Thread: 27 T tudor Hot Rod build

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Thank you for the pics Dave.
I can make them out just fine, which will come in handy in the future.
You sure have a great looking T!

Thomas

I had a late Xmas present yesterday..I was able to take the T under it's own power to the end of the driveway (about 50 feet) and back it back in the garage...It didn't want to run, then I discovered that I had used the wrong base gasket between the carb and manifold, and had a vacuum leak the size of a silver dollar...I'm surprised it ran at all..
Now, it idles, goes into gear, has brakes and steering, too bad it's raining like hell here or I would take it for a windowless, license plate-less, paint-less, interior-less cruise....

Originally Posted by 26Tudor

I had a late Xmas present yesterday..I was able to take the T under it's own power to the end of the driveway (about 50 feet) and back it back in the garage...It didn't want to run, then I discovered that I had used the wrong base gasket between the carb and manifold, and had a vacuum leak the size of a silver dollar...I'm surprised it ran at all..
Now, it idles, goes into gear, has brakes and steering, too bad it's raining like hell here or I would take it for a windowless, license plate-less, paint-less, interior-less cruise....

Happy New Year Dave, and all our best from down south.

A "50 foot" CRUISE, hey you got to start somewhere right, LOL?

Just remember "The Palmer Rule" that states that for every one "running" collector car there are fifty more sitting in someones driveway or garage "waiting for the day to do their "first "50 foot CRUISE".

My High Boy got painted this year and I'm still trying to find where I stashed all of the parts to put it back together, LOL.

Originally Posted by John Palmer

My High Boy got painted this year and I'm still trying to find where I stashed all of the parts to put it back together, LOL.

Thanks for the confession, John!!!! I thought I was the only one that misplaced parts, or worse yet put them away in a safe place where they won't get damaged!!!!!!!

Been lurking now and again you have made some great headway . Like this build not being slammed down to the ground . Keep up your great work .

Thank You, BlueStang67. The car has been pretty much built using cast off, second hand, scrounged parts, gotten from internet websites, like the well-known Message Board, neighbors, friends, and junk I kinda had laying around. It's my first hot rod build, at least with that funny finned gizmo in the front of the car that has hoses going to it, so it's nothing fancy, just a basic build. The body was too nice to chop, in my opinion, so that's why it stayed the way it was. The TCI chassis I got used, and it was set up for Jag or Corvette IRS in back, which got changed to something I could afford, and my neighbor had, a Maverick V-8 rear end with QA-1 coil over shocks.
Thanks again !!!