1934 Dodge. The Stewart mini van

I've been looking for something older for my daily driver. the 61 was ok but it just wasn't my style.
I wanted an A but the Dodge is close enough for me..plus it's a 4 door so the kids can get in and out
easy. I may have had second thoughts about trading the 61 for this but on the way up there I
jack knifed the dolly fenders into the fender and front belly pan and messed up the Bel Air.
so here's what I come back with.



I hope this will be the last time it's ever on a trailer, tow truck or a dolly

over a 3 hour drive in a truck with 411's in the rear is a pain

I found a bad oil leak. both new chrome valve covers were pouring. I think the heads have been milled and the lip was hitting the intake and not letting it seal. I found an old set of late 60's stock valve covers that someone had chromed. I forgot I had 'em. I yanked the new one off and slipped these on while Tim held the flashlight. I think they fits the time line of the car better. with the oil leak fixed it was time for me, tim, ben and dennis to take a spin. it was funny to watch the cops faces when we come down the main street and through the riverfront with open headers and the cam loping . lol


yes dear you can drive it when I get the bugs worked out of it

ok..decals are on.. it's done!!


put some elbows on it and some header bombs turn backwards. it is not as loud now.I will run a bong off off the header bomb and run some mufflers under the back of the car. when I want to make it loud just pop off the caps bolted to the backward collector on the muff/

Saturday I stop by a car show in Cold Springs, Ky. I found a nice 34 Dodge there. after
looking at the cars firewall I knew I had to see why all the bondo was on mine. if you look
at mine they smoothed it all out on top. it covers up all the seams and a few cool body lines.


I started sanding but the mud was so thick it wouldn't cut it. out came the stone grinder just
to see how thick it was. the whole thing is covered with mud from a small skim coat to 1/4
and 1/2" in some spots. the best way I could figure out how to get the mud off was with
a hammer and a screw driver.

After getting most off the mud busted out I can't understand why anyone would put all that on there. who ever did this is not who did the chop. it may have been the yahoo's that I got the car from. there are a few low spots and someone welded a few spots on the factory seams and screwed em up but it isn't that bad. Not bad at all. I am going to leave all the seams showing as well as a couple small body lines that were covered. only reason I can figure out why they mudded it all up is that maybe the rain was coming through the seams. Wwith a little dolly work and some seam sealer through the inside I think it will be fine. I like the idea of all the seams showing. They wouldn't have leaded or mudded up the firewall seams in a 40's or 50's hot rod.


I was also pleased to find some more info on the cars past. The factory color was black. What I thought was cool was what I found stuck between to layers of mud. they must have missed a spot of the paint when they sanded it to slap in the mud. Someone years ago painted this car a deep metallic blue. there must have been some wax on the paint they missed because I was able to pull the paint chip off the bondo. It was a cool color. Maybe whoever frenched in an antenna painted the car blue once.?

I'm starting to like this old car a lot. she may be a keeper. I wanted to say thanks to Jonathan Riggs for turning me on to it. he sent me the link and now I'm back in the garage getting lung cancer from bondo dust

I will get to the tailights soon. have to figure out what I want on her. I have some 41 chevy's but I'm not sure if I will run 'em. like to find some WWII airplane red marker lights. anyone have a set

15X6 rims before my shop forman cleaned "em up to be painted.

hard at work

grinding of the walls

Aug. 19, 2007. Corey and I as we leave the Hofbraus House car show in Newport. Ft. Thomas, Ky Corvette Club put it on. funny how rich people look at a hot rod in the works and without paint on it.

I'm running a tach and vacuum gauge on the outside of the firewall. they did this back in the day to adjust the carbs. I will be using them for the same reason. this is my first gauge I've found that fits the time frame of when I'd like the car to be built. Well the first one I've won the bid on anyway. It's an old Marsh vacuum gauge. They made these from 1940 to the mid 60's. With the looks of the needle I'm thinking and hoping it's closer to the 40's. Now if it only works when I get it.

worked on the cowl a little bit today. also cut holes out in the firewall for my tach and vacuum gauge. found out that the radiator was patched up when it started leaking water all over the floor so out came the grille shell and radiator to fix it. I may end up putting a late model radiator in it for the time being. I also cut the bottom off the grille shell to give it more of a ford look.

my stock radiator is shot. I replaced it with a late model until I can get it fixed or a new one. while I had the grille shell off I went ahead and made some new grille support bars. these are what the car hads on it.

square tubing with a bolt weld to the end of it. who ever made these need to be hit with 'em!

I bought some metal rods and tried to thread them. it didn't work very well. that and they looked to small. so next trip to the store I picked up some threaded rods and some 3/8 fuel line.

I got out the tape measure and figured out where I needed the bends. cut the ends off the fuel line. cut the threaded rod to size. shoved the fuel line over the threaded rod and made my bends to mach the body and grille

I could have just used the threaded rod but I wanted it to look somewhat stock. out come the mig and I welded and ground the ends where the rod comes out of the fuel line. tossed on some paint so it wouldn't rust.

these will be primed and painted black when I get the cowl work done.

my new ebay score. old Offy tach

1/2done wrote:That tach is cool. Are you going to mount it in-dash?

I'm not sure yet. I bought it to go on the outside of the firewal with my vacuum gauge like they use to for tuning in the carbs. but I'm not sure I will do it with this one. matter how it's made. I don't want to stick it out there if it will get water behind the glass and screw it up. haven't got it in the mail yet so I will figure it out when I see how good it's put together. you can't see it in the pic but it says Offy Products on the right bottom of the face.