Recent content by Joe Hardin

1947 ford Mercurymac No worries. I enjoy a bit of joking around as much as anybody. Love your 47 and it appears that it might have a twin I beam as I see a coil spring in the front of it. Love that pole bard full of autos also. I know with a little patience I will find a truck...

Mopar !!! Spell check and it correcting me makes me look dumber than I already am.

Mercurymac and Bill As for you Mercurymac . That is very cruel to show a man something he so desires and cannot acquire. LOl Just kidding There has to be another one out there somewhere. Now Bill is a lot nicer. LOl Thanks for the kind words Bill and I see you are a...

1937 Dodge with straight 8 Thanks Bruno. I really enjoyed building the bike. That is an all modern S&S 93" retro shovel. Has a alternator left side case. I thought your vision on the 37 was next to none. Your attention to quality and detail is amazing. I would...

1930 Dodge Bob Thanks for the and sending me pict of the 30 and nice words. I am not not much for body work and mainly fab and chassis . That is why i am willing hunt all ends of the earth for my starter truck for the project. Have a great day and good luck Joe

1947 ford picts. Ford

Hello every one. I have not been on in a while. My last project is in builds and is Gothic bike and I just finished a 1947 ford pickup running in original patina. I put a 427 side oiler , big shaft top loader and a currie fab 9 in it. My real love is Mopars and I plan to build a...

braiding rawhide Sam Fear, I wish I could braid like that but it is way over my head and is a real old time art form. The guy that does it, is supper nice and I will have him take some pictures while he is braiding it so we can put them on the site. He scrapes the hair off the hides and makes...

steering wheel Dan and Dirtyrat thanks for the complements. Dan I had thought about a wooden wheel but the amount of work and time to do one was more than I wanted to spend. It would be neat to try one with two steam bent pieces and joining them with ferrules just below 3 and 6 o'clock...

steering wheel A few more picts.

steering wheel Just got done with the steering wheel and it is ready to send to get the rawhide braided over the rim. It was a lot of work and I hope it was worth it. It sort of has a little bit of a early european roadster flair to it. I hope the rawhide manlys it up a little for the truck...

Steering wheel Sgtpontiac, I don,t know why it is mine but I am just glad it is. I worked on the wheel rim and got it all done and I should get the whole steering wheel done tomorrow. I took picts but forgot the camera at the shop so I will post picts when i get it finished.

steering wheel Picts Here are picts of wheel work. I cut a pattern out of a piece of 1/4 that was laying on the table just to see how it was going to look. Getting that 1"dom rolled to 15"od is a tough because you have to let the ends pass each other in the roller. I will get back on it in the...

Steering wheel. While I am waiting on drive train things I thought I would build a steering wheel and Have an old cowboy buddy of mine cover it in rawhide like he did the brake and clutch lines in the bike. You can see his work on the last page of the gothic bike build and his work is unreal...

Transmission I took the 700r4 down to a friend of mine that owns a trans shop and got it getting rebuilt to handle the 454. I am going to run a 22 hundred stall and a manual switch for the converter lockup. I ordered a B&M street rod shifter and I plan to adapt an old truck handle with the...