I first saw the "T for Two in 1958 when I was 11 years old and fell in love with it. The guy that built it is now a friend of mine. His car was sold in the early 60's to a guy I went to high school with. The school principle banned it from the parking lot because it was a "bad Influence" on the rest of us boys so the owner quit school. He's now very well off, owning several businesses and a horse ranch so it didn't hurt him much. Here's a couple of pics of the original car:
It burned a few years later after having a 427 Tunnel Port Ford installed and a brief drag racing carreer. It was rebuilt into a typical 70s street rod and was sold agin. It never looked as good as it did at first. I've built a bunch of Hot Rods over the years and always wanted to do a tribute to the little coupe that inspired me so I recently picked up a '26 coupe in Saskatchewan Canada and here's how it's going:
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Started building the rame using 2x3" recatangular tubing and some "vertical bends from "Welder Series"
I zee'd the frame at the front, much like the original car was done except back then they used 3" channel. The body is channlled the depth of the frame and I liked the look of the frame rails coming ouyt flush with the bottom of the cowl rather than up inside a few inches too.
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Here's the body mocked up on the frame. It'll use a '57 Ford 9" rear end, a 350 TH trans and a 406 inch small block Chevy that was my Dad's. He bought the engine new in a '72 caprice with a trailer package so it's a 4 bolt main motor. I'm using a set of Dart iron heads and an Edlebrock tripower intake with three Rochesters that were original carbs on a 348 Chevy. It'll have a firly mild ca in it but should make some good horsepower and these 400s are little torque monsters. I'm chopping a deuce grill shell instead of the T shell like the original car had.
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