Early Innovative metal work ?

[dinoKeymaster]

Tom Blake remarked how he made a hood scoop from an old clothes dryer panel…Reminded me of our early attempts at aerodynamic tin work and pure hot rodding…..here’s my favorite from 1963. Only stock part left is the grill shell and headlight buckets .AND its supercharged !… hows this for air scoops and body work? The Hulls Imported Beer “tool Box” adds a nice touch too.

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[masracingtd1167Participant]

That roll bar is scarier than the sheet metal work !

[bossguy]

Looks like he’s ready for a tractor pull 😆

[babycakesParticipant]

Boy….when you look at this nowadays,most of us would say,no way I’d get in that ‘thing’ and go 30 mph! They’d laugh at you nowadays,when you’d try and go through tech inspection 😆 ,however,back in the day,hey,this would be ‘normal’,and you’d beg at the chance to drive a ‘supercharged rig like this! The ‘need for speed’,overpowered fear back then! 😮

[storm-king]

Exactly, Babycakes! Bill and I were just talking about running pro stock, even, with just a tee shirt! Technology. Advancements. All critical and important, but I’ve been thinking about how fun it’d be to have a drag strip where no traction spray would be used, no real money offered to win, other than maybe the two or three top eliminator brackets, just like the old days, and keep the payout low in order to prevent the high dollar guys from showing up regularly. I think it might attract more newcomers to just have a place to come, race, and have fun. I don’t know, maybe it was the wine…

I also think the cowl is a stock part, Dino old boy!

[dinoKeymaster]

Right ! Cowl & whats left a “T-bucket” body…Now IF the grill came with the body…who knows what year it started out as. 😀

[dinoKeymaster]

Hmmmmm…. no takers ? I put the question to the gang at “t-Bucket forums’
http://www.tbucketeers.com/

We’ll see If they know….( they oughta!)

[dinoKeymaster]

Got a fast reply from a “bucketeer”” :

Lots of different year parts there. The body is probably a ’23, 4 or 5. radiator shell is ’28 or 9. Look at those headers!!!LOL
Ron

[dinoKeymaster]

Look in the background…that ’58 chevy is only 5 years old !….the same as a 2007 chevy today 😯

[patinaParticipant]

There is also a 61 Chevy “more-door” in the upper left hand corner, 1 year old. Thats like a 2011 Kia today 😆 😆 😆

[storm-king]

Well, if the grill is indeed a 28 or 29, that’d be a Model A and it would most certainly have had to been narrowed. It might have been from a more obscure brand of the era.

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