Features T roadster gow jobs.

THIS IS KUUL! Can you elaborate about the build, @Speedster ?

 

The car is on a boxed, drilled, and Zd Model T frame. My friend Gary Byrd was a European car enthusiast and restorer, and we made a deal on an early Lancia V4 engine and transmission that I connected to a Model A diff with an 3.54 R&P and open drive line conversion. Gary was a fantastic fabricator and vintage car racer (he participated in 31 of the first 33 Monterey Historics) and was instrumental in helping with the build. The Lancia engine and trans are out now and a hopped up Model A engine and trans are currently in the car. The suspension is Model A with split wishbones and a tapered leaf Model T rear spring.
The radiator is from an early 20’s Lancia Lambda and that shape defined the basic layout of the body. The lines of the boattail body were laid out with 5/8” square steel tube. Once I had the shape I wanted I simply formed aluminum sheet over the steel framework. Backyard paint job. Bought an industrial sewing machine and did the interior.
It took three years, and I’d guess somewhere between 1000 and 1500 hours. The car performs well and can cruise on the freeway at 65mph. In 2008 I drove it from LA to Monterey and back for the Historics at Laguna Seca. Quite a drive! I remember how excited I was to begin that trip, and how relieved I was to get out of the damn thing in Monterey. I stopped every 100 miles or so to stretch and gas up, decided to take Hwy 1 from San Luis Obispo to Monterey, and was on the road for nearly 8 hours.
John

 

IMHO, the wires really set that car off....

 

These are mopar but T era, I like gow jobs

 

I'm chopping my T , and wanna run the top channel, not open glass... I was gonna leave the bottom and mod the post... but is that a buy able piece.. or did you mod the postd... I'm 71 and got way more money than time and don't wanna spend a day or to mod.n the post's if I can just buy them

 

It's just the top screen.

 

Well, this ain't a roadster, and far from being best gow job around. But if i have any clue what cow jobs are, this should fit right in. Model T touring front half, Model A frame, trans and axles, model B engine.

 

Saw this '27 on CL the other day. Priced a little high but according to the seller it's last dirt track race was in Idaho in 1937. Been stashed away since. Chevy two port head and extras are included.
Wish I had the room.

 

make room....