1937 Chevy Coupe

[MercuryMac]

Body work can be frustrating, but in the end when you beat it, it is very rewarding, right, Doc?
Congratulations on cleaning up that back end.

 

[Torchie]

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[DozerII]

Bet it feels good to be moved on to other parts of the build.

 

[Dr Crankenstein]

Body work can be frustrating, but in the end when you beat it, it is very rewarding, right, Doc?
Congratulations on cleaning up that back end.

Yes it is and thank you, Mac.

Bet it feels good to be moved on to other parts of the build.

Damn right!

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[joedoh]

i would rather staple myself to a stump than fix rust. but its always a necessary evil. youre of a special ilk! [cl[cl[cl

 

[Dr Crankenstein]

Yesterday's progress:

We finished the door handle to trunk handle conversion. In the photos below, the left handle is a virgin door handle and the right handle is modified to become a trunk handle...

As you can see, we whittled the stem down, changed the orientation 90° and threaded the stabby pokey end. Thank You Uncle Ron (RIP) for the excellent tap and die set!

More photographic phoolery. These two were identical before the stem modification, which is the only difference... yet the left looks considerably larger than the right. [S

Back to the rocker and cowl repairs. We finished the inner parts and got started on the outer, which drops another EMS turd on our plate. (Again, it resembles the original but doesn't match very well anywhere.) So we're not eating that meal again, but figgered we could make a section fit.

We chopped out a piece, roughly as shown...

Some reshaping, some trimming and we grafted it in...

Still have some grinding and blending to do, some craters to fill and yes, I got a little too hammer happy and left a dent.

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[Torchie]

Nice repurpose on the handle.[cl [cl [cl
Rocker is getting there as well.
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[soltz]

The optical illusion is sometimes amazing

Nice work all around. [cl

 

[I-R-POPS]

My other half tells me "You do good work, what little you do"!!
I guess if the shoe fits, wear it. Nice job on the handle.
I don't envy all the rust repair you've had to do.
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[Old Iron]

If ya glance at this, it looks like left hand thread.

 

[Dr Crankenstein]

Thanks guys.

My other half tells me "You do good work, what little you do"!!

I laughed when I read this and my wife heard me... "What's funny?" "Oh, nothing."

If ya glance at this, it looks like left hand thread.

I don't think so, but I was standing on my head with one eye closed.

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[DozerII]

Great progress Doc, I thought it looked like left hand thread in the first pic as well.

 

[smallfoot]

If ya glance at this, it looks like left hand thread.

I thought the same thing when I viewed the first pic, but the close ups looked different. Leave it to Dr Crank to be able to flip the negative on a digital pic..

 

[Dr Crankenstein]

I'm a regular flippin' David Copperfield. I can make shadows, waves and dents appear out of thin air, stretch door handles with my mind and create left-hand threads with a right-hand die.

Stay tuned for the next illusion, when B-tard, myself and a smart phone defy reality once again. I'd tell you about, but I don't know what it is. (I'm not psychic, you know.)

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[Old Iron]

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[Dr Crankenstein]

Still working on it, but not much to show for the time spent.

We had a few things to finish before starting something new. The rocker repairs are now complete inside and out. The cowl repair is also done, inner and outer.

Backing up some 18 months we left the floor pans and tunnel loose until now, simply for our convenience.

B-tard and myself both have back problems, so welding them at this height is reasonable, if not necessary. Leaving them loose also gave us easy access to the inner rockers and the body mounts, which weld to the rockers and the floors. Anyhow, all of that is done now... rockers done, mounts done, floors welded in.

Late in the day, we chose a small task. Drilling holes in a fresh paint job doesn't turn me on, so we decided on the tail light location, marked, drilled and mounted them. They're '40 Chevy repops and were returned to storage shortly thereafter.

The man in black is my slim self, attempting to block some glare. (Like Mom always said, I make a better door than a window. )

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[DozerII]

Progress is good, you probably cast a shadow like I do

 

[forbigpicture]

Lookin' good Doc !!!! like the floor pans [cl[cl

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[Old Iron]

I like the artsy effect the netting gives the pic [ddd

 

[Burgerman]

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