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Post by Lee @ krow kustoms on Nov 22, 2006 9:52:08 GMT -6
How do the guys like Roth and Dave Shuten who is building the astrosledbubble rod mount the bodies to the frames? Is it through the moulded in interior? or is there a steel frame underneath? if so..... how do they mount the frame to the body without the fixings showing on the outside?
Just a question that has been puzzling me.....As you can tell...i'm really bored at work LOL
Lee
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Post by fritz on Nov 22, 2006 15:16:57 GMT -6
the interior of most or Roth's cars, Dave's mysterion & astrosled and my Roswell Rod all have plywood with glass laid up over it. I made teflon bushings, I think Dave just drilled through the wood and drilled & tapped the chassie rail. On Roth's Druid Princess that Im restoring he had a stack of flat washers abt an inch and a half tall as body spacers LOL it to was drilled through the plywood floor through the stack of washers and nut & bolted to a tab welded on the side of the frame rail
FRITZ.............does that make any sencs???
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Post by Lee @ krow kustoms on Nov 23, 2006 1:29:03 GMT -6
Thanks Fritz.
Do they have plywood running all through the body to give them strength or just the interior?
Lee
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Post by scurvy on Nov 23, 2006 10:39:13 GMT -6
Most fiberglass-bodoed showrods thave plywood floors that run from the firewall back. Some have done more molded floors that were all fiberglass, and fit inside the framerails. In these cases, one would bond a steel plate or a wood block into the body at points where it's to be mounted to the frame, though some dune buggies sandwiched the body between the VW pan and a metal strip along the body flange.
Lee, you have to understand that on a 1:1 one-off fiberglass showrod, the interior floor is usually bonded into the body structure, and not a seperate tub as it is in the model kits.
Oh yeah - lots of those rods weren't fiberglass, either. There are a bunch of steel and aluminum bodied showrods that have been built as well.
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Post by Lee @ krow kustoms on Nov 24, 2006 2:59:24 GMT -6
Hey Scurvy
Thanks for the input. I realise that the interiors on that type of showrods (roswell, astrosled, beatnick bandit) are intregral to the body, I just wondered how they were mounted to keep body strength and whether and how they were supported at the rear etc....
Cheers
Lee
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Post by fritz on Nov 24, 2006 7:25:42 GMT -6
well the cars i know about and have been in & out of Roswell Rod, Mysterion, Milk Truck, Ice Truck, Road Agent, Globe Hopper, Astrosled, Druid Princess. The interior was all plywood & Fibrglass. built out of wood and cover'd in glass, something like the L.A. Zoom the interior tub was all fiberglass laid up over a plaster buck. I guess what ever get the job done. Thats all I got
FRITZ
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