BilWilVegas
Member
Good evening all,
I bought my bucket on Bring-A-Trailer just over a year ago. It is a great looking car but it had some major wiring issues and a few safety / brake related items. I had a local guy (who works out of his garage) spend some time with it and sadly that just made things worse . . . like WAAAYYYYY worse. So then I got busy with life and some of our other cars and the t-bucket just sat in the garage. I pulled it out a couple weeks ago and decided to have a pro shop go through the whole car and redo everything for me.
He has the car stripped down and is redoing all of the wiring and replacing the 8" ford with a 9" rear end, making a lot of "adjustments" to the suspension and chassis. We are adding a T-bucket trunk because I really like the look of them. lots of other stuff. One thing we do not know is what body type this is. I want to do a whole new interior and I am wondering if it is a Speedway body which would simplify some of the interior work (or am I better to just drop it at an interior shop and have them build it from scratch??)
The frame is going to be repainted so now is the time to do any major changes I want so I need to figure out if I can swap the current vertical steering column for one that passes through the firewall at an angle, to allow more foot room.
Is there a way to tell what body is on the car? Can someone tell if the angled steering column can be installed with a new steering box?
Thanks in advance for any insight you all can provide.
Bill
Here is the car on the day it was delivered to me.
Test fitting the Speedway bed at the shop working on it now.
Pulling the old interior
I bought my bucket on Bring-A-Trailer just over a year ago. It is a great looking car but it had some major wiring issues and a few safety / brake related items. I had a local guy (who works out of his garage) spend some time with it and sadly that just made things worse . . . like WAAAYYYYY worse. So then I got busy with life and some of our other cars and the t-bucket just sat in the garage. I pulled it out a couple weeks ago and decided to have a pro shop go through the whole car and redo everything for me.
He has the car stripped down and is redoing all of the wiring and replacing the 8" ford with a 9" rear end, making a lot of "adjustments" to the suspension and chassis. We are adding a T-bucket trunk because I really like the look of them. lots of other stuff. One thing we do not know is what body type this is. I want to do a whole new interior and I am wondering if it is a Speedway body which would simplify some of the interior work (or am I better to just drop it at an interior shop and have them build it from scratch??)
The frame is going to be repainted so now is the time to do any major changes I want so I need to figure out if I can swap the current vertical steering column for one that passes through the firewall at an angle, to allow more foot room.
Is there a way to tell what body is on the car? Can someone tell if the angled steering column can be installed with a new steering box?
Thanks in advance for any insight you all can provide.
Bill
Here is the car on the day it was delivered to me.
Test fitting the Speedway bed at the shop working on it now.
Pulling the old interior