Canfield is making me build a Roadster! Can I build it from swap meet only parts?

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

I DID IT! "I'm gonna' flip, flop, & fly! Buster T.

[28-31]

Tom -- Piecing my Roadster back together from scraps hasn't been enough torture for ya?
;-)

-Jeff

[dumb person]

Originally Posted by 28-31

Tom -- Piecing my Roadster back together from scraps hasn't been enough torture for ya?
;-)

-Jeff

Maybe he enjoys it?

[Flop]

hey thanks everyone!! Alot of good stories and all in good fun . It will take a while and has a back seat to my customers my coupe and my 47!

some details





the piece from a tudor cowl ?



mocked up hahaha





i like a challenge if ya couldnt tell Jeff!!

[Flop]

more parts !!

60 cash spent today

doors .. rough but ver very very fixable



and some hinges



thanks Dave!!

[Flop]

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got a free firewall for the roadster !! slowly but surely !!

[todd3131]

Flop, how is the healing going?

[Flop]

todd its moving along thanks for asking! stitches are out . doctor says to start using my hand/arm but nothing more then 5 lbs in it . still hanging out at home but the urge is coming back to go to work . I will probably end up at the shop next week and start cleaning /doing little things . then maybe some work middle to late september .

[todd3131]

Good to hear, you will have to be careful not to re-injure your self by trying to do to much too soon. Might be time for you to find an apprentice.

[Russ/40]

Those falls get more perilous as we age. Be more careful next time. I did a similar thing last year, but I fell on the front fender and hood of my '40. I fared better than the '40. Really looking forward to some more of your metal work. Your my metal man idol!

[RUNNERBUN]

Originally Posted by todd3131

Good to hear, you will have to be careful not to re-injure your self by trying to do to much too soon. Might be time for you to find an apprentice.

If Flop is putting on an apprentice, I'll be applying for the job. I'll move from Australia to the US to be trained by a man with his ability and know-how

[Roadster62]

Good to know you are slowly getting back to the projects. You never had a cast did you? Guess hammer and dolly work will feel different now. Best wishes, Bob

[Purdy Swoft]

Glad you are better and good luck with your project . Building a roadster out of parts will be no problem for you. Finding all of the parts for fifteen hundred may not be easy unless you've already got a bunch of the parts . I don't believe that I could do it. This kinda reminds me of a few years back when Leroy Tex Smith was building a hot rod model A roadster for a dollar a pound. It turned out that he already had the 30-31 roadster body that he said he only paid seventy five dollars for. Wish that I could find them like that. Good luck, if anybody can do it, you can.

[Flop]

todd .. not pushing things at all . i need that arm the rest of my life!!

russ it was more or less me being lazy by not moving the chain fall and then me paying for it ! lesson learned

runner i will keep you posted haha

roadster62 no cast since it is plated and screwed together . very curious to what it feels like when being worked . i am not allowed to lift more then 5 pounds until october then up to 10 lbs .


Purdy. i started off with what is posted . no other roadster parts in stock ! we shall see what hershey brings this year . should make it alot more fun .

thanks again guys !

[Bill in NJ]

What size is your cart to hold the body for patch repair ? Is it just a 4 X 8 sheet of plywood or bigger ?

[mndodge]

It is nice to see a finished car.....but to see them start with a frame and a cowl and adding the pieces along the way and then sitting in the shop on the four tires and rolling chassis like that earlier picture you posted, that is the stuff dreams are made of......

[juke joint johnny]

Flop Glad your on the road to recovery !!!

That roadster is a great challenge but we all have faith in you !!

and know you can do it . I bet it will be on the road before mine is!!
John Cochran

[Roadster62]

My Hershey spots are C4J 41-42, in the Chocolate Field,last ones on the left of Main Street by the food vendor. If you want to leave parts there for the day and save a trip to your vehicle mid day Ford Barn and HAMB members are welcome. If you have any Roadster bits for Flop, you can drop them off there. Bob

[jim1932]

I think you can get it done by the time you retire..

[JSRTUDOR]

That is how I put my 31 together! Nothing on my car was originally on this particulal car in 31.