Author Topic: Pinstriper49's 49 Shoebox (Formerly SKOFORD'S) (Read 155993 times)

AntiBling · « **Reply #75 on:** December 07, 2009 9:09 pm »

Last I saw of them was after he called and left a message for us to go get them, they were sitting in the dumpsters he was using to haul the cars over to the crusher.

pinstriper40 · « **Reply #76 on:** December 12, 2009 4:08 am »

I started to peak the hood today. I took Brian's suggestion and got some 1/4" square stock. I bent it tofit the contour the way I wanted it to and tack welded it in. I then welded from the square stock down onto the hood. I hope to make it super smooth with lead sometime in the future. Plans are to lead the headlights too.

Eyeball · « **Reply #77 on:** December 12, 2009 6:38 am »

That looks like it worked good. Keep it up!

pinstriper40 · « **Reply #78 on:** December 12, 2009 6:56 am »

I started on the trailing edge of the peak towards the middle of the hood... It got a little wavy but I don't think it's too bad. I'll have a couple spots to try and shrink out or something... I'll have to see how it all turns out before I mess with it too much.

flatheaded · « **Reply #79 on:** December 12, 2009 8:33 pm »

Looks good! Saw your post on the HAMB and noticed you are looking for headlight frenching rings. I wanna french my headlights too. I looked for quite some time and a couple of weeks finally found a set of steel '52's but I came across these earlier on Egay. Little spendy but so are real '52-'53's. I got lucky and did some machining work for a guy in exchange for a chance to scrounge his junk pile. Anyway check out the link, might be an option. Keep up the good work. BTW: should be getting your steering column out next week or the week after for sure. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390122979848

flatheaded · « **Reply #80 on:** December 12, 2009 8:36 pm »

Just found these too: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/KUSTOM-CUSTOM-1950-MERCURY-HEADLIGHT-FRENCHING-RINGS_W0QQitemZ290379548372QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMotors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories?hash=item439bf846d4

pinstriper40 · « **Reply #81 on:** December 12, 2009 9:58 pm »

Eyeball had pointed me to those as well- I think I'll go with them. Later on today I'm going to try and fix the hood. It might take a while. Anyone have a sponge they can lend me?

JakesBackyard · « **Reply #82 on:** December 13, 2009 2:41 am »

Keep it up Joel.

Tom · « **Reply #83 on:** December 14, 2009 2:01 pm »

I think I still have a set of headlight rings for frenching. I won't be able to check till this weekend.

pinstriper40 · « **Reply #84 on:** December 14, 2009 5:31 pm »

Quote from: "JakesBackyard"

Keep it up Joel.

Thanks Jake, I will! Now that x-mas break is coming I'll get a lot done!

pinstriper40 · « **Reply #85 on:** December 14, 2009 5:32 pm »

Quote from: "Tom"

I think I still have a set of headlight rings for frenching. I won't be able to check till this weekend.

Cool... are they like the ones flatheaded posted? If so I want them if they're available. If they're hagans you can keep them...

Tom · « **Reply #86 on:** December 14, 2009 5:48 pm »

no, no, none of that hagans shit! These be genuine Ford.

pinstriper40 · « **Reply #87 on:** December 15, 2009 1:14 am »

Ohhhh! I didn't think you'd have any of hagan's shit.

racerjohnson · « **Reply #88 on:** December 19, 2009 9:43 pm »

http://www.streetmachineclub.com/Projects/Project.aspx?id=146536

nice car.

pinstriper40 · « **Reply #89 on:** December 19, 2009 9:46 pm »

Pete- I like that a lot too.. I'm now second-guessing hardtopping it... I'm just not sure if I want to or not. As of late I've seen a lot of cool "b-pillared" sedans.