Will a 1926-1927 body fit early car frames?

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Matthew Atchinson on Saturday, September 29, 2012 - 08:19 pm:

Hey guys,

So before winter hits my grandfather may take me to a model T graveyard he knows of where there is a bunch of rusty model T's in various states of decay sitting about.
My question is this: if I manage to find a 26-27 touring or roadster body that is still usable, will it fit my 1925 frame? I'm making a speedster right now because I can't afford the wood kits for either of the earlier ones, but I know that the 26/27 cars had a lot less wood and so the kits are pretty cheap off of Langs for the wood kits. If I found a 26/27 body I would definitely go with that instead of the speedster, so long as I knew it would fit.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By mike_black on Saturday, September 29, 2012 - 09:53 pm:

If you find this place get all the good bodies you can afford, to use for trading material to end up with whatever year you want. If you find this cache of bodies get try to get a close inventory of what's there, then come home and figure what it is you could mix and match. Body wood kits are expensive, but so are 26-27 rear fenders! The direct answer to your question is, "if you have the right tools, equipment, and ingenuity, (or limitless money) you can make anything fit"--you just have to decide if it's practical. My profile pic is my p/u before wrecked, and here is one after wreck, before I turned it into a depot hack. This is a mixture of several model years to create the closed cab T p/u that Henry never made. The only "storebought" wood is the header over the windshield for the 25 coupe cowl section with cut off doors that I married to a 26 tudor rear section to make the cab. Since this was a custom body, I had no choice but make whatever wood parts I needed. I looked it over to determine where I thought the cab needed wood to reinforce it and I used wood laying around the barn and a reciprical saw and band saw to make the wood parts I needed and installed them the best I could to do the job. The bed and rear fenders are 26. I spliced some wood to the sills to get the bed to mount to the 25 frame. And the spare tire carrier you see under the bed is from a Datsun p/u. Don't get discouraged. You need to get your T drivable. It can start as a stripdown, then become a speedster, then whatever you want. The vehicle in this pic was a coupe, then a stripdown of sorts, then a pickup, and now its a Depot Hack. When you build one from parts you can do as you please with it without worrying about being true to its linage.


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