frames Ahoy - Monday

Got 'er done Friday but ran out of daylight.
So shipping out today.
Double Z'd for Nick with his Olds motor, stretched.
Headed to Denver PA !

Frames Ahoy -Sunday

Dropped off Trevor's new frame.
Down in Colorado Springs.
Swept front for his 1930 coupe. SBC auto

Went to a cool race car museum, and lunch in CS .

Rear spring to body clearence Clarence

The rear spring on our Model A chassis is a special unit.
Built for us by Posies in PA
There is not a old Ford spring that will fit.
It is a medium arch and narrow.
The spring hangers are set at 44" apart on the rear axle.
Axle centerline to spring centerline 7.5"

The fun part is fitting the body. If you are channeled or not , on my frames you will need to create room in the wheel well.
( part and parcel of lower chassis height)

Some guys (most) just increase the size of the notch.

As you can see here, the "shocker" has a simple cut out for the axle and rear spring hangers. This is a channeled coupe.

If we are not channeling the cut out doesn't need to be as tall.

harder to see in this picture. Tony's "tres chic" 1929 Tudor
is not channeled and the cut out is not so big.

for the guys who want just the axle cut out, you need to work a little harder. (smarter ?)
The wheel wells are on my 1930 coupe are 43 5/8" outside to outside. Like I said the hangers are at 44"
The spring does not protrude past body.
So to keep just a axle cut out, you need flare out the wheel well
just a bit to clear. A inch a side should be good. Done right
it would not be noticed.
(will post up pictures of this later)

Matt's sedan, get's a article.

After he sold it.
Fun to see a customer get some ink. We built both the rolling chassis on his cars (truck)

link:https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2016/03/03/tudor-named-charlotte

Pat's coupe update # 1

Pat has his 1929 coupe chopped already. A good 4" slice looks right.
Sitting on the frame he got the other day.
See the frames ahoy below with no picture.

I can see in the picture that the body needs to go back a few inches
That rear cross brace hits the Z, we move it forward in our floor kits

see how the hat channel is forward of the Z ?

(pre-production unit pictured)

Pee Wee !

Couple more days, and his new movie is on Netflix !

So Cal , so long

My little brother, and cousins Dave and Joe and myself
in the back of my Uncle's truck in southern California late 1970's



I have nothing but found memories of him. So long, Uncle Carlos !  My sympathies to my cousins and aunt .