Gray Goats Rod and Custom

 Further work on the frame today.  Started by clamping the left and right rails together and marking them for the vertical angle cuts necessary to follow the body lines. Clamping them together for marking eliminates possible side to side errors assuring a mirror image left to right. Just for fun I set the grill shell in position and measured to get an approximation of the difference between the height of the grill and the height of the firewall I'll start cutting tomorrow but before I did I made cardboard templates the same width as the fame rails and cut the angle in them to be sure the resulting joint would keep the frame within the layout lines.  The results.... PERFECT :)!

  The main steel is here, I picked up some 2x4 tubing, a 2” forward section and a front perch from Ron Pope Motor sports.   All were waiting on now is some custom cut curved rear plates that will be explained in greater detail

  Currently Gray Goats Rod and Custom works out of a modest 30 x 40 two car shop located on a piece of country property.  But this was not always the case.  The early years of the C buckets development took place in a VERY cramped single car garage.  The driveway was available on rain free days, but the southern sun can be brutal and I had to find an inexpensive solution.  Thus the Taj Ma Tarp was born.  A trip to Harbor Freight for a 12 x 12 tarp (I think it was 12x12 its been a while as I type this) with a stop at Home Depot for s couple lengths of electric conduit, a little rope and I was in business. Inside the garage door some screw in hooks I had laying around were screwed into the beam over the door to catch the grommets in the tarps edge.    Three equal length sections of conduit were cut and the ends compressed in a vice around a 16d nail with the head exposed.  This point is to go through the grommets on the corners of the tarp. Two...