1934 Dodge. The Stewart mini van

i see the wrenches are doing a good job holding the header up. r u welding the wrenches on there.

IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!
other than my nice white header paint that boiled off the headers in the first few minutes

About time its running again,I think its been down longer then my 37. Jeff

Thats great to hear. When are the burnouts going to start?

RustyKarr wrote:Thats great to hear. When are the burnouts going to start?

It will be a while. I still have to break the engine in. I'll be taking it easy on her for a while.

I drove her around the block today. I still needed to do some wiring work so I did it in front of the house. Even though I only drove it around the block it was fun to see people holding their hands over their ears as I idled by. lol

I was bored and I needed to break up the black on the hot rod. I was gonna run flames but I figured something easy 'cause they will be taken off when I mess with the body work again. Two days of prep and only the best paint was sprayed.

I dig the scallops!

Best paint? House of Color? nope. More like Home Depot's Hardware Store.lol
Each side took me about and hour to tape up, no prep work other than to wipe off the mud off, spray bomb it and outline it in white.


I'm no pinstriper but the white lines make it stand off the car..

I had Car X bend some pipes and add some cherrybombs to the car. I drove in with an open header hot rod and came out with a rusty Pinto sounding exhaust. $150.00 for two bends and I already had the mufflers. I made it about 5 blocks before the hanger weld broke loose. I was going to take it back but I figured if they couldn't do a better job than that I'd just weld it myself. I could put in some tunes now and hear them over the pipes!
Here is Aryan and his friend from down the street.

With the Rabbit Hash Cruise coming up tomorrow I went out in the garage to make me a hood. Everyone is freaking out over the rain and I figured it would stink to get my dizzy wet and be off on the side of the road. I thought about it for a while and my style of hot rod is no fenders or hood stripped to the bone, light and fast rod. I don't want a hood. how do I keep the rain out of the dizzy? I looked around and seen my Rt. 66 sign hanging on the wall. A little grinding, couple holes drilled and stuck in the break to give it a bend was good enough for a dizzy cover.

I also paint my breathers to match what little bit of checker board I had on the engine already.

Atta boy Reb. That's great. Really an improvment. Can't wait to see it in person. Etc, Etc..........you know the rest

The one thing I never liked was the jump ramp rearend of the car. I never change those ugly taillights because I know I was going to do something crazy if I kept it.


Too late to turn back now.

Yea definitly one of those points were there is no turning back

You are going to french those taillights into the new panel right?

John B wrote:You are going to french those taillights into the new panel right?

lol nope. I'm stuck on what taillights to use. I have a set of 47 Chevy's but don't like the shape. I may run 1950 Pontiacs but it seems everyone has them anymore.

That thing really looks great (I can't see the pix here at work). It's coming right along. You're making great progress. I can't wait to see it.

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John B wrote:I may run 1950 Pontiacs but it seems everyone has them anymore.

Well, at least the cool people.

I was going to just cut off the dove tail but after looking at the back it was butchered and patches were all welded in the back of it.


Here's what they had in it for a gas tank. It must be a 40 Gal. tank. That will not be going back in.

Looks like a few gas filler holes through out the years and two holes that was for the swing down rack that was on the back were all patched up. I cut off the bad and looked to see what I had to work with. The rear section of the floor was waisted too. Who ever welded on that jump ramp in the back didn't bother welding it to the floors. the back section of the body just floated there with only the 1/4's hold it up. No wonder it sounded like it was falling apart. IT WAS!

couple more inches cut off

Some round tubing was tacked on to the bottom and then the twisting and tugging to get the metal to bend the way I wanted it to began.

The english wheel took a few turn for the side panels

Corey sit on the inside with the dolly while I tried to tell him where to put it so I could strike it. It took a while but he got the hang of hit.
I was wanting to hit the car shows this weekend so I was up to 1 a.m. working on it to get it roughed in. It's shaped in and the funny marks are from the grinder to give the mud something to grip.

I slapped some mud over the welds and shot a thin coat of red primer over the metal to keep rust away.
This is at the Newport Car Show. Chad wanted to make some sound when we showed up, if you look at the headers he uncorked the dumps

I didn't sand the bondo or anything. I still have some metal work to do on the upper part and no the taillights are not staying there. I put them back on just for the weekend.
It looks rough but that mud is pretty thin.

What a difference it has made. A little cutting and welding. It's lookin good Steve! Chad took them off because he didn't want Steve sounding like a pansie..

Thats true.

http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/pts/687232994.html
This might solve some ignition problems.