While on Ebay, Russell, in Panama City Beach Florida,fell in love with my model A but wasn't Quite ready to buy.When he got ready he called to see if the car was still available,which it wasn't because it was on it's way to Cali,so we started to talk about building a clone but with some changes to make it unique to Russell. I am going to post pics on here as things progress so that he can keep up to date and drool on his keyboard until the day I show up in his drive way with it,so follow along as I build his dream ride.This is another 1930 Murray bodied ford 4 door that I picked up in Chicago on Saturday.On Sunday I pulled the body from the stock frame and found it to be as solid as Harry said it was. OK heres what happened on monday .I stripped the rear doors of windows and regulators and cut them off at the beltline after which I tacked them to the body and removed the roof section over the rear doors

On tuesday I cut loose the rear of the car at the beltline and moved it forward to the B pillar

Well the rear of the car is coming together again.Lots of trimming,grinding,cutting and welding to get here but the rear is attatched to the car again and I am about half done filling in around the "bed" we can now officially call it a "coupe-up" here is the finished metal around the bed milling tubing to square up here is the start of the frame and the rear kick this is the worst spot on the frame thats one tenth of one degree out of level and heres the finished perimiter frame these four kept me busy getting ready for show

the coker's are here

this is our 72 vette 350 heres the vintage tunnel ramgetting ready to pull crank

this week the body met the frame for the first time.body is now channeld 3 inches over the frame so bottom of body is level with the bottom of the frame.engine and transmisssion are in place to start building motor mounts and trans mount and x member

here we have the motor mounts and the x member with body mounts in place the doors are hung and frame is up off the floor and sitting at ride height.next is the suspension and then its time to CHOP IT starting to look like a car againpainted wheels and mounted tires

front end almost done. rear triangulated 4 link and new coilovers are in so car now bounces on it's own springs and roll's across the floor time to chop here is the windshield showing how much we are going to be cutting here are th layout lines for the cutsno turning back now these are the first cuts and the last cutnow to set the top back onnote the cutstop welded up

sinister new look and a look thru the windshielda look inside at the new shifter and the glass 32 dash and a sneak peek at the grill shell

HERE WE HAVE RUSSELLS NEW RIDE IN ALL ITS FINAL GLORY AS  YOU CAN TELL HE IS A DIVER IN THE US NAVY  THOSE ARE SMALL REPLICA DIVER HELMETS FOR AIR CLEANERS AND A DIVE KNIFE FOR A SHIFTER HANDLE THE CAR IS NOW CALLED COPPER COLLAR CUSTOMS IT WAS AN HONOR TO BUILD SUCH A COOL CAR FOR SOMEONE WHO SERVES OUR COUNTRY IN TIME OF WAR I AM PROUD TO CALL HIM MY NEW FRIEND THANKS RUSSELL AND HAPPY HOT RODDING IN YOUR NEW BABYLL