A loooooong way to go!

Having bought the cab some years back, I haven't wasted time thinking about the condition of it, since I knew, i didn't have the time to fix it the first couple of years. Neither have I thought much about storing it a warm and dry place, so it has just been laying in my garage next to the pigsty. Whether it is the swines or the condition I bought it in, I can't say, but the cab is in very bad shape! Mostly the rear corners is my concern, since that's the parts, I haven't found as spareparts - the lower cowl panel and door bottoms are easy to get.

I knew, the lower corners were gone and that they had some ugly welds, but haven't noticed the rust pitting through and the notches/groves and top corners is not pretty either.

But hopefully I'll learn to fix it, using the expertise and help from Tim at Piratekustomz on Amager so it'll be a fine car again soon. My plan is to see, if I can meet a deadline of attending Bedrock 17th-19th of June!

Local swapmeet findings

I like going to swapmeets! You never quite know what you could find and often you run into a good bargain!
Along with the guys from Pirate customs, I went to Græsted to the club "American Horsepower"'s Swapmeet today, hoping to find parts for the A-PU. Didn't find any Model A parts, but got a passengers side dash ornament from a 1955 chevy for dkr. 30,- (roughly $5-6), one like this: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3447/3237521249_abb298fd61.jpg
Besides that, I found a set of 3 Schmidts gauges- ampmeter, oil pressure and vaccummeter- for $9-10. The plan is to turn the ornament up side down and install the gauges in the black net, and place the stering column in the hole for the watch. And so I have a cool gauges holder!


Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!

Dannerr

New customized Visa-card

In order to keep my mind and my money on the project, I ordered a personalized Visa-card, with a picture of the '31 PU project:

Hopefully that will help me stop wasting money on unimportant things like food and rent, and start making me concentrate on getting the pick-up on the road!

Personligt Visa/Dankort

Hvor er det nogle gange en fantastisk verden, vi lever i! Jeg har fundet ud af, at min bank også tilbyder personligt billede på forsiden af dankort, hvorfor jeg har valgt et billede, der forhåbentlig skal få mig til at stikke dankortet tilbage i pungen, medmindre der er tale om dele til projekterne!

Der er en regel for det billede, man vælger, som jeg læner mig lige lovligt meget opad, nemlig at "billedet ikke må indeholde en bil" - men der står ikke noget om, at det ikke må indeholde et bilprojekt!

Det er et billede af mit Ford A ladvognsprojekt, som kan følges på ladvognsprojektbloggen: http://dannerrs31fordapu.blogspot.com/

The right conditions

The project with the pick-up has been laying still for some time, only advancing in number of parts. I have prioritized my time to finishing my school, so all car, bike and moped projects has been on stand by. But now I've finished school, and some of the sparetime has been spent on collecting the parts in my new garage, at my in laws place. My farther in law is a retiered (and some times borred) carpenter, who used to have his own company with 30 emploies. So in the fall he desided to build a garage in one of the sheds for me, supporting the rebuilding of my pick-up. He will also come in handy, when I get to the point of building a wooden bed!
Yesterday - being a former mechanical engineering student, now an unemployed bum with no future plans! - I spent a day picking up the parts for the body from my other garage, 120 miles south of the new one:





The recently painted 17" wheels and pretty clean parts, such as tools, '30 radiator shell and headlights went in to the car.
Back at the new place, I blocked up the frame, tore off the wheels, and just as a mock up, I placed the firewall on top, giving me an idea about the the size of the project!





The back pieces (top and bottom behind it):


The back corners of the cab, which needs a great deal of repair:


So now I have really good conditions for begining the project!

At the moment, I can not see any other option, other than using wood for the rebuild of the cab. But maybe I'll end up building a steel skelleton for it, and perhaps start selling it, if I can make cheap enough.
And if things go as planed, the pick-up will also be equiped with my hydraulic Model A brakes!



Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!

Dannerr

Så kom bilen endelig ind!

Jeg kørte i dag til Lolland efter de karossestumper, jeg har liggende, til at bygge min ladvogn af. Turen tog ca tre timer og et kvarter, så det var rart at komme i gang med at læsse! Traileren blev fyldt med de rustne stumper og de finere dele, såsom de nymalede 17" fælge, lygter, værktøj, m.m. kom om bag i bilen.





Inden turen gik fra plådten, rundede jeg lige Sakskøbing, hvor jeg spiste en noget sen frokost på torvets grill. De serverer nemlig en "Charley burger", som består af salat, 228g bøf, bløde løg, stegte chili i skiver og bearnaisesovs i en burgerbolle- et STÆRKT anbefalelsesværdigt måltid!


Da jeg landede i værkstedet, og havde spist aftensmad, fik jeg tømt ekvipaget! Derefter fik jeg endelig sat et andet hjulnav på, og kunne, i bedste trillebørsstil, for første gang køre projektet ind i det nybyggede værksted!





Hjulene røg af igen, og ind på lageret, så jeg kan komme til at skille resten ad. Men inden da, blev jeg lige nødt til at prøve at stille torpedopladen med sidepaneler og A-stolper op på den nye ramme:


Her med B-motoren i baggrunden:


De stykker, der gerne en dag skal blive til de afsluttende hjørner på karossen:


De to dele (øverst og nederst inde bag ved), der skal danne bagstykke:


Er sgu blevet rigtig glad for det nye værksted!



Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!

Dannerr

Motoren kom da ind...

Eftersom at jeg havde taget et forkert hjulnav med op i værkstedet, blev der ikke flyttet ramme i dag. Men jeg fik da kørt B-motoren ind i værkstedet, så jeg kan komme i gang med den!



Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!

Dannerr

Nyt værksted indflytningsklart!

I fredags og lørdags blev gulvet malet, og det har nu tørret i 5 ½ dag.





Portene fik også lige en gang:







Så i aften rykker jeg rammen til min '31 ladvogn (http://dannerrs31fordapu.blogspot.com/) ind i værkstedet, og i morgen skal der hentes karosseri op fra plådten!