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.
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.
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!
Any help would really be appreciated. My mom threw all my car magazines (and my marble collection) out while I was in the Navy.
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...
That's what he said...? I don't know nothin about Baseball cards, but Maybe he coulda lived somewhere nicer than Newport Beach, Balboa...