Hot Rods anyone here ever build a bobber????

looks like miles ahead using this chassis???? be cool with a bangher motor...

Bobber hot rod truck FRAME,rat rod no fenders,1935-46 Ford truck cabs | eBay

 

Needs a flathead.

 

I wanna do one with a for bangher and a tall tt cab..

 

He used to sell his chassis on here as Vaphead but for some reason was banned

 

The kicked-up(Z-ed) rear section of the chassis......is that why its called a bobber.
(for some reason the name bobber reminds me of an old girl friend)...jus say'in.
6sally6

 

Did she ever live in vegas???? I think I know her

 

i got a chassis and cab, and side walls for a bed....

 

I was gonna cut the cab up and make a hackney depot rig....but can't seem to get on a path for the build...

 

That cab is way too early for a "bobber", isn't it?
You will end up with a fenderless Model T phonebooth pickup............ and that would be just fine.
Bobber would be '35 onwards cab....???

 

i've got all the stuff to make one of these...

 

Yep, 1924 tall T pickup........... or sometimes called a "phonebooth".
Seems you are going around in circles. We already did this dance in another of your threads........

 

My Brother built this from scratch, aluminum cab, steel box, glass fenders.

 

Your model T cab will NOT fit on that 35-46 chassis, it's too narrow and short.

Bobber trucks refer to the post 1935 Pickups on fenderless truncated chassis, and while they certainly can be built to appear traditional, I'm not aware of any historical precedent prior to like 1980 where they were commonly done by vintage rodders.

Sounds like you need to decide what kind of build you want to do, and then need to assess if you're capable of fabrication and completion of it. Certainly a hell of a lot cheaper to buy one done nowadays vs trying to build something from scratch.

 

Better have short (or NO) legs!

 

There is a reason they were tall............

 

the tall cab is 46'' in side.... bout the same as a model A with a recessed fire wall... RPU's are about 50''

but, being you sit taller... plenty of room..

I own a fab shop that builds chassis.... mostly young guy air bag just, and off road stuff, lifting and lowering...


thats the reason for the posts is I can't seem to stay on a track... I like the cab with the long bottom doors... but would hammer the roof about a foot...

 

getting any bites???

 

now thats badd ass.... wonder what it woul;d look like chopped about a foot..

 

Still doesn't change the fact that the frame in your original post is for a 35-46 Truck which is significantly wider than you T body. So I assumed based on that obvious disparity that you would have to use a different frame for your T.

Of course, you can't have a T "Bobber" because if you just channel a T truck cab over a T chassis it's a T Hot Rod, so the term "bobber" no longer applies to the build.

 

here's where I stopped and can't seem to cross the road..... the T/TT cab has taller door bottoms...which would work ok to channel it.... but, I think it would look way off it you chopped it and run it full fendered....

I bought this turn key, but all the wood was rotted beyond repair, so I took it off... so I was gonna build another hackney hotrod depot truck....but, I also have this cab.... and being honest here... I wake up in a differant word every day.. beings I have beenworking on hot rods for 60 years,... this has set in.... can't loose a nickle,... I should just take my hickey and send it down the road..... but, can't even make my self do that...

 

You don’t want that frame, it’s too big. Get a T-bucket frame or get the plans and build it yourself. If you put a short bet with TT cab it won’t be a bobber, it’s just a T-bucket with a roof. Well actually with the bed length you showed in your examples, you just want to build a Model T truck. Either way I think that may be too much frame for that little body.

 

the cab is 52'' wide....I was thinking to over come the long door bottoms.... to channel it??? then chop the top....

 

Marty’s brothers looks like a human being would actually be able to drive it comfortably. Looks really slick too!

 

Boy howdy this got way off what the OP askes in short order.
A bobber truck is a fenderless, often channeled 35/41 cab with a "bobbed" as in shortened bed on it. Example the blue truck in post one.

When he was on here as Vaphead and selling chassis to members and couldn't deliver the goods to the buyers for what ever issues he had going on at the time he got banned.
Boling brothers sells a similar frame.

I've always wanted to build one since the guy who ran the local Shell station in the early 60's had a chopped, channeled and bobbed 36 Ford with a small block Chevy in it. I may have the sectioned grill shell off that truck in my stash that I bought at a swap meet about 30 years ago.

 

I does not seem that I'm lost.... I am lost, everytime I get on a path to finishing this it gets shut down.... any other time when I say, here's what I'm doing, there are hundreds of post , " If I were you I would do this"............................ So, how bout some ideas... I got a t chassis with an A motor 12v, cross steering, juice brakes, 34 front axel...fenders , running boards, hood and grille.....annd the tall TT body....I just can't picture any way to put it together.... I've got wires... 16's, 18's, 19's and 21's
here's how it looked when I got it....

 

this is the frame I was looking at, I own a shop and there is no way I could build a mandrel bent T frame for 2K

5-12 Model A & Model T Ford coupe, sedan, pickup, roadster hot rod frame | eBay

I figured with the tall T cab, and slammed chass it would look somewhat decient and you'd have something when it was done?????





but,.... what the hell do I know.... I'm just and old man in a young mans world...







but, I could just Z my frame and call it a day...??????????????????

 

This is the bobber I built!

 

My head hurts......