The Sailor's Siren

08/18/2026

Getting floored to work on this floor….. (I’m a dad) it’s normal to do this now

This is just a cheap be**er hot rod. If it tells you anything I didn’t pull out a straight edge and only measured one thing once

The beads were just marked out with a sharpie at random and it got the GED. The good enough degree. This project is seriously about me just remembering what it was like and building something fun again for a low buck project.

I still have to weld it all up and then make a piece where the toe board meets the fire wall

Then naturally you pull all this off and weld it from bottom side too and clean it all up

But hey…. It’s my own project at my own time and if you don’t like it buy it and do it yourself

08/16/2026

Been away for a bit. Since my surgery I was still doing things but then I had something happen where I got in a lot of trouble at work.i got to see things differently. Kinda bummed me out but I kept going. Then I started working for a shop on the side pulling like 110-112 hours a week. Money was cool but I wasn’t overly ecstatic about much. Not to mention I didn’t want to even lift a finger in my own shop. Buzz kill. Then some family stuff happened and things had to get moved around and problems came and then they just kept coming. Now I’m having this inner dialogue of conflict and then I have feelings about different things and different groups and people and friends and I just got in pretty far.

So I was depressed and not doing as much. So that’s why I’ve been more absent than usual. Not that it’s obvious.

Anyhow. I’ve started and have sold some stuff off. I’m refocusing and realigning the gears of priority.

I’m cleaning up the shop and trying to get some headspace back.

So here’s a little bit of what’s been going on with my p**s poor attitude efforts

I got my grandpas 34 Plymouth. Which is so damn cool. Man this thing is like the car I hated but then as I became a little older I was like…. This is it man. This is what gave ZZ Top their beards!!!!

Well, it had literally like 1.5 inches of filler all over it. The roof wasn’t fully welded up neither was…. Much of it.

No my grandpa didn’t do all the work but he was involved and yes. The guy I learned from was also heavily involved with this. But he was still drinking heavy back then.

So we stripped it all back and gave the ozone a reason to burn hotter this year. Then we yanked out the 18 inch wide rear tires and 32 inch rear end…. Yes that’s right…. Those numbers are correct. But it was just old and not the vision I want to continue with. Then why looking at it the mustang 2 is too far forward so the wheels are off and not right. So cutting that all out. Then the floor has some sweet hand made body mounts….. 2x4s….

So a lot to some in the next who knows on that one. But man… the car is still just the most bad ass thing and I regret nothing

Then on the truck the 29 Chevy I had to build a tailgate so I grabbed rubbing and built the tailgate just a little more to go on it. Then I started stripping it and getting it in primer pics of that to come

Then I have some pictures of a 67-72 Chevy cab that I did the floor pan and rockers on for a shop that I no longer work at. Which there’s some gossip for that too.

Then we stripped the k5 down that’s my wife’s and we started hammering the p**s out of that side because it had almost as much filler as the coupe did but was just not good.

Then the 66 more door to 2 door got completely stripped and is going in primer as well right now and I built 2 rear frame rails to move inward for narrowing the back half just enough to give it a respectable wide rear tire. And move the tank and blah blah blah. Pics of that coming as well

Also here’s a board game table I built that’s posted on my Instagram and on my actual profile not the shops.

Also I got my grandpas a frame cut down and moved over and welded back up. And I’ll try to be more “trendy” on here with photos. But not too trendy… cause I’m no hipster

Also a trailer we stripped did the axle in and bedliner for a buddy of mine.

We also did a lot of other stuff but nothing note worthy and wasn’t really walking around with my photo finger blazing. Was just moving through it as I could.

08/11/2026

Got a sign for the shop at last weeks swap meet.

You have to be this far in over your head to build hot rods

04/01/2026

https://youtu.be/M5cCbx2Vhp8?si=qJV9bN_2BQTOZk1c

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03/21/2026

Had these two knuckle heads and taught them the school of knuckle draggers way of chopping the top on an old model a body i was fortunate to get from a buddy of mine for a screaming deal.

I’ll be welding it all up and they should be with me and hopefully grab some videos of us as we do suspension floor pans and a frame build.

