Ever since I started reading Brent's thread about building his '20 T banger, I keep going back and looking at this photo!! What I REALLY like about it is the front end/grille/headlight combination. I'd run 21" wires on it rather than wooden artillery wheels, maybe build it a little longer, and do something else besides those sheet metal "skirts", but I think the look of the grille/hood/lights/front stance is SO cool!!!! What do you guys think?.... Edit: I can see one LOOKING like this (w/the wires), and either vintage or modern 4-banger/5-speed...(REAL rods have 3 foot pedals, right??...)...
Thats my background on my computer. That may be my favorite period car EVER. It just screams drive the **** out of me. Id love to drive it on a hard sand or dirt road course, letting it get loose in corners, listening to that banger cry!
im not much for early cars.. but I too am in love with that thing.. the only deviation would be too loose the side panels below the body. dont know that it exists.. but it should.
That car is perfect and long been my all time favorite T. I'm building a T right now loosely based on that car. I started out wanting to run T running gear and the wood spokers, then thought maybe an A banger with 21 wires but have settled on a V8-60 and 19 inch plymouth wires. I just don't feel like another T powered car right now. But as far as the wheelbase, cut down roadster body, 33 grill and hood, aprons and so on, I' doing the same. I just hope the 19's will look ok, of not, a switch to 21 will be in order. Bob Cressey was the builder of the car and an original member of the old Throttlers of Hollywood club. He was also a original member of the Model T ford club of america. I've tried to track him down hoping he still lived in the valley, but no luck so far. His T had a milled stock head, Delco ignition, winfield carb, wheeler muffler, Z'ed frame, 2 speed trans in the drive line (warford?) and 3-1 gears in the rear end.
I really like the side apron look and in the mid 30's that's what some of the guys did. Here's my old friend Gabby's T in 1933 still running not only the aprons but running boards too. I can understand someone not liking that apron look, but I like the cars of that era, the first wave of hot rods. Dropped axles, kicked up rear cross members, chopped windshields, they already had the look long before what most call 'traditional'. Cressey built his car in the mid 30's too, that grill was almost brand new.
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