Hot Rods The Official Track-Lakes Roadster Picture Thread...

The rhd T is Seth Hammond from Santa Barbara..........talented and creative guy. Did a lot of quirky but cool things on rods in the '70s and '80s. More into land speed racing stuff now.
The next one down is the Highland Plating Special for those that don't know.

Always loved your '27 Doug................

 

We got my daughters T on the frame rack on the weekend. Parts collected, OG deuce rails, hopped up Chevy II banger, WC T-5, '47 Mercury truck open banjo, Whippet shell, BMW cowl steering, 1/4 elliptics, split n sunk fuel tanks. She is 15 and cant wait to drive it to high school!

-Shiny

 

Cheeto's and Beer, breakfast of Champions
Would like to see a pic of the BMW cowl steering

 

29ehv8, is that a BMW 2002 steering box?

 

Keep this thread going!
More pic's please.

 

Never saw a stinking rule against putting a pu box on a track "T"!

 

For you and B-bop thats the plan!

-Shiny

 

Thanks Dennis, been awhile.

 

Here’s a few

 

oh yessssssss......like the car with the Flames

 

One of mine. The other is the brown T modified just above in tom h post.

 

@thunderbirdesq do you have a thread or more pictures of your rear suspension set up? Triangulated 4 link with early parts? Thanks

 

Yep and yep

 

Built by Dave Deveno and his son Barrett.

 

So many little details in this chassis. R hand clutch lever on an overhead cross shaft. Do you ever sleep coming up with stuff like this? My brain doesn't shut down and I am no where near on that level of sadistic self torture.

 

Here's a picture of the ass ends Tom.

 

My 24

 

haha try a glass of warm milk before bed. I know what you mean. Necessity is the mother of invention though, Not much real estate in the driver footwell area on a channeled track t roadster with a set back engine. If you want to sit in it and not on it and have it feel half way comfortable to drive you’ve gotta get creative.

 

1953, Halibrand mags, 23T "real steel" body, chromoly tube frame, 241 cu in "crate motor".

Test running at Paradise Mesa drags, 1954

Family outing, 1954

Best run at El Mirage, 151mph, 1958


Start line at Bonneville, 1958, last outing for Dad with car. Sadly photo slide is deteriorating


Coming up the inside to pass the group leader, Coronado, 1997


1997, last year at Laguna Seca Vintage Races, new wheels to fit vintage Dunlop race tires


Me riding, bad knee can't work clutch, my friend Mark driving us to Cars & Coffee at JBA Performance, summer 2019. Car is in better shape than me!

 

Beautiful cars, mine's glass so far but working on Steel body to change over, at 71 need doors now. These shots
are the last 3 reworks of the car with one more that was just mechanical.

IMG_0022 by modified1927 posted May 4, 2017 at 8:47 PM

IMG_0337 by modified1927 posted May 4, 2017 at 9:08 PM

IMG_2659 by modified1927 posted May 4, 2017 at 9:23 PM

IMG_2656 by modified1927 posted May 4, 2017 at 9:23 PM

 

Always liked these cars. Here's one I picked up this year.

 

Hello,

From early little kid days, we used to see flames on photos from those Hot Rod/Rod & Custom pages. We tried to draw them all of the time on any surface, including school notebooks, bikes, go karts, wagons and even our own lawnmower. But, they never looked as good as on those early, smooth nose roadsters. The nose made it look as if there was a definite starting point for the flames flowing back to the open seating area.

The funny thing was, we always thought those roadsters with the funny nose sections were only for racing in various events, Bonneville, El Mirage, circle races, etc. We never saw them driving on the streets along with the normal grille style open roadsters like the 29s and 32s. Those were plentiful on the So Cal streets and in the various car shows, but not the rounded nose roadsters.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/friday-art-show-8-2-19.1159570/#post-13186843

Jnaki

So, thanks for the nice place to put these ideas. The round nose roadsters did have advantages over the relatively square/flat surfaces of the straight up chrome grilles of the 29’s and 32’s. a smooth flow of air going over the nose toward the back of the hot rod. Kudos, those El Mirage/Bonneville guys/girls knew their stuff.


https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/friday-13-art-show-12-13-19.1177113/#post-13361349

 

Bump of a great thread.

 

Bump of a great thread.

 

My roadster has been on the road for 12 months, about time I post some pics.

 

Keep it up guys...love'n these pics ! Thanks !

 

@Jimmy B that’s wicked cool any detail pictures

 

Jimmy B are you using the bottom section of the stock windshield? I'm trying to figure out how to get something a little taller using mostly stock pieces.