Thread: 27 T tudor Hot Rod build

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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
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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..

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

Originally Posted by 68Chevelle

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

Thomas

Yeah, I have been having a sort of "race" between me, and my neighbor down the street, with a 31 full fendered Tudor Model A. He drove his the day after Xmas, but with no front brakes, no seats (front OR rear) and other things. I'd say we are about even right now, for a while he was waaaay ahead, but I have caught up to him. Best case scenario is we BOTH win, or tie, and get to cruise the seaside and the redwoods together.
I know it's cold, but get out there are get busy on that Tudor, Thomas, it won't hotrod itself, ya know...

Both cars look absolutely Awesome, especially in VISTA VISION!!LOL!!! J/K I really like both cars guys you both have the stance going on, well done and keep the pics coming.

T is looking great . As said the stance is right on .



Been racing my self here They are a slow process . Hopefully I can fire it in about a month . But some more work is needed to the frame to button it up and plumb . Maybe you should bring him on here .

Headed down to the CA DMV today- have my insuarnce papers, all the registration BS, all set to go, a few more $$ and I'll be able to drive the car anywhere, without having to skulk around back roads, and park the thing right in front of the Sherrif's Office if I want to.

It' legal. I can park it and drive it anywhere I want to now.
I spent the day trying to program the electric TPI speedometer, guess I'll have to call them tomorrow....

Well, I'll have to wait to call TPI gauges now... I got motivated and yanked the firewall out, to make more clearance for the HEI distributor cap. As it was, there was NO WAY to get the distributor cap off, without removing the firewall (bad planning, I know...) so while it's out, I'm gonna cut some more room out of the firewall, so if I ever need to, I can change the cap and rotor without going through all this again.
Does anyone know if an HEI distributor, with the coil mounted in the top of the cap, can be converted to a regular cap and rotor, and remote mounted coil?
Thanks !!

Originally Posted by 26Tudor

Well, I'll have to wait to call TPI gauges now... I got motivated and yanked the firewall out, to make more clearance for the HEI distributor cap. As it was, there was NO WAY to get the distributor cap off, without removing the firewall (bad planning, I know...) so while it's out, I'm gonna cut some more room out of the firewall, so if I ever need to, I can change the cap and rotor without going through all this again.
Does anyone know if an HEI distributor, with the coil mounted in the top of the cap, can be converted to a regular cap and rotor, and remote mounted coil?
Thanks !!

I think MSD sells a conversion kit to run the plain cap with an external coil...??? OOps!! Just checked the Summit site, Mallory and Taylor both make the cap, didn't see one from MSD...