Another build thread? Yep, my track-style T

[Itoldyouso]

Look at that last picture............you've pretty much got a car there !! You got serious about this project in April, and have gotten this far in such a short amount of time. Very impressive. It takes me that long to figure out how to make the next bracket.

Regarding the hairpins, I was just looking at the ones on my '27 the other day, and realized how spindly they are. The threaded studs for the rod ends are only like 1/2 inch, compared to the normal 5/8 like on my T and most other cars. Yet they were driven very hard on all kinds of conditions and roads for lots of years, and never were any problem. I think we rodders tend to over engineer stuff, and if you look at some of the thin bracketry on production cars, or on aftermarket hot rod components, you wonder how they hold up.........but they do.

Tell the Mrs you have 20,000 people looking over your shoulder here waiting for the next update. Maybe she will let you put off those honeydo's until the car is done. (Oh yeah, that might really happen )

The picture below shows how skinny the front hairpins on the '27 are.


Don