Question about model T's

Just came back from a scrapyard where a 1922 model tt truck is hiding. It's under 30 years of stuff in a barn... And I can't get a look at it.

I'm wondering if the body on it is like the common T roadsters...t bucket styles? Or would it be different?

I'm not gonna waste the guys time unless it's something I would want to hotrod. I'm not a tbucket guy...but like trad hotrod t roadsters.

Thanks

 

TT would be a bigger truck, not a roadster pickup that is sized like the cars if that is what you are asking. The cab is going to be very square and tall.

 

Not much legroom, pretty awkward looking in my opinion. I'd look for a '26-'27 roadster, a little longer than the '23 style, much smoother shape.

 

Is it an open cab or a closed cab? They also buit what is a called a "C" cab. I have seen lots of stuff over the years, and one was TT truck with a roadster cab an a flat bed. Not common, but I have some pictures of one built presumably by Ford. That would possibly be a standard roadster body. Otherwise, closed cab and "C" cabs make cool full fendered hot rod trucks. "C" cabs were breifly popular in the mid sixties as "T" bucket type bodies. Don't think I'd pull the same trick with a closed cab though.

 

C cabs, on the other hand, are pretty cool.

 

Yeahhhhhh...u got my wheels turning now....I could see enough to tell it ain't a big giant square box...

I could see a part of cowl peeking out and it looked alot like the 23 version that I'm used to seeing hotrodded.

If it's a C cab....would the cab be the exact same as the roadster? Minus the turtle deck

 

Some of the truck bodies did have a car-like cowl, and it's possible someone transplanted a roadster or cutdown sedan body onto the truck at some point.

I hope this link comes through, it's a Google search of "Model TT Truck" and should give an idea of the different body styles that were used on the TT trucks over the years.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=BLX&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&q=ford+tt+truck&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=9897l12231l0l12503l13l12l0l0l0l0l800l3755l2-6.3.1.0.1l11l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1600&bih=756&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=WSlMT4E3ycDRAeuVkZIJ







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Big "Nope" on that one. The "C" cab's cowl only looks like a roadster, it, along with every other panel is different otherwise.

 

TT seems to be one of the "better left as-is" models..... to me, anyway...

 

So cowl is different for sure....along with everything else....

Not what I'd be interested in..thanks for helping me clear that up.

Now I know about model T's too

 

You mean "better left in the barn" hahah?

 

I'd pass on it.........

 

Absolutely! I remember one back in the seventies around here locally that had a small block under the hood, full passenger car fenders and running boards, and an "A" bed on a passenger car wheelbase of 100"... Damn I want one! I don't hate fenderless hot rods, but it seems that in the last decade or so everybody has forgot how cool some of this stuff was just as it was. Drop it a bit, add some power and cool wheels, done.

 

That's if it's a "C" cab with the top removed. Still could be a roadster bodied deal though.

 

What's wrong with TT trucks? I can't post pictures from my phone but the one I just traded off is in a album on my profile. I'm 6'2" about 250 and had no problem in mine. just traded it for more of a family car.

 

Just an update, I was down near that junkyard again on work yesterday...did some major digging and sho nuff....it's a proper roadster cab on a TT frame. No turtle deck, just the roadster cab. He's also got a clean title in his name.

Doors were laying in the floor of the body under a bunch of boxes, they're completely shot.

The body is all there...kinda, but it's pinholed and paper thin in some critical spots around the windshield posts. Got some patches riveted in in the back part of the body. He's got model T fenders there, complete 2 piece windshield, gas tank...and a few other bits and pieces.

Wants $2500 . I said...yikes. I'd be thinking more along the lines of $1000 MAX...and I'd still feel embarrassed to tell my dad...haha.

Problem is, there's nothing at all like that around here, and I'd be near $1000, just in shipping, to get a decent roadster body sent from out west.

What do you guys think? I want it, but......

 

Pass, there are lots of "good" steel bodies still out there. This one sounds like virtually every panel will need major attention.

 

not good

 

You said "doorS", A proper poadster body has just a passenger door in most cases. "C" cabs always had two. My Vote is still with a topless "C" cab.