Just started watching your You Tube channel. Brings back memories of me sandblasting the frame of my Model A at my parent's house in the mid 90's. Except I was dealing with 90 degree weather and humidity!!
Love that compressor you got there my grandfather had one of those those things run forever. They don`t build them like that anymore that thing is awesome
When I was 18 and 19, back in 88 and 89 I was an apprentice painter and had to sandblast houses as part of the job. What a pain in the ass. And then to clean up all that sand. And doing it in the summer made it worse. Great vid man!
This is great learning experience for me seeing how to do it with basics thks for sharing your project with us keep making projects like this lve got 28 and trying to bring it bk too ya make it look easy enough to do ya got this 👍 signed up cause you make it look understand able so thks keep us posted
Imo if it were just surface rust, keep it! Makes the car look really interesting imo. I love seeing what looks like a rustbucket abt to fall apart actually be structurally fine, and flyin down the road. Great to see one of these being kept up and restored.
That rat rod look fad has been dragged through the dirt and thrown in our faces too long. Enough of the shade tree mechanics. Most rat rods are extremely dangerous. Go to an actual car show. You'll see rat rods are thankfully a dying breed. If one can't build a car right, leave it to the pros.
@@mycomment474 I love rat rods. I don't give a shit if the look is overused, I like it, and idc if nobody else does. I see rat rods at local car shows all the time, and I think they're cool.
That banger would be sweet, with a better cam, twin SU carbs and a Volvo B20 distributor. And a Tardel style drop at the rear, Dago axle and flathead wheels. I love era perfect build
I was thinking, maybe you could build something to gather that sand like a room/building without a roof so the dust can fly out, but to me, that is expensive, the only reason I thought that was so sand wouldn’t have to fly everywhere. Either way still really good job! 😃
When u start the ol model A up again let it idle for a few minutes to warm the engine then the won’t cut out when u stop I have an old truck that does the same but once the engine is warm she will never die
For a minute u might have to give her a small I mean small rev consistently (no up and down) just consistently, steady, even rev to help her stay at idle for when u let off
@@rottersgarage Back when America took pride in everything they built. I long for the days when it happens again. Thanks for keeping the Heritage alive.
get some epoxy primer on it ASAP. I used to have a media blasting company, and would suggest you blast with crushed glass it is safer and does a better job.
My notifications are on JUST for this project. Been enjoying it from the beginning. I have a compressor that's about that old. I had to make my own distributor points for it. I know it's called a V-40 and has a Chevy v-6 in it, but there's no plate on telling me the manufacturer. Odd.
Absolutely, on a nice sunny summer day, I can shovel it up, run it through an old aluminum screen to keep bigger contaminants out, and put it right back in the barrels once dry.
I got a little newer Smiths Compressor that was turned into the recyclers...missing the governor assembly.. Powered by Ford 302...engine is free but I've not spent the time getting it running yet...so fingers crossed. So no carb control...yet. any thoughts on that? Thanks for this vid!!!
I know where there were a couple of those 302 ford compressors. Does yours run on 4 and make air out of a modified head on the other side?? If so i can check if they are still around, maybe rob a governor....
@Rotter's Garage yesser runs on 4 and a special Smiths head on the other side. All I have is the bracket that the control rod moves thru. Thanks for the offer!!
I do, it's actually sitting outside my shop, still in need of sheet metal work and finishing. I've been trying to get it in here all summer but the shop is always full of customer cars, not a bad problem to have, but kind of slows my projects down. Haven't even been able to touch the model a in the last month... Hopefully it slows down here in the next month so I can get back on my stuff....
Shop is busy as can be, just me here. I've been working on just about everything, doing up that 69 mustang that has been in the background here. Just wrapped up a 52 Chevy truck and sent it out today... Haven't touched the model a, have a show this weekend and hopefully that wraps it up for the summer, would love to get back on the project.....
Its a Smith Compressor. Its actually a flathead straight six plymouth Engine, 3 make air, 3 run the engine. Has reed valves fitted into the head on the 3 cylinders toward the air tank with its own air inlet and filter. The intake and exhaust ports on those 3 cylinders are capped off with 1/4 inch steel plate. The intake itself says Smith in the casting, running a small updraft carb with a belt driven governor. Not sure on the CFM rating, it might say somewhere on it. Works good though, just ran another 3000lbs of sand through it this past weekend, cleaning up project parts before it gets to cold out to blast....
What`s up with that black Cordoba Charger I use to have a 1975 Charger it was dark green on green with a 400 in it anyway that black one looks good with the dog dish caps
It's a 76 Cordoba, we built an 413 with flat tops, balanced with 400 heads on it years ago for a friend of mine. He gave it to me a couple of years ago and I ran it in spectator eliminator at our local dirt track ( single elimination drags on the oval). Going to have to pull the engine here soon. Runs good yet ,65 psi of oil on start up, but as soon as it warms up it's down to 8 in gear... Must have a bearing on its way out.....
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