41 Panel

[41Panel]

Finally got some pics up, excuse the quality, my cameras dead and I'm using the cell phone. I've been on here before but shut down the 41 to build my 97 F350 Dually. It's good to be back building something that looks aren't a priority, just the fun. Later Whit PS oh the tires are temps. and I'm looking for a set of junk 390 FE headers to build the exhaust....anyone?anyone?

 

[StoneCold65]

A hard wood rocker in needed in the interior.

Going to be a cool rod. [P

 

[41Panel]

Thanks stone, thats just what I had at the shop.....my son said he couldn't believe I was staging a photo. Later Whit

 

[rustybeercan]

I like it alot but hopefully the radiator will be much lower. Are you going to use the original front sheet metal?

Beercan

 

[Reign]

i love the interior.

 

[pops46]

41

looking good. If the whisky barrel is full I'll help

 

[Sam_Fear]

Way cool!

 

[Corsair]

Looks like the start of a card game with the chair and barrel. Nice car!!

 

[41Panel]

I like it alot but hopefully the radiator will be much lower. Are you going to use the original front sheet metal?

Beercan

Nah, the original sheet metal was gone as in one fender still with the truck and it was totally gone, had been welded back together many times. The rad. is how it will run for now, I'm trying to buy a 37 White truck grill shell and headlights from a local guy, just waiting to see if he'll sell. Later Whit

 

[41Panel]

New pics, got my rear tires mounted and finished the trans hump. I gotta get some cash together now to finished the brakes, get new steering rods (the ones on it are temps), header plates to build the exhaust and get my windshield and rear windows cut. Later Whit

 

[41Panel]

I'm looking at a grill like the one on this truck......just not nearly as nice. Later Whit

 

[skull]

rear windows??

are you planning on cutting out the side panels!!! man o' man it looks great with the flat sides.

on mine i filled in the rear windows to get the panel look.

personally, l think the 41 ya have looks better as a panel[dr

Later

 

[41Panel]

are you planning on cutting out the side panels!!! man o' man it looks great with the flat sides.

on mine i filled in the rear windows to get the panel look.

personally, l think the 41 ya have looks better as a panel[dr

Later

Planning on running the body as is, I had tried to buy this truck from the PO for about 24 years but he never would sell. When I first tried to buy it the body was in fairly decent condition, naturally after it rusted completely out he sold, LOL. The PO told me he sold the engine out of it in 52 and around 58 a dirt track racer bought the rearend out of it, so it had sat where it was since around 58-60. When I first started to load it, it bogged two 8000 warns down trying to skid it up on the trailer until I figured out it still had a front axle still on it, just completely sunk into the ground. You coundn't even tell it had front springs on it till I dug them out. I happened to stop by one day and ask him if he had ever decided to sell it to me and he told me If I'd help him clean the junk out of the back I could have it for a 100, handed him the bill and by the time we cleaned it out I figured out I had gotten ripped. Its been an on and off project for the last couple of years. I'm proud of how far I've gotten but it probably was more pride than anything, most of my friends said the best thing to do was haul it on to the junkyard, just had to make them eat their words. I've got about 400 cash dollars in it at this point and who knows how many hours but have had a blast putting it together. My intent was to get it running and driving safely as cheaply as possible, so far I have more in the steel to frame the body back up than anything else. Everything else came out of my junkyard, I'd start building things and go take'em off something else and mod till it fit, or at least worked. Later Whit

 

[41Panel]

Drove her home from the shop today, about 10 miles....gotta do some more work. Rear shocks are too long, just some I had at the shop and figured they weren't gonna work, and need to move the front shocks. They are at a 45 from the frame to the front axle, the 41's so top heavy, I'm gonna have to rework the mounts and angle them out to the sides to stop body rock. I'm gonna get the rear shocks first and see if that won't stop the rock. Other than a little bump steer, which I expected with the steering link at a down angle to the axle, it drove pretty good. Gonna have to do some work on the gas pedal....its to close to the seat, makes my leg cramp.....or maybe thats just old age, LOL. Later Whit