Late 30's Pickup ratrod

Dan Hallauer and I been working on a rat-rod style of late 30's Ford pickup. We hope to have it done by April to early May for the first rod cruse around here. The truck will be for sale once it's finshed (already have one offer, and it's not compleate.) This is basicly Dan's project I just help when I can.

I do the majority of the sheet metal repair/ fabrication and painting, Dan perfers the mechanical side but helps on the sheet metal too. I can do the mechanical but would rather not if possible.

Fire wall went shiny red for the 1950's rod style, and John Deere flat eggshell black. We are trying to go for period correct on the look.

You should of see the cab before, it looked like someone got a pick-axe for christmas and went to town, took some time to fix correctly.

There is just a hint of the Pointiac grill can be seen

I didn't have much to start with on the bed, just 4 parts: sides, front piece (near the cab) and a partial frame in a pile. The side panels were missing there back posts and some of the sheet metal.

We didn't have a tailgate at the time so I made a reverse of the front piece and weilded it up (after getting everything else to line up first. This was done at my house, then the bed was brought back to Dan's shop, and thankfully I got all my angles right.

Currenly we are a little further then this now, I just need to take some more pics. I'll update this as soon as I can.

Update 3-3-10

just some quick shots of the latest changes

the weels were origionaly going to go red to match the firewall, but some caps were found for the weels and black seamed like a better fit.

some of the wiring is in place and the front half is now on the ground. a small problem occured with back axel adaption plate that mounts to the transmission was the wrong one. Dan got the correct one and expects to see the truck on the ground soon.

the truck bed is still in the air on what to do with it, but no rush on needed for it.