Stay tuned as we get this thing rolling and possibly even back in the wind again.

03/20/2026

Hey I made two videos. Posted them over on YouTube. No this is not me bandwagoning and trying to be an “influencer” just posting videos of how I do a few things as I do them. I hope to have some over how I do some frames and how I do different things like floor pans, suspension,bracing,motor mount and pinion angles and what not. Be easy I’m not a videographer a personality or really even a builder lol 😂

https://youtu.be/_kF6-AA_3Kk?si=9dCvIfAbtiRlXU2K

https://youtu.be/B1rbPtFgz4w?si=zNmRYh_kcEpBWzUx

In this video we go over one of the cheaper if not cheapest ways I know how to make flared holes. This is not the end all be all but it works and is rather a...

03/03/2026

The 29 has been rolling on with progress. The body had no structure. The wood had given up the ghost and gone with the wood that used to make up the roof and floor pan at the big round up in the sky. Built some body structure out of 1x1 tubbing and got it going back together piece by piece. This truck is meant to be fun and cheap not a slow pain staking project like some of the others. Then we dropped the old 6 shooter out of it and the locked up tr**ny and why the torch was still blowing we blew out the front and rear suspension. Then why we were already having miserable fun we decided to cut down plate and box the front half of the frame and install a flat model a crossmember and a dropped axle kit from speedway followed up with flat head style engine mounts and a tubular cross member. Then mounted the double barrel lake headers on the mock up engine and started deciding how low
Or high the engine needed to ride.
The cab ended up a few inches back for engine clearance and then we snagged up truck bed sides for a 1936 chopped a hair under 2 foot off them in length and made the cutting boards match it. The cab got a hair cut and came down a little. Then visor was punch and flared along with running boards as some rust
Repair was taken off the list early.
Then the rear fenders were repops and bolted up and on. Then I couldn’t get it quite low enough after the back half was redone with tubbing so I decided why not step notch it and have all the room for getting it down and low hung. Then I blended the tubbing
Into the rest
Of the frame with boxing plates that I bent into the frame. Still a lot of grinding dressing up and final welding.triangle 4 link and coil over outback ready to go In but not on it yet. Then the roof was manhandled out and spot welded to additional roof bracing
To get it alot more firmed up and solid. The wheel is for mock up and measurements and to see how low she ended up.

11/26/2025

Just want to let y’all know I’m not dead, not yet. I had an injury and was able to crawl through some progress on things very slowly with a lot of good help and time. I had a rotator cuff injury and then my providing Dr for it retired while being seen and had to restart and just experience the beauty of so many things the medical field has to offer. Anyhow, surgery happened and now I’m down to tossing rocks at kids with one hand. Before that I was able to get the suspension rebuilt in the rear of the chevelle to match the front and got the suspension dropped and supported well with new springs since the old ones like my shoulder, had grown tired and gave up the ghost… then I got the quarters and inner wheel wells and trunk expansions along with trunk pan tail panels and even tree trunk it’s self replaced and going back on with the straight and narrow. I was also able to help my lovely sister in law with a project she trusted me with and I was able to show her just how much of a carpenter I ain’t. She was able to paint it and make it look pretty good in my opinion which isn’t worth much because I have too many and I voice them freely. Also I was able to pluck this beautiful little survivor 1929 Chevy truck and fired up the AI like every hoodlum has and tried my hand at getting it to give me a truck with a chopped roof and a dropped stance. And it only changed it and gave it a few more fingers so I’ll take it. Lastly I am learning how to drop axles or I was learning and by learning I mean winging it completely with half hazard approach. Well I’ll be back sometime next year when I’m able to toss rocks at neighboring kids that cross into my lawn. I have been blessed with surgery and a job that has allowed me to provide why I recover. And I am having a deeply blessed time being more connected to Christ and the community of church. I have also been able to spend so much time with my wife and work on our marriage and even the kids are benefitting! They learned some bad jokes and swear words. The youngest one is even learning how to fist fight! So I got protection!

08/12/2025

Finally got this thing a GED “good enough degree” so it could go on down to the painters. #1956 #3100