How would you build it? A Frame early stance? Channeled? 32’ Frame? Track T? 40’s? 50’s? White Walls? Let’s here it! Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
My 26 roadster will be built on a 32 frame. Haven't decided on the grille, engine, wheels, dash, etc. yet. But no whitewalls.
Mine’s in the Modified style with a TT frame and a 57 Pontiac motor Sent from my iPad using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I would say look though old magazines and see what trips your trigger. I like this one. I wonder why more cars like this aren’t being built today... Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
My 27 is going on a Whippet frame with parallel leafs front and rear.. early Chevy 6cyl and trans with shortened closed driveline. Full hood, unsure on nose / grille. Have a rough turtle deck, narrow 16” steel wheels with blackwall tires. It’s what I have..I’ll get started on it and make it work one of these days.
For a ‘26-‘27 body the most traditional for me would be highboy style on Deuce rails. Some guys would shape a hardwood filler to close up the gap between the body and the top of the frame rails and some recontoured the top of the frame.
Building a T and driving a T are two very different exercises. Been driving this one every day as my F-150 is in the shop. The one Moriarty posted would be virtually impossible for me to get in or out of as I'm 77 and the legs don't fold up like they used to! In fact, it's becoming more difficult to get in and out of the Zipper. That said, consider how you're going to use the finished car and build it it according to your use patterns. I do some tours and need to take stuff, so I built this removable rack for my car.
Make mine a low track nose roadster with tubular front axle and a Red Ram hemi. Built on a new frame, not 80+ year old fatigued metal.
Im leaning toward something like this. I like the good a lot Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I've been chipping away on this for a few years. Runs very well and drives on a Model A chassis. Not yet ready for the street. Actually thinking of selling it off now that all the hard stuff is done. What it actually is isn't what was in my Head before I started. Does that make any sense? And this was my inspiration. The Wizzard
I know exactly what you mean. Funny how that works. I’ve only had one car that turned out exactly the way I wanted it. And still sold it Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I'm building mine on an A frame, 40 rear (spring over) juice brakes, 32 heavy axle and a banger motor. A flathead would be nice but I have both an A and B with respective transmissions. The stanchions are chopped and the top will be adjusted to the height of the windshield (like a 10" chop) which would make it pretty difficult for me to drive with the top up. 28/29 radiator and shell.
I would have to dig through boxes of old photos but there are/were two floating around the pnw that always tripped my trigger, one was a blue 27 on Deuce rails that was just clean and the other is a 27 on 28/29 rails with the 28/29 fenders. I really like that look.. I'd have to agree that the older you get and the stiffer your joints get the less a channeled early car appeals for actual driving. Actually If I can dig out a photo or two of the little red roadster that Tim Morris, uncle of our own Riley Morris aka Rockets' Hot Rod Garage. built back a few years ago that is the knock your thingie in the dirt traditional hot rod. That car Was simple on a tube frame cut to resemble a 32 frame but had all the right pieces.
He asked for traditional. That is how most of them were built back then.... Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Mine sits on an A frame. When building it I tried a few sets of tires and wheels, black walls on wires with Cragar knock off caps, dirt tires on steel with Mercury caps in the picture above and now white walls with Olds full wheel covers..
Pete Chapouris' (Spelling?) green roadster in jim32's post #27 above really floats my boat! And the black one with the tan-ish top, tall wires and sitting out on the salt in the same post is just plain evil looking! I love it! Lynn
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