Hot Rods anyone here ever build a bobber????

Here is a pic of a TT truck, fenderless, chopped. I like it, but I’m 6’4” and most likely will not fit.

 

That's it! The LEGO ™ Bobber truck!

J/k that thing is cool as hell

 

thats what I was say,n.... to make it look right you need to channel the body

lol.... got me changing gears again

looks like it's on a stock looking frame????? anymore info or pics???

 

lol...i've been doing this for 60 yrs,... it used to be fun when you could do what ever you wanted to your car without all the classes and names...seems like now every one is some kind of inspector.... period correct, with all kinds new names... it was easy when all you had to say was "Shoe box" and everyone knew what you were talking about...now you have to ask... chevy or ford , then you have to ask tri 5, or nova....
and just to be clear.... never said "I" was building a bobber...... I said has any one here built one.....I also said I don't have a clue what I'm gonna do.... but...I'm reallyliking the chopped and channeled tall T....and probley half ass gow it up with 19'' wires.. bangher motor and all..... and just to also be clear....I'm gonna call it mine when i'm done...

 

wish I was standing next to those 2 trucks so I could show that they are close to the same width


also, just by looking would you say thats a spring behind 34 front axel??????????

 

I had one of those TT cabs that I bought at an auction and those aren't for anyone over 5 10 and 160 lbs I wanted to do exactly as that green one is build wise and figured that it would never work as far as me being able to drive it any distance with a reasonable degree of comfort.

 

Nope. Spring is over the axle.

 

correct, after looking at it on a computer with a larger pic I could see that....but looks like the engine bay is way stretched too be able to put a hood

 

the cab is about 60'' tall

 

so the goal here is to get all the input I can "BEFORE" I start rather than get it done and listen to all the "you should have done this"...So that being said I'm listening to all the advise and input I can,,, I go out and look at this pile of junk every morning.. I just stare at it and wish I would have left it and yard art'd it and parked it at my Utah house

 

I am 5'10" and I won't fit in that... At least not very well.
It looks cool but it's almost impossible to drive unless it has a perimeter frame with a floor that steps down to the bottom of the frame (to give you torso height room) but then you have to deal with the drivetrain coming through the truck where the drive shaft tunnel wipes out 7ish inches right out of the middle of the already narrow seat (that roughly window height at the back of the cab the truck measures about 46 inches then you got 1 inch or so on each side of a tight fitting seat so you got realistically 35 inches of seating room which divide that in half and there is probably 14" of ass area and that is being real conservative with measurements. I would imagine there isn't even seat padding in that truck and you are sitting on the floor.
I am not old by any means at 46ish but even though I am pretty fit weighing 175 I would be hard-pressed to drive that farther than the local liquor store because how cramped it would be.

There is a reason why model T and A closed cabs historically were rarely chopped or channeled and if you can find one it was only an inch or two and the seat was on the floor.

 

any and all feedback is welcome here, pos or neg.... I've already been called a"TOOL" LOL

what I'm thinking most of the time is I'd like to use the premo fenders and such that I have, kinda like my wifes RPU,
my RPU doesn't have fenders...

I'm just a dumb ass try'n to finish my life in a smart ass world, and yes, things were a whole lot better when I was a kid... so I'm not too happy with evolution...I still remember when it was called a mens room,,,,

 

I double thankyou for posting this......all the stuff you post is what I don't wanna end up figuring out down the road... the T T's floor is about 3'' shorter than the AA's but the TT is taller...even though I have the TT cab, I've scrapped the idea of using it many times already, I found a coupe body for sale, and my thought was to make a truck out of it????

 

OH, and more evo, I went from 5'10'' 185 lb all muscle,... to 5'8 190 lbs all fat...comfort means alot right about now...

 

this T race car is kinda cool, last raced in 1938



1927 Model T Racecar, last raced in 1937 on a dirt track in Idaho. Raced in the Pacific N.W. The car has been out of the spotlight for the last 80 years. Has many in the day chassis and engine modifications used in the 20s and 30s

 

I am in love with TT cabs but unfortunately they are way small for a serious cut up car but they lend themselves for that early 1960s style really well and if you go slightly off topic they look killer with the late 1960s street "rad" style with a full chrome big block and diamond tuft interior.
I guess this is irrelevant since you said you bought a coupe but I was on board with a tall T pickup ( TT cab and a small model A bed) with a A or B banger making 80ish HP done in a traditional looking pre-war style...
At the end of the day the T truck will more then likely gain more attention then any roadster because it is rare you see a T pickup/truck and no matter what you do to it (within reason) it will still be fun to drive and with pickups being red hot these days people will love it.
What's funny is no matter if it is a coupe or a pickup or any other closed cab technically speaking nobody was building them in the real early days of hot rodding but the style would look great on any T even a closed cab truck.

