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TheDevil	Posted: Sep 7 2011, 03:21 PM
Kustom Freak Group: HOT Volksrodders Posts: 267 Member No.: 1,137 Joined: 5-September 11	Here are some pictures of our hot rod vw. More like my brothers Hot Rod VW. He has done it all but I get to wire it and build the engine. My brother Cory Vaughn gets all the credit for this build. Im just chomping at the bit waiting to put an engine in it. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Knk	Posted: Sep 7 2011, 10:47 PM
Kustom Freak Group: Volksrods Member Posts: 257 Member No.: 728 Joined: 21-December 08	Nice sheet fabrication work on the front end. More pics please!

TheDevil	Posted: Sep 8 2011, 02:03 AM
Kustom Freak Group: HOT Volksrodders Posts: 267 Member No.: 1,137 Joined: 5-September 11	Thanks KNK. Heres some more. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Volksrod68	Posted: Sep 8 2011, 06:22 AM
Volksrodder Group: Rod Mods Posts: 5,038 Member No.: 2 Joined: 20-September 05	the quality of work is stunning....keep the pics coming...that last picture looks fantastic....

steve bain	Posted: Sep 8 2011, 07:25 AM
Kustom Freak Group: HOT Volksrodders Posts: 1,854 Member No.: 107 Joined: 12-May 06	i love that front end and your attention to detail is great

oceanjoggers	Posted: Sep 8 2011, 09:25 AM
Booger Green !! Group: HOT Volksrodders Posts: 415 Member No.: 657 Joined: 20-October 08	Man that is some great fab work you guy's must have some gear in your shed.

radiotrib	Posted: Sep 8 2011, 10:18 AM
da old bugger Group: Rod Mods Posts: 2,037 Member No.: 643 Joined: 14-October 08	ARRRRRGH !!! >> Tool Envy !!! Tool Envy !!! But sewriously - You've done some pretty amazing fab work there. Being an oddball, I particularly love the hinge-up hood prop ... and my hat is off to anyone who does a quarter light (vent window) chop ... It looks like you fabbed up anew frame for the glass, coz I can't see any cuts .. am I right? ... I cut mine up to do it and putting it back together was a serious balls ache !

TheDevil

Posted: Sep 8 2011, 05:17 PM

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QUOTE (radiotrib @ Sep 8 2011, 10:18 AM)

ARRRRRGH !!! >> Tool Envy !!! Tool Envy !!!

But sewriously - You've done some pretty amazing fab work there. Being an oddball, I particularly love the hinge-up hood prop ... and my hat is off to anyone who does a quarter light (vent window) chop ... It looks like you fabbed up anew frame for the glass, coz I can't see any cuts .. am I right? ... I cut mine up to do it and putting it back together was a serious balls ache !

Thank you sir.
The hood prop did take a little planning, it had to close over the Model T fuel tank and clear the hood, and have a catch to hold it, and a strong hinge, and on and on.
We put it down on paper a few times before landing on a simple design. Here are some drawings of earlier thoughts.

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Also we used the original vent windows. We aquired more of the window channel by shortening the uprights and relocating its mount. The pivot point for the vent windows was made from scratch. ill try to find some pictures.

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radiotrib	Posted: Sep 8 2011, 05:35 PM
da old bugger Group: Rod Mods Posts: 2,037 Member No.: 643 Joined: 14-October 08	Ahaaa ... so you did cut them up like I did, you just made them deeper at the same time. Mine use the original mount points in the top and lower section of the door and the bottom hinge was turned 180 degrees to line it up with the place the hinge had moved to relative to the pivot line .. it almost worked like it was meant to be that way But like I said in my own thread .. only someone who's gone through the aggro of doing one, knows what it takes to do a chopped quarter light .. and that feeling you get when you've finished, you open it for the first time and you think ... "I did that" .. Good job mate

TheDevil

Posted: Sep 8 2011, 06:07 PM

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QUOTE (Knk @ Sep 7 2011, 10:47 PM)

Nice sheet fabrication work on the front end. More pics please!

There were /are some tricky little corners and connections. This Rat was a rusted out 63, then got badly wrecked, then got ?? year doors and hood, then two oval roofs, and so on. Here are some photos of the replacement patches.

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TheDevil	Posted: Sep 8 2011, 07:19 PM
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radiotrib	Posted: Sep 8 2011, 08:08 PM
da old bugger Group: Rod Mods Posts: 2,037 Member No.: 643 Joined: 14-October 08	I feel another VERY serious dose of tool envy coming along right now ... I think I need to go and lie down .... An English Wheel, a stretcher/shrinker .. and a bunch of other bits you would only find in a serious pro-shop here in Northern Europe ... and you have these ###In you Garage### ... ????? Oh ... hot flush ... you wanna do a house swap for your next vacation ?? ..... oh ... erm ... I think I'd better talk to the boss indoors before I make any more rash offers BTW ... I don't even have a vice .....

TheDevil	Posted: Sep 8 2011, 08:08 PM
Kustom Freak Group: HOT Volksrodders Posts: 267 Member No.: 1,137 Joined: 5-September 11	Found some more Hood Prop build pics. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us

TheDevil	Posted: Sep 8 2011, 09:24 PM
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TheDevil	Posted: Sep 8 2011, 09:26 PM
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veedub1955	Posted: Sep 9 2011, 12:19 PM
Nick Howarth Group: Rod Mods Posts: 2,761 Member No.: 51 Joined: 30-December 05	Your attention to detail is superb very very nice build, great to see decent pics of the work youve done

tommichop	Posted: Sep 9 2011, 06:34 PM
Kustom Freak Group: HOT Volksrodders Posts: 196 Member No.: 869 Joined: 3-September 09	just beautiful, well done you. And Trib i'm with you on the tool envy.

TheDevil

Posted: Sep 9 2011, 11:25 PM

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QUOTE (radiotrib @ Sep 8 2011, 05:35 PM)

Ahaaa ... so you did cut them up like I did, you just made them deeper at the same time. Mine use the original mount points in the top and lower section of the door and the bottom hinge was turned 180 degrees to line it up with the place the hinge had moved to relative to the pivot line .. it almost worked like it was meant to be that way

But like I said in my own thread .. only someone who's gone through the aggro of doing one, knows what it takes to do a chopped quarter light .. and that feeling you get when you've finished, you open it for the first time and you think ... "I did that" ..

Good job mate

I found more pictures of the home made pivot point for the vent windows.

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TheDevil

Posted: Sep 10 2011, 12:22 AM

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QUOTE (steve bain @ Sep 8 2011, 07:25 AM)

i love that front end and your attention to detail is great

Heres some pics of the front I Beam. These are early pictures when the entire front was just Tacked together. My brother Cory Vaughn is the builder.
Its a 5" Dropped Beam. "T" pattern 40 Ford Backing Plates. Speedway Motors Steering arms, Tie Rods and Ends, and "Round" spindles. Using the repop 40 Lincoln Drums. Flipped Over stock T1 Steering Box in the stock angle. Home made steering arm. Home made friction shocks. Skid Plate (suicide front end). 51 Chev Leaf springs cut to fit. Brake Hose Brackets for 18" Ford Hoses. Split Bones, shortened and sectioned (for bung) Then drilled holes every dam where.

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Skid Plate. Its oversize for now because we might still attach something to it. Still have a hood catch to make.

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veedub1955	Posted: Sep 10 2011, 11:09 AM
Nick Howarth Group: Rod Mods Posts: 2,761 Member No.: 51 Joined: 30-December 05	Im liking the twin leaf spring idea and friction shocks very neat and clean looking

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