The gasser looks real slick in #20!

 

Thanks! The orange and white '56 is my buddy's, and the light blue Austin with flames is mt next door neighbor. The little ratty looking Austin PU truck is another buddy's.

 

Looking at the picture you posted, that looks pretty close to the stock location, except the stock firewall had a lot of ugly bracing on it, and that one seems to be cleaned and smoothed. My buudy's PU has probably 4" from the face of the dash to the firewall surface.

 

Decided to finally do a little more work on my interior firewall today. I bought a black carpet remnant the other day that was 6'x8', which should do my firewall and the floor too. (nice to have a tiny car!)
I cut cardboard to fit each side of the firewall, and then test fitted it. Once I had a template I traced it on some 1/4" finish plywood and cut it out with the jigsaw. After that I traced the pattern on the back of the carpet and cut it a couple inches larger than my wood backer. Then I simply stapled it to the back after stretching it snugly.
I cut a piece of carpet to cover the center of the firewall and pulled the gas pedal to glue the carpet to the sound/heat shield material, leaving enough to overlap the two sides. After that I simply put the sides in place and snapped them to the magnetic latches I installed on the back side of the firewall.
It hides all the wiring, foil insulation, and gives me a 1.5" dead space to reduce heat transfer, and allow for wiring to run under the panels.





This winter I'll pull the seat bases and cut them down one inch in height to get headroom when I wear my helmet at the track. It was pretty close! Then I'll do the carpetting on the floor at that time, and the ends of these panels too. Just need a small filler to cover the area between the interior panel and the edge of the door opening.

 

Another nice touch. As i said before your gonna have to get a new project soon as id love to read about another one of your restos. You claim that this one isnt done and you are already winning awards and getting pictures in the newspaper.

 

You and me both! I'm looking every day in the local CL for my entire state, plus the adjoining states! Still haven't found the right vehicle. Hopefully I'll find one, or maybe find something at the huge April swap meet next spring!

 

Any ideas on what type would be next?

 

I've not pinned it down to one yet, but it's either going to be a '33-'34 fenderless coupe, or a '40-'41 ****** PU. I've got an aquaintance who has a '41 ****** PU with a BBC that he's thinking of selling, but not sure it's in my budget range. And '33-'34 coupes are really spendy, even for a bare body/frame, and tough to find also!

 

For the 30 something would you be going with original frame and whats left of the body or would you be looking at something kitted out like a Factory five or something?

 

Looking for something like this:


To build something similar to this, but without the sidepipes, and tubbing in the wide tires a bit to make it a bit narrower:


I would either modify the stock frame by boxing it and reinforcing it, or build something from scratch that looks close to stock, but stronger.