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hello my name is tim feddersen i live in central illinois .I have 2 cars a 37 terra plane 4dr that is pretty much complete but still needs a lot of work and i also have a 38 terra plane 2dr that was my grandfathers, its really rough so right now i am in the process of dismantling the 37 i am down to about 6 bolts and the body will be off . so i guess my intentions are to start looking for body restoration and an engine builder any advice would be appreciated thanks for this forum its a great site.

Jon B

Greetings, Tim, and welcome to the Open Forum.  Please feel free to post messages under any category, now that you're a full member of the group.

As you may know, this forum is one of two which are part of the Hudson-Essex-Terraplane Club's website, http://www.hetclub.org/ .  If you're not yet a member of the Club you may wish to consider joining.  In the meantime, you can probably get answers to most of your questions here at the Open Forum and you may also wish to join the "regular" H-E-T forum as well.  By registering as a "limited member" at the H-E-T website you get certain privileges there, and if you are a full member of the Club you get full privileges.

The Club has many chapters across the country and one of the most active is the Chicago-Milwaukee Chapter, out your way.  Chapter membership is entirely optional, of course, but as a member you will get to connect with the Hudson "network" to find (for example) recommended engine rebuilders and mechanics in your area.

Hope to see you around here, often!

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yep I've already talked to wildricks and they said they could do just the body if i wanted to do the chassis myself thanks for the reply

Browniepetersen

There was the day, years ago, that I wanted to do everything on my car--myself. I did a few cars that way, and what I did not know about, I found someone to do the work while I participated--next time I could do it myself. However, the last few years I have started farming things out. I no longer do brakes (the shops do it so much faster and perhaps better in some cases). The car I am doing today, I had some medical issues so I have a shop doing the wiring harness (I have done several, but this seams to have been a good decision). I never do radio's or clocks but most of the rest is done at home in the shop. Well, except I have always co-painted my cars in a friends shop. I am not sure if this was a cost issue or a social issue. He would start at one end of the car and I would start at the other and we would meet at the front of the car and then we would go to breakfast. This might have been a social issue? He ran a MACCO shop and recently retired. When people would tell me how great my car looked I often tell them that it was painted at MAACO. The bottom line is that I really enjoy the process of the restoration. It just is a fact that as I pass through the golden years some things are not fun anymore. I guess you simply have to decide for yourself what you enjoy and where the fun is? However you do it, whoever helps along the way, simply remember that this is fun and enjoy the people, the learning and the process. I stopped by to visit a new local member who recently purchased a 1928 Essex Roadster. It is funny how excited you can get for someone else that has a new project. I left his home thinking that I might have one more car in me....

Val

Welcome fed32, You will find a lot of good info here. I did my own engine in my 39 but everything else I have to farm out. I bought the rebuild kit from Dale cooper in CInncy. Albrights in Fontana Ca has been helpful in parts as well. Good luck with your cars.

 

 

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hudsontech

Welcome aboard, Tim.  H-E-T is a great car club full of equally great people.  If you need a shop manual there's a 1934-1937 manual in the online library @:
http://hetclub.org/burr/lithomepage.htm
There's also a parts manual and some other stuff over there as well - like sales material.  And if you can't find it in the online library there's always John O'halloran who runs the virtual library.

Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN

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i have found that when i go out in my shop and work on terra { thats the name the previous owner gave her} it s so peaceful i don't even turn the radio on !