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

Here is my buddy Ernie in the blue one !

 

Well.......that raised the bar 100 feet above sea level. SWEET ASS RIDE!!!!

I'm really liking the snap in upholstery. REALLY liking it.

 

And you quoted it.

 

Here's pics of the lone stand...

 

just like mine !!!

 

I don't know. You tell me. I went with a friend to Lees shop in Oakland about 1960 with a friend on our Cushmans'. He bought a set for $15 from Lee Caapel. They looked and were drilled and counter sunk just like the ones below. The old ones I bought in 1979 that were on that the frame that I didn't use were just like the ones below.
Yours are not exactly the same but pretty much. Maybe he didn't drill all of them.

Really they are so much alike nobody would pick them out as not Tornado. The ones on the clone I mentioned above are curved. If he would have had two like yours drilled like mine on it I would never had questioned them.
Gary

Not to labor the point but Lees speed shop in Oakland was just a small room. If I had to guess maybe 12X24 Ft. with a couple of machines visible in back. Probably a Medium to small Mill and a Lathe. I just have to think he had a jig and drill/countersink to hold and drill these things but still that doesn't mean he drilled all of them. Oh his old shop is now a beauty shop. Or was a few years ago when I drove by.

 

Not exactly the same. Most likely they are knockoffs. No way to be sure without holding them side by side. Safe to say that mine has never been used.

 

My son and I took my roadster to the Rat Fink Reunion on Saturday, two hours each way, and the wind beat us up pretty good. I need to get my top done.

 

W.B. on mine is about 96".
'57 R&C said Kookie Kar is 96".
Ivo told me his was 101"
Lightin Bug was 101"
Difference is Lightnin Bug which Ivo copied and Ivo car had a diff with spring over axle. When Norm built his into the Kookie Kar he installed a later banjo with the spring behind the axle. Mine has the same later banjo.

 

A little progress. Got the rear end today. 2001 S10 out of a Blazer, open with 3:42 gears. I decided a while back to make this one a reliable cruiser. The last one took a beating and this will too.

I'm gonna be cuttin' and grinding my ass off this weekend. Then, I'll remove the brackets on THIS rear end.

 

Thanks, Gary. Whether or not you realize it, you just gave us a really cool story from, "back in tha day". You just gave another reason to cherish this hobby/addiction. History. Thanks again.

 

For Gary.

 

Thanks Fred I always liked that song. I like it more now. Think I might get that album. You know I might have it in the basement with the hundreds of others my wife and I bought at flee markets in the '70s and '80s. Yeah we have a lot of vinyl.

Gary

 

Last weekend,a pretty gal had to try it out for fit. It's a 28 "A" bobtail w/ Thunderbird Y,98in. WB . I built it in 1959 to go to highschool in.

 

So do I, man. So do I.

 

Man, that's a beautiful pic.

 

So, I know that Chip has been following along, while I have been posting photos in the "build thread" and on FB. This morning, I asked if it qualified for the "bucket of ugly" thread. Here's the "before and after" shots.

Still gotta do the brakes and wire the thing, and get it running, but hope to have it on the road in the next month and a half.

 

Seems like you didn't bother waiting for the answer. This thread is about T buckets.

 

Me: I forgot to ask, does this qualify for the "bucket of ugly" thread?
Chip: Absol-freakin-lutely!!! Well done, by the way.

 

Chip wouldn't mind that's true. Still isn't a bucket.
And it's not even that ugly.

 

Well, alll righty, then. Chip's thread, his rules.

 

Showed up on FB today...hella short wheelbase!

 

Wow! That's a skate board.

 

That is a tall go kart!

 

Now to me that is ugly on so many levels but, yeah a big BUT, when one thinks back to the year that was built, it was absolutely fantastic. I do like the cycle fenders on the rear which would look cool on the front of mine.

 

Hows your progress Marc? JW

 

....and done. Next I'll clean her up with a wire grinder and wait for my rear brackets to show up.

 

Sorry, no progress at all but, yeah BUT, there is a event next May @ Marine R&CC Napier and I have mentioned to my Brother that if we can get the car back on the road, save some travelling funds, get my sister to spend a weekend looking after Mum, then we just may be able to join the fun. The car would certainly look like a fresh barn find with the shitty chrome, flat black paint and a good old Kiwi blanket for upholstery.

 

Fred

Lookin good. Didn't know you were a farmer though. LOL

Gary

 

LOL I'm not. My land lord let me use a P/U bed as a work bench because the shop was full of customers cars.