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Derek69SS


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My Model T love has been re-ignited since the tour, along with my childhood dream of building an authentic looking "county-fair racer". The look of the body I've always wanted to build would be the front of the #12 car with the back of the #2 car... with the engine (OHV head $$$$$) seen in the bodyless car in the last picture.

 

Not so sure mine would be equipped with the "balls of steel" though. dunno

 

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-- Edited by Derek69SS on Tuesday 6th of September 2011 09:18:02 PM

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That would be SO cool. You have to do it.

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I would think the bodyless car would have a big weight advantage over the rest of them with 2 people. Did it really take a mechanic riding along to keep it running ???

Does that mean you will buy another car to build or convert the one you have ?



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I'd build it from extra parts we have laying around. We have several frames, axles, engines, transmissions, a nice set of 26-27 wire wheels, etc... mostly Dad's stuff. Body would be home-built. I started building one when I was about 15 or 16 and gave up when I realized I didn't know what I was doing, and Dad needed his shop space back.

I don't know how long those races were, but one of the mechanic's duties was to keep air pressure in the fuel tank with a hand-pump to feed the fancy high-performance down-draft carbs of the day, which had to be mounted up too high to gravity-feed.



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