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'60's T roadster mag series

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by gregga, Mar 2, 2005.

  1. gregga
    Joined: Feb 10, 2005
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    When I was in high school in '65/'66, I built a shop project T roadster PU with a Bird body and flathead from a series of articles in one of the rod magazines. Does anybody have those articles or copies of them? I can't even remember which magazine it was in, but I think it was a five issue series.
     
  2. moosehead
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    from Chicago

    I believe they were in Car Craft and maybe a couple of different build ups were done. I have a few of the issues and will see if I can post the scans.
     
  3. DrJ
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    The final installment was July '65 Car Craft as said above.
    The body was a U.S. Speed Sport, new at $189.50
    The owner of that company has been working at Honda R&D for the past decade or more,doing fiberglass molded parts in the prototype and model shop
    (in the same room my Wife works in) It was a hand laid up body, too, no chopper guns at that shop.

    The total for the car was $1399.83 seems cheap but you could buy a new VW or a Chevy II for about that in '65.
    It included pre-bent tubing for exhaust $10, Used T radiator shell $8. $36.75 steel bill for the frame, and the upholstery was a big item at $100.

    The issue has one of the first color pics in the middle of Landy's Dodge altered wheelbase "funny car", and the cover story is Dragmaster's attempt at making Street T kits.
    The frames were similar in design to their dragster frames with torsion bar suspension at both ends. The Mooneyes dragster is a Dragmaster frame.

    And Ed Roth had a full page ad on page 73!
    Says at the bottom of the ad.... Let's all celebrate : 'kick a puppy week!
     
  4. gregga
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    Any help would really be appreciated. My mom threw all my car magazines (and my marble collection) out while I was in the Navy.
     
  5. DrJ
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    According to my brother in law, my mother in law threw away his baseball card collection, including a Babe Ruth rookie card... :(

    All I have is the last episode, which doesn't show any build, just a pictorial of the finished car and it has T cowl lamps ($60!), a hang ten foot gas pedal, Cragers and skinny whitewalls...if ya gnawhatImean.

    & my scanner is buried under a huge pile of shit right now...
     
  6. Kevin Lee
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    Babe Ruth rookie card?
     
  7. DrJ
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    That's what he said...?
    I don't know nothin about Baseball cards, but
    Maybe he coulda lived somewhere nicer than Newport Beach, Balboa...
     

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