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GregWeld

07-11-2014 07:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HAULNSS (Post 559790)

Some more inspiration

http://2-photos.ebizautos.com/used-1...6691-2-640.jpg:

I was hoping to see this one when I was at Canepa's but it was sold.... When I see "paint" in my head on this truck THIS is what I see.

GregWeld

07-11-2014 07:13 AM

SIEG,

Good thing you posted Pinkee's truck in that "grouping" or I'd have to unfriend you.

Payton King

07-11-2014 07:31 AM

Well are you not the Rock Star...5 pages on a project with one picture.

For a second there I thought Steilow had started another thread. Where is the "leg humper" icon when you need it. LOL

All kidding aside, glad you posted this up. I have been wanting to do the same thing with a 1960 caddy convertible. Maybe I can learn something watching this build. Just make sure you nail down the wheel base before you get started.

GregWeld

07-11-2014 07:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Payton King (Post 559812)

Payton,

6 Pages BTW ---- but who's counting.

So YESTERDAY I got an email from a guy I've known for a long time -- who's built many many hot rods -- inviting me over to his house to see the '40 Ford pickup he's building. Why? Because he's short like I am --- and he's STRETCHING his cab and thought I should sit in it before I get started.

I thought that's why people stretched their wheelbase -- in order to fit in the car?? Oh.... well maybe not apparently. LOL

He's also using an LS motor.

Here's a cut and paste from his email:

Even for us short guys, these trucks can be a little cramped. I have extended the cab two inches and recessed the firewall 1 3/4" to make room for an ls engine with a front runner system. Every thing else pretty straight forward. Superide in front and 9" in rear with 4-bar and c/o.

Sieg	07-11-2014 07:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 559806)

SIEG,

Good thing you posted Pinkee's truck in that "grouping" or I'd have to unfriend you.

Did I say I liked any of them? :action-smiley-027: Though there are styling cues with each that could spark ideas.

GregWeld

07-11-2014 08:05 AM

Here are a couple photos that are "inspirational" for this build --- and I'm torn between the super simple "patina" or painted old skool styles....

http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...6691-2-640.jpg

This is the truck I could have started with - as Eric and I agreed on a price for it --- but I would throw all of it away -- and just use the body. It's chopped 2"... and even buying the clapped out body and chopping it and it's repair works out to be less costly than buying this one. So Eric found and acquired the one from Wyoming.

http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...kup/117cqz.jpg

DBasher

07-11-2014 08:23 AM

I like the front of Eric's truck, the earlier lights and less bullnose on the hood look good.

Curios to see the interior you come up with, I get what you're saying just can't picture it....well, I can picture it but it doesn't look good!

Dan

GregWeld

07-11-2014 08:36 AM

GWEN likes this one.....

I don't care for some of the details -- like the stupid looking radiator.... or the old skool mags.... but I do like the general look.

http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...p/Tommys40.jpg

66fury

07-11-2014 08:44 AM

Truck needs a kaase boss nine motor, or a coyote .be different, keep it ford.I like the satin green one if i was not goin with patina

Sieg	07-11-2014 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 559825)

Overall this one is in my Top 5 out of the hundreds I've looked at now (exceptions as noted).......fwiw.

Though Stella would probably appreciate suicide doors as they are very K9 friendly. :D

HAULNSS

07-11-2014 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 559805)

I was hoping to see this one when I was at Canepa's but it was sold.... When I see "paint" in my head on this truck THIS is what I see.

It looks simple, but done nicely with a little hot rod touch. The only thing that I'd like to see is the headlight rings to be chrome. I'm not sure about the painted trim around the headlights.

:cool:

Randy

Blake Foster

07-11-2014 11:35 AM

either way looks good, would be nice to see a one piece front windshield, you said you were going to flush mount the glass did you not?

GregWeld

07-11-2014 01:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sieg (Post 559844)

Overall this one is in my Top 5 out of the hundreds I've looked at now (exceptions as noted).......fwiw.

