Ted Brown's comments

[Ted Brown]

That Red Baron car was only a show car, I doubt that it was ever run, and it was a Pontiac slant 6... The 99 is only 6 or 7 minutes from my house... Just give me a jingle when you are getting close to Bako...

WHOA!!! I have had a senior moment, that was not a slant 6, only the first Red Baron was a slant 6 if I remember right... CRS is really bad these days.
Still those cars were not really made to run much (if any), because they were on the show circuit... I built so many projects over all these years, I find that now I can get them intertwined.. Sorry, If you catch this, Please correct me, this getting old is crazy, fun in many ways, and a ball buster in many other ways..

 

[putz]

WHOA!!! I have had a senior moment, that was not a slant 6, only the first Red Baron was a slant 6 if I remember right... CRS is really bad these days.
Still those cars were not really made to run much (if any), because they were on the show circuit... I built so many projects over all these years, I find that now I can get them intertwined.. Sorry, If you catch this, Please correct me, this getting old is crazy, fun in many ways, and a ball buster in many other ways..

Remember when you get old every day is a new day you meet new people every day you can even wrap your owns christmas presents and be surprised when you open them.LOL

 

[Ted Brown]

Christmas, is that still going??? hehe Let's not forget the real meaning of Christmas, ever...

 

[Wicked50Coupe]

I want everyone to have a feel as to where I am coming from, as far as the comments I make here on the forum...
Way back years ago, when I first built my first T Bucket, I thought chrome and polish (bling as they now say) was the trick thing to have, so when I was putting things together for chrome and polish, I grabbed most everything that was small and a bolt on... If I had followed the rule I try and keep now (drive it naked for at least 1000 miles) I would have saved myself a ton of time and money... Why?? well because as it went, after getting the complete car together, chrome and all, and then driving and photographing the car from every considerable angle, I came to the conclusion that all (most all) that chrome did not add to the overall good look of the car... So on the photo's, I started Blacking out the chrome a little bit at a time, things like water pump, oil pan, motor mounts, Alt., fuel pump, header flanges, steering box, and all sorts of brackets and crap that did not add to the Beauty of the overall look that I really wanted to portray... Those things broke up the car and made it look cluttered, and shorter, plus you could not tell where one thing ended and another began, or that was all you did see... I then started either painting things Black (to match my engine) to make all those things disappear, or traded them off to customer's for stock parts...
Not to mention that an old Man that I talked with told me that all the chrome and polish holds heat like crazy, a lot more so than paint... Flat paint holds the least, as there is no insolating properties in flat paint... So I then changed many things that $$glittered$$, to Satin paint

Perfectly said, my theory EXACTLY. I painted my engine satin black so the valve covers, etc. that are meant to be pretty will stand out. Why would I want a chrome alternator? I prefer to hide parts, brackets, and accesories that aren't really desireable looking parts of the car in the first place.

 

[LumenAl]

I suppose if I had built several, my approach would change... but I've only built one... created from a vision in my head that goes back to my childhood when I first saw one of these cars at a car show in Southern Cal... WOW! It had tons of "Bling" so guess mine does to... oh well... 6500 miles in two years and she's still looking good... took her to the Yakima Car show... 602 cars... 10 top trophy classes... my lonely T was one of them... They took the 10 cars and staged them inside the dome for award presentation... The truck on the left side of the photo was director's choice... very cool cause I put 3 years into it along with others!