1955 Ford Customline Project
 

Hi guys,

I am new to the forum and i decided to post up my project. I am building a 1955 ford 2dr customline. We bought the car from someone who started a full restoration on it and decided not to finish it after painting everything. Were going for a very subtle look on the outside with 18x8 fronts and 20x10 rears otherwise stock appearing. Killer engine compartment and interior and suspension!

Take a look at the rendering,


http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...8/5b830a47.jpg

That's awesome! I love the 55 & 56 Customlines. Can't wait to see the progress on this one. Can you give any details at all? Color? Engine? Wheel and tire size?

Joe.

Art Morrison chassis
5.0 coyote motor w/Getrag 6 speed EDIT** Now using Tremec TKO-600

18x8 and 20x10 schott wheels

Color is ppg black already but we are going to strip it and debadge the trunk, hood and a few other custom touches

Sounds like a cool project keep us posted

Agreed, not many out there compared to the tri-fives.

Great car to put a Coyote 5.0 in. Those are good looking shoeboxes. :thumbsup:

Hey 56 - what's your name?

Sounds like a great project! What parts you did name are top notch Sir...:thumbsup:

BTW, you can share here. You're safe, and we won't tell anybody! :cool:

cool, :thumbsup: but go with a bigger wheel in the front.

Those cars are always cool when done..:thumbsup:

Looks like a great project! Good luck! :thumbsup:

Thanks guys!

Ill upload some more pictures when photobucket lets me back on their site. ill share some stuff with you guys but i want to have pictures to go along with the parts when they come in! ;)

sure will. ill try and update as much as i can :thumbsup:

Yes Sir! we are a ford family and we only drive fords. Our coyote motor will be a little different than normal with 8 throttle bodies :unibrow:

oh and vintage inspired valve covers :thumbsup:

name is Tyler and my grandpas name is Gene. we have built quite a few other cars and i can post some pictures when my photobucket acount comes back up.

Dont worry ill keep you guys informed! Ordered the chassis today so thats my update for the day!

I would but 18's give the look im going for ;)
Thanks Tracy! Would love to have you do the interior :thumbsup:


Thank you sir:thumbsup:

Hey Tyler! Nice to meet you. Some guys put their name in their sig, just sayin'. Ok, let me see....mid 50's chassis. Sounds like a work of Art? :)

Thanks Ron! nice to meet you too ;) Ill have to put my name in my sig now :thumbsup:

Nice collection Tyler :thumbsup: Start a build thread on this baby!

This is the build thread on the 55. I just wanted to show some of the other cars we have built. I figured that there was not much interest in hot rods so I didn't start a new thread showing them. I have some build pictures that I will post up a little later today :thumbsup:

First picture
 

This is how she looked when we first got her home from pennsylvania and in the shop.

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...fwheels144.jpg

Scrap 272 Y Block that came with and a box of junk parts

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...fwheels142.jpg

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...fwheels143.jpg

Couldnt stand looking at it
 

after a few days of having it at home we couldnt stand looking at the car sitting so high we pulled her down a bit!

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...8/a1dc2f4d.jpg

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...8/20d45c48.jpg

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...8/cac7f9da.jpg

Some outside pictures:

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...8/382c5ac8.jpg

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...8/14ef62ec.jpg


http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...8/d400176a.jpg

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http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...8/b3085da5.jpg

Waiting
 

Since the art morrison chassis will take 4 weeks to get here we are prepping for the chassis to come in.

We have the interior all gutted. when we got the car some interior pieces were thrown together to make the car look better in the pictures and look better selling it. the stock carpet was blue and they painted it black along with the door panels. all the garnish moldings had 1 or 2 screws holding them in and a few other things. Anyways we had mostly everything out but the seat. We decided to take the seat out yesterday and it came out pretty good and we vaccumed all of the old foam out of the car that fell out of the seat. next we raised the car up on the lift and we took all of the body bolts out of the car except the front 2 that we loosened up and can take them out quick when we get the chassis.


Right now we are working on test fitting all of the door eyebrows and stuff because we recieved the wrong ones and want to make sure that these are going to fit.

We also have a 1956 ford dash that we are working on and smoothing out.

Stock dash:

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...5556Dash1L.jpg

Stock 56 dash:

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...irlaneDash.jpg


How were smoothing our dash out:

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...007_detail.jpg

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...104_detail.jpg

no updates this weekend. had to go to a funeral and had some other things to do.

Wheels
 

had nice conversation with Dave Wagner at Schott wheels today! hopefully next week i will be ordering my set of Schott GT wheels so they should show up at the same time as the chassis and i can get everthing mocked up correctly then and things will start rollin!

As far as tires go i think i am going with the BFG G-Force T/A KDW2. what do you guys think? good road maners and decent autocrossing?

