My 34 Ford 5 W Coupe

[41 ford pu]

Hi all, i have always refered to my coupe as being the ex dave haskel coupe, im hopeing in a couple of years to call it my coupe, i now have nearly all the parts so the car can proceed. The car has now been blasted so we can see the extent of rust/damage and there is more damage than rust.the roof being the worst, i will post some pics soon of roof.january it should be off to the body shop where it will be for some time. Im thinking of having car finnished in late 2013/early 2014. Ian

[jaymin]

keep the pics comeing mate, good looking rod

[langysrodshop]

Hi Ian, glad to see its still coming on, I will let Dave know as he asked me about it only a few weeks ago.

[Tricky]

Great to see Ian,

It was a little the worse for wear when i bought it off a Brockenhurst garage forecourt in 2003.

Happy to give you some history on this car.

Richard

[41 ford pu]

Hi, great to hear from you richard, there was so much filler on car the blasting co contacted me twice worried sick they had damaged the roof! They told me it was the worst car they had ever delt with and told me they would never do anathor car with so much filler in it! I would love to chat with you about car sometime, i have always wanted this car ever since i saw it at garys picnic at the pod about 28/30 years ago. I brought it around 3/4 yrs ago and knew it deserved and needed total restoration. I spoke with billy from namco and he had it right when he told me that the car was a bit of uk rodding history! As you can see roof is prob worst part of car, check out these pics. Ian

[randrhotrodimports]

Boy Ian thats some roof there, the fenders are on their way and if you need the othe panels over Christmas its no problem, seems like you have enough to begetting on with as it is. Always loved the car myself even had a tattoo of it lol.

[rem]

... i have always wanted this car ever since i saw it at garys picnic at the pod about 28/30 years ago...

I think that's probably when I first saw it - and lusted after it.

[41 ford pu]

Hi all, i now have plenty of pics of car being worked on. It seems that the chassis was almost as bad as the body! From the bulkhead forward it was 2" out of sq, the rear portion of chassis was out of level, no boxing of chassis around spring hanger brackets, most of the brackets were welded in out of line and in some cases only partly welded, i could go on. However petes been busy and the chassis is now square and level, the front crosmember was taken out and cuts in chassis made so it could be pulled about. The old main crossmember and gbox mount came out and was moved back as the new th350 box was a diferant length. I will now be posting more pics of whats going on reg. Hey steve if your looking at this, your 34 looks great, i cant believe how long it took! Ian

[41 ford pu]

One of the thing that held up work on car was the state of the sub rails. I never thought they could be so bad, pete could fix it but timewise it was a no brainer, i called mcpherson sub rails in the us and they with the help of r&r sent me some new rails. Take a look at these pics of the old ones if you like rust!

[41 ford pu]

Not all bad news, here are some pics of some parts going into car, the rear gas tank cover from howels sheet metal in the us, louvred by fh elles. The rear floor sections, and a selection of new pannels being cleaned up and etch primed so they can be handled.

[stokebloke]

Hi Ian
Yep i'm checking your build thread, great to see you making progress.
You got enough spirit levels there ?.
I used Howell's for new inner front fenders on mine, they are very good.
That looks like some very hungry tin moths on those sub rails !!!.
Thanks for the kind words about the coupe, can't praise Zane enough.
Look forward to parking up next to you.
Best regards
Steve.

[41 ford pu]

Check out this cartoon, its hanging in the workshop!

[mike noble]

is this the red coupe in your avatar ??

[41 ford pu]

Hi, yes it is the same car!

[41 ford pu]

Hi all, work on my 34 is going well, we are going from the bottom up where some of the worst areas are, this includes the front footwell area (if there is one!) left and right where all has had to be reformed by pete. So much is going on with car that i will just post a few pics at a time and hope they are in order! I have plenty of pics on all work thanks to pete

[41 ford pu]

Lots of work to get this far, its nice to see the rust going and the car starting to grow again. Most work is clamped togethor until all areas togethor and fit well

[mike noble]

i'm ok at fab work but theres no way i'd take that on.

[41 ford pu]

Same with the outside of car. You can get these parts from the us but pete decided to make tham up.

[41 ford pu]

More pics!

[41 ford pu]

Now these are repro parts. I got them from howells sheet metal in the us. Also shown is a couple of pics of floor and tunnel under construction.