Projects The bucket of ugly! A de-uglifying thread...

Nah. you guys aren't rid of me that easily...

 

So I told Judy to shoot a picture of me sewing... She shot a picture of me lining stuff up! With help like this...

 

Nice glasses!


jerry

 

It certainly is a bugger when one reaches their late teens and finds the eye sight not as good as before aye Chip. I hope you didn't have to thread the needle ?

 

Threading the needle ?
That's what this is for, don't ask me how I know.

 

Ya, unfortunately my dumb granny glasses are a necessity for close in kinda stuff. Damned stylish though if I do say so myself!

Funny thing with threading a needle.... Back when I was in the sewing industry, I literally taught myself to thread a needle without looking. Ya, you read that right, without looking! The eye of the needle is just on a certain point of the needle itself that you can train yourself to hit that point every time with just a casual glance. It came back quickly! Used to freak out women though when I was selling machines - and sold lots of product for me!

 

This is a large thread and i'm sure I missed some pages, I dont remember seeing anything on tube chassis. I have had these pics saved for awhile, while box tube is the norm, there had to be some round tube chassis made. Does anyone have any pics, thoughts, maybe the new guy, I think his name is Chip.

The yellow one is an old pic from way back, and the other a newer recreation of it?

 

I've always loved the look of a t-bucket with a tube frame.

 

Ya, the yellow one is what Drag Master went to after they stopped doing dragster chassis in about '65 or so. That particular one was from an article photographed by Dean Moon on the building of one at his shop complex that ran in mid '65 in Car Craft, I believe.

 

Jeeze how do you know this stuff

 

This one had a round tube frame. Can't see it in these shots though.

 

Have you seen his bathroom? You could spend hours and hours in there......libraries have fewer magazines.....

 

Awwww, you have seen but the tip of the iceberg, sir!

 

Man, that ain't funny. When I stitched up the shifter boot for the '35 recently, I spent more time trying to thread the sewing machine needle than I did actually sewing it. Even with the granny glasses, I could barely see the hole. Getting old sucks!

 

I just re-read the Hot Rod article where the Dragmaster T was reassembled as a painted, finished car. Took them about a day to do, from memory.Can`t remember the year and month of the coverage,though. Looked terrible, I thought. I remember the rear wheels were about a foot too far forward. Hey Chip...Didn`t Brusseau`s car have a 3'' round tube frame a bit like a Cobra?

Boy, if the Tip of the Iceberg is in Chip`s Bathroom, Phoenix has a major Plumbing problem...

 

How about this one.

 

Mmmmmm....Cotton`s...yes?...

 

One picture is way to few!!!

And anybody got more pictures of buckets in drag master styled frames, drove one or owned one?


Rasmus Brynk Andersen, from Denmark.

 

Yeah Paul I'm pretty sure Brusseau's roadster had a 3' round frame. Can't remember where I saw it. Maybe the article said that. It's part of the reason I'm bucket Krazy. I used to see it running around San Lorenzo (a suburb of Oakland) in the '50s when I was a kid. Don hadn't updated it yet. It looked as in the magazine then. He later discarded the steel body and installed a fiberglass one and bucket seats as so many did in the '60s.

 

This is the T that was built alongside Cotton's T. It was built with a flat head engine. Here is a pic of the car from just a few years ago, with a newly installed Ardun conversion in the engine bay.

 

Does anyone know if there is a early release of a vendor list for LARS. Just wondering what bits I might pick up instead of paying shipping now.

 

Tube framed buckets! Fantastic guys, anything Cotton did was off the charts. Recalling
his yellow HE-MI

 

Yup, Brusseau's car had a 3" round tube frame. I have a '67 or '68 Rod&Custom article around here after the re-do that shows the frame bare on four stands. I have wanted to do a 3" single rail style frame under one of these forever, and the next one might just actually get it!

To me, the biggest problem with the double rail stuff has always been how tall the rails are when stacked like that. It takes a good inch or two away from the cockpit depth, and that is room that is just so damned precious in a 'bucket.

 

Yup, agreed, the Drag Master cars were best described as
"awkward". After building beautiful dragsters, they just sort of lost their minds when it came to 'buckets. Pretty cool though with torsion bars at both ends and such. Actually, they were less homely when bodied with a '27 type tub. I'll have to dig some of those up...

Yup, the tip of the ice burg! If you look long enough, you might even find the freakin' Titanic in there too!

 

This Romeo Palamedes roadster had a 3' round tube frame with the exhaust from the flathead running into it and through it. Open in front and back. A neighbor of mine bought it in the late '50s and gave me a ride in it. It was pretty beat up by then but a blast to ride in.

 

Here is the frame shot of Brusseau's car...

 

Been meaning to post this one for a while. I like how the friction shocks are mounted parallel to the axle instead of perpendicular to it.

 

There were several nice touches on this car. I've never seen a dist. cover like this, it reminds me of the earlier Corvette covers, but it's not one (I've fought with enough of those over the years). Looks oem or store bought though, anybody know?

 

It's not 60's car by any means, but it isn't a new build either. I'm guessing sometime in the 70's. Here are a couple of overall pics of the car.....

 

Except for all 5 wheels and the engine styling that's a nice rod!

I really like it.


Rasmus Brynk Andersen, from Denmark.