Thread: Hotrods

Doesn't seem like there could be anything finer than flying down an old 2 lane highway in western Kansas in a hotrod built by your own two hands, with nothing automatic about the machine; everything under your total control, just like it was in the "good ol' days".

Anyone else here into traditional hotrodding?

Or maybe just mild customs, restos, etc. of anything pre 1960's?

I've been working with my step-father (might as well be the real thing) for the last 5 years on a 1927 Model T coupe, and hope to finish by summer '09 at the latest.

The car was given to his older twin brothers in the 1950's to drive to and from high school, then they made it into a hotrod in the sixties (no surviving pics though), then the brothers "grew up" moved away from Kansas and forgot about it until their mom passed away and we had to clean out her house. So in 2003 we brought it to Wichita from Hutchinson and began working to make it run again.

The body was the only piece that was serviceable; the old flathead was long-gone and everything else was rusty as can be. So we made a new chassis from scratch, found some vintage goodies for the 302 sbf (newest thing on the car), chopped and channeled the body, and are in the process of fitting the fine details to make it a running vehicle.

Anybody else find joy in old cars?


The attachments are old and some small details have changed, but they give a good overview of what it will look like.