What the hell did I buy
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earthman
Fascinated by rolling objects!
The cowl being the hard part to fabricate it is easy to fab the rest of a squared off roadster pickup body or just add a hood and radiator shell and you have a tradional speedster. Good score Merc.
Well I got the cowl a set of headlights and bar and he threw a windshield of unknown origin in with the deal for $50. I'll post pics of them when I get then cleaned up a little.
Pluse I plan to go back for a t bucket chassis when I have alittlt more money
The dude had headlights galore wire wheels vintage crager rims 36 ford hood and some year of model a hood t and a grill shells like a mad man. Had a hot rod Plymouth valiant with the almighty slant 6 with speed parts.
Pluse I plan to go back for a t bucket chassis when I have alittlt more money
The dude had headlights galore wire wheels vintage crager rims 36 ford hood and some year of model a hood t and a grill shells like a mad man. Had a hot rod Plymouth valiant with the almighty slant 6 with speed parts.
I thought about a radical roadster truck when I seen it. I'll be going to a swap meet in 46 days looking for doors for it if I can nail a year down... But that was a thought. Gotta get the first one done first
endicott_jb
Well-known member
Who needs doors merc. Build it low enough, put a step hole in each side, and whalla. Either way you go, it's a cool looking cowl. One of these days I'm gonna build a little roadster with no doors just cause doors can be a PITA.
Flipper_1938
He recycles the right way
Going by memory, I think that is one of the earlier ones (not a "1923", but more like 1915 or something) and it may be a closed car. The earlier ones have a smaller firewall.
edit: Looking online, it may be 26-27 closed car cowl. All of the earlier ones have that raised bead in the corners. Also the fresh air vent doesn't show up in pics of earlier cars.
edit: Looking online, it may be 26-27 closed car cowl. All of the earlier ones have that raised bead in the corners. Also the fresh air vent doesn't show up in pics of earlier cars.
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Todd
He's just one of them Rusty-Chainers!
Send it to ZZ with a golf cart [cl
haha ya that would be sweet we can legally drive em on the streets with a slow moving vehicle sign!!
Blue Eyed Devil
Devil's Advocate
Definitely not '26-27. They didn't slope that much and they ended shy of the A pillars, where this one seems to wrap around to meet the doors. The firewall is much too small as well. Also the '26-27 did not have a cowl vent, even though it looks like it. That was actually access to the fuel tank.
I do believe this is for a closed car, but not convinced it is Ford. If so it is very early, as you said. If not Ford then perhaps an orphan model...
This has got me convinced. It's around 23-24-25. I also asked on jalopy journal and most of them say it's around them years sedan or coupe closed car. Not to say it can't be anything else I'm just going by majority rules. I'm going to get measurements for it tonight to confirm that it is or isn't. But still worth $25 no mater what
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Has crossed my mind a few times
bob w
Still crazy after all these years!
I can find cowls. In fact I have 2 or 3. If Cornfield Customs would show us simple hacks how to make roadster doors, I could rule the world.
endicott_jb
Well-known member
Couldn't be too hard Bob. Some 1" square tubing and a decent tubing bender you should be able to make doors fairly easily. Hell, I've reframed Chevy bodies with steel so doors should be easy to do. Especially with how square the early cowls are you wouldn't even need much of a radius in the jambs.
