Projects Model T Speedster....... my take on it

I'm off to Edgewood, NM., just outside of Albuquerque.

 

Here's some tin needing some bending. It's a start.

 

It came to me after I posted, Gaslight Auto Parts bought the tooling from Dan. I called decades ago to inquire about them and the person on the phone had no clue as to what I was talking about.

 

Sounds warmer! If your coming threw Kansas City feel free to give a hollar

 

.... well, you are creeping closer to Oregon. So there is that !

Good luck moving. G#d damn I hate moving.

 

Well as life likes to do, not all things went according to plan. First house fell through but the second and better house with more property is ours. All though still on the trailer (hopefully not much longer) the T is finally in the same place as me. The fourth coming pictures are the start to my body work.

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Still following, this has me wanting another T especially after hearing it run when you retarded the timeing. If mine stopped on a compression stroke and I turned the ign. On and wiggled the spark leaver sometimes it would start off compression. Had lots of fun with T when you could buy them for $10.00 out of someone's back yard.

 

I guess this finally gives up the question of what body I choose to use. It's a 26/27 enclosed cab TT. I had those back corners made 6 inches longer that stock. After sitting in a stock TT, my 6'3" body stature did not fit so well. Here you can see the cab coming back together.

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Technical glitch. So here are pictures of what I started with.

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Technical difficulties seem to fixed. Here are the pictures of the cab going back together. The last picture was just for fun.

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I see you have a Lurker in the back near the compressor...and quite frankly you are quite a genius, Always enjoy following your build, thanks for sharing the good times...​

 

Cool part about the enclosed TT cab is that everything is riveted together. I left the cowl in the stock location and slide the cab down to the height I wanted. Built some mounts. The front cab mounts are identical to Fords design and attach the same while the rear mounts are just plan jane mounts.

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And here is the cab mounted.

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Is the cab extension going to leave you with a blind spot while driving?

 

My Mom-----Who started it all!!

 

I think it's inherent in a lot of our rides and I'm actually surprised and thankful we don't hear or see many incidents related to this...

My Sport Coupe has the BS syndrome

 

Yes it will a bit. I'm used to having a pillar next to me. I still need to figure out a mirror situation.

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In the 1929 photo your mom looks like she's in a Stutz. A friend of ours has a Stutz Bearcat.

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Whats in a Name Eh...

@Deuce Daddy Don, do you know what that Speedster is?

Just curious...

 

Well this project took a different turn.....

 

I agree. I wanted a speedster but I have a hard time liking any one body. I don't like the naked look either. The mercury bodies are ok, the Laurel speedster looks cool from the front but has a unmotivated rear. I'm on the fence towards boat tails as well. So I choose an oxymoron, a speedster truck.

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Work on the bed. It's a 30 something Ford bed. Had some major rebuilding to do on the bed frame. Cut the box down and mounted it. It needs some refinement, but it's on and I didn't have to worry about it blowing off in the 1800+ mile move.

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Another picture before the bed was cut.

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Just checking in, kind of a surprise seeing it go from speedster to a truck, nicely done. Best wishes for 2020. Bob

 

The nice part is that it all unbolts easily when I decide to change bodies. I've been toying around with the idea of a cloth speedster body. Once I make up my mind on a style that is.

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So many ways to build a speedster, and I have been working on mine for a few years now and made many changes trying to get the look I want. You Sir have created a very interesting and unique look. Thank you for your creativity.

 

New wood and top.

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Wow

 

TT cab and car chassis have different steering geometry for the column. Doesn't help that I lowered the cab. We ended up making this box section and using a car bracket at the pitman arm and added some new VW bits and hot damn we have steering. Made brackets for shocks and tided them into the headlight bracket.

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Drove it to my buddies house for a quick together before I left three days later. And this is how my T currently looks like. Still needs a bunch of little stuff like a floor, seat, windows, etc. It's been awesome getting to this point.

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