1934 Ford Roadster (Woodro Flanigan)

Year: 1934
Make: Ford
Model: Roadster
Engine: 1947 59L block
Transmission: 1939
Rear End: 1940

More about the car:

In a Georgia barn, covered in a few decades of clay dust, hid a badly channeled 1934 roadster. A hacked up ( but original ) dash was sitting on a flat piece of sheet metal with remnants of some sort of outdoor carpet glued to it. Top irons also laid inside, but that was about it. All A and B pillar brackets and cowl feet were cut with a torch and lost to time. The was no grill or radiator. The windshield frame and stanchions were intact. Frame was original and straight but outer rails were badly pitted. Up front was what looked like an early Dago dropped 37/41 axel that I decided I would use for this build, but the channel and nine inch had to go. 
Before I even pulled it out of the barn to put it on the trailer I knew the type of car I was going to build: period correct with the thought of it starting its life as a hot rod in the mid to late ‘40s. 
To start this build I decided to replace the outer rails of the frame with clean new ones. Riveted back together, I replaced all lower panels including a new floor. 
Next, I chopped the windshield to be exactly the size of a dollar bill in the center, remembering an old picture of a cop with a dollar bill measuring a hot rod’s windshield. 
I took three different dashes and made a custom one, deleting the glove box to fit my early Stewart Warner gauges, and painted it Washington Blue. I used a 1938 body wiring harness and custom made the dash harness with color correct cloth wires and all thread tied. No zip ties. 
The engine is a 1947 Ford 59L block with Edmunds heads and intake with two old chrome large logo 97s and a 1938 double pulley generator with cut out. No regulator. 
The transmission is a 1939 Ford top loader with 1941 Zephyr gears.
The rear end is a 1940 banjo and torque tube with 3.78 gears and 1934 spring perches welded on upside down to lower and still use the original spring and crossmember. 
Wheels are original ‘34 17” wires and dirt track Firestones 500 fronts and 820 rears
Steering box is an F1 and wheel is a 40 with all the ridges smoothed to resemble an earlier style wheel. 
I had new seat springs upholstered and modified the wood riser and package tray to lower and lean the seat to a comfortable position. 
I added a roll bar for TROG ‘24, and painted “727” on the side for the Burg I live in. I had my nickname “Wood” painted on my door and ”Ash” for my wife on hers. 
It’s Still a work in progress like most hot rods past and present, but that’s the fun of it all.