Thread: I couldn't build it for $3 K either!

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I guess the T bucket kit cars can go together a little more easily IF you are willing to settle for a so-so car. But if you want it to be right, we start redoing things to make them fit and look better.

Perfect example is the Total Performance upholstery kit. My kid bought one for his T project, and when we put the bed cover on it the cover stuck out 3 or 4 inches too far. Looked like a high speed wing back there. Called TP, and they said most people just use it that way, but some people remove the staples in the front, reshape the plywood base to fit the contour of the body better, and then restaple it. This is supposed to be a drop in interior package.

Something tells me we will be reengineering the interior when it comes time to intall it.

Don

[QUOTE=Itoldyouso]I guess the T bucket kit cars can go together a little more easily IF you are willing to settle for a so-so car. But if you want it to be right, we start redoing things to make them fit and look better.

I can't believe you used the "kit" word!! When I bought mine I started ordering everything because I just thought that's how you did it. After watching some of the car's being built here I could have saved alot of money.

No, actually I think these kit rods and cars fill a very important niche' in the marketplace and provide some people who either don't have the tools and skills to build one from scratch, or who do not want to spend months and years building one with a means to get into driving a running car.

The TP car we are doing for my Son Don was a perfect example. Even though we ended up not using the TP frame, we still had a rolling chassis in 4 days. If we had used their frame it would have been one evening. For someone like Don it is perfect because he is now working 6 nights a week and doesn't have time to come over to the shop for months on end to build it. He has all the major parts sitting there waiting, including the engine and tranny, so all we have to do is some minor welding and then start assembling the car (after painting stuff, of course).

The plan is to wait until June or July, when his playing gigs should slow down, and then jump on it and try to have it running by November for the Turkey Run. It looks possible based on the simplicity of the car.

Don