A '62 has to get back on the road

[SkinnyG]

Be mindful keeping the heat down when welding patches. Stuff moves on you.

[Braunschweiger]

Thanks for the tip, I'll step-weld the patches point by point and cool them with compressed air and take my time, that's going to be the difficult part
That's right, the hood is a monster to put on the holder alone, oh man.

[Braunschweiger]

No progress on the hood and didn't get any further, the truck still wanted to have a few things done, the gearbox had a leak on the kickdown cable, resealed, the water temp always showed too hot, although the engine was only 84° /183° Fahrenheit had been checked with the infrared gun.
With a variable resistance fixed, the needle is now nicely in the middle, now the heating core has leaked, removed and taken to the cooler shop to be repaired, takes about 3 weeks, I'm glad I put the truck into operation early enough to fix the mistakes

[SOON2BLAZE]

that color combo looks amazing! Great work!

[66C10LB]

Great to see the progress of your build in detail. Looking forward to seeing more.

[Braunschweiger]

Well, the Hood is a huge thing. But now after removing the dents and apply metal filler, sanding, 2K epoxy could be applied, sanding, then again apply filler, sanding, phew..... and now there was a thick coat of filler primer paint.

[Joe Pass]

Wow...nice work

[Grizz1963]

And just like that……

Magic.

Great stuff. Well done, again.

[Braunschweiger]

The Hood is painted with filler primer and now everything is sanded, my arms are falling off, what a huge part, what are the guys doing with the C10 panel? I'm satisfied everything is smooth and looks good, I'm excited to see how it will look after painting.

[Grizz1963]

I think most guys agree, it is a huge part.

Well done.

[pdxhall]

The hood looks great. I'm close behind you. I'm ready for another coat of epoxy and more blocking. You're giving me incentive to continue but I've got this rear diff. thing going on.

[Braunschweiger]

Today there was a change, we went to Hamburg and picked up the Model A, after 6 months it arrived in God Old Germany from New York State and is now in our hall, it looks a little tattered, is but absolutely solid and still with the first paint, hard to believe.

[SCOTI]

Digging the Model-A!

[Braunschweiger]

Sweet, It looks beautiful.
I'm looking forward to doing this project as well, it should continue to run with a mildly tuned 4Banger, as a mild 40's HotRod.
Something like that:

[Grizz1963]

WOW

WOW

WOW

That is lovely.

I hope you will carry on reporting on it here.

[SCOTI]

Originally Posted by Braunschweiger

Sweet, It looks beautiful.
I'm looking forward to doing this project as well, it should continue to run with a mildly tuned 4Banger, as a mild 40's HotRod.
Something like that:

We're looking for a black coupe. Going to do a hot-rod though. The 4-banger stuff is cool but I'd rather have a little more HP/TQ than they deliver (w/o breaking the bank). An updated trans w/better gearing as well....

[Braunschweiger]

I can do that, the C10 is still in the queue and I'm happy about the progress on it. I bought Model A spontaneously because it was in such good condition that it still has to wait.

[SkinnyG]

I'm seriously considering doing a T-Bucket or some sort of rat rot using all the drivetrain I took out of my '61.

[Braunschweiger]

That's right, building a 4Banger is very expensive, in the Netherlands there is a very experienced engine builder who builds many Model A engines, including the Burtz engines. Here in Germany there are strict approval regulations, it is now very difficult to approve hotrods with other drive trains, or chopped or slammed. You need a specialist who knows his stuff and does the approval so that the authorities don't shut down your car, hard times for Roder. And I'm fascinated by the 90-year-old technology.

[SCOTI]

Originally Posted by Braunschweiger

That's right, building a 4Banger is very expensive, in the Netherlands there is a very experienced engine builder who builds many Model A engines, including the Burtz engines. Here in Germany there are strict approval regulations, it is now very difficult to approve hotrods with other drive trains, or chopped or slammed. You need a specialist who knows his stuff and does the approval so that the authorities don't shut down your car, hard times for Roder. And I'm fascinated by the 90-year-old technology.

I was all on-board for the new Burtz motor. We went to a Model-A National convention in June & he was one of the speakers. What I didn't expect was that despite the engineered updates, the motor still made no more power vs an original. I'm not spending >$6500 for a non original Ford set-up that made no more power vs the 90yr old babbit bearing 3-main motor currently in it.

Heck, a bone stock 305 out of a late 70's GM car was double the power @ a fraction of the cost. Same w/the trans gearing. Later model stuff has much better gear splits & synchonizers @ a lower cost.

We'll keep the Cabriolet close to Oe (OE block, Brumfield hi-compression head, FSI 12v ignition, '39 synchronized 3spd, Mitchell OD). If I find a coupe... V8 w/a 5spd.

[Braunschweiger]

I don't want to afford a Burtz motor, it costs around €12,000 assembled in Europe, no way. The original engine, rebuilt with new bearing shells and gaskets, different cylinder head with 6:1, camshaft, carburetor and exhaust manifold, should put out 60-70hp, enough for 50-60 mph on small country roads. I dream of road trips with overnight stays on small country roads, quite comfortably. We will clarify that in the autumn. Sure a little flathead or a 289, I'd even have that lying around, that would be the easier way and a lot cheaper, I'm tempted to build the car with a 4Banger, It's gonna hurt my wallet

[Braunschweiger]

Done, the Hood is now painted, I sanded the mistakes wet and polished them again, there are still light scratches from wet sanding in the neon light, you can't see any of that in daylight, let's see if I can fix it.

[SCOTI]

Nice. You're making some good time getting the sheet-metal from old to new.

[Duncan K]

That hood looks great! Your project is really coming along!

[pdxhall]

Very nice. I hope I can get my hood to look that good.