1950 Ford Custom-Mods and Rods

08/12/2020

Getting photos ready. Car and all parts are going up for sale. Stay tuned.

03/27/2020

03/26/2020

Well, with the government mandated sequester, I've gotten some work done on the Smoothie front end. Now I just have to figure out how to make another one for the Driver side.

03/06/2020

Wow, I thought I was posting the last couple of weeks and nothing ended up here. Hmm. I have finally made some progress with the bumper. Check it out.

01/26/2020

I've been messing around with this bumper idea for some time now. I got it tacked into place this afternoon and it looks funky to me. What the heck is up?

12/31/2019

A little more progress in the bumper department today. How do you curve a straight bumper? You use a HUGE press and expensive tooling. Who has that? I decided to cut the crap out of it and see if I could put a nice radius on it.

12/24/2019

Christmas vacation finally! I finally have some time to get some work done out in the shop. Worked on getting a bumper set up and mounted. I've used a old, I think it's a 1960 Chevy truck bumper. Funny, I can't seem to find any bumper brackets that mount a 60 chevy truck bumper to a 1969 Camaro frame with a 1950 Ford body.

12/03/2019

Another shortfall was that this car didn't come with bumpers. It didn't take me long to figure out that I didn't really want to spend $1000 on bumpers and take them out of circulation for someone that was doing a real honest to goodness restoration. That led me to the interwebs and I landed a bumper from a 1950 something pick up truck. I lopped the outside ends off and will figure out how to mount them then fill in the center void.

12/03/2019

Well, as Christmas approaches I've managed to find a little time to get after the project. After an exhaustive but successful search for hood hinges, they've been mounted and tweaked, gaps set etc. The hood was as rigid as a well cooked noodle. There was no bracing in the hood so I built a little something to stiffen things up a bit. Just temporary until I figure out something a little better looking.

08/11/2019

Getting a few things done. Slow, really slow progress. So much going on this summer that it's almost impossible to find time to work my Smoothie.