after selling the daimler hemi and box out of the '46 chevy truck project i took as px against my valiant i swapped what was left for this '58 rambler american. it's a 2 door sedan, originally 3.0 ltr flathead six with 3 speed and o/d manual (they're on my garage floor now) it will be getting a ford 2.0 pinto and 5 speed manual instead. we've swapped a wilwood dual circuit master cylinder for the rusty single circuit jampot original, run all new hardlines and braided flexis and resealed all the wheel cylinders. it'll be getting discs all round at some point. these cars are 5 x 4.5 wheel pcd and i got a deal on a set of late bullit mustang wheels, 9x18 with 275/35's front and 10x18 with 295/35's rear. this is a small car (same wheelbase as a mk3/4/5 cortina) and those wheels fit and clear surprisingly, we even had to space the fronts out to clear the upper ball joints. we made 60mm blocks for the rear and took 4 coils from each front coil to see how it'll look. i have now pieced together all the parts to fit airbags all round, buying from here and there to get the best deals with not all being specifically made for air suspension.
this is a project our ashley and his sister terri will be doing with and for me as my back won't let me do hardly any of the stuff i used to any more (play violins, lol) so it's good that 2 of our 5 kids are into cars.
if anyone's interested i'll put updates as we go, but here it is up 'til now.
neil.
ps seats update...... the jag' xf black leather seats i got locally for £90 i've swapped for front and rear red bench seats from the mk2 zephyr in for welding. fitting jag seats to the zephyr is now added to the job list. next as the zephyr rear bench is 3" too wide for the nash i've sold then to a mate who's working on a chopped 46 chevy coupe for £200 (£110 profit, keep up). tomorrow i'll be collection a set of black leather seats from an alfa romeo 147 that are only 6 miles from me for £100. so i end up with a nice set of seats and £10 up on the whole deal, result

. you gotta love a deal, lol.
neil.