hey hillbillys, dan ferris here im from cambridge mn. auto body and fabricator by trade, my company name is Farm Country Customs LLC. im the proud owner of a 55 series 1 chevy pick up, it sits low on a s10 frame powered by a small block 350, its a work in progress, but got it on the road last week for the first time last week! the pay off is and will be well worth it. nothin beats the feel of old iorn burnin up the road!
Welcome aboard, sir. :rev:
alright ferris got it all figured out on here, now we got both of the ferris's....sweet :clap:
Welcome aboard Dan!!!! Very sweet truck you have. You have some skillz. Can't wait to see more pics of your projects! :thumbs:
yes sir , glad to have ya :thumbs:
Hey get some more pics of that daily driver!!! its awesome!! Welcome too! Cant wait for more cruisin!
thanks guys, hope to post pix soon of the other rides, hopefully some day i can be part of the club. got some new trinkets for the 55. now to get some time to put them on, been painting tractors for the last 10 hours. if you want anything john deere green let me know!
green huh...hmm
got a few pix, sorry they are not the best.... 90lowrider, 60 imp, best for last the chop cop 68.
i can only post 4 at a time and i guss you have to open them to see them in full size.?. sorry all.
yes look at that wagon, bring it to the next show ferry so everyone can see this thing, oh ya and i got another wagon again tonite for free
nice! ill bring it for sure. gotta try and finish it up a little. dont worry it wont be john deere green. welll maybe...... NO. :lol:
the chop top truck is awesome!! And the wagon!! WOW luv the rear!!!
thanks hope to get to the chop top done next, the imp can wait that needs more sheet metal work. save that for winter so i can keep my weldings tan year round.
the welding tan is cheaper than sittin under all them lights in a tanning bed
Quote from: Farmboy on June 30, 2010, 11:13:10 PM
the welding tan is cheaper than sittin under all them lights in a tanning bed
And not near as gay.
I think I have FINALLY found a wagon. (FREE)
I have a drawring @ work I've been working on for what I'd like it to look like.. WOOOOOT!
You have plenty of projects it looks like!
Can't you guys get real wagons already? At least two of us got it right.
Dreamers... :batman:
welcom dan the fab man
i LOVE wagons! i always wanted one but have not got one yet.... some day. but if you need a hand with yours let me know it might inspire me to get one. i wanna un-retro a magnum wagon, that would be pretty sweet i think just need to go to the action and get a crasher.
"dan the fab man" i like it! fabed up some stuff today for a old ford tractor and it was quite inpressive if i dont say. all the corn feed liked it at the shop.
darwings, lets take it off the paper and make it real!!! id love to see it!
Quote from: 55.ferris on July 01, 2010, 11:00:41 PM
i LOVE wagons! i always wanted one but have not got one yet.... some day. but if you need a hand with yours let me know it might inspire me to get one. i wanna un-retro a magnum wagon, that would be pretty sweet i think just need to go to the action and get a crasher.
I've got a few ideas for mine that I'll for sure need help with. Popping out the two back side windows, tin-ing over those to make it a panel wagon. Then got an idea for a custom hood, made from 1 Taurus hood and one mid-90's Mustang GT hood. Gonna be a subtle custom cowl job.
sounds pretty sweet. :thumbs: it shouldn't be to hard to tin in the windows you can use the glass for templates for the tin. i like the idea for the hood too.
its drawing fellas :lol:
Quote from: 55.ferris on July 02, 2010, 02:41:27 PM
sounds pretty sweet. :thumbs: it shouldn't be to hard to tin in the windows you can use the glass for templates for the tin. i like the idea for the hood too.
That's what I was thinking, for the windows at least. On my current wagon, the window seals already seem loose, so I think it's just a matter of pushing on them hard enough from the inside and they'd come right out. Then just trace 'em and do it up.
As far as the hood goes, that's a little tougher. I think. My vision is to take the Mustang hood and take a section out of the middle. Cut two lines, remove the middle section, then push it back together and weld it back up. Then I'd cut a channel out of the Taurus hood as wide as the leftover Mustang piece, and insert that. Sounds easy, but I know it won't be. One, I can't weld, two, it's never as easy as it seems. Gotta get my hands on a Mustang hood, too.
