End of the Year Update: Well I finally got all eight pistons out! Now I am on to get the valves, and camshaft out. I have been toying win ideas as to what to do with my cowl. My latest Idea comes for the idea of making a slant window closed cab pickup. Thanks to Rot n Kustom for doing the awesome Photoshop work See thread http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=300531&page=413 Post #8243 for the request and #8247 for the reply. If you need anything photoshopd there are truly artists hiding out there. They do remarkable work. So! What are your thoughts?
found this photo of a 1938 Talbot-Lago T120 Brandone custom. All i can say is WOW! look at all the great art deco speedster ideas....
progress updates: Still trying to get the 8ba valves unstuck with no luck. Did come across a pre-war flathead with 59AB heads on it. I hope that this one come loose far easier then the 8BA has been. Planning stage on the frame has begun, have gone with 2x4 11ga tubing modified to fake an original A frame. It looks like this summer when the garage clears out of current projects I will get to start welding up the frame and mockin it up.
Update: it has been slow goings. Managed to get the body ready to be built and will start constructing the buck to build the back half. As for the flathead it has been unwilling to unstick even after boiling it in a barrel of used motor oil for 3 hrs. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
Made some progress tonight, I built a wooden deck to build my speedster body on. Now to get cutting the buck. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
Hey, O.P., I like where you're heading with this speedster stuff; this idea keeps tugging at me, also. I like your low buck approach to it, too. When you start bringing a closed pickup cab into the mix, I sense a bit of automotive ADD (you ain't the first!). You might think about shelving the pickup cab for the next build, and making the speedster an open bodied or convertible two-seater. Or build the pickup as a parts runner, and then build the speedster. Ultimately, these seem like they should be two completely separate builds, although, for that time period, they might start with much of the same components (frame, engine, front end body, etc.). Or make a really nice roadster pickup, and combine elements of both! Arrgh!, Too many choices! Best of luck w/ it, whichever way you go, Kinky6
I hear you there, speedster where the dream has been, and will stay. Just having trouble envisioning weather to make it a sharp point tail, or auburn style gentle and long. Or go with a blunt back as Edsel did with his 1934 speedster. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
Its decided. It shall be a bow tail. Now just what type of bow tail. A. Low rounded B. High and pointed C. ? I would use a hood but I have not seen one that would look (in my opinion) as the back of speedster. I've always been interested in Edsel's model 40. But his later redesigned nose does not do anything for me. What are everyone's pros and cons to this idea? Posted using smoke signals.
The nose on Edsels is too deco, I think. Like it's over done. High and pointed would be what I would build in a Speedster. One thing about Speedsters, there's room for freedom of expression. no rules to smash or be concerned with. Get your years down and have at it.
New toys for the speedster now just need the uploaded to play nice and let me post them. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
Update: scored me a original frame tonight, time to break out the wire brush and knock off the moss... more to come... Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
I'm watching. I want to build a speedster someday and will have to go through all these decisions as well. Good luck!
I have a 28 Hudson Speedster build, but have not touched it for about a year. I did buy some 34 Chevy wire wheels for it a few months back, and I'm planning on doing something to it over Christmas. Build thread I tilted something like: hop up mods for 1928 Super six. Sorry I can't do a link from my phone. Lots of good info in thread.
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