Hot Rods How about some love for the T-Bucket?

another fine kiwi car

 

Looking at the engine, the valve covers look like a Y-block, but the intake looks like a Chevy. I don’t think anyone made a crossram for a Y-block. The center ports on the headers look close together like a SBC, Y-blocks have a little more space between them. Pictures too fuzzy to really see the front of the heads. Just curious…..

 

looks like chevy small block with wing nuts added to Moon covers, to make it look like an Olds.. a little

 

Yes it's a SBC. JW

 

i've seen at least one other in-period smc with that sort of custom detail before.

 

Sure looks like a SBC to me, and I am kind of working on something similar. Trying to make something look a bit different. This is NOT what's going on in the pic.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vortec-crate-350-made-to-look-old-pics-wanted.248056/

 

Nor-Cal

 

So how does an early "T" get a opening door on the drivers side?

 

@Fat *** Whitewalls metalworking the back door of a Touring, or get a Canadian body.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Fordmodelt/posts/10169245912815548/

"The reason the Canadian Ts had a drivers door is that Ford Of Canada built them both left and right hand drive using the same body. Ford of Canada could export to the British Empire and Commonwealth duty and tariff free and South Afrika, Australia, and New Zealand a**** others had right hand drive. Also Newfoundland did not join Canada until 1949 and they used right hand drive until 1947."

 

Didn't know that about the door situation

 

I didn't either until I started hanging around the hoodlums here.
If you see a stock T, it makes sense why there is no door.
Between the wheel and the brake handle, your legs and feet aren't going that way.
Even if you ignore the way everyone got in and out of cars back then thru the p***enger side, it's a no-go. Maybe the T started that trend, I wasn't there.

 

If ever My sweet wife agreed to yellow that there is 'da bomb'

Fifty or so years ago there was a how-to article in one of the mags.
Or my old method of 'Cut and Try'

 

Thanks. I had heard about the canadian bodies, but never seen one. I figured that was what this one was.