Projects Santa's building a tiny tub ford

So "santa" has been hanging onto a small t-bucket body for quite some time. And has decided that one lucky kid needed a traditional hotrod under the tree this year.

He and the elves are working overtime after finishing there wooden toy quota.
He started by making them bend a solid axle, spindles and harpins out of the sleighs old carrage pins, and the elfs stole the wheels off the jolly fat guys office chair. (He totally stole the design from speedway and Ed roths outlaw)



Once that was figured out they figured it need to steer. Another elf, when santa wasn't looking, stole the tach sending unit off the oliver tractor santa bought in his "farming phase" that didn't work out in the south pole, and made some joints and trimmed it down




Now that the front was figured out, it was time for the body and rear frame/suspension.



He made sat in it once and realized his years of cookies and milk, caused him to not fit in it with his bag of toys, so he turned a t-bucket, into a tub



With that figured out, misses clause found the old fram that was made for it in the shed out back so they gafted it to the new stub



And with a little t******* and Rudolph's help, they ratchet strapped the tub to his antlers and slowly lowered it down.



Ebay was experiencing delays in shipping,
(Apperntly it's difficult to ship their,) so the electric scooter rear end hadn't showed up yet.

So they made a temporary rear axle and made it a roller.



Tune in next time to find out if santa remembers how to fibergl*** and lower the front a little and try to make it look something like this.

 

Neat!

My inner 9 year old is jealous as hell!

 

You da man Santa....keep up the good work!

 

After a few cold ones, a slightly inebriated santa clause and elves broke out the tape and try to come up with ideas for the front.

 

SWEET.

VR&C.

 

That going to be cool as hell!

 

Now this will be electric, and for that its using the rear out if a scooter, gonna change the wheels on it, and the batteries will be under the hood

 

Started getting the rear mounted, worked on steering more, need to get the rear wheels in more and put the taller fronts on

 

So how many Elves do you have working on it?

 

One mostly, sometimes the others help scavenge parts. Even caught him working on his lunch break

 

Very cool! It reminds of a Make It Custom episode on YouTube where Carl works on a mini Buick...

 

I think you should ask Santa for some new shoes this year.

 

there is still a little fabric left
Those went in the dumpster last night

 

Very cool!

 

Yep, pretty cool for sure. My buddy @Okie Pete (I mean Santa Claus of Oklahoma) has been working on something similar lately.

 

Very Kool project.
I kinda cheated a little bit. I modified a Tin Lizzie go cart

 

Very cool build . I enjoy how You are using what parts You have on hand and making them work . Sorry to highjack your build thread . But I have posted a build thread on the Antiquited if anyone would like to look

 

I saw that on there I read the whole thread,

taking the cart to work Saturday and getting it primered and running hopefully and I'll get some more progress pictures

 

Some kids have all the luck …

 

I love that build its cool I've always wanted a tin lizzie

 

Thank You

 

As night time rolled in And the days quota Was met the elves used there Days practice of building xbox's ones for the kids to start mocking up the electricals for the cart, They decided to hide all the switches For the speed control and on and off under the hood so the kids can't Go faster than the adults want them to Santa Worked on the steering getting it finished and Bonding the floor boards to the body

 

Very cool Santa

 

Some more progress, next is a throttle and some bodywork, santa is on the home stretch!!! Widened the front 3 inches and mounted batteries, painted the frame and suspension, lots of other little things and wiring our

 

You are too cool for school!

 

Well we came close but santa and the crew got sick with the virus and atleast got it running and driving for the kiddo so dad can help finish it

 

Their smiles are priceless . Great job Santa

 

Thank you, he absolutely loved and all the adults had to try it to ( even me ) and the family showed up in the hotrods

 

I would like to continue this thread if everyone's ok with it here I know it's not a "real" car but a traditional ( as I can ) hotrod go cart, I might rename it, so I can show it finished