1960 Studebaker Lark VI

[linkstar69]

That floor looks great, it must be tempting to just spray it with bedliner and leave it for the world to see

[Centerforce]

You really killed with with that floor and trans tunnel! Will it be fully butt welded or does it seem strong enough as is?

[bread_and_water]

You really killed with with that floor and trans tunnel! Will it be fully butt welded or does it seem strong enough as is?

Thank you and it's surprisingly strong as it is but I'm going to end up fully welding the seams just to be sure and in hindsight I wish I had incorporated a flange at the base of each section so I might also add reinforcement where the tunnel meets the floor.

[OLDFLM]

It's been over a month... any updates?

[OLDFLM]

Bueller? Bueller?

[bread_and_water]

Bueller? Bueller?

Don't worry I haven't given up on this thing, still slowly plugging away but I took a break to work on a couple other things namely my jeep and built a large heavy duty welding table because didn't really have a good area in my garage to fabricate small projects. Also a complete suspension overhaul on my daily driver, lowered 2008 charger with 200k miles and every bushing was shot and had a broken coil in the rear so it was definitely time.

[LewdStude]

Any updates with FASTUDE ?

[LewdStude]

Is this project still alive?

[grendel]

Why do I feel like I am watching a Pirate4x4 build?

[OLDFLM]

Whatever happened to this build?

[OLDFLM]

U p d a t e s ? ? ? ? ?

[Zspoiler]

You are doing some very nice work .And you are going to surprise a lot people who don`t know what this car is. I grew up with these cars so I know.

[bread_and_water]

Looks like photobucket realized nobody was going to pay them their ransom and my pictures are back, I don't have any updates at the moment but will be getting back on this project soon.

[Peanut1959]

Good to know you're inspired to make some forward progress. Looking forward to more updates!

[bread_and_water]

Just a quick welfare check, I've been putting in some serious time on the Studebaker and will try to update later today with pictures.

[Peanut1959]

Great news! Glad you're still with us and making progress.

[bread_and_water]

So it's obviously been a while since I last updated this build but I've made some pretty drastic changes because I wasn't happy with how some things were turning out and I wanted and was fairly confident with some better tools and a little more thought I could do better. My focus became clean and detailed metal work so the plan is to have the car be a 2 seater with carpet under the driver and passenger but most of the interior other than that will be exposed but painted metal work.

One of the first things I did was cut out and scrap the firewall and tunnel as well as the inner fender panels I had made and found some better template making material to create curved surfaces rather than boxy ones. Another big change was to go with full QA1 coilovers front and rear with a single triangulated 4 link in the rear. I also went with a Speedway fabricated ford 9" assembly and an aluminum Strange 3rd member from Quick Performance stuffed with a Truetrac and 3.25 gears because I really want this car to be a very comfortable highway cruiser as well as be able to handle and with the relatively short tires and power from the 5.3 it should still be plenty fast.

Anyway on to the picture updates because it's easier to show than it is to tell.
This first picture is soon after I cut the tunnel back out and began setting up the rear suspension.

[bread_and_water]

Here's the suspension basically finished except final welding. The picture uploading is being odd so bare with me until I figure it back out and can post more in between progress.

[Bob in St. Louis]

That's cool!

[OLDFLM]

YES!!! My favorite build is back! Finally the Christmas present I've been waiting for!

Seriously, my favorite build in a long time and so glad to see you're back!