Thread: 27 T tudor Hot Rod build

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I just read this thread 68chevelle and I have to say the car is coming along nicely, I like the look you have going so far, very cool.

Hey Dave, yeah I haven't made much progress on the T lately. The most work I have done to it this past month and a half is paint the edelbrock carb a translucent bronze color to make it look more like a stock carb and strengthened one of the rear radius rods. I guess you could say I have been slacking off.

Wow sounds like you are having a hard time with the windshield frame. There is a stock one on ebay that goes off in less than a day if yours can't be repaired. The reproduction aluminum ones are said to warp when they are open so if yours has to replaced I'd stay away from them. Hopefully the guy will do right, it seems like stuff like this happens more than it should

Hot rodding does have it's problems but when you get the wiring figured out it should be rewarding.
Good luck and keep the updates coming.

Originally Posted by brickman

I just read this thread 68chevelle and I have to say the car is coming along nicely, I like the look you have going so far, very cool.

Thank you, I really appreciate it. Seems like Ts are not really done in this style too often. It's a very fun build so don't forget to pop in every once and a while to check out my progress. It has been kind of slow right now because of the cold weather.


Thomas

Thomas, I just searched ebay for a '26-'27 closed car windshield frame, even searched completed listings, and didn't see one.... The glass guy has the frame now, he cut the little "L" shaped brackets that hold the facia together, because he couldn't get the front-mounted screws out. I had them out, along with the 2 on each side, less than a month ago, and the frame has been in dry storage since. As well, he made the glass too big, so there is a good-sized gap and the, for lack of a better term, "miter" at the top of the frame. I took it back, and asked him to please take the top part of the frame off, and sand down the top of the glass, so the top portion of the frame fits the "miter" better... he said he would, but it was going to cost me more money...WTF??? I paid this dude over 100 bux to get the glass in right, and all he can do is make the glass too big, and cut the frame apart? And then wants to charge me more $$ to do it (semi) right?? And he is a "Professional" glass installer.....I think when the time comes for the side glass and rear window glass, I'll find someone else...

It's been raining here, with 60mph winds, we live 500 feet from the Ocean, so it's been really miserable weather the last week (plus, we had an earthquake last week, not like Haiti, but right off our coast, near Eureka) and more rotten weather is expected all this week. I did manage to get the dash back in, and all the gauges working except for the fuel gauge (just ran out of time last night) Gotta call TPI Tech and find out what the reason is that the tach fogs up from the inside...?? The rest of the gauges are fine, just the tach... and I have had the gauges so long I have no clue where the receipt is now...
Oh, well, any progress is better than no progress...I am hesitant to post photos, because they always come out super gigantic, no matter how small I make them....

26Tudor -
I was wondering what the effects of the quake were up there. I went to HSU back in the 90's when we had three separate quakes all 6.0 and bigger, in a 3 or 4 day period. The last one raised the tidal pools on the beach in Petroila 14 ft in the air. I was studying Marine Biology at the time, and went there to study the effects on ocean life.

If you need a good glass guy, we have a few down this way, I was going to use Redwood glass to install mine, plus we have a few Santa Rosa members who probably have a few good shops closer to you.

Sounds pretty frustrating to have to pay the guy more to do the job right, that he should have done in the first place!

stovens, I'm in Crescent City, so we barely had any damage at all... I guess Eureka suffered some damage to some older, non-earthquake retrofitted, buildings in the old downtown area, but as far as I know, only a few minor injuries, and no fatalities, not at all like the quake in Haiti.
I may have to take you up on the glass people, there is a guy in Brookings, OR, about 20 miles North of here,so I may give him a try.
I am going to be doing something kinda different, in that the back side windows, which used to roll up, will be stationary, and I am going to TRY and use some left-over "Cal-Look" VW window rubber for the back window and the back side windows...I only ended up with two usable window regulators, they are the same front and back, so I plan on using the good ones for the door glass, and just using the left over window rubber for the two back side, and back, windows.
So, I am going to have to take some very careful measurements, include the width of the window rubber, and make a template, and do 1 at a time, until I get it just right. I've installed countless VW windows in my day, but never anything like this....the lip on the body appears to be pretty much the same as what I am used to on a VW Bug, so it should (keyword SHOULD) work....

My son-in-law lives up in Gasquet 26Tudor and his wife works for a doctor there in Cresent City, it's a small world isn't it? That is the most beautiful country there, we were out there last year and I love it.

Whoa, somebody you know lives in "Gas-Key" ??? Small world, indeed.I love it up here, yes, it rains like hell all winter (not the smartest move, building a fenderless car, but nobody ever accused me of being smart
)
If you happen out this way again, please make sure you PM me, our little local car club has some interesting cars in it, for one, an original, unrestored, 99% original wood, 32 Ford Woody...a few Model A's and T's, various Mopars from the teens to a new Hemi Challenger, an Austin Seven roadster from the 1930's, and quite a few other ones... check out www.northernknights.us
to see some of the stuff we have.
Do you know the name of the doctor? We have a hard time attracting and keeping doctors up here, they seem to like it okay, but when the Missus has to travel 80 miles either to Eureka or Grant's Pass/Medford to do any real shopping, I guess it causes some "Lively conversations" on the home front..

Originally Posted by 26Tudor

stovens, , and I am going to TRY and use some left-over "Cal-Look" VW window rubber for the back window and the back side windows...

Oh Great!

Now I know "why there was a shortage" of WHITE Cal-Look window rubber since the 1980's. Kafer Dave moved it to Northern California. LOL

That was the HAWAIIAN Look, John.
Remember that? I think you were probably in your late 50's back then.
I gotta find a use for this stuff somewhere, and it looks like it should work... I got a bunch of it from Bugpack years ago, about a 30 foot roll, not glued at the ends or anything, so maybe, just maybe, it will work.

Wow Dave that sounds like a real big hassle. Too bad some people do not practice good business ethics. It happens all too often and is unfortunate that you are going to be charged more when he should be fixing his mistakes at his expense. Good luck with the windshield frame and hopefully the weather will end up coroperating with you.

As for pics, try using the site photobucket.com. The pictures are resized as they are being loaded. I use photobucket for all of my picture uploads for years now and its free.

Thomas

Well, the glass guy made it as good as he could after he cut the frame, and didn't charge me. He wanted to, but I told him I didn't think charging me to do something he didn't do right the first time, and caused damage to the part I brought in, wasn't right. He reluctantly agreed, and let me have the windshield back, no charge.
Got it mounted, got the gas gauge working, all gauges work except speedo now, got the horn mounted, by the letter of the law, if it wasn't raining so danged hard right now I could legally drive it, oh, yeah, except for that pesky registration and insurance thing....

Thats good to hear that he ended up doing the right thing in the end. Its hard to get people like that to do the right thing, it shouldn't be...

Hopefully the rain will clear up so you can get to finally drive the thing. Let us know how it goes when you take it out on its maiden voyage.

Well, I got to drive it today, after 2 weeks of rain, it finally broke and there is a small window of sunshine..
I had my poor, long-suffering wife drive it too, and I must say, she did extremely well figuring out that the Vega box and Ford cross-steer is NOT like her Jetta.
The roads were stiulla little wet, but I can clean the gunk off the windshield...

Sorry about the huge photo again, I tried uploading it to Photobucket first, but there seems to be a problem, so I just did it the old-fashioned way.
again, soory about the mega-photo.

Don't worry about the size of the picture Dave, you just get to see more car on the screen this way The stance is perfect, you really nailed it.
It must of been a blast to finally get to drive the T after so much work, congrats!

Strange, for some reason I want to go out in the garage and start working on the tudor again...

Thomas