[logride]

Hope the grill is the right one. Your car is looking great! I allways liked the cheese grater deck lid. Good work.

[sammons]

Thanks logride.  I haven't had the opportunitie to build an old coupe for my self till now.  I've always liked the look of a louvered trunk lid, especially when painted black. I like the way the sun shimmers off the louvers.

The grill shell ended up being a Chrysler, I'm guessing late 30's. Once dug out, it was a bit rusty. Mines not bad, it's just had the bottom cut off.  Somewhere there has to be thousands of grill shell bottoms, probably along with a bunch of one off socks, lol.

[EDNY]

Thanks logride.  I haven't had the opportunitie to build an old coupe for my self till now.  I've always liked the look of a louvered trunk lid, especially when painted black. I like the way the sun shimmers off the louvers.

The grill shell ended up being a Chrysler, I'm guessing late 30's. Once dug out, it was a bit rusty. Mines not bad, it's just had the bottom cut off.  Somewhere there has to be thousands of grill shell bottoms, probably along with a bunch of one off socks, lol.

Took me about 5 years to find the "V" chin piece for the bottom of my 33 Chevy radiator cover (grill). FYI: Glen Rarick - NY (link below) had some reproduced out of fiberglass.

Ed

[madmike3434]

oh thats gonna be fun priming and sanding that louvered deck lid.  It can become a major challenge.

I did 37 3" louvers per side on top half of my hood and that was not fun. Waxing it is also major pain.  You get to soak all your engine parts thru the louvers when washing car , unless you put a plastic cover over everything.

mike lynch

[sammons]

Ed, looks like I'll be building a bottom for mine. Thoses things are expensive,  I see Superior Glass has them also. Looks like grill and shell would be $600-800, way out of my budget.

Mike, yep sanding around the louvers ain't fun. I never really minded waxing around them, I guess I had a method of doing that (hope I can remember it). With the many black cars I had I got alot of practice, it was the hardest color to get right without streaking or getting fine scratches from the overlapping opposing directions. Dads red '56 chevy p.u. was a very forgiving color, you could be sloppy about it and you didn't notice it. (Always had to wax dads cars for him, and he always had louvers)

[EDNY]

Ed, looks like I'll be building a bottom for mine. Thoses things are expensive,  I see Superior Glass has them also.

FYI: I think Glen gets $100 for the lower piece.

[sammons]

Thanks for the link Ed.

I got my fuel door inner bonded to the deck lid yesterday and test fit the fuel lid. I'm very happy with the way it turned out. I ended up cutting out the fiberglass mount out of the Vette deck as opposed to trying to build it out of sheetmetal. I bowed the pot metal fuel door carfully in the vise to match the curve of the deck lid. I've been using the 3M structure adhesive for about ten years now with excellent results on many types of materials.  It will bond almost any material, sand, clean, prep wipe and clamp until it sets.

[logride]

That looks great!

[madmike3434]

Ed, looks like I'll be building a bottom for mine. Thoses things are expensive,  I see Superior Glass has them also.

FYI: I think Glen gets $100 for the lower piece.

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When you say Glen***(  Rarick ) *** gets $100 for them.........are you referring to the inside the trunk lid metal liner for a 34- 35 standard series ?

mike lynch

[madmike3434]

re >>>>>a rad shell for your 34-35 standard series 3 window coupe.  I see these show up on ebay fairly often.  $95--200.

  The grill mesh is made in stainless steel by harris engineered reproductions of Houston texas , google them as I posted the link in this site in last couple of weeks.  They offer it with and without the crank hole cover hole.

They also make the center molding that runs top to bottom.

The crank hole cover is made by I&I repo or THE FILLING STATION, the grill emblem is also made plated less than $40.00

The only tough part to get is the grill trim ring and better to splash out on a good one.


Perfectly the best solution is to find a 34- 35 Chevrolet standard series and purchase the complete rad shell radiator and bracketry assembly as a unit along with the U bracket that mounts the whole assembly to the frame.  It will be cheaper in the long run.

mike lynch       

[sammons]

This past week I have actually got something done on the coupe. Because I widened the cab at the frt, I was unable to use my 2nd gen camaro roof to fill the top in, I had to use a 67 mustang roof (a little wider). Got it welded in and ground the welds. My buddie came down yesterday and helped me dolly out the seams, that was easy enough. Got the flash rust buffed back off ok. The mustang roof had a bad length wise crease down it, most dollied out good except for the really deep stretch at the left frt. Just a little high yet, no longer have my torch to shrink with, so I slit it w/cut off wheel and welded back up, nice and flat now. Then..... tried mixing first batch of filler for the seams, by the timeI got it mixed up...it was hard. Round two, gritting my teeth from the pain, got to thecar and the second pass looked like a 3rd grader did it. Tried smoothing it out w/my left hand, and by now it got hard. 3rd go round figued it out kind of, it will work, but looks like a first timer did it. Got out the air long file and 40grit, heaved it up on the roof, grabbed a hand full of trigger and almost pissed myself! My loose knuckles don't like that at all. Plan B- got the grinder out and dressed it, got the long hand board out. Can do, but it's gonna take a while.   And I want this shinny black?

[ghost28]

Nice work all around. Shiny black ya better pace your self. I love the filler door.

[EDNY]

Ed, looks like I'll be building a bottom for mine. Thoses things are expensive,  I see Superior Glass has them also.

FYI: I think Glen gets $100 for the lower piece.

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When you say Glen***(  Rarick ) *** gets $100 for them.........are you referring to the inside the trunk lid metal liner for a 34- 35 standard series ?

mike lynch

Mike

Sorry for not responding to this post earlier..didn't realize that you asked the question.  The V trim piece I'm talking about is the one that installs on the front radiator grill at the very bottom.   BTW: Glen Rarick sold me the water drain channel that mounts inside the trunk and mounts on the fenders, it's one piece and rectangular in shape.

Ed 

[sammons]

Well I guess any progress is progress. I got the upper cowl worked and primed, the more primer I spray the better I feel. I think my lungs miss it. Got a partial skim coat on top edges.    2-tone anyone?

[chopper526]

Sammons, that roof looks pretty nice to me. When you are priming that cowl....breathe deep, everything looks better then.