Hot Rods Rusty has a new project- father son build , 26 T roadster!

The wife and I went to a weekend run a few hundred miles from home a few weeks ago. While there a friend and his dad showed up with their 33 ford pickup that they teamed up on as a father son project and It got me thinking about a father son build. My pops just made a deal on a flathead that’s he’s known about since he was a teenager(he’s now 74) the motor was built in the sixties and set a few records in a 40 ford coupe in the southern Kansas area. Well today I just inked a deal on a 26 T roadster so now the ole flatty will have a new car to propel down the road.

 

Awesome! What a great project. You got one project going with your son, and now one with your dad, that's so cool.

 

Looks pretty solid. Was it converted to a pickup?

 

i couldn’t tell you. The guy I got it from dug it out of a creek bed 40+ years ago.

 

That looks great ‼️ Damn you ‼️‼️

 

Well Ernie here we go again.

 

Fendered with a pickup box in the rear and a Flatty in the front says Gow job to me! Have Fun with Your build.

 

I ran over to pay for the T this morning and did some weed eating around the car so we can get it loaded tomorrow morning. Can’t wait to get it home and start getting a game plan together.

 

Fenderless right??

 

A good start!!

 

Then we did a '29 hiboy for him!

 

Very nice, following you.

 

Oh yeah! Pops and I need to sit down and get a plan. At this point it will be flathead powered probably on an A frame. Transmission and rear end are still up in the air.
Pops has a 32 heavy axle that was dropped by okie joe under his 28 roadster and another heavy that is not dropped. I was super impressed by okie joes work so maybe I can talk him into dropping another axle.

 

That side view with that busted windshield post I can see that roadster with a laid back windshield, kicked in the back to settle it down just enough , nice dropped axle to level it all out , small hemi with tricarb , light blue with white t & r .... HOT ROD MAGAZINE cover early ‘60’s ...... except cover had a stock windshield..... Nurse quick I’m drooling again ‍♀️

 

Congrats, look at them BIG Honking Headlights....They're still out there...Some places are still in a timewarp and drystates help that reality... bring it on @rusty rocket

 

Go Rusty & Pops Go!!

Stogy Likes...Holy Roaring Roadsters Batman!!!

How ya leaning Rusty or Pops, period and theme wise or as in inspiration of...1948?

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It will be flathead powered for sure. I would like to run a T-5 so a guy can run at hiway speed. I wouldn’t be apposed to running an 8”or 9” being that it would be hidden under the turtle deck but a quick change would be the shit. Just a super simple late forties early fifties car running caps and rings.

 

That vision, the way you see the car, that's the difference between us and normal people. That's why I love to look at old cars and old car bodies. I don't see the missing, broken and rusted pieces. I see the finished car in my head. Some of my family would say" what a pile of crap". I say," what a gorgeous rod"...I feel sorry for them.

 

East bound and down, loaded up and truckin

 

Dig this axle

 

Pops and I have driven down to his hometown in southern Kansas and picked up the motor. We will be leaving in an hour to drive the 725 miles back home. On the way down we stopped in and visited krylon32 and drooled over his collection of real Henry steel 32’s. It’s always fun to meet a fellow hamb’er and put a face to a name .

 

Nice!

 

Looks real solid in all the areas that are usually rotted out.

 

Well, the V-8 will never catch on. Its a fad. Go inline. Just saying

 

That body looks amazingly solid.

 

You have a few screws loose, you know that right?

 

Why Thank you!! The tell me they dropped me on my head when I was born.

 

Hahaha! Yeah I know all about that!

 

I have the roadster at my shop where the majority of the work will take place. I have the fenders, steering column taken off and a rough mock up of ride height. I was thinking about changing over to an A frame but this frame looks pretty straight so I think I’ll kick the rear and probably add some length from the firewall forward. I had this old aftermarket Low T shell laying around, thought it was sort of kool to get an idea what I’m going for.