Story of an old 1926 T Roadster w/ohv's

I just got a 26 T roadster over the weekend form some guy in my hometown. The story was told to me about a Father bought this roadster for his son in Feb 1955 from a guy in Fremont Ne. The car was to be a graduation gift. The boy graduated 3 month later. The day after the boy graduated he was to drive the car from Nebraska to Indianapolis. As the story go’s he was hit by another car from behind the impact throw the boy from the roadster, this happened somewhere in Iowa. The boy died from the accident.
So as the story go’s the father left Nebraska and headed to Iowa, he brought a trailer to load the car on the on. The car ended up back in Nebraska were it was kept. The car sat from that day in 1955 on a trailer in woods on the farm. When the Father p***ed away in the year 2008 some of the family members wanted the car stuff to go to the right people…”people that would do the right thing with it”.

The story continues on with the boy having this car, he was able to run it up and down the streets of the neighboring towns "hot rodding it". People today still were talking about it when they would hear about the car. Some people in town knew about this car since 1955 and have been trying to buy it from the Father of the boy since the early 1960’s

The roadster is all stock for the most part. It still has the T 4cyl..but it has the ohv’s head and a down draft carburetor and the cast iron header. It still has the T Trans and rear end. The motor is lockup at this point so I’m working on that now..trying to free up and take the motor apart as I go.

 

I anxiously await pictures. Sounds like a neat car,

 

Major score Danny!!!We'll have to come out and take a look.

 

this thread is useless without pics..

 

Cool story, now we need some picks

 

Really looking forward to the pics on this one!

 

So you tell us about a cool old roadster you got and a really cool story about it. and dont even show any pictures.

 

Any time you and Rob are always welcome.

 

I know my story telling needs some work but I will get some posted soon. I got to the site were the cars was and one of my buddys said did any one bring a camera? so we ran out and got a 35m job...so I'm waiting with you all.

Sticks

 

There are numbers of OHV or F-head setups which were available for the 09-27 Ford Ts.
Is it a Roof?

 

The head is set up without a valve cover so the sring etc are exposed.
I have not seen any #'s on the head at this point but I'm looking.

Is Roof a name of a head?

Sticks

 

I may have found out the car may have the Ruckstell Axle on it also. Is this stuff common for the model T?

Sticks

 

The old car should be happy about it's new life. I'm happy for you. I'll make a road trip with the 34 some night this week. I read on here somewhere that you should talk to it real nice and tell it not to be afraid. Haunted cars or something like that. Don't get rid of anything till you have researched it very carefully. Gary

 

Thanks, I trying to find out what i got etc. I would love to redo this this back to the day it was hot rodded. I just dig the idea...I've allways dug the way they sound.
Stop by anytime

Sticks

 

Roof made a few heads for the T- could be an 8 valve or one of two 16 valve heads that he produced...

not to be a nag, but pics would clear EVERyTHING up

 

Would love to see pics, this car sounds awesome, congrat's!

 

Cool car and story, Danny!!

The folks at the Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed may also be helpful in IDing your head.
As you know, they have quite a collection of similar pieces and may even have an example of the same head that you have.

http://www.museumofamericanspeed.com/Collections/SpeedEquip/Heads.shtml




Malcolm

 

Good for you man,can't wait to see it!

 

cool, cant wait to see the pics

Brad

 

that is very cool. And a great story to go with it. I hope that you can free up the engine. how is the body? and the frame? was it wrecked badly? I would love to hear it run!

Jeff

 

The engine is coming along, I've got the head off and the cly walls have some lite rust and I've got pb blaster in the cly's at this point.The rocker's need to be freed up on the rocker shafts etc. the trans grears etc look good no rust etc. the Ruckstell rear end seems to be moving freely. As far as the body there is rust in the commom places for roadsters. the lert rear fender is bend up badly and the left querter planel is bent up but can be easly fixed. The Frame looks to be ok at this point.

The pic's are getting developed so hope to have them posted today.

Sticks

 

Add the pic's to the story.

Sticks

 

Pictures are totally cool... I stopped by the other night but no one was at home. Didn't feel like snooping. Gary

 

Must of be Monday...I took the kids out for dinner. I will be home after 8:00 tonight then anytime the rest of the week..I don't know about the weekend.

 

Sticks- thanks for the pictures!!!

Make sure you post on the Banger thread as well- you shouldhave an answer quickly.

My guess is Roof or Morton & Brett.

 

I think that the head is a Frontenac 8-valve, either an S, R, or T, depending on compression ratio.

 

See the Fronty catalog at: http://www.nwvs.org/Technical/MTFCA/Articles/1104Frontenac1925Catalog.pdf

 

Glad your were the right people. Looks like the car is in good hands. Thanks for shareing.

 

looks like you're right to me. not an R as it doesn't have the "special racing exhaust manifold" which came out straight instead of dropping down before going back like this one does.

VERY cool find!!

 

Excellent observation. However, the "special racing exhaust manifold" was only standard when ordering a complete R engine. It was optional when ordering just the head (see the note on page 26, #212, in the catalog).