 

so one of my ideas was to pick up this doctor coupe body and make an extra cab pick up....

 

That is really close to what I am building with my Hupmobile on a A chassis...
Really cheap and easy to build and way more fun than a day at Disneyland.

 

whats happened is everybody worries about what others think, hence the belly button rods... my self, I'm drawn to the out of the box stuff... when I got the tt cab I was just gonna use the cowl and windshield to build a hackney depot rig.... but, for some reason I just don't have what it takes to cut up a 100 year old survivor TT cab thats in such nice condition...... so like said.... I can't seem to get on a path here...I'm north of 70 and I might just have to put the pile in the barn and save it as a barn find for some youngster down the road..and to add to that I still have my 26 chevy tub/Roadster pickup to finish

 

and just for a little history, the 26 chevy is what put the model T out of business...

 

always lked this Chevy...

 

looking at this pic.... I know my cab would fit on that frame... the frame is more narrow than the bed width

 

so I still have nothing for the drawing board...cutting up the cab will most likely never happen...so kinda on the hunt for a body.... or just build a hotrod hackney depot

 

so, here's the new plan, no matter what it ends up as , it will be lowered and full fendered.. so I'm gonna get the chassis done and the fenders on....when thats done, I'll set the tall T cab on it to see if If i like it..if I don't, Ijust get something differant.....and mean time keep on the look out for some thing else.. starting to like the tall T look...




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and I'm there,.... this what I'm gonna do...



gonna cut up the tall cab and use the cowl and door posts, that way I can place the seat where it needs to be to be comfortable

 

Recently gave the son in law a 37 Ford frame for his 37 Ford truck cab which will become a bobber. He has a 4 cyl turbo diesel bread truck motor for the power plant.

 

at least he's on a path...

 

That's what I thought the thread was about. I.learned something today, huzzah

 

I don't mean to be a dick but you don't think you could build a T frame in your own shop for $2000?

If you want to build a hot rod incorporating that TT cab without hacking it up your options are fairly limited. You want to do something like those bobber trucks that are built with later 30s-40s truck cabs... which is a cool idea, but proportionally, they work because the cabs are round and short... that TT is the opposite.

You still aren't sure what you wanna do with all that stuff, so rule out what you can't do with it... hacking up the TT cab to get just the cowl and posts for a depot hack is kinda dumb- leaves you with only the parts that could be easily fabricated out of sheet metal, at the cost of a nice usable cab... so forget that IMO.

Can't set it on that 35-46 frame because the frame rails are wider than your cab by quite a bit, so forget that...

That pretty much leaves an A or T frame, and what fits on an A or T frame, and what fits under a T hood.

You've posted a few phonebooths... the TT cab on a T or A frame, lowered, fendered, with a T/A bed - that's pretty much what those cabs are good for in the hot rod world. There's not much room to play with the proportions, so if you want to hot rod that thing, the formula is already right there. Sounds like you want to run a banger, so you don't need to stretch the wheelbase. Looks like you want fenders, so you'll probably want to use all the usual A lowering tricks for nice fitment with the wheels... it's pretty textbook.

There are other things you could do with it but you'll find yourself leaving traditional hot rod territory pretty quick I'm afraid.

For my money I would probably not go the hot rod route with that cab, and it kind of sounds like you're not sold on it either... I'd put it on an AA chassis and stretch an A bed to almost express-length... you'll end up with a pretty nice, all-antique truck that can do some real work. Unwanted AA chassis can be had for pennies on the dollar if you're patient, guys buy them out of pastures for the cabs and fenders which are the same as the light duty truck sheet metal and either scrap them or give them away.




Use the AA fenders/splash guards and bring the running boards back to an A-style rear fender wrapped around the AA Budd wheels and you'll have a really nice looking rig that would make a killer shop truck.