Thinking about the next build, even though I'm still just starting my newest...

[Magnum]

any of you guys think through the next build, even when you're a couple years from driving the build you're working on ???

I found that model T chassis at the bottom of the old scrap pile on the farm, when cleaning up the 50 year pile of steel... no early car sheetmetal, but 2 car frames 2nd one as of yet unidentified...

got me thinking a Model T era speedster might be kinda cool... vintage "looking" chassis, solid & tight enough to drive 60-65 mph, & put something like a Ford Ranger 4 cylinder 5 speed, with all the polution "fluff" taken off, do the double bucket seat type cab, enclose the engine in the round type vintage hand built front end, use a cylinder gas tank behind the seats... some light weight spoke wheels... end up with something that "looks" original, yet runs down the freeway

thoughts & or suggestions on the build, & if your mind works faster than your hands, & you start planning the next build, before even driving the current build ???

 

[Magnum]

here are a couple pics I gleened about kinda what I'm thinking about...

 

[GJunktionMike]

I have 7 on going projects and I'm always thinking about the next. Speedster would be awesome.

 

[Sam_Fear]

Have you checked out the "Speedster picture thread"? Or Flipper's speedster build? Or BigIrish's vintage racer build?

 

[Magnum]

thanks for the suggestions... I finally found the Speedster pic thread... it was pretty burried...

 

[Flipper_1938]

I think everybody on here suffers from some variation of that disease.

 

[skull]

4 or 5

l have 4 OR 5 going on at any given time.

being a packrat has helped me a bunch so l can do a lot and not spend much cash.

trading parts and favors also let me have more than one at a time.



Flipper hit the nail on the (flat)head

Later

 

[GJunktionMike]

being a packrat has helped me a bunch so l can do a lot and not spend much cash.
trading parts and favors also let me have more than one at a time.
Flipper hit the nail on the (flat)head

That how I do it, sometimes have to drop a project for a couple months till parts come along. I also put every thing up for sale, If something sale more build cash for one of the others.

and like flipper said it is a disease

 

[taxpayer]

Yes and it drives me crazy! I just can't chew gum and walk at the same time. one car at a time.

 

[21willys]

I don't have room for more then one build but that don't mean that I'm not collecting parts for the next ones already. I see a speedster build in my future also. Mine will be more like Flippers tho.

 

[echnidna]

Ok I know I'm getting a bit old for this but I want a second childhood

I've got a rod (Ratti 28 pontiac rpu) on the go but its way behind schedule, that means I'm making excuses for not doing enough.

Anyway I am fascinated by Bugatti 35's and 59"s etc so I have been dreaming about building a replica (with modern running hear as the possibility of digging up a 2 litre straight 8 seems a bit remote) So apart from it being a wog car it really is a true hotrod

this is what a T35 looks like;
as you can see it's just a wee bit different to a flat black prescription A or B model Roadster or RPU

http://www.bugatti.com/en/tradition/bugatti-models/t35.html

 

[Magnum]

My RPU project is burried in snow... but you guys are making me itchy to start picking up some parts for the speedster...

gotta admit... those boat tails look pretty cool, & more finished than the T speedsters I posted pics of earlier

 

[Flipper_1938]

Ok I know I'm getting a bit old for this but I want a second childhood

I've got a rod (Ratti 28 pontiac rpu) on the go but its way behind schedule, that means I'm making excuses for not doing enough.

Anyway I am fascinated by Bugatti 35's and 59"s etc so I have been dreaming about building a replica (with modern running hear as the possibility of digging up a 2 litre straight 8 seems a bit remote) So apart from it being a wog car it really is a true hotrod

this is what a T35 looks like;
as you can see it's just a wee bit different to a flat black prescription A or B model Roadster or RPU

http://www.bugatti.com/en/tradition/bugatti-models/t35.html

Have you seen my boat-tailed rat project?

http://ratrodsrule.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8509

It is a two seater speedster with a 1930's euro racecar vibe

Here is a picture of the "body panels" mocked up on the chassis.

Most body panels are re-arranged 54 Caddy shapes. Drivetrain is 1960 Jaguar.

 

[Willowbilly3]

I spent way too many of my productive years buried under too many projects and nothing ever got finished. Somewhere in my late 40s I decided I would not start a project until one was finished, well maybe except a little parts accumulation.

I love the speedster idea but would 86 the idea of a T chassis. They are way too light and flimsy to be of any reasonably use.

 

[Magnum]

my frame is pretty twisted... I'd likely mock up a newer heavier frame

 

[martyf]

yep Im infected..........................

Im about 1/2 through with my 30 Tudor and already looking for a VW 3 door transporter[cl

 

[bob w]

As many of you know I'm working on a '28 Reo which will not be running til late summer. But I also have plans... Here'a a pic of my "pile" There's a: '28 Stude sedan cowl, rear and some doors to be made into a tub, a '28 Hupmobile cowl which will be a roadster pickup cab, '29 Chevy truck cowl, '30 Chevy truck cowl. 4-'30 Chevy coupe quarter panels and a pair of closed cab rear corners. Out of the Chevy mess will be a roadster pickup body and a roadster body. The roadster will be an early, early style hot rod. A Gow Job.

In the spring I'll get a '30 Chevy coupe frame for the Gow Job that I've got spotted as well as a '60-something Land Rover.

Then there's the late '50's style dragster with a 300 cu in Ford 6 waiting to be built.

 

[Willowbilly3]

And I have trouble trying to think about what I'm doing tomorrow.