I really havent had a chance to work on the Roadster much this winter.  I’ve been really sick ever since the Hunnert Car.  I’m feeling good tonight… and figured I had better update my site.  I did pick up some new parts for the Roadster.  I was lucky enough to score a NOS Schiefer bonded face flywheel!  I also picked up a NOS Hurst conversion kit for the Lasalle transmission to adapt the Hurst Yo-Yo shifter…  had Hurst make custom SLICKS… and more…

Heres a pic of the Hurst conversion kit…  Rad.

Picture of the Flywheel…  Equally Rad.

Pic of the HURST Firestone whitewall pie-crust cheaters…  Bad ASS…  I wanted my slicks to be close to 29″ tall, 6″ wide and 15″ to fit the mags.  They nailed it.  These are 6″ wide!  I had them run a single cheater groove down the middle just like the show rods in the little books…

Got a steering hoop… and had the spring shop make me a reversed eye spring…  Its back up on its wheels again!

Heres a close up of the F-1 box.  I pruned the bracket off the case and sleeved the frame for a flat U-Bolt.  Bolt is recessed so you can’t see the nuts unless the frame is upside down.  Much Cleaner and I get the box out of the way of the starter…

I made a mad dash to try and get the Ranch in paint before the trip.  I got close.  Primer was good enough…  I found a single axle car trailer in Kansas, Kev went and picked it up…   I left from Northern Minnesota and Picked up Kevin, the trailer and his coupe and we left for Austin Speed Shop.  The plan was to work on it for a week… and thats what happened…  We have the whole story in a thread on the Jalopy Journal.  Link below…  its a good read… with some great pics! 

Heres the LINK to pics and coverage of the trip…  it was pretty rad: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=383829

Heres a clip from Jesse that kinda shows the shop- most of the guys in this vid are my pals that work and live in Austin… Its a great place to visit… but 110 degrees on a average summer day… thats a little hot for my Minnesota blood…

Work’n our ASS off. from Franky Luckman on Vimeo.

 

 

So… my quest for a shifter has ended…  with the holy grail of hurst[tm]  I think the box art is just as cool as the shifter itself.  This was one of the the first new style Hurst shifters that came out in 1959 and ran to 1962…  It has a barrel style acrylic handle with the numbers 1-2-3 and R in a H pattern in the fluorescent acrylic…  super-rad.  Brand new in the box…

 

How about the Coolest motor mounts….

Hurst NOS conversion aids for my Hemi.

 check this out… 

 

And then…  a Stash of SP parts…

SP breathers and pedal…