1957 Ford F-100
A face only a mother could love
Just kidding, these can make some great vehicles with just a few mods.
This is one of builds Laurie is doing from start to finish. Plans are for a full air ride set up, Olds Rocket motor, turbo 350, Vintage Air, 20's and 18"s, custom bed and tail gate, Custom bumpers..etc
Here's a shot from the 1957 flyer..
Tear down!
The body is in fairly good shape but it's got it's fair share of rust. Lower doors,all four cab corners, some fender holes etc.
Here we just checked for wheel clearence for the air ride.
The chassis went out for blasting after we finished striping it. Laurie did a lot of mods on to it, New clip w/tubular control arms,boxed the frame, c notch for rear end, 4 link rear susp among other things.
Here you can see the start of the pass side c notch, as well the 9" is in place and has been narrowed.
Once the suspension was mocked up, all parts welded into place, motor mounts, cross members, brackets, etc it was off to Russ @ Francis Andrew Site Furnishings for some powder coating!
Time for some new parts! This is the fun stuff, rack & pinion, Flowmaster Exhaust.
Freshly coated exhaust, Headers,and exhaust custom built and modified by Laurie...
As always this is a very condensed version of what it took to make this happen.....
Here's a shot wayyyyyyyy into the body mods. The bed has had the floor raised, fenders tubbed, custom tail gate made, frenched tail lights and not shown in this pis is the new look above the front of the windsheild.
Lause built a new facia (almost like a visor) above the window. Very subtle but makes the truck look much better. You can see the difference in the first photo and later in the painted pic.
Air ride!
Rebuilt and ready for paint!
Deep Red!!
Ok i'm missing a lot of pic's, i'll add them as I go...big jump to Gerry and his trusty spray gun!
Gerry is a master at laying on the paint!
Stay tuned! More to come
