Braces for a sun visor

Was at House of Kustomz (Brians part of the former Pirate Kusomz, after what feels like a bad divorce) to help prepare for the show at Bella Center the comming weekend. Tonights task was to fabricate a pair of braces for the sun visor on the newly build '28 Chevé pick-up (a cut-down two door sedan), as the old casted ones was broken.
I hammered a piece of steel pipe flat, bended it, and made it fit.





The visor end was threaded to match the old brass bolts, and the A-pillar end was rivited to the pillar.
(Guy in the back ground is Matt, HoK's new man.)

















A kuul detail on a rather rough car.

Last week I was out at Tim's new garage, where he is working on the chopped '53 Pontiac for a customer down south.
I especially like the modified molding on the B post:



I will not be going to either shops as often as in the old days- not because, I like one part better than the other, but because neither of the guys behind the shops have been up to my garage, helping me with my projects. So, one hour spend on helping them, is an hour less for working on my own cars.

Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr

Happy birthday to me...

Hasn't blogged i a while.
Ole-Henry has been running great, a little alternator problems, but so far I've managed to fix it by charging the battery at home, and trying to drive home before it's dark.
I began to work on the fourdoor Volvo 121, but I had to give up. Realisticly I'd be better off finding another for the same price as the body work alone. So I had the sheet metal guy and mechanic, Børge Henschel, to look at my 221, Hippo- and we've decided to work on that instead.
Working on the Volvo's has left very little room for planing a birthday party, and my luck would have, that my birthday was the same day the two beamed auto lift, I bought, should be taken down- so no big party this year. I invited Lörs von Loco and Shaddy Shane back to my place after the work, and had some good lunch, and otherwise I celebrated by relaxing with Rikke. Here are some pictures from the day, and the days after.
Gifts:


Gifts from myself to me:























Spend the day in good company:


And birthday meal should be massive! I made large "wienerschnitzlen" with pan fried potatos and butter sauce (guess it's not so healthy, but it tasted good!).





Served with a liberty ale!


And for dessert: hot chocolate and lemon half-moon with whiped cream!


Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr

When parts gets impossible to find...

... one must make them new.
I had a request for a rubber wedge for the back door of a Volvo 445, from a friends farther, who couldn't seem to find it anywhere. Luckyly there was one in useable condition on a set of rear doors, I had, so he picked both doors up yesterday.






It is held by two screws, has a steel backing plate and two dustance pipes inside.








But before he did, I spend an evening drawing a 3D model of it, for future reference.


The drawing will be placed on my website soon.

Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr

Vestjydsk Grusbaneløb #2

This weekend I attended the second annual Vestjydsk Grusbaneløb, a dirt track race near Esbjerg, which is on the west most side of Denmark.
Going that long, and staying off the motorways, was a task in itself, but luckily we ran into Ole Skov, who were going there in his '54 Chevy custom. That gave a nice view on the way.

Arriving on the spot, we were some of the first, so we had to kill some time. After an improvised hill climb, where a sufficient run-up secured me the selfappointed title "King of the hill", we stopped racing for friday. Then I had a go of some good quality, jydsk moonshine! In this case, I like chemistry!

The settings for this meet was fantastic, the partially clouded skies and the piles of gravel gave some good pictures.

Lining up for the race:

My biggest ambition this weekend was to beat Allan Stendrup in his '29 Tudor. He is running the same Scintilla magneto ignition, but he has a Stromberg 81 carb off of the 60 horsed later V8 (I run Weber) and stock head (mine is welded), and then he is fenderless, so Ole-Henry is ca. 200 kilo grams heavier than his '29.

Off the line, I beat him and was the fastest, but going in to the soft turn I opened too much on the inside, so he slipped past and never gave me a chance to overtake him. Foolish mistake - but my car was still the fastest!!

Thomas (webmaster on traditional-hotrods.dk) was there in his apparently-too-fine-to-race '32 british tudor with french flat-V8:

Second race was against Ole in the '54 with almost stock straight 6, and again I was first off the starting line.

This time I had learned from my mistakes (the hard way), so I cut early in the the soft turn, and ended up beating him.

After that there were a break, so we headed down for lunch. There I got to talking to Søren, the owner/builder of this fine '30 roadster, about some of the fine details on his A-V8.

   

After lunch, the weather got worse, so second half of the races was rather wet. I beat Otto in his '54 Chevy with 305 V8, it was just not a Chevy day.

At my last race, I got beaten by Allan Evers in his '50 (?) Dodge, which could have ended much worse! Going in to the soft turn, I tried to take him on the inside, as Stendrup did with me, but all the loose gravel made both cars loose traction, so a little fender bending ended up with him going out first.

Of course, Hell-Bent was here racing his 350cc BSA, which landed him a second place, only beaten by a larger BSA dirt bike.

During dinner, it started raining, so Rikke swiftly made herself a new hat:

You'll find gold at the end of the rain bow, in this case the creative mind of Teddy:

Saturday evening would the guys behind the meet, Anders and Johnny, present the top three races in the two clases; cars and bikes.

The prices were a fine, cut-in-half brake drum off of one of Johnny's old vws, with an engraved plate on it. As I had only lost two races, I came in third, which landed me one of the trophies.

Looking forward to next year, guys! I will be back!

Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr