Weld's 40 Ford pickup

[Graham08]

The renderings look great! I follow Jim on Instagram, he's always doing something cool.

I like the one-off "mag" wheels with the knock-offs. Pinkee's has done these on a couple different builds and they all look great.

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by ironworks

Your wanting to Dow coat the artillery looking wheels or more of a mag style wheel like the drawing. The hub cap wheels Dow coated will be weird as they kinda look like a steel wheel. The Dow coated mag wheels would be cool with some dragster push bumper stuff on it.

See below.... there won't be any "mag" styled wheels on this project.

Originally Posted by Che70velle

So the wheels are a painted aluminum? The rendering looks cool, Greg.
You gonna two tone the paint, like the rendering, but use the dark base, with the tanish fenders?

See below for wheel answer.


NO --- I don't like the two tone.... It will be one color. And mostly likely be painted in a single stage Urethane.... Not base/clear. I plan to wash this with a mitt and a bucket of soap.... I don't want to have to care about swirls etc in the paint.

Originally Posted by Graham08

The renderings look great! I follow Jim on Instagram, he's always doing something cool.

I like the one-off "mag" wheels with the knock-offs. Pinkee's has done these on a couple different builds and they all look great.

The answer to all of the above is NO...... you're all confusing one rendering with another. The full body rendering showed a proposed wheel design - which I nix'd.... because the truck is being built as a daily driver. Daily drivers need frequent washing... as they aren't show cars that are packed away in cotton balls... That style "mag" wheel had the proposed DOW 7 PAINT...

The Artillery "styled" billet wheel was an alternative because I objected to the "mag" style wheel (not based on looks - but based on the DD use of the project). However.... There is not one good reason I can come up with for paying for a one off billet wheel and the painting of them etc... when I can buy them all day long off the shelf.

I didn't include all the discussion details between builder / designer / owner. I was just showing "direction".

[Graham08]

I like the artillery wheels, too. I like it even more that the intended purpose is to be driven often and design decisions are being made to make that a reality.

Thanks for sharing the process with us!

[DBasher]

The rendering looks great....well other then the two tone, color and wheels,LOL!

The subtle chop looks fantastic!

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by DBasher

The rendering looks great....well other then the two tone, color and wheels,LOL!

The subtle chop looks fantastic!

It's obvious you've not worked thru the designer/client relationship.... Where they send you lots of "versions" and you eventually end up with a design that meets the desires... LOL


Think of it as a smorgasbord... You look it all over and pick the crap you think you'd like.

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by DBasher

The rendering looks great....well other then the two tone, color and wheels,LOL!

The subtle chop looks fantastic!

See --- when you do this stuff - you pick a designer(s) that has done some things you've seen that you like... you have a long conversation about your "look" and "feel" of the project. Then they start sending you stuff... at first you just let 'em slide and you shrug your shoulders... obviously they need direction and they're just totally in the dark. So you say subtle things to them like "did you ever attend classes at the art school?".... or "well... that looks like something my Grandmother would drive". Then they send you a few more of their crazy ass ideas... and you give them more "input" like.... "is this for some other customer?" or "I didn't know you worked on the BatMobile". After a few back and forth along these lines - they settle down and get to work with some of the ideas YOU gave them 7 sets of drawing and $3500 in billings ago. I usually give them kudos at this point something along the lines of "one more set and we're done" or "I've got some stuff I really like from "X" (his competitor) that I think is going to work". After "critiquing" a few details, some times I ask them if they'd really like me to post this sh!t on the Internet...

In about a year they finally come up with one to two things you can use and everybody is happy.


LOL

[jarhead]

Nice project Greg...

I am north of Pinkees, maybe a 1/2 hour. I should stop by and take a peek.

Joe

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by jarhead

Nice project Greg...

I am north of Pinkees, maybe a 1/2 hour. I should stop by and take a peek.

Joe

Hell yeah Joe! Not only check out my '40 - but Eric has some pretty sweet other projects going on in there.... and some real nice machinery etc!

[Panteracer]

I run with one of our Pantera Vendors that has
a Tube frame Pantera... 2200lbs, 358 Nascar motor, 850hp,
12" wheels in front 13" out back with Slicks,
Glass body etc... Very very fast car... I can almost stay
with him in the corners but hit the straight and goodby

I almost bought the Twin car years back that needed to
be totally gone thru etc.. he may still have it

My problem is time and wanting to have a car that I can
drive on the street and also track... my Pantera has gone
about as far as I can go without it being a total track car

Bob

Ps... Greg told me what he thinks his next car
will be when I drove down to Laguna.. maybe if you guys show
up at the track once in while he will let you know also

[Lenie]

Ok Greg, this build started on 7/14 and here we wait. Time to go pick up the ride, put it in your shop and start putting those skills of yours back to use!! It's winter time in Sun Valley, what else you got to do this time of year with those hands?? Last time anything took you this long to build it was that cabin your working on and this is just suppose to be a driver. Let's go Nancy