Projects The bucket of ugly! A de-uglifying thread...

Or run a Corvair flat up front, like Don Kendall (RIP) built back in the day - with the serious sectioning, the cowl height seems too low for any conventional inline or Vee-style powerplant unless you want it sticking up like the one already in it. I agree, cleaned up, de-ratted, it could be very cool and I, too, love the curved bones - especially how they seem to flow from front to back and how clean the attachements appear. The sweep of the rails is particularly clean (and how the bones follow suit). Makes me think of Dan Webb - he might build something along these lines - but PERFECTLY fabricated!

Steve

 

Sometime's I really wish I had an imagination like this guy and sometime's I'm glad i I don't.
It is kinda neat.

 

I was thinking I would raise the front of the body so the cowl wasn't so low then a V8 engine could be run. And maybe even a hood for that smoother look as was suggested.

A guy could have fun with it.
I seem to have a soft spot for these odd little cars, in a way they remind me of a couple of creations a few of the young guys built while I was in high school.
Built with what they had lying around.
This Bantam is another one, having appeared earlier on here I still like it.

I did spend some time in the garage and welded up the gas tank I was building for the RPU
Larry

 

Blue, that tank looks like the ducks nuts

 

I too have a soft spot for those odd little rods. I saw this one In Windover last year when Bonn was washed out.

 

I like, has a lot of potential

 

Funny, two cars on the page posted, and they both came either out of my shop, or from less than six blocks away! The Bantam is my client/buddy Roy's, and I shot that when I finally convinced him to get the "right" pair of rear wheels and tires. That little car rides drives and handles like a dream! all on a 92" wheel base.

The little truck is my neighbor Daniel Shircliff's former ride. I kinda watched it go together over the last four years or so, and kinda chimed in when he was telling me that he intended to channel the living heck out of it... Daniel is a good '6 taller than my 6' 1"! He didn't drive it long before it found a new home, and it looks like it's for sale again... Probably the same reason!

 

Comin' up on 200 pages....cool.

 

Awesome looking T Truck but as Chip mentioned, one must be neither tall or obese to fit inside comfortably to drive one. I ain't tall but sorry to say, have gained to much around the waste line for me to be comfotable in it. Now I do like the padded two tone roof cover and that certainly is a sixties thing to do. It would look absolutely better with a matching tonneau cover done the same I believe.

 

That Bantum is cool, I like that a lot and Vickys too

 

Okay, I have just had another look at the truck and it has a matching cover so please ignore my last comment.

 

Whiplash, it looks to me like it has the matching tonneau cover on it.

 

You ain't lying there, Whiplash! I almost bought a 32 truck as a daily driver, and even with it's bigger cab it STILL didn't have enough room to accommodate me ( and I was 5'10", 200 lb. at the time) as a daily driver. The price was right, but I just couldn't see spending much time in it, without major changes!

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I snagged this pic off another thread on here (I believe it was either the Vintage Drag Cars or the Competition Coupe thread). Does anyone know anything about the push truck? I'm really digging it and I keep thinking I've seen it somewhere before. This is definitely the direction I want to go with my '26!



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Isn't it a Model A?(post 5945) JW

 

No Jeremy, it is a T Truck and very similar to the green truck from down Palmerston North way that has a flatty power and flat wooden deck. For the life of me can't remember the name of the builder etc.

 

Looks to be maybe a Dodge body Blo. Kool looking bucket though. I like the color too. Maybe Chip has more info on it.

 

The purple truck pictured above is actually a '29 Model A, as posted above.

Dan (who built the truck) is a good pal of mine. I watched (and helped a little) that machine go together.

 

Sorry guys the windshield threw me. It could be Dodge.

 

I know that the roadster pickups are typically referred to trucks and that it's probably correct in terminology, but for me it always seems odd or somehow wrong when someone refers to my 26 as a truck.
To me it's a little hot rod that just happens to have a tiny facsimile of a pickup bed on it.
I could just as easily have went the other way and put a turtle deck on the same chassis and then it would be a car.
I prefer to think of it as a hot rod RPU , And not emphasise the truck part. I feel it's more car than truck.
But that's just me

 

Well Blue your probably stuck with RPU which is better than T Bucket. I prefer T Modified but who knows that term except a few old dry lakes racers. So I'm pretty stuck with T Bucket.

 

Hey Mark....You are really dating yourself with the Green Flathead powered T truck. That was Royce Fishers--saw it at the first Palmy Swap I went to in `76....

That Push Car does not ring any Bells at all with me...... Although I remember a really neat old A Bucket from Palmy also...It had a Wade Supercharger on a Y Block, and was about the same Blue as your car, Jeremy...

Wrong country, though. Chip...You seem to be on the mend. Hope so....

 

Paul, I saw Royce in his truck at the Palmy swap in the late 70s.
Mark, its now restored to how Royce Fisher first built it. Its owned by an old friend, Terry Caske who also owns and restored Vandal.
If you have the book, The Kiwi Rodders Guide To Life (1st one) they are both in there. JW

 

The push truck looks to be Joe Pirenello's (?) Dodge bucket from San Diego, I believe.

It was used in the movie "The Lively Set"

Mick

 

@Blue One, is there a off change em that you got any more pics of that RR?

It odd, twice in one week shows two pics of RR up on the HAMB, that I actually like! [emoji33]

But that dosent mean I will turn to the dark side just yet.

But a couple more pics would not hurt [emoji13][emoji15][emoji41]

 

I remember that car being red. Was it ever purple? Anybody have any closer up pics of this car so we can compare? There are plenty of pics of Joe's bucket around. There was a Dodge Bros. bucket project here for sale the same time I bought my T. Wanted it, but couldn't swing the extra coin.

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Mike, any chance of getting any closed pics of it? I swear I've seen one somwhere before......maybe actually pushing the dragster on the fire up road?

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I absolutely guarantee that is a '28 '29 Model "A" truck! "T" truck cabs were even more square than these. The only thing "T" on that is the doors. Ford, being very good at "using up stuff" designed the new Model "A" pickup cab to use up a surplus of '26-'27 "T" coupe and Tudor doors that the factories were sitting on. You want even further confusing? Look at a '30 big truck, or "AA", and it will have this cab with the later painted grill shell if it is early production. Again, they used up the stuff left over from previous years.

Just for comparison, here is a "T" truck body. Would have been '23-'27 "TT" stuff only, never on a passenger chassis as this one is.

 

Now you've lost me, Chip. Are you saying someone put T doors on an A custom, or that Ford did it? All the '28-'29 RPU pics I googled have square lower door corners.

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BF,
Chip is saying that when Ford built the first two years of the Model A pickup (1928-1929), they used 1926-1927 coupe and Tudor doors for the A cabs because they had extra doors. So if at some point in life you end up with a '26-'27 T coupe that has no doors, you can rob the doors off a '28-'29 A cab, or vise-versa.

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