turn your sedan/tour car into a 'bucket'?

Hi all, one of my projects this winter is a 1924 REO sedan. It looks like a big touring car, but with the frame for a roof. The back has the same style as a T bucket. I am thinking of taking the rear doors out all together, basically shortening the car. Then welding the two halves together forming a 'bucket' style roadster.

I'm sure it has been done at one point or another, anyone have pics, or personally done it?

thanks

 

This was originally a 1929 DeSoto 4-door sedan.

 

grill shell looks rad KIRK!

 

Tubular Ford driveshaft for exhaust? Old old school stuff there.

 

REO "Speed-Bucket", huh?

 

Kirk!,

What's the grille shell from???

 

1919 Grant Six

It turns out that they are extremely rare and valuable...oh well, we cut it up anyway.

 

beautiful, thanks for the pics

looks nice.

 

kinda like this??

 

*******, that's hideous.

 

What is the motor? I love that thing! I have a 26 T roadster that I want to fix up some day, and the Turtle deck is in need of some help, and the parts that I need to replace I cant find. Anyway I really like the look of the T bucket modifieds, and I am thinking of doing just that.

 

In mine? It's a Chevy 194 Triftmaster.

 

Thanks! Sorry to highjack...

 

KIRK! has the coolest stuff.

But back to the point, why would you want to make a bucket out of something as cool as a REO?

Do you have sketches?

MRAK

 

not a bucket but what i did with a 4-door sedan.

 

So do you have a genuine phaeton that you plan to cut up or a sedan with the roof cut off ?

 

it's not a phaeton, just a big four door. i can't find much on it. the top is like a tin perimeter frame thing. maybe a lot of cloth involved? but it's rickety, and i'm not trying to spend a million bucks restoring the thing.

it's got parallel leaf suspension, fornt and rear, i want to cut the body down and undersling it. retain the original drivetrain if possible. i'll take pics of it tonight and post them.

 

You could probably sell the thing to a restorer for enough to buy three Model A's. I mean if it was like the Franklin we have - which is rotted in two in the middle and the body is just a pile of tin - that's one thing, but if it's complete and just has bad wood.. sometimes just hacking it up to hot rod is cutting off your nose to spite your face.

 

i know, but i don't want a model a

 

Nice work on this one! Kirk, I don't know how to tell you, but that torque tube ain't gonna fit.

 

wtf? never seen anything like it.. wow.. i dont even know what to say that's freakin horrible, it burns the eyes

 

I just heated it and bent it to fit.

 

Here are some more pics of the shell for the PM requests. It started life as a 1918 or 1919 Grant Six shell. We widened it 1.5" (.75" on either side of the radiator filler hole), filled the radiator filler hole, fabbed a 2" "lip" for hood and hoodsides, and made the whole thing 4" taller. The whole bottom 4" was fabbed from scratch. I'll post more of just the shell when I get home.

 

Didn't Hot Wheels make one of them?

 

And really disturbing to think how many model a bodies have been turned into unusable garbage

On a happy note your project is looking killer
Dan

 

please post a pic of the reo as is maybe we can cut up the photo for an i dea or depending on what you got talk a diff stratagy

 

I second that......... minus the blasphemy haha.

 

I saw this ****ED UP POS it is even worse in person! BTW your ride looks kick ***!

 

Once upon a time it was a touring.