Features **Model T buckets/RPU's/Roadster/Tourings official photo thread**

Here's the one I sold to pay for my Model A. It was pretty quick and a blast to drive.

 

This thread has me all excited and wanting to build a t-bucket!!!

 

perk

That's what I'm talkin about! Beautiful T. Kinda a Tweety Pie look.

 

Sheesh telecaster, if you build a T roadster for me I'll be your daddy!

 

Thanks, Rebel. I always like the Tweety Pie as a kid. Maybe I had that in the back of my head when I was changing everything around on the car.
Your bucket really has the nice old school look as well and you have a roof so you're not baking in the sun on those hot sunny days like I was.
Nothing more fun than cruising on a nice cool Summer evening though.

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=543393

 

Hey, you didnt come back into the store,Performance Improvements.
Roger

 

I was worried about that when I started my 'glass RPU, but I now find I'll need to put some sort of raised seat in as the edge of the body jams painfully under my armpit if I sit in it like it is now.

I need 4" more height under my ass to sit comfortably and still cruise with my elbow 'in the wind'.

I may go for two bucket seats, or one bench set at tranny tunnel height, not sure yet.



I'll have 8" under the frame rails at ride height, but that could go lower maybe. At least I won't get nose bleeds like some of the guys I see perching way up atop their T's.

 

Goober, Yes I did use 1/4 elliptics in the rear. I am including photos of the later version and the Corvair car.

 

Don: Welcome. Where was your gas tank located?

 

The gas tank was fiberglass under the front part of the floor about 4 gal. Then when I lengthened the wheelbase I added a 2 gal. beer keg in front of the radiator. A 426 Mopar wedge didn't get very good gas mileage. But I did drive it from Chicago to the Peoria and Tulsa Nationals hitting every gas station along the way.

 

Those are some bad ass rides! The long car is just so enticing - It needs a full explanation -
The 1/4 elipticle car is farm out! Did that rear suspension really work?
It must have taken some damn good engineering to figure out the shackel angles.
Didn't they bind? Did you have shocks? Did you build all 3? If so, you have my kinda thinker - not that there is anything wrong with that -

 

Here is the ultimate model T to me. I drive it daily in the summer, and i have for 6 years. I love it.

 

What a great thread. Looked at all the pages, with a huge smile!
Thanks, Eric

 

Does anyone have any good shots of Norm Grabowski's other T-bucket? The Kookie Kart is nice, but I think the black one is more attractive to me. It was in the TRJ Anniversary issue a couple months back.

If anyone uploads it; thank you!

 

60's survivor, needs finishing, buy me!-MIKE

 

What a great thread !
Here's the Gary Heliker '26
/ primerkid

 

The Lightning Bug.

There aren't many photos of it, not that I have found. Here's a photos of Von Franco's, possibly his Kookie Kar as well?

 

Here are the pictures of Von Franco's Lightnin Bug I took this year at Billetproof in Antiock Ca.
That has to be his Kookie Kar Klone too if they were together at Sacramento Vintage Ford and it has the proper strait Tornado headlight brackets unlike some of the clones.

 

Boy, that is a nice little T....wonder who's that is? lol!

I just stumbled across this thread and was gonna join the party and post one of my T, but you beat me to it!

 

True a 70's car, but how sweet is Del Austin's 27' T sitting on a chassis I built back when. I know shameless self promotion.

 

That's always the best kind!

 

Nice, that one is up there with MrModelT's in my opinion.

 

Can you provide details on the chassis set up? I am very interested to know how you built it to get that PERFECT stance...

PM me if you want. Thanks.


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It does have a really nice stance to it and I love the clean lines.

 

Don't remember if I have posted this picture on this thread before. Well if I did here it is again. I picked the picture up at a second hand store a while back. From the way the guy is dressed I don't think the T could gave been much more than ten years old. Maybe a little older than that. I'm thinking the shot was taken in the middle '30s. A real "gow job". At first I thought the body might have been narrowed, but now I think because of the stock height of the windshield and the angle of the shot it is not.

 

Mine

 

Bump just 'cause I want to see more T's. Does this count?

 

mine, barely started on it, still collecting parts. just got bored one night and propped up some parts to take some pics. plan on building it to be a very usable pickup with a nailhead and ford 3 speed