Though Stella would probably appreciate suicide doors as they are very K9 friendly. :D

Stella will get a bed in the bed.

GregWeld

07-11-2014 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blake Foster (Post 559861)

either way looks good, would be nice to see a one piece front windshield, you said you were going to flush mount the glass did you not?

Yeah - I'm thinking one piece windshield -- flush mount - in the interest of non-leaking - simple looking - cleanliness.

jeff71

07-11-2014 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 559637)

I wasn't going to do a build thread on this project... but WTF.

I wanted to build this myself at my new shop - but realized that with building a new house over there - and the lack of "hot rod friends" that might be a real struggle. I don't have the resources over there -- buddies to just call and say "come help me with...." etc. And I want this done within the next 18 months or so.

I'm having Pinkee's Rod Shop build this project because he has the talent and taste that is what I'm after for this particular build. I'm building this as a daily driver for Sun Valley where the average speed is about 20 MPH. But I want to be able to drive it to Costco in Twin Falls or to Boise or wherever... so that's the way it's going to be planned. No bling - nothing fancy - just drive it rain or shine.

The goal is to have perfectly straight body - perfect gaps - flush windows - air tight - rattle free... easy to drive... great A/C and heat including heated seats.

The Roadster Shop chassis. Ford 9" on triangulated 4 link - coil overs front and back. 9" or 10" rear wheel... Wilwood simple brakes two piston front single rear... auto overdrive tranny... crate LS3 or SBF (maybe a Roush motor). EFI. Patina paint - but Gwen likes paint - so maybe a pale green (old skool color) or tan...

I'm talking to Eric (owner of Pinkee's) about bead rolling details into an all metal "trunk" and painting it like it's old tattered canvas covered and leather... and mounting this in the bed so I can have dry secure storage for groceries or luggage etc for road trips. Right now this is just an "idea".

I've asked Tracy of The Recovery Room - to come up with a "quality" version of "early horse blanket" for the interior. Not sure what that means but we'll figure out something. I think Gwen is going to have her hand in the details now that she's become an official hot rodder. For the first time EVER she was walking around the Pomona FairPlex looking at cars and telling me what colors she likes and which cars she liked and didn't.... and her tastes are an exact match to mine. Where we differed was on the paint scheme -- she wants old skool real paint - and I was thinking pure patina...

Here is what we're starting with - a body found in Wyoming by Pinkee's.

http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...630_150113.jpg

and the lack of "hot rod friends" that might be a real struggle. I don't have the
resources over there -- buddies to just call and say "come help me with...."

Send the jet to pick me up in Vacaville. I can lend a hand!!

Vince@Meanstreets

07-11-2014 03:52 PM

f the jet... get to the choppa

DBasher

07-11-2014 03:53 PM

Did you sit in Eric's shop truck? That mild chop looks real nice, proportioned to the rig and all. It looks like the green one Gwen likes has the same amount taken out.

I'm not sayin you're a tiny little man or anything but I can't imagine you'd be cramped with the right seating position and a mild chop. Besides, it just looks better.

Dan

pokey64

07-11-2014 03:58 PM

Saw this one at GG Des Moines last weekend.

http://i923.photobucket.com/albums/a...4/IMG_2173.jpg

96z28ss

07-11-2014 04:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HAULNSS (Post 559790)

http://2-photos.ebizautos.com/used-1...6691-2-640.jpg

This is the look that I like but, maybe a satin or matte finish.

intocarss

07-11-2014 04:31 PM

Clear coat it and run it just the way it is :flag2:

GregWeld

07-11-2014 04:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by intocarss (Post 559912)

Clear coat it and run it just the way it is :flag2:

Just no!

I don't want a rat rod -- I want a nice daily driver that I can be proud of. Rat rods are for 20 year olds.

tones2SS

07-11-2014 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 559817)

Definitely old school paint.

intocarss

07-11-2014 05:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 559915)

Just no!

I don't want a rat rod -- I want a nice daily driver that I can be proud of. Rat rods are for 20 year olds.

