away. Anyway the finer half was with me. Dad was tooling around with his racecar so the shed doors were open. SHE APPROVES!!!!! Its the first time she has seen it in the flesh, she even plonked her sexy backside in it with a big...

quality fotershop there doc c

Has actually! Ive decided on widening the seat base and widening and lowering the seat back. Been looking at the pictures and it just don't look right....

Hasnt been a week and Im bored out of my skull/missing my build

What a place! Certainly nothing like that around my hometown, nearest thing is Dads place!

I have been here more than once. The positive that comes out is at least its not gonna get squashed and it will stay on the forum. Good luck with your other projects cosmic12

Got yourself a nice starting point. Body looks really tidy. Building a cheap rod rules!

Sounds like over the ditch is nearly as strict as here....nearly

Sweet!!!! Nice workmanship.

Very very cool.

That would be wishful thinking bob! Next to no sleep. Knee pain is bearable, but not when I bend it. All hell breaks loose. I'm also not supposed to drive on the pills I have neither. Feel quite out of it.

Continued on making a little progress on Monday night. Finished off the bottom of the seat runners with a slab of flat bar. Welded up, measured, aligned parallel and bolted the runners to the seat base. Thats about all I can do with the seat, contemplating giving it the chop and widening the...

Thanks man!!! Its gonna be a relief when its done. its just a pain in the a$$. Anyways a quick photo update. The floor template The floor made out of the 2mm industrial sheet steel. Tunnel to come soon. After a bit of brainstorming decided front seat is next to work out. Reasoning about this...

Yeah pretty rapt with it. Im going around on Wednesday night after work with the camera in tow. Hopefully the better half will let me get a bit more done on it over the weekend and days up to the 8th August. She gets shelved for a couple of weeks while I recover from my knee surgery, which...