She's back on the road . . . . . and sodding typical

[Fl@pper]

summat like this with a redish tint would be nice

 

[jenk]

Thats stunning, colour would do me.

 

[Fl@pper]

Thats stunning, colour would do me.

i was saving up favours + brownie points with my bodyshop guy to use on the hotrod paint job but as this is back on the road i might have to blow em and treat the beeza instead

hotrod will look fine in matt black for a while anyway

 

[andyj]

Good work matey

I'll back Flapper when when he says the car had a hard life before he got his hands on it..... I knew the guy that owned it before...... say no more !!! his current Mondeo doesn't get any better treatment.... but then that's a company car !

 

[Fl@pper]

dare i ask what happened to the Mitsubishi ? mad as hell that thing

 

[andyj]

Not sure.... I know it had a new clutch at one point, costing ~£900

After they split up, I thnk Tom sold the Mitsi

 

[BrownCupra]

Sorry for ya mate that would p$s me off

 

[UncleFester]

Found a pic of your 'Rod completed Fl@pper - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XKTZ3DoiPhs&feature=related

 

[Fl@pper]

hahaha i like it / love it in fact

more finished than mine at the moment in all honesty

my fave at the moment though http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PPscWOEA8P4&feature=related

 

[UncleFester]

Mmmmm that's a bit nice isn't it - so by the looks of those two videos, you don't have much work to do other than to find an Austin A7, hack the roof off and drop it in between the rear wheels

 

[Fl@pper]

Mmmmm that's a bit nice isn't it - so by the looks of those two videos, you don't have much work to do other than to find an Austin A7, hack the roof off and drop it in between the rear wheels

once the chassis is done that pretty much sums it up really ye but you need some grunt to get the rails moving mind

'27 Ford model T roadster body at the moment but currently trying to convince a local farmer to let me clear the hay out of his barn so i can free out a '34 ford coupe shell i found last year but he's being stubbourn

either way it will be roofless and fenderless for sure

 

[Fl@pper]

*update*

Well it's been on the drive 2 days (waiting tax) and already bonnet is up and i have been taking the dash apart again - lol

stuck my new (10 mnths old now) stereo in at last and tidies up a few loose ends replacing speedo/heater led's etc and decided to sort the central locking out

as i was fearing i had melted the blue supply pipe i was bracing ready to strip all the seats and rear trim back out again !!

for some wierd and unexplainable reason (mainly as the key is a bitch to use) i ripped the tailgate cover off and see if i could solely get the boot lock working on it's own and go from there.

solenoid out and notice the clear seal over the shaft is off and can feel air coming out of it ?? lever it back on and voila works a treat so plug it all back in and test and ALL works ok ???

now i have never ever taken the tailgate trim off before or even touched the tailgate in 4/5 years or so but it has been revealed in the workshop my kid (bored) was using an airline to play with the doors (blowing down the pipe to make em pop up. Looks like she blew the cover off the boot and the resulting air leak caused all my doors to no longer work

by god it's good to be back in it and by hell nothing ever changes

 

[warren_cox]

now i have never ever taken the tailgate trim off before or even touched the tailgate in 4/5 years or so but it has been revealed in the workshop my kid (bored) was using an airline to play with the doors (blowing down the pipe to make em pop up. Looks like she blew the cover off the boot and the resulting air leak caused all my doors to no longer work

by god it's good to be back in it and by hell nothing ever changes