Rat Rods don't have $10.000 interiors, $40.000 worth of suspension and $25.000 worth of engine under them :mock:

bonecrrusher

07-11-2014 07:04 PM

Your not 20? :sieg:

waynieZ

07-11-2014 07:42 PM

Wow I'm tiered I just went through all of this thread. glad you decided to do a build thread on here. I love the 40 Ford front end on both the cars and trucks, and Kind of fond of those chevron tail lights too.
I like tem done both ways patina and old school paint. A good color choice and you can't loose either way. In patina I like the warn out signage on the door, it just fits!
I wish I could get my wife interested in cars but the only time she comes in the garage it to tell me its a mess and it needs cleaning!! She's a trooper going to car shows and swap meets with me but she just tolerates them not really interested.

Sieg	07-11-2014 08:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DBasher (Post 559907)

Mild chop and a booster seat.

:underchair:

LILBuzzy

07-11-2014 08:42 PM

http://www.streetrodderweb.com/features/1307_1940_ford_pickup/photo_09.html

Vegas69

07-12-2014 06:42 AM

I'm starting to think you are a Ford guy....:lostmarbles:

GregWeld

07-12-2014 06:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vegas69 (Post 559993)

I'm starting to think you are a Ford guy....:lostmarbles:

I'm a hot rod guy --- and I've already blown thru the Corvettes and Camaro craze. I put Chevy's in my Fords.

DOOM	07-12-2014 06:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vegas69 (Post 559739)

This is getting ridiculous. How many cars are you going to build before a few of these bozos ever turn a wheel? :action-smiley-027:

What are you trying to say Todd!?!?!?!?!?:mock:

GregWeld

07-12-2014 07:02 AM

Todd ---

Let's really get down to the nitty gritty....

How many track days have some of us run.... and cars completed... and shows attended.... :bang:

Charley does more car stuff in a month than I do in a year...

GregWeld

07-12-2014 08:41 AM

This is the front end that will be ordered on The Roadster Shop '40 Ford Chassis....

That should do the trick!

http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...kup/image.jpeg

Jay Hilliard

07-12-2014 08:52 AM

Nice Greg. RS makes some very nice stuff and it functions as well as it looks.

CURVES

07-12-2014 09:02 AM

Man I love their stuff.

I want one of those just to hang on the wall and look at!

GregWeld

07-12-2014 09:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CURVES (Post 560025)

Man I love their stuff.

I want one of those just to hang on the wall and look at!

You mean like this?????

http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...x/DSC_4102.jpg

Or like this.....

http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...x/IMG_1293.jpg

http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...x/IMG_1292.jpg

DOOM	07-12-2014 10:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 560019)

This is the front end that will be ordered on The Roadster Shop '40 Ford Chassis....

That should do the trick!

http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...kup/image.jpeg

Listen just cut to the chase and bring the whole thing to the Roadster Shop and be done with it!!! You khow the thing will be bad azz!!

CURVES

07-12-2014 11:39 AM

"You mean like this?????"

Yeah,

Except I meant on my living room wall!

Lol

carbuff

07-12-2014 03:15 PM

Greg,

What steering rack is that?

Che70velle

07-12-2014 07:47 PM

That's ironic. I have a PortCity asphalt chassis in my shop standing on its bottom, against the wall, in the same position as yours...

GregWeld

07-12-2014 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CURVES (Post 560037)

"You mean like this?????"

Yeah,

Except I meant on my living room wall!

Lol

Gwen wouldn't let me bring it in the house.... LOL

Quote:

Originally Posted by carbuff (Post 560053)

Greg,

What steering rack is that?

I have no idea Bryan --- Call Phil or Jeremy and ask them.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Che70velle (Post 560080)

That's ironic. I have a PortCity asphalt chassis in my shop standing on its bottom, against the wall, in the same position as yours...

Great way to store them out of the way.... and with that chain hoist -- I can put it up or down one handed! People are always freaked out when they see it...

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