Author: DW

Stolen: 1925 Studebaker

I received this in an email this morning. If you see this car, please contact Casey or I.

Recently our 1925 Studebaker and trailer parked at our station/office at 360 York Road in Niagara On The Lake, Ontario, Canada has been stolen.
Niagara Patient Transfer operates a community outreach program geared to Long Term Care residents in the Niagara and Hamilton Regions. Basically we would take the car to Nursing homes and take the residents for short rides if they were able to get in the vehicle, or just have a look. It brought Many Many smiles to many faces. The last time we were out was in Mid November before the weather turned bad. The car has been in my family for apx 20 years, and the trailer was purchased recently for the exclusive reason to transport the car to its numerous destinations. It is very important to me that we locate the car and return it to us ASAP. We estimate the trailer and car was stolen on Tuesday Feb 23 Late night to Friday Feb 24 Early AM. If you have any information regarding either the car or trailer please contact me at 905-650-7282, the Niagara Regional Police or Crime Stoppers. This is an extremely rare vehicle and a very large trailer. If you have noticed anyone with either a new white trailer or new antique car please contact us. The Trailer is completely white with no markings on it, and the car is red with black fenders. We are offering a $4000.00 Reward for information leading to the return of our car and trailer.

Thank-You in Advance

Casey McNab
Director of Operations
Niagara Regional Patient Transfer
Sports Medic
905-650-7282 CELL
905-228-0314 ext 102 OFFICE

Dear Welder Series… 01 Chevy truck

Dear Welder Series…
To whom it may concern,
I am getting ready to build a pre runner style truck out of a 2001 Chevy half ton pickup. Its and extended cab short bed two wheel drive. I was planning on running King coil overs in all four corners. Do you happen to have or would you be able to fab a complete weld or bolt on 4 link kit. I like the triangulated design but the pictures on your sight the rods them selves look to short if you can build something like that can you please put a quote together and email me back and if not maybe you might know who is able to do it thank you very much.

Dear Tyler…
There are some drawings that show where the bars mount at https://welderseries.com/instructions/ws21850/ws21850_dwgs.htm .  If this length doesn’t work for you, we can supply custom length bars.  The frame mounts go in the same place for both our 218500 and 318500 kits.

Thanks for looking at Welder Series’ parts.

Paul Horton

Detroit Autorama

Well, it’s that time of year again… time to have a look at many manifestations of love, blood, sweat, and stress at this years Detroit Autorama.  I enjoy seeing the finished products, but I think I like the builds better.  This thread has some build pictures of Sinuous, a Dave Tucci – built ’35 Ford that was a Great 8 car last year.  Another great behind-the-scenes look at a Ridler car is JF Launier’s online TV show.

If you’re going to be in Detroit this weekend, please say hi if you see me.  I’ll have a Welder Series T shirt on.

New 5″ x 5″ 90 degree gusset

A strange thing happened the other day… I came into the shop and thought I heard Rick Moranis in the background talking about blowing something up. Turns out we’ve ended up with a supersized #28831! Instead of 3″x3″, the newest gusset on the shelves is 5″x5″ with two 5/8″ holes and one 1-1/4″ hole.

10 gauge mild steel. Click on the part to head over to our web store.

1953 International Mustang II

What do you mean, “modify the rails”?

We have had quite a few questions about installing our Mustang II kit in cars that don’t lend themselves well to a conversion. Sometimes “modifying the frame rails” is necessary. What exactly do we mean by that?

I thought I’d put together some pictures that show a few frames that have been modified to accept a Mustang II crossmember. If you have any questions about your frame or any of our parts, please email or call toll-free: 1-888-648-2150.

This Oldsmobile frame has been bottlenecked to accept our Mustang II crossmember.
This Oldsmobile frame has been bottlenecked to accept our Mustang II crossmember.
The '57 Oldsmobile has received a similar treatment, but the builder used larger diameter tubing straight forward from the firewall.
The ’57 Oldsmobile has received a similar treatment, but the builder used larger diameter tubing straight forward from the firewall.
You can see the spring clearance notch in the frame rail in this picture of the finished '57 Olds.
You can see the spring clearance notch in the frame rail in this picture of the finished ’57 Olds.
Here is a Welder Series Mustang II in a 1978 Volvo. Extra material was 'wrapped' around the existing front rails of the unibody car.
Here is a Welder Series Mustang II in a 1978 Volvo. Extra material was ‘wrapped’ around the existing front rails of the unibody car.
A '57 Ford frame has the springs mounted inside the frame rails.
A ’57 Ford frame has the springs mounted inside the frame rails.
The '57 has been cleaned up and 2x4 tubing was used to mount our MII.
The ’57 has been cleaned up and 2×4 tubing was used to mount our MII.
1953 International Mustang II
1953 International Mustang II
1953 International Mustang II
1953 International Mustang II
1940 Dodge Mustang II
1940 Dodge Mustang II
1940 Dodge Mustang II
1940 Dodge Mustang II

If you’ve put our in something “weird”, please send us some pictures!

Dear Welder Series… Model A triangulated four link

Dear Welder Series…
I would like to know if you have plans in the future to supply triangulated four bar rear kits for model A’s and also would like to see a kit to adapt the Uni-steer type single cross steer rack to the Model A frame without using a vega bracket in addition to the bracket the rack comes with? Thanks for your time, Jon.

Dear Jon…
Thanks for giving me these two things to think about, Jon.

Dealing with the Unisteer rack first, I have work to do studying the “blank” end of the rack’s position in a right turn relative to the lower 4-bar. This won’t happen for a few months at least.

We have a model A triangulated kit:

 

I hope this helps.

Paul Horton

 

Two MIIPH

I started at 5:00 on the nose, with four flat crossmember plates and the upper tower pieces. At 6:00 I’ve got two Mustang II crossmember kits on the bench… that’s 30 minutes per piece!

Are those labor dollars you could bring into your shop?

Making a compound curve pattern

Garry Thomson of Thomson Metalworks stopped by the shop today and continued to take some measurements off the ’32.  A logical question would be “why does he need ’32 Ford measurements?”  Quick answer: Garry is building an aluminum ’32 coupe.  I don’t want to take too much time describing it, because I’m hoping to get some in progress shots in the near future.  Other than saying it’s very impressive, there’s not much to say… it’s very impressive.

Garry started with regular low-tack decal paper.  It doesn’t stretch at all, and it’s easy to remove.

He covered the area he wanted to create a template from.

After the sign paper, he added a layer of fiberglass tape to hold the shape.  It also doesn’t stretch.

With two layers of fiberglass tape over the sign tape, he was able to remove the template.  Now he has a perfect reproduction of the corner, and he can lay it over the aluminum as it’s worked so he knows if he has any low spots.

Introducing 4.6 Ford motor mounts

We're excited to announce our new universal fit Ford motor mount kit for the 4.6L and 5.4L engine.

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