'55 Ford F-100 Pickup Custom

[mustang1989]

That thing is gonna look totally bitchin' when it's all said and done!!! Fantastic work Mark.

[mustang1989]

On 4/16/2020 at 3:12 AM, mbdesignart said:

You've got to love Halfords matt black rattle can, it gives a magic satin finish, who'd have thought? I wish masking took as long as spraying but the effort has been worthwhile to my eye. Now waiting for some wire to add the plug leads to the engine but I can assemble the wheels and fit those.

 

Just got back in here after a couple of months away from the forums. Didn't see any progress on this and was wondering if you've made any as this is just such a cool project.

[mbdesignart]

Again some progress as the decals finally arrived, The body has had a coat of Tamiya LP-24 and the engine and exhausts have been added to the chassis, not without some fettling to align with the IRS. After applying the F100 decals to the door lower edges and tailgate and then clear coating I wasn't happy and stripped them. So it's back to the spray booth once more stock of clear arrives. Also there is a fit issue with the sterring column which drops the steering wheel directly onto the seat, this requires some head scratching to solve, not easy as the dash fits once the screen is installed and flaots above the stering column, I'm now calling the colour Exotic Ferrous Oxide 😉

 

   

 

Edited July 7, 2020 by mbdesignart
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[JCH]

The boys at Iron Resurrection would be proud.  This is a beautiful resto-mod.  The "Exotic Ferrous Oxide" is awesome.  Honestly hoping you keep the matt finish, it's sublime.  

[mustang1989]

This one is coming along nicely and I'm glad to see you back on it. Really like the chassis as well.

[busnproplinerfan]

This does look good. For some reason, most steering wheels  do sit on the seat, in the models anyway.

[Spiny]

When I see it in that shot, the colour looks very close to my Fiesta (Copper Pulse). In the photos, I'd definitely say it looks more coppery than rust-coloured.

 

It does look very crisply painted - I guess there was a painful amount of masking involved somewhere in there?

[mbdesignart]

Spiny, I think the colour is more orangy than copperish [note technical terminology😉]. Masking, sometimes it takes longer than the actual spraying, but worth it in the end and yet more masking to do for the window rubbers.

I think I've solved the steering column issue in that the lower section from the dash bracket to firewall won't be going in. There must be steering by wire somewhere in the automotive world? I had steering by rope on my bogey as a kid 🤣

 

Thanks for the ongoing comments.

[johnlambert]

11 minutes ago, mbdesignart said:

There must be steering by wire somewhere in the automotive world? I had steering by rope on my bogey as a kid 🤣

 

Thanks for the ongoing comments.

Off topic but I think there was an Bond three-wheeler that employed cable and bobins to steer its single front wheel and some four-wheel cyclecars of the 1910s and 1920s may also have employed cables.  More recently, in the 1970s, I think the AMC Pacer was converted to right-hand drive by the simple expedient of cutting off the steering column behind the dashboard on the left, attaching a sprocket and running a chain to another sprocket on a short column that poked through the dashboard on the right.  

[rs2man]

59 minutes ago, johnlambert said:

Off topic but I think there was an Bond three-wheeler that employed cable and bobins to steer its single front wheel and some four-wheel cyclecars of the 1910s and 1920s may also have employed cables.  More recently, in the 1970s, I think the AMC Pacer was converted to right-hand drive by the simple expedient of cutting off the steering column behind the dashboard on the left, attaching a sprocket and running a chain to another sprocket on a short column that poked through the dashboard on the right.  

I've heard of the sprocket & chain conversion being done by "specialists" on Austin Healey 3000's too . 

[mbdesignart]

Back to the build... Can you spot the error on the instrument decals? Bench seat and aux. gauge pod installed. Owing to some oversight along the way the stance ended up all wrong. Upon installing the engine I found headers fouled the chassis and so much ripping out of parts sent me back to square one on the IFS. Here is V2, the standard deep engine sump has gone and a channel will require cutting to sit over the front beam axle. I've seen the professionals have to cut lumps out of the lower half of engines so I'm ok with that, and at this stage I pertty much just want to get it done. Anyway the stance is back to how it should have been and the front bodywork fits, despite the best efforts of Mongram to make dropping this over the interior sides a tight squeeze.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[mbdesignart]

This build has now been completed.