Putting the pieces back together

Weld baby weld

Starting back

We set the top back on after taking 4 inches out. Gives the Sedan a whole new look!

A little off the top

I thought long and hard about this one. I looked at a lot of different cars and while I knew I was always going to chop the top, I had a hard time deciding how much. Finally I decided on 4 inches.

Into the shop the Sedan went and out came the saws, grinders, and other implements of destruction. I welded in some simple bracing to hold everything together, and set of to destroy a piece of 81 year old history. Forever changing something that had remained unmolested all those years.... tends to make you a tad nervous. But! Nothing ventured nothing gained?

Fenderless

I have pulled all the fenders and both running boards. This is the look I am planning to run with. I have always liked the fender-less, highboy style.

But I am thinking about keeping the splash aprons on. Like a lot of the old salt flat racers did. Pulling the fenders off to race, then throwing them back on to go home and drive it on the streets the rest of the week. Pulling the aprons meant pulling the body, so they stayed.

Note: Notice the Deluxe Speed Shop Roadster a couple of post back.                      

Party at Bobs!

The Road Rockets had a little get together this weekend, sponsored by Owens Salvage. Not all the members could make it but for those of us who did it was a fantastic weekend! Good friends, good food, and great cars.

Thanks Bob!

inspiration

I love going to shows and walking the rows of cars admiring the handy work of others, and perhaps spotting something I like well enough to incorporate into one of my own. I do the same here of the web, pouring over photos, all the while building my dream in my mind.

A couple of weeks ago we went to the Lone Star Round-Up in Austin, TX. Talk about sensory overload!! But after settling down and thinking about it awhile, there was a couple of cars that really made a impact on me and seemed that the builder and I are on the same wave link.

The car I found myself going back to time and time again, just to stand and study it, was the "Deluxe Speed Shop Roadster". What a car, to me it screams pure Hot Rod. Although it stands on un-altered suspension, the chopped top, the missing fenders and hood, makes sure there is no mistaking the purpose behind this car. It is pure and raw, a step back to a more perfect time in Hot Rodding history.

Although not everything on this car is the way I plan to do our Sedan, it is a design I would be more than happy to copy. Simply beautiful!

And so it begins.....

After hunting over the distance of 4 states & for more than a couple of years we stumbled across our Model A project less than 30 miles from our front door. Funny after all those road trips, hours standing at auctions, and miles of swap meet isles our jewel would be as close as a ad in the local paper.

So here it is Our 1930 Model A Tudor Sedan. Really excited to get started, and with a head full of plans, we jump feet first into this one.... Just gotta come up with the right name....