Trreinke
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Sadly, I think I made a mistake to not have the frame sandblasted. After I painted it, it looked really nice (nearly perfect). I used a Martin Senoir black gloss black paint (as recommended by uncle who owns a body shop).
After a few months, maybe because of the cold, some small "bubbles" emerged from the paint right above the rear wheels. I think some of the body filler might have pushed out of the pits in that area.
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The first thing I did was sand and wire brush all the old primer off the frame. In the 1970's the frame had been stripped of all paint and and covered with a thick layer of primer. Well there was rust in all the little pits under the primer so I went at the frame with a DA sander and wire brushes to clean it really well by hand then filled the outside and underside of the frame rails and cross members. I am too lazy to fill the inside of the frame rails, I am hoping the shadows under the car will let it look good enough.
Here are some pictures of the frame work.
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I guy I bought the car from was the son of the owner, who had sadly passed away. The son new very little about the car. Once I started going though everything closely I understood why. Many of the parts were wrapped in newspaper dated 1973, I would guess the son was about 10 at that time.
Since my dad and I had both grown up around 1931 Chevrolets it was fairly easy to inventory everything and see what I was missing. Luckily the only things missing were fairly minor like some interior pieces and some mechanical stuff, which my dad always has a lot of extras since he drives his cars alot.
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Here are a couple of more pictures of the "stuff" when aI brought it home.
Over the next few days I will post more about the work I have done over the past year.
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I bought this car in November of 2019.
I have always liked '31 Chevys because they are what my Grandpa and Dad collected. My dream car is a 1931 Chevrolet "Six wheel" 4-door sedan. Likey ly because when I was growing up, my grandpa had 2 1931 Devaux 4-door sedans and I always thought a Chevy Sedan would round out the family collection nicely.
In the summer of 2019 my dad spotted an ad in Jennings Motor News of a 1931 4-door sedan. The add said "Car disassembled, Nice wood, New interior and Chrome." There were no pictures. Sadly he and I were not in a position to buy another car. I had just bought a house with a 2 car garage that was in need of a bit of work and my dad had applied to his township to add to his barn but was denied.
After the Fall Hershey swap meet, where I found a number of '31 Chevy parts I could not say no to, we saw the add in Hemmings again and decided to call. The car was in Toledo OH, so we took the 4 hour drive there to look at it. The parts were in 2 different places, the body/sheet metal and drivetrain were in a farmers barn and everything else was in a garage across town. I made a deal that day and one week later We went back to Toledo with a trailer and a couple of pickups to bring it back.
Attached are some pictures of the car when I got it home.
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19 minutes ago, edinmass said:
The nature of peoples family, social, and hobby time is quickly changing. People across the board have lees lesiure time.......and its impacting many hobbies in a negative way.
That is a very interesting take. I have thought about this a lot but haven't been able to sucintly say it.
Where are people's leisure time going? Why is negativity impacting hobbies? Obviously, WE make time for this hobby. Is that people are spreading themselves too thin or are they choosing different hobbies?
I see less participation as course many difficulties with this hobby. Less people means prices of everything goes up, lead times go up, finding quality people to the work get harder.... Very interesting though!
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3 minutes ago, 46 woodie said:
Bodywork, UGH!
I like that reply, that is what I am most worried about.
Probably because it is skills I don't yet have but the thought of cutting, welding, grinding on pieces of steel that would be very expensive to replace... That is what nightmares are made of!
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I am about a year into my first restoration project and I wanted get your thoughts on your previous projects.
What has been the worst part of your projects? It could be a specific aspect of your car that was really tough or just a general aspect of restoring in general.
So far for me it has been the frustration of finding all the parts and making sure they are done as close to original as possible. I bought my car disassembled (torn apart in the 1970's) so I don't have pictures or labels or anything.
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Here are a couple of pictures of Devaux coupes with the vinyl top I was talking about.
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Justdave and any other members with hayes bodied cars from the very early 30's:
1931 Devaux coupes all had a wood framed roof fully wrapped in vinyl. If you have any pictures of a competed car or a vinyl top being installed they would be greatly appreciated.
Specifically, we are looking for how the top gets "finished" around the rear window.
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Hey Dave, this is actually Robin's son Tim. My dad is quite computer illiterate, so I keep him aware of anything on interesting on here!
I will use the forum in the link below to continue this conversation to not hijack this one too much.
But this is a good example of how project cars can benefit clubs and clubs can assist with projects.
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16 hours ago, padgett said:
In my experience having a project car makes sense only if you have a nice example of the same one.
This is the biggest advantage of car clubs that is getting lost now days. I just bought one of Dave's Devauxs and need to find some examples of Coupes to figure out how the top goes together. Luckily, through clubs I know of some cars I can look at for samples.
If more project cars get worked on by new members of the hobby, I am hoping it will boost club participation.
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22 minutes ago, John_S_in_Penna said:
Maybe it will be a 30-year-old or
40-year-old who has always admired certain old cars
from afar, who now decides to take an easy leap into
ownership.
You hit it square on the head. I am 30 and am very thankful for project cars and their falling prices. They are the only way I was able to get into the hobby.
They have also been the best investment I could have made. Not from a financial standpoint, but project cars have 2 huge benefits that buying a competed car don't have.
1. They have given me a good opportunity to spend lots of time with my dad and grandpa
2. They have forced me to develop skills I likely would not have gained elsewhere.
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The article is a little misleading like what Matt Harwood said. I am 30, so very much who the article was talking about. All my friends say "Wow, that's really cool" or I would love to own a Mustang someday." But when I ask them if they want to come with me on a tour, to a cruise or a show they say, "I'm too busy" or "That's not my thing." Or worse yet, "Old cars are too much work."
It is all a dream, not really something they want to work towards or truly care about.
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Color tour in the Middle of the Mitten (Mid-Michigan) 10/10/20
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Project cars are just not too exciting to people. Luckily, the 3 cars I have I got cheap because they were projects. That is the only way I could afford to get into the hobby!
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Can anyone identify the car that these handles belong to?
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Sadly, we are in the middle of another project, a 1931 Chevrolet Special Sedan. We will be hitting the Chevy hard for the next year or so then start on this Devaux Coupe.
We are not sure if we will make it a full show car restoration, or just make it a nice driver. I am very excited for this coupe though. We now have one of every body style Devaux sold in the family.
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This car has been shown on here before, but it is going to go a new home. On Monday August 17, we picked it up from JustDave.
Here is the car loaded on our trailer.
Other pictures of the car can be seen in the linked post from when Dave got the car.
https://forums.aaca.org/topic/310751-1931-devaux-coupe/?tab=comments#comment-1746717
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1931 Chevrolet Special Sedan
in Our Cars & Restoration Projects
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First I sanded and wire wheeled (using an angle grinder) all the old primer off. Then I filled the side rails and underside with body filler. Then sprayed with (high build)primer, sanded, primed again, sanded again and painted.
I think the body filler may be where I screwed up. The second coat was put on on a weekday last winter when I didn't let the frame heat up for hours, so it was fairly cool. So it could be moisture as well.
Oh well, I am learning!