INSIDE OUT..

I had a crazy idea that I could shape my rear inner fenders. (owning a english wheel and a power hammer gives you those silly thoughts)

of course, I would only build inner fenders because the stockers I had found were so expensive.. that I just couldn't justify the cost. Even if they were "worth it"

Given that I have a few extra 40 ford parts.. I went to the stash today to see what I could come up with.

heres were it started

a few years ago.. I bought these stock inner "coupe" rear wheel houses

this one came back from the sandblaster in pretty poor condition. ..

my wife helped me mark it, and then we used the plasma cutter to trim it.
had this inner fender been in better shape.. I might have used a pair of these (rather than have progressed to attempt #2


given that this inner fender looked like it may have worked..
I got this crazy idea that perhaps one of the spare rear stock 40 coupe fenders I had might work even better..


a few minutes of figuring, trimming, and viola..




the driver side worked well.. but I quickly realized that the passenger side could be done with less trimming..



dont let the fenders fool you.. both were ROUGH.. at the front and rear edges (toward the bottom) as such.. both were really only good enough for this particular application..

currently they are "clamped in place" next I'll work on bolting them into my subfloor, and screwing them into the wood. Following this process I will hopefully be able to assemble the rear fenders onto the car with the running boards and finish the repairs to the outers..

soon we might just have a complete floor!

FLOORED

Started to work on the front floor installation..

Should have photos tomorrow.. looks good, thanks to "Precision Coach Works" and David Bradley floor pans.

Amazing what a minimal amount of sheet metal can do.

A big thanks to Bryan and Doug.

today my good friends Brian and Doug came by to help with the assembly.. all went relatively smoothly, and thanks to my neighbor DUKE I had some good supervision as well.

too busy to shoot photos during the process..

we started at 9am with this







and here it is at about noon in "supermockup"



the floor is still not complete.. BUT, in a previous life I worked for a chassis shop where we built pro streeters and race cars.. I spent a good deal of my time there cutting floors out to prepare for this type of "back half", so this process is similar.. next step will be to fill in the floor's etc..



Of course, my other supervisor, kept tabs on us through the process as well.