Projects SEEKING "Ford" script

My T-bucket body is a Total branded body and I just CANT leave that script in the tailgate.
Does anyone happen to have a broken hunk off their body, or maybe someone thats pulled a mold or any other suggestions on glassing in the embossed script?

My next best guess of an idea will be to cut the letters out of 1/8 inch wood and laminate them to the body. Though this method I fear expansion and contraction will make it not last as long as I want.

Ideas?

 

I used the script cut from a Model T running board grafted into a piece of sheet metal on the Studebaker bed/tailgate to cover Studebaker embossing. The Model T script is a bit smaller than I wanted but the price was right.

 

You could always cut the script from an f1 tailgate. They are a lot easier to find

 

Gearhead, I'm pretty sure if you go on that auction site you'll find pieces of new sheetmetal with the Ford logo.

 

I do not think you guys read the OP's post very well. He has a glass gate with a "ford" script in it already. He doesn't want it there. He wants to chop his gate up, remove the logo and fill it with a new piece of glass. Anyway this is what I read.

Take a trip to the corvette bone yard.

 

My guess is the current tailgate reads "total" and the op want to replace that with the Ford script

 

steel here. https://www.ebay.com/i/123365089872...nuk81nwEzdIvFtLwEF6B7V7T97NhXreoaAuZTEALw_wcB fiberglass here https://www.speedwaymotors.com/Speedway-1928-29-Ford-Model-A-Pickup-Fiberglass-Tailgate,1435.html

 

Bandit, reread the post title and all. He says seeking Ford script and talks about cutting letters out of wood and glassing them in as an option.

 

If it's smooth, (or not ,maybe a Total logo) why not just a vinyl script on a smoothed tailgate ? I know it's not raised, but it's a rod

 

Ford Tractor Script is more period correct.

 

Speedway and others sell a Ford script logo in brass or chrome about 8-9 inches long. About right size for a tailgate . Apply with double sided trim tape.

 

Ohhhh dude, I get it now. Wait, what?

 

Yes. Wanting ford script to put on my bucket tailgate. Preferably glass. (Speedway tailgate is smooth)
Gotta be some way...

 

Places like Home Depot sell 4×8 fiberglass sheets for bathroom renovation. Find a chunk big enough, cut FORD out with a bandsaw and glue it on. Incidentally, a friend with a t-bucket took his car to another body man friend and it came back with the FORD logo erased. Wasn't in his plans.

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Get hold of a metal script,and use it to make a fiberglass mold.Fill the new mold with fine glass,and resin to product a fiberglass insert.Cut the center out of the glass tail gate,and insert the new glass script panel.Sand,and finish.

 

Or, if you know someone with a good, high-res 3D printer, you can print the exact style and size you want from a variety of materials and bond it to the glass.

 

I don't get any of this. You have a Glass body I'm guessing on a Kit chassis with a Chevy motor on it. Am I wrong? Why do you want it to say Ford?

 

Doesn't matter, HIS car,HE wants it!!LOL

 

I get it. TOTAL-ly.

 

Man. My first thought was just get some glass roll, resin, and a Ford script template. Thinking setting up some glass, to trace & cut a pattern ... & bonding it to your panel, would be easy.

BUT ...

... reality set in. F*ck that ! That would be a ton of detail sanding, reglazing, & detail sanding again, between those letters to not look like sh*t.

Instead ... just call these guys >

https://hotrodfiberglass.com/product/t-bucket-pickup-bed/





$150 for the whole fiberglass box. Maybe they can work a smaller quote for just the rear panel you need ?