This be the critter I'm after:
(http://cpwstore.carpartswholesale.com/catalog/images/prodimage/imgthumb/replacement/7593.jpg)
(http://images02.olx.ca/ui/1/61/23/3915823_4.jpg)
Or I dish out like 5 bills for one of these carbon fiber, ready to go cowls. Looks pretty sweet, but dang, that's a lot of money. That and I'm not a huge fan of carbon fiber when it's surrounded by painted body panels. And it'd be cool to have a custom 1-off.
(http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_images/3/134/3641/25334320032_large.jpg)
Buy a cowl like that and smooth the lines out with bondo. problem solved.
Gotta find the secret to making fiberglass stay stuck to metal. The site that sells them cowls makes me a little hesitant to go that route.
Contact Mike Mason.
See the thunderbird and the truck... and anything else he's owened.. :lol:
mustang hoods are fiberglass Chaunce, and thats messy!
Even the stock ones? I swear I've found a few on Craig's list listed as steel. Oh well. To Bad Bird I go...
Or to a real car. :(
as far as i know there fiberglass but there may be some metal ones
i think there all glass too
3M, SEM, and kent, make a panel and patch panel bond two part kit. it works great i've glued tons of quarters and door skins on and a lot of box sides. and a fiberglass firebird door skin, and repaired a corvette quarter. just make sure the extra glue that pushes out of the seams is ground off before you start laying bondo. had one bad experience, the glue reactivated the filler and swelled. and you could see the seam. nothin like learning the hard way and doing this twice.
aslo heard of guys using duraglass boby filler or kitty hair and adding resin to thin the filler and use it like a glue for bonding different materials together. never tried it tho.
So..., when can I come over? :help: :lol:
lol,
pretty much gonna be a 40 hr project yikes
40 hour???!!! more like ten min man. get the parts and we'll fab it up.
:P haha
Shwang dang! I gotta get the cowl and we'll be good to go. Got a Taurus sitting here with a solid hood that's ready for surgery. All I need now is a new wagon to put this thing on when we get it done.
sounds good man. ill get the saws-all wormed up and the beer on ice!
gaby wants a 5 window....... on trucks ''classix'' project they are gonna make the 49 into a 5 window. they sell a kit. but it cant be that hard. right??? Farm Country Customs ''we chop'm, and drop'm'' no worries guaranteed! :thumbs:
u can do it cut its :mad: roof off :clap:
hey ferris give me a shout know where thers a couple 5 windows at and a couple of hillbilly questions 320492 4579
sorry hillbilly les i have not gave you a call yet. i landed a job back at my old shop :clap: been turn'n wrenches all week, kinda like it but, can't wait to spray some paint i think i'm having withdrawlls. :'( or thats what im blaming my headaches on.
The withdrawls I bet is from the lack of paint fumes you're sniffing.
It's lke getting a headache after you quite drinking pop for a few days. Or after you stop smokin' crack!
I know from experience...
Hey when did u get on here? Thats a cool pic of your truck.
hes been one here for like 2 years pchop
Duh. Back before the forum was even up he was here. Where you been? :S
shhhhh everybodys here :batman:
pchop is out of the loop :S
been on here for a while now but still gotta work on becoming a member. thats next, one steep at a time.
Don't have to work too hard. Best $20 you'll ever spend! :lol:
heck yes
i paid for u tink :mad:
55ferris ,hook up and call it done and lets talk on the truck s ,just bring a trailer :thumbs:
Heck yeah. Sounds like a new sale special. Buy two vehicles, get a free Hillbilly membership. I bet Rox would be in support of that! :lol: Just gotta find more worthy recruits to buy up the other 20+ cars... :thumbs:
hey chaunsey pants :bash: :nutz: :thud:
You know I didn't mean it. 8) By my standards, you're halfway done with an art-yard. Just gotta haul in 500 loads of fill to soak up the swamp and we'll be good to go. Get that road paved. Ah, yeah!
:clap:
Quote from: Chauncey on August 02, 2010, 07:13:09 PM
You know I didn't mean it. 8) By my standards, you're halfway done with an art-yard. Just gotta haul in 500 loads of fill to soak up the swamp and we'll be good to go. Get that road paved. Ah, yeah!
might take a few more than 500.. Its a big swamp :help:
Yeah, you're right. Maybe we'll just have to stick to plan A. Buy the old Dodge dealership in Pine City and start the first ever paved junk jard. We can throw up some "overstock" racking with rollers on it, get some giant pallets, and store the cars 4-5 high. Take up way less ground space, and we can pull each one down whenever somebody wants parts. And we'll have a wicked service station for stripping them down.
