My little modified T

[donsrods]

Last April I started building a lowbuck modified out of an Ebay purchased Speedway body, and some parts I had laying around the shop.  My Son Dan and I built a new frame out of 2 x 3 tubing for it, and I am going to run a 350 Chevy Vortec I got for free. I have to freshen it up, but it is in pretty solid shape otherwise.

The concept was to build a car under $ 3000.00, but I got carried away and am using some more costly items like slicks, etc so it is going over that a little, but not by much.

Here is the start of the project with the frame we laid up and built.

Don

[donsrods]

I'm building it old timey style, so I am using a model T rear spring for it, so we added a model a rear crossmember, after shortening it.

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I wanted it to look race inspired, so I built a roll cage sort of support under the dash to hold my steering and windshield, and added lots of tube crossmembers to the frame.  I also want this one to sit on the ground, so it is zeed pretty heavily in the rear,and suicided in the front.

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The front is mounted really low, via a method I borrowed from the way my Son did his on the '29.

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And finally, here is the way the car sits today. Should have it on the road by Springtime (I hope)


Thanks for looking.


Don

[39deluxe]

Nice work. It has the right look.

Tom

[donsrods]

Thank you.


Don

[donsrods]

I finally got all the machine work done on the '99 350 Chevy, and started to reassemble it.  I am using a brand new set of 305 heads for two reasons: They will bump up the compression a little, and secondly, I got them free.  


I also finally decided on a color for the car, Hummer Fusion Orange, and I started off by painting the engine with it.  I used epoxy primer first, then topcoated it with the Orange in catalyzed enamel.

Here is a shot after priming.

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And after painting with color.  I had to put some of my goodies on to see how it was going to look.    


Don

[39deluxe]

Looking Good. Love the color.

Tom

[donsrods]

Thanks Tom.


Don

[Crosley.In.AZ]

that engine colour looks alot like the bronze that Olds used in the late 60's.

[donsrods]

On their engines?  If so, yeah, we said the same thing after we shot it. In fact, I may shoot the Olds 394 engine in my '39 with this same color.


Don

[39deluxe]

Come to think of it that is almost the same color as on the '60s 442 engines. I shot a test panel beck when I was working on my '67 442 trying to match the non-available at the time engine color and still have the sample. The non 442 engines were more of a gold/bronze.

I'm also a big fan of the early Olds V8s. I learned to drive in a '53 88. I drove it until I got my first car, a '39 Ford Deluxe 2 door with a '55 265 Chevy. The picture below is too small to post clearly. I may need to resize another but it was a pretty cool car back in '64.  I'd like to find a 394 to build for a future rod project. It seems like everyone today has an old hemi, nailhead or Caddy. It takes a (real)  Olds to be different.

Got any pictures of it?

Tom

[donsrods]

Glad to see another Olds lover.


Mine is built, but I still need to do some grinding on the block and paint it, but I do have a couple of shots.

Don