So, here are a few photographs of what we're starting with for our attempt at building a lakes car. The body is a 1935 Ford Five Window Coupe. My partner found it in a creek bed! All of the bad sheet metal (what's left) is being replaced before we start the chassis. I've already grafted in new lower quarter panels and rebuilt the lower "B" pillars. about 6"-8" of the bottom of each quarter and "B" pillar was completely gone! At first when Chad (my partner) showed me photographs of the car, I said, "you've got to be kidding. That thing is really far gone." His reply, "well, we want to be known for saving sheet metal that others would turn away. Here you go." How could I argue with that.
I've also gotten the entire rear window and a portion of the rear section of the roof to replace the rotten existing one. We're going to chop the car anyway, and you have to quarter the roof on these cars to do that. So grafting in a different rear window section won't be much different from a normal chop.
We also scored a Winters Quickchange over the summer at a swap meet. We're going to send it off to Winters to have the aluminum tubes changed to steel ones, as well as change the offset pinion to a centered one with new axle shafts.
All of the 4130 tubing is here for the tube chassis. So, like I said, we're just waiting on two things. Me to have enough time away from customer builds to work on it, and the transmission adapter bell.