Wouldn't need to buy 2 vehicles, just buy one (cheap), and there's a possibility of free membership - let's talk! ;)
Hmm. Which one for Toni then?
sorry I have been kinda lazy lately I have internet on my phone so I really dont have a excuse ???
ya once in a while life jist comes up and gets in yer face :S
ok sounds good hillbilly. i have your number, ill call you and we can make a time. :clap:
thanks for the 56's hillbilly les can't wait to start the fun of buildin a new ride! got a few ideas....
the 3rd one for sure
i agree #3 asawweeeeeettt
wow..... #3!! :thumbs:
thats what i'm thinkin ??? 3 is the look i wanna go for. i like the green too cuz i have a feeling its gonna take alot of my green to get it done. pretty sure im gonna stub it with a metric sub and bag it. maybe a 5.3 fuelly and o/d tranny. kinda like the old six banger tho, they sound kind cool too.
put it on a mid 90s frame and bag it that way than you get all the nice lookin comfortable suspension
that would probably work pretty good too. ??? time to get out the tape and get my measure on, the daily driver might get some new old tin!!! half the work is done,
Man. can't wait to see what becomes of them!!! :clap:
neither can i and the straight six is un-stuck and spins free as new. maybe by the week end ill get it fired up!!!
freakin sweet!!!! Figured it wouldn't take to much at all to free it. Thing is like brand spankin new. you should get a few miles outta her!
You already have that motor freed up?? WOW! get it started up!!!!!
i got it movin ten min after i was home. tranny fluid works everytime.
illl get it runnin and it will do a smoky before it comes apart. its the hillbilly way right?
Duh. Unless you've got a POS Taurus wagon that doesn't have enough balls to spin the tires... :'(
dont worry your time will come.
do it do it!! let us know when! well come watch!
yeah i will be there to help well watch is more like it your prefectly able to do it. ;)
Quote from: Chauncey on August 10, 2010, 10:44:59 PM
Duh. Unless you've got a POS Taurus wagon that doesn't have enough balls to spin the tires... :'(
That's what happens when you have 26's..... Sure looks bawlin though 8)
hey get a video if the bad boy starts up ,, thats pretty kool that it turns :thud:
will do. you know the firing order off hand???
All at once, right? At least that's how they did it back in the day.
Wait, that was firing squad. Nevermind...
naw off hand i dont ,google does must be a 235 ,,right??
yeah it a 235. the last 235 i had in a 54 one ton was a power house. and layed some mad rubber!
1-5-3-6-2-4 Quote: 15 is too young 36 is pass prime 24 is the right time. google;
well the 56 cranks over but vary fast. two stuck valves and a mouse nest under the valve cover. but im not giving up yet. there still is hope.
now its gots ta go nice work meester
got the nest out of the velves and the stuck valves freed up. :thumbs: gas down the card and the old girl fired up. a little tuning and she purred like a kittin. dumped the clutch chirped the tires and off i went. cant wait for tomorrow smokeys for sure!!! :clap:
holy crap.. thats awesome!! What ya gonna do with that lil engine?
well if it hold up to some yard beating and tire burning it might get a twin carb set up and a split header and make some good old skool power and run it. "reto rods are cool, but they dont beat ols skool!!!"
yes!! get some serious power outta da 6 er!! :clap:
for sure!! how do i post vids???
i gotta come check this out
2 carbs 2 pipes and dual tire marks that would be way cool
:clap:
i think that's the way i will go. farmboy is talking me into Z ing the frame. but i still don't know what to do yet???
KYou will just have to sit and stare at it that the best thing well that and drink liquid imagination
:clap:
liquid imagination i like it :cheers: :cheers:
yes that is a good idea. :thumbs:
well its been a long time and i missed a lot sorry hillbillys. gotta try and keep up on things. been busy with work and side work. them i remembered this thing im looking at dose more then estimates... hope to post more and new pix in the near future.
welcome back to the madness! :thumbs:
:thumbs: thanks cant wait to catch up on it all!