Another 1951 Hoffman Standard, Dick Christensen's First Splt

[DSweinhagen]

[T2]

I am so glad to see you finally working on it. Looking forward to seeing the progress.

[DSweinhagen]

[52HoffmanSplit]

Man Dave, That rear fender/apron curve without exhaust holes gets me every time. Just some serious old world design greatness there.. and you do it justice. A true artisan.

You know I probably owe you some cash because when I sold my split I LIBERALLY splashed all over the ads "Paint Matching by Dave Sweinhagen".

Thanks for the inspiration to get working on projects.
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DB

11/1966 Porsche 912
7/1968 Type 265 Double Cab
4/1955 Type 117 - 3 Fold

[Two Glove Boxes]

Killing it! Keep knocking stuff off the list and it will be ready to go. Plus those carrier sections are a pain, but looks like yours turned out great.
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1950 Deluxe Sedan Build

1951 Split Standard Hoffman Build

1960 Dove Blue Double Cab Patina Build

Two Glove Boxes IG

[DSweinhagen]

Thanks again guys! This rear clip felt like it was never going to end.

With the welding finished on the clip, I moved to the fenders, fit the taillights and finished any misc welding they needed.

Then I went to body work and primer on the decklid and rear clip. Just keeping things small and manageable as I go. I'm using PPG DP50 on the bare metal then Evercoat G2 on the high build areas...

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David S

[DSweinhagen]

I had dropped off the fenders at the blaster and got them back. There were a couple of welded in nuts buried in the bodywork that I missed on one so I fixed that, did some rough bodywork and got them in primer...

Then I dropped the doors off. With the amount of blasting they would need on the inside, I was worried about blasting the exterior panels also. I quickly DA'ed them and didn't look too bad, so I asked the blaster not to hit the panel exteriors. They came back better than expected...

Only one came back with some pinholes and rust on the bottom. It was rainy and humid that week and I was dealing with some flash rust, so I knocked down the remaining filler and sprayed a coat of epoxy. I also worked these in a couple early mornings, late nights and guess I didn't take many pics. Hopefully enough to get the idea and can see some of what I was dealing with...

Here's checking fit of parts again including a rear bumper. The bumper is an NOS one I got from Dick along the way. It has some shelf wear and light pitting but should be good enough for what I'm doing. The bumper brackets are from Mika(virtanen).

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David S

[DDub]

Looks like the doors would have been a candidate for a molasses bath.

[Two Glove Boxes]

Sick!! What is the original color of the car and are you going back with it?

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1950 Deluxe Sedan Build

1951 Split Standard Hoffman Build

1960 Dove Blue Double Cab Patina Build

Two Glove Boxes IG

[Jimone]

fun car and story. im excited to see where it goes. im along for the ride.
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november 1952 ragtop
november 1954 single cab

[DSweinhagen]

Thanks Guys! The car is Pearl Grey which I'll be going back to, with chrome bumpers, handles, etc.

I'm starting to think about mechanicals and for now have decided to run a later 36hp and transmission as I'm hoping to make this a driver. The transmission in the car is a later '52 synchro trans, so I pulled it out and dropped it with Bill at Arizona Transaxle...

The front beam in the car is too early as it has the seam welded shock towers. Here's a pic...

I was down at Competition Engineering recently and asked Dan if there were still any split front beams around. He thought so and we went out to a few sitting out back. I had looked up numbers and had them roughly in my head and found one that looked close. Dan said that one has mechanical brakes to which I reminded him my car was a standard. I loaded it up thinking maybe I found the beam out of my car. Once home I looked up the numbers again and turns out it's a July beam, about three months later than my car but a lot closer than what I had. Here's a couple pics after unloading it...

I got it disassembled, sent the spindles and steering box out to George Schmidt, dropped the parts off at Pro Strip Media Blasting for powder coat and got going on my fist batch of re-plating hardware. The beam I had blasted only as the bushings were good and didn't want to deal with replacing them so I painted it. Just waiting on a few parts...

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David S

[T2]

Making great progress. Slow and steady

[myklsmyth]

[DSweinhagen]

[DSweinhagen]

With many of the drivetrain parts starting to come back, I want to make some progress on the pan. I got the spindles and steering box back from George and painted them...

The later '52 transmission I dropped off with Bill at Arizona Transaxle is done. He always likes to show me the bad parts...

I've been working on sorting out parts, getting things powder coated and plating hardware. Re-lining shoes sure has got expensive! It wasn't that long ago this was about $50...

I'm not sure what to do with the pan? As mentioned earlier, it was powder coated in the '90s. It's not up to my standards now and it's showing age from sitting around. While it bugs me, I think I'm going to clean it up and reassemble it for now to sort all the parts out and keep it in one piece. It would be fine for a driver, but I will probably come back to it and repair or replace the pan halves...

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David S

[50Splitman]

Great job on your progress so far - eagerly standing by to see this split back on the road!

I'm a bit surprised to see the "welded seam" style front beam on your split...I thought that style ended in 1950?

[DSweinhagen]

[50Splitman]

Ah, I now see that this issue was discussed earlier in the thread! My mistake