Very Very Nice BigKev!
Plenty of elbow room, and a place for all your stuff!
Great job!
It makes my garage look like an outdoor shed..oh wait it is an outdoor shed!

BigKev I think that door to the yard is now a thing of the past. You ran yourself outta wall. Hahahaha

G'day all, Hey Mal, someone has photo-shopped a steering box beside your dipstick. How do these guys in the US have enough room in these LHD vehicles to check their oil? Peter Toet

I will have closer look for the dip but mines a 6cyl so not as much room there.As for paint I guess the burgundy may be original color but it was painted at some point.

Gday all, On the subject of RHD and how do we Aussies manage to drive em. I should point out that Packards and most other US cars were RHD until around 1910. So the answer is that we learned to drive from you Americans. Is it true that the US went to LHD because Henry Ford hated the English? (am I allowed to say that?) best regards Peter Toet

G'day all, I should mention that the switch which I got in the Kanters kit (NOS?) does not appear to work as I would have imagined. I was imagining a switch similar to the Electric antenna switch which is a centre sprung switch that you either pushed or pulled to achieve lowering or raising, but which returned to an inactive state when released. The Kanters switch is a three position pull out switch, which stays in whichever position you select. I am not sure it is the correct switch. I shall endeavour to find out as I can forsee a few problems for operators. P.S. I just read Randy's post on having to modify the switch to return to the centre position, so it looks to be the way to go. Best regards Peter Toet.

Any comments, suggestions, ideas where I can find a longer steering column? LOL!

On another side note, one of the reasons why I'm using these seats is because they fold forward, and will allow me access to the totally enclosed boat tail:

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And now, the lowered version, my favorite:

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As a "side project" tonight, I decided to visualize what would she look like if I were to drop the cowl about 2", and the grille shell about 2". I personally like the looks of the lowered version, but going this far down puts me back to my '56 steering box and modified '37 column idea, which may still happen along with the seat modification. Here's a peek:(original height)

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So, here what the plan is, I'm going to have to extend the steering column. How you may ask am I going to accomplish this? Well, here's the idea for now: I am going to use the steering box off of my '56 Patrician parts car, since it's seperate from the column. I will then cut off the 115c column from it's box, and use an extension to mate it to the '56 box. This will put the '56 box in the correct position to not cause any linkage binding or problems. I can thus make the '37 column any length I need, and the problems will be solved.

OR....

I could just do what I figured out right before I came back inside to do this "quick" update. While I was sitting in the seats on the chassis, I noticed that the seatbacks lean back pretty far, and if they were brought forward 2", then the seating position would be tolerable, but not perfect. I am compensating for the lack of padding by making my own, but it still needs to have the seat back come forward about 2". Sometimes it just makes perfect sense to think outside the box! (Or in this case, the steering box!)

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