1939 Ford Coupe Project

1939 Ford Coupe

Look what followed me home today!!! 

Well, what ya think?  Isn't this so cool? This just gets me excited.  Looks like a new project to me!! Not sure exactly what we're going to go with it yet. But it's gonna be a lot of work, but well worth it!

Join us as we get to work on this cool old car!  

First thing we have to do is to get it off this trailer and in the shop.  Uh oh! There's no tires and it's sitting on a cart.  We are going to attempt to pick it up off the trailer using the lift.  But first.... the frame on here is too rusty, it's almost rusted in two.  We won't be using this frame, so in order to get this off without messing up the car we're going to build some braces and weld them to this frame just to stabilize it.  

And it worked!!!! YAY!!

Got the car safely off the trailer and onto the lift.

We found this Frame Repair Section on EBay.  First we've got to figure out it we are going to purchase an entire frame or try to repair it ourselves.  We posted on our Facebook page that we were working on this car and one of our buddies, Don Holley from Macon, Ga had a '39 Ford Frame. So instead of purchasing one online, we are gonna get this one from our friend. Time for a road trip. 

We got the frame out from under the car. Yay!  

Now to get this car disassembled and parts ordered so we can start the rebuild.  We found some floor pans at EMS Automotive.  Check them out their website is emsautomotive.com What we've found with these parts is that they are good quality parts made with 18 gauze steel. They weld up real good!  The parts have an aluminized coating on them which helps to reduce rust.  I was told that you could even lay one of these parts in the weather and it won't rust. And best of all, we got all the floor pans from the cowl all the way back including the trunk pan and the quarter patches for about $1700. Good Deal!! 

Now to get on with getting some of this rust taken care of.  The floors are like swiss cheese, so much rust and check out the ground shinning through. I guess if we were the Flintstones, we might could work with this. Not! Seriously, we've got the floor pans to replace the floor and we've got the quarter panels.  So let's get on it.

Working on replacing the floor pans.

More work on the floor pans #8

#9

Preparing to put the cross brackets. #10

Putting in the rear floor pans #11

#12

Prep work

Wheel house patch panels #13

More work on the floors #14

#15

Fit and weld seat riser.

#16

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#18

Locating the quarter patches

#19 More work on the Quarter Panels.

#20 Done with the Quarter Panels and onto the Tail Pan section.  Hey did you notice Rad Randy trimmed his beard . 

#21

#22 Getting these tail pans ready for welding. I ran into a few issues with the tail pan and tool box fitting.  Took a little massaging to get them in.  I plan to put some metal around where the bumper attaches to the rear to make it waterproof.  Also, these caged nuts on this car got to go.  I did find some on eBay for $20 for 10 of them.  But I'm not going to worry with them.  They serve no purpose for this car.  I think they were just put on during factory assembly to make it easier to put on the fenders.