Here's volume 3 from the Nationals Or Bust Traditional T build. Last night was spent finalizing the brakes and running new spark plug wire in the original looms. This thing is the coolest sounding. It idles so smooth at 400 rpm and You can hear each cylinder fire out. The shifter was made from a cuestick. The first fire was made during a thunderstorm wiht lightning from hellfire. It knocked all the lights out in the garage and Matt was working by candle light to get it to breath. He has lately gathered the name Dr. Frankenstein. It brought us to mind the old Frankenstein movies. The was an ac***ilation of alot of hands. Matt of course did most of the work. Matts plans are to spend the weekend working out the bugs and drive it 400 miles to Louisville on Wednesday. So far it has 100 miles with no problems !
Her'es some of the yellow puke wonder. I had a dear friend make a top for me. She is the coolest and most talented person i know!
Very Nice. No one could argue that shiney paint don't look good on that one. lol Love the color as well.
Nice clean T. I like it. The truck is of course cool too. And the fact that it keeps running on the first time out is equally impressive. I usually get mine a few blocks away and then discover a serious oversight of some kind and push it back. Well done.
Thanks guys! We all really worked hard to meet this deadline. I'm glad we could all come together and make this happen for Matt. I'm not normally a T type of guy but this one won my heart. I think it was the Y block that did it. It is sweet sounding. I haven't received a call from him out on the road yet so it must still be a go. Before pics........ Y block...
100% pure inspiration!!! thanks. just got my front end in from speedway today and the build starts tomorrow... i'll be looking at these pics every day... now i hafta decide...keep the t or keep the a coupe...
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