Chevy Coupe Frame Fabrication and Painting, Suspension

Here I added some crossmember bracing, sometimes called x-members because of their shape. 

I then added some Ford Mustang springs and Speedway Motors spring mounts. 

Here the frame is upside down for painting.  You can see the 4 link mounts that I welded up.

Tara bought me the headers for Christmas.

I just like these two black and white photos.

These last four are out of order but, they show the body channeled over the frame 6 inches and what it looked like before the channel job.

Unchanneled

Channeled

You can see why I said earlier I should have taken more out of the frame length, it looks funny.

1929 Willy's Whippet, Ford Model A, Hot Rod, Mercury Flathead

Started with a pretty bare Ford Model A Frame

I started this project about 3 years ago with the intention of taking parts I already had, putting them to together and making a rolling project that I could sell and make some coin off.

I made the rear section out of new 2x4 box tubing.  I stepped it up to get the car lower and extended it rearward to use a spring behind banjo rear differential.

I also needed something to occupy my mind that winter, so I rounded everything up and brought it to my garage in October 2009.

1949 Mercury 8CM Flathead

I had an old Ford farm truck that had this Mercury Flathead V8 in it and it still spun over so I yanked it out and started tearing it down.

1936-39 Ford Wide Five Wheels and Brake Drums

I used part of the Model A frame that I cut off to make a rear cross brace and then used c channel from another frame section to make this rear spring perch.

Here is the 1929 Whippet body as I bought it.  I sold it on ebay and I think the guy who bought it died and nobody came to pick it up.  It is a Sport Coupe, it used to have a leather top like a convertible.

1927-1931 Chevrolet 5 Window Coupe Build Project

So what seems like a decade ago while we were living in Oregon, I bought a 1931 Chevy 5 window coupe on ebay from a guy in Minot, ND and while we were there my in-laws and I scrounged up this 1927 Chevy Truck, I mainly wanted the frame which I found later to be more work than it was worth but I parted it out and made all my investment back.

Total basket case

Here are both of the cars loaded up and parked at the border of Montana and Idaho

Prior to starting the build on this car I read books and educated myself on how to approach it for years.  No matter how much you prepare, it never goes as planned.

So I started stripping the 27' truck on the trailer and selling off the parts to guys that restore.

I came to find out from some guys I met in a car club the the truck was a 27' but at some point someone had replaced the engine with a 28' because they were a sealed oil system and more power.

I drug it into the back yard and that is where I pulled the engine out.  I sold the engine to the guys in the car club the "Westside Cruisers".  I ground and pounded rivets out of the frame for a couple days.

Here the frame is stripped down and ready to get sandblasted.  With the exception of the steering column still installed.