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...8/43a41a12.jpg

Nice choice of wheels

Thanks!
The wheels are so clean looking and such high quality from what ive seen so I am really excited to get them!

Hey Ty - nice choice on the wheels. I actually stopped by unannounced to the Schott factory. I was in the neighborhood, couldn't help it! I gotta say, aside from being nice guys and true professionals, thier whole line of wheels are top notch. Some styles may resonate more w the PT crowd based on your build design, but man they are bling...:thumbsup:

Thanks!

I like the wheels alot and i am going with a Protouring style car but with some street rod influenced parts yet like the hillborn stack injection and stuff so the wheels will fit in good! :thumbsup:

The next 55 after this one will have some ccw's or forgelines and be strictly protouring style.

^ nothing wrong w street rod style unless you're building a track only car! :yes:

:thumbsup: This one is going to be drivin and drivin hard! once it is done with its first year on the circuit starting with sema in fall and skipping the indoor shows except the Milwaukee WOW because its local it will go to some of the Goodguys shows and after that the car will be drivin everywhere no matter how far. our cars are drivers but were going to treat this one a little a little nice in the begining!

Just Signed off on the final Chassis drawing and will be going into production tomorrow after being faxed!

Ordering wheels this week also!

:thumbsup:

Update
 

Got some work done this weekend. The body is ready to come off the chassis, all we have to do is pull the 2 front bolts that are finger tight. We are working on finishing up up the quater windows and the door windows since we have to wait a little for the chassis. We fixed up the the original window chanels and put them in all 4 windows but the anti rattlers were gone so we had to buy new ones from dennis carpenter but they didnt make them for the 2dr post only the crown vic and the hard top, so we had to make them ourself.

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...update1010.jpg

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...update1008.jpg

Thunderbird emergency brake installed

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...update1016.jpg

newport engineering windshield wiper motor test fitted

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...update1018.jpg

Factory wheel tubs cut in half and spare tire holder cut out so when we recieve the art morrison chassis we can make final measurements on cutting out the rest of the truck floor. we will have to modify the truck brackets with the bigger tubs but shouldnt be too much work.

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...update1002.jpg

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...update1004.jpg

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...update1006.jpg

Good Floors

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...update1012.jpg

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...update1014.jpg

Anti rattlers installed.

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...update1020.jpg

heres our dash. The gauge pod panel will be layed out for our new gauges and we we cut some more card board templates with the idea of turning it into some engine turned aluminum pieces. I am most likely going to just go ahead and smooth out the radio, ashtray, and switch holes except for the lights, key and wipers so they will be easy to acess instead of in the console. i will be leaving the glove box to because it is still nice to put things in.

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...update1021.jpg

wheels were also ordered and will show up about the same time as the chassis which works out perfect :thumbsup:

Parts are ariving!
 

First Arival of the chassis parts!


http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...wmo8/010-3.jpg



Strange 31 spline S/S Axel package with the bearings.

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...wmo8/012-2.jpg

More parts will be showing up everyday!

Chassis is being finished up tomorrow and most likely shipping out friday! Hopefully have it at the end of next week! :thumbsup:


Wheels are next in line to be machined and should be here in 2 weeks

Ordering Some Toyo Proxes 4 Tires tomorrow

Update:

All of the Strange Drop ship parts have arived!

Had the axel bearings pressed on today and put the wheel studs in and torqued them down.

Third member:

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...wmo8/009-4.jpg

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...wmo8/010-4.jpg

Chassis has not shown up yet... Hoping for monday!

You'll see the brakes on the chassis when i assemble it!

Very cool!

Thanks Michael! I gotta get back over on the Street machine forum. My project has gone a little different direction since i was on there last but anyways i gotta get in touch with you

Looking forward to seeing you there!! :thumbsup: :cheers:


Michael.

Big News!
 

The Chassis came!


I was so excited to get it uncrated that i didnt even take any pictures of it in the crate when it came!

Oh well!


http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...wmo8/025-1.jpg

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...wmo8/019-1.jpg

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...nowmo8/020.jpg

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http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...wmo8/024-2.jpg

:thumbsup:

Yeah, that Art Morrison stuff...it's ok I guess...

:) :yes: :D

(Congrats Ty! )

Thanks Ron! It's starting to come together now!

Well the UPS man showed up yesterday and dropped off the last 3 boxes from Art Morrison but we had a busy day and didnt get a chance to open them up.

This morning we opened them up and got everything organized


http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...wmo8/001-2.jpg

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...wmo8/002-3.jpg

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...wmo8/003-4.jpg

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...wmo8/004-5.jpg

Brakes were here a week ago but didnt get any pictures up. (Not like you guys havent seen them before) :lateral:

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/...wmo8/005-5.jpg

Lookin good. :thumbsup:

Should be a fun car to toss around.