pics of TBUCKETS with Turtle trunks

wanting to build one & would very much like to have some Pics to get my ass working on one thanks

 

most of these are stolen off the HAMB, my buddy Buckle is builing a 25 T with a turtle deck..

 

Aaron, your avatar alwas makes me smile...

 

You've seen mine before. This is how it looked last year.

 

The ultimate. The Camfather's own....God I love that car.

 

Thanks Go-rilla, that's my Boy Garett, he turned 3 in September. It does the same to me .

Nobucks, I really like your car, cragars really do work on just about anything.

 

The Dick Kraft car.......

 

I much prefer th look of a turtle deck to a bobbed pickup box.
I like this one a lot..

 

Heres a few more. Ive always dug the old drag car apperance of a turtle deck. Good luck!

 

Is that Isky's T ?

 

here's one i bet many of you are familiar with

 

i met a falla in davenport, iowa, about 10-15 years ago at the mississippi valley fairgrounds when the antique sprinters and midgets used to race there once a year.

he was driving a 23-25 t with a turtle deck; gray primer; red ram hemi; 3 or 4 speed manual. he took me for a ride in it. i thought then, and still think, it's one of the coolest cars i've ever seen. (b-t-w; his was a street car, not a race car)

anyone know who it was? is he a hamber? can you find a pic of the car?

i've prolly got a pic in one of the old photo albums at home, but even if i did i don't have any way to scan it for you.

 

Yessir.

 

TIKI & Gang-

Sorry, no pics to contribute - but since we're on the subject, does anyone have a clue why they're called "turtle decks"?? I don't see any obvious connection between these early days auto "trunks", and ol' brother terrapin.

Just wondering.

 

Here's mine (circa 1972)

 

Let me cast my vote for Geraghty & Crawford's "Grasshopper"

 

[thanks very much now to get my ass in gear