Nice one. Always like this T and the colour (Thats the English way of spelling it) suit it to a T LOL
Gerry
Yes, it did suit it very well, so I christened it " Miss T Blue".
Found some pics of another Bucket I had for a short while, known as The Boston Strangler, imported into the UK by a wandering minstrel by the name of Jeff Beck! He found it at the side of the road whilst touring in the states, bought it & brought it back. It first came to general notice over here when a feature was published in Drag Racing & Hot Rod magazine in 1969, a magazine I was involved with back then. Some time later, he had an "incident" with it & damaged it & brought it back to the garage where I worked (also owned by the magazine proprietor). I helped to repair the body & pickup bed (the paint was the first time I'd seen multi-layer clear coat, it was 1/4" thick in places!) & the rear axle housing. 20 years later, I happened upon it in a classic car dealers in London & did a deal on it, drove it to a couple of shows & was offered a profit on it so took it. It's still around, languishing in a lockup somewhere, waiting for an enthusiastic owner to bring it back to life.
This is a pic from the first photo shoot, outside the offices of the mag (& the garage).
This is how I saw it in the dealer's showroom, 20 years later.
& this is it on my drive, just prior to being shipped off to it's new owners, Anhauser
Busch, the brewery company where they installed it in a restaurant. It later closed after about a year & the car finally ended up with an employee. By now, it had been modified so much by previous owners that it no longer resembled the original car Jeff had bought. As you will see, it follows the evolution of my later T bucket, acquiring a full height screen, fabric top & a blower! Perhaps that's where I got the ideas from, apart from the blower(!)??
Sadly, in order to make it fully roadworthy again would involve yet more modifications & make it even less like the car it once was. I never liked driving it, partly because the SBC had been rebuilt only 400 miles previously & with the blower on it, it used to overheat almost constantly due to the tight tolerances in the engine. I believe now, it has lost the top, the top section of the screen & some other details as well.
After this, I saw the light & 3 years ago bought this..
Although I'm having a hard time living up to the logo on the reg plate, as it originally had a B &M blower fitted!!
I would add that at this time, it doesn't look anything like this, as it's been in the workshop for 16 months now having a total mechanical overhaul, which started out as "just a quick look at the rear wheel bearing" & now it's just a body on a chassis!
