'37 1 3/4T is on the road

[earthman]

Looks great...how come we don't get build theads?!?!?!?!

I don't post my build pix because there may be impressionable children on here.

 

[earthman]

I have to ask what the cool front signal buckets are - copper cooking pots??

They are from Target. Found them in the floral arrangement/rat truck accessory dept.

 

[earthman]

Needs a chop

Are you volunteering?

 

[earthman]

I appreciate all your comments fellas!

 

[lowbuckrats]

Very Cool!!!! Definition of a true rat-rod...

 

[26Troadster]

very cool truck.

 

[AZRodDave]

Got wood?

Well i hate to put any more new wood on it. I priced reclaimed barn wood brought here from other parts of the country. It was $10 a foot.

I have some funky old AZ aged wood (dry rain and hot sun) that came off a trailer I had years ago. Some of it is warped, but there are some straight pieces if you wanted to make some "vintage" sides for it? Mostly 2x6.

 

[earthman]

Thanks 26T and Lowbuck. Dave i would want one inch wood. I would like to get up to the ghost towns to find the real stuff and replace all this new wood.

 

[AZRodDave]

Thanks 26T and Lowbuck. Dave i would want one inch wood. I would like to get up to the ghost towns to find the real stuff and replace all this new wood.

Well okay. There's some nice white picket fencing along 89A around Peeples Valley. But you might get shot at up there. LOL

 

[MercuryMac]

E-man, what do you think of my re-olding boards dream, by sandblasting your new boards, maybe blasting the ends of the boards a little more aggressively to roughen them up and then staining them with the greyest tone you can find.
I have not really tried this so I need a guinea pig who doesn't live to close to me so there's no physical repercussions.
Keep on tinkering.

 

[Willowbilly3]

I realize that to everyone else it looks absurd with the long wheelbase. Sorry if i have offended anyones sensabilities.

I think you should throw another axle in there and make it a tandem!!

 

[Bonehead]

I think you should throw another axle in there and make it a tandem!!

Perfect!

 

[earthman]

E-man, what do you think of my re-olding boards dream, by sandblasting your new boards, maybe blasting the ends of the boards a little more aggressively to roughen them up and then staining them with the greyest tone you can find.
I have not really tried this so I need a guinea pig who doesn't live to close to me so there's no physical repercussions.
Keep on tinkering.

I thought about distressing the wood MM and trying to make it look old but i think i will live with it untill i find some old stuff.

 

[earthman]

I think you should throw another axle in there and make it a tandem!!

I thought about that! Move the axle forward and put a tag axle in back. It would look killer but it will have to be way down the priority list. Got to get the Earthmobile back on the road before it starts cooking here again in March.

 

[ratadixshun44]

Cool truck sir, I vote for the aged wood. Perhaps a barn built in 1937, just to keep all the numbers matching.............Sorta like this bad boy