Speedsters

[T4Tom]

Pete, your car is spectacular! Please post more details. What frame are you using?

Great job.

[Plankhill]

[Sean B]

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Really like that. Nice!

[dmdeaton]

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Beautiful speedster! Currier?

Yea Dave’s creation with some tweaks

[dmdeaton]

Pete that is awesome! I love it

This is a great thread, all great looking cars

[Ed Fuller]

Got mine on the road just in time for winter!

[scott hills]

1924 PACO with 21 buffalos and roof model C plus a few extras

[elliott1936]

This is my speedster with a Rajo Over head valve that was manufactured in about 1923 with out the heat riser. The engine is coupled to a C 4 automatic. About 10 years ago I had the opportunity to dino the car and it came up to about 100 HP at the fly wheel. The engine is full pressure with insert rods and mains. Tom

[Ericgj85]

Sean B, We did not shorten the frame we used a scrap frame cut what we needed off of it to do the drop on the rear. and this is the only picture i have of the side right now.

[John Warren]

[Plankhill]

[Mike Robinson]

1914 Speedster Pickup

[Rich Eagle]

Beautiful! There aren't many Speedster Pickups. Multi tasking?
Great
Thanks Rich

[NorthSouth]

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My 1912 Warren Speedster currently in Santa Rosa, CA. It will be under me and my navigator on Sun Country Model T Club's Saint George Utah Speedster run in April and on the 3 day Utah Canyon Tour immediately following.
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[TonyB]

This is Ricky which my son-in-law and I built in 1992 before they had kids. It’s been updated a little over the years but is still fun to drive. Last major trip out was the MTFCA Tour in Richmond.

Ricky

[Wayne Sheldon]

Rich E said;
"Beautiful! There aren't many Speedster Pickups. Multi tasking?
Great
Thanks Rich"

Wow, about fifty years ago, we had a club get-together at a friends house. He had a solid original speedster pickup sitting between his driveway and his house. Not much more than a frame and the body, but very original, and very nicely built. The seat was set to just above the frame, nicely done wooden framework, gasoline tank in the forward end of a pickup box. The whole thing looked professionally made, framed and smooth sheet steel bends and compound curves throughout. Leadwork finished it off beautifully.
I asked him about it a few times over the years. He said he was hoping to do something with it someday. He did also have a really nice T speedster that he drove on club tours and Endurance Runs often for many many years.

The only thing I ever saw that it reminded of (or reminded me of it?) was one of those fancy Chevrolet SSR sport trucks they manufactured for a short while almost twenty years ago.

I do hope someone has saved it somewhere. I would really like to see it restored to what it had been.

[Dan Haynes]

Speedster pickups.

Speedups.

[Mike Robinson]

The gas tank on this is between the Frame and under the seat and bed. Just installed a Rocky Mountain 6 speed and Rocky Mountain brakes.

View of bed.

[Dallas Landers]

Mike, your filling my head with all kinds of crazy ideas. I like that alot!

[TonyB]

I assembled the engine on this speedster pickup some years ago. The owner likes to fiddle around with it having modified the body several time and tried several carbs and intake manifolds. The mechanicals seemed to have settled down during the last few months but the pickup body it still subject to changes. Nice car and used almost daily, not a trailer Queen like mine.

Speedster pickup

[Norman Kling]

Wow! There are more speedsters than I thought existed! Wow! A lot of work, but must be a lot of fun too!
Norm

[ivaldes1]

Gorgeous. I wonder how they did the two tone wood running board? Is it 3 pieces of wood or just a dark walnut stain stripe down the middle?

I assembled the engine on this speedster pickup some years ago. The owner likes to fiddle around with it having modified the body several time and tried several carbs and intake manifolds. The mechanicals seemed to have settled down during the last few months but the pickup body it still subject to changes. Nice car and used almost daily, not a trailer Queen like mine.

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[John Warren]

I have really enjoyed the speedster's posts. Most of the cars were assembled from almost nothing to start with, truly a re-creation. I know it isn't how Henry did it but it has been going on since the birth of our cars. Even Henry raced stripped down cars. I enjoyed building my car and love to drive it. I'm sure this is the case for most of these cars. Thank you all for sharing.

[Powerwagonmaniac1]

Nuthin’ Special my son Carston and I built her on an extremely tight budget for less then a $1000.00 all from spare parts. Getting ready to build hopped up T engine with a Warford overdrive and ruckstell

[Powerwagonmaniac1]

I love this car! Clayton and I built her several years ago for my dad as a Christmas present, but he assed away before we finished it. We finished it any way and decided to drive it to Bonneville Salt Flats for Speed Week in 2012. The last picture was taken on I-84 eastbound with Clayton chasing me in his 1926 roadster moment before I blew the crank doing 65 mph. Clayton made it to Bonneville I didn’t. Due to teething problem with the new motor it sits waiting it turn to be re activated hopefully this spring.

[Powerwagonmaniac1]

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Most know Clayton’s roadster we built both our cars together. Clayton’s roadster has been all over the place from Speed Week, TROG east coast and west coast, to a car museum down sacramento way to Jay Leno’s garage in Burbank. What a new life for what was intended as a parts car he bought from my dad on whim.

[Mike Robinson]

This is a 26 I have had in storage for several years. I got it out this week to get it running. Put in a new battery , fresh fuel and it started right up. Good to see it running again.

[Speedster Jeff]

Wow! There are more speedsters than I thought existed! Wow! A lot of work, but must be a lot of fun too!
Norm

I agree! I never knew so many existed. After working on ours, and looking at each photograph of each car, there has to be a cumulative hour amount of years with all of these great looking cars!

Thank you to all that posted pictures! Please keep them coming if you see something neat out on the road!

Jeff

[Speedster Jeff]

For the folks that posted pictures of their cars under construction, how many have finished them and are on the road now? How about some updated pictures, or pictures from folks that haven't seen this post in the past?

We are up at nearly 11,000 miles now and just having fun driving around our quaint little town.

I would enjoy seeing pictures of other folks speedsters if you would please consider posting a photograph (or more than one).

Thank you,

Jeff Smith
Florida

Edit:
After fiddling around with this post I have figured out how, and added pictures of our speedster. My longest trip so far was to Indialantic Beach one Sunday when everyone at home was sick. It took seven hours at 32 mph up and back on A1A. For those that don't know Florida, A1A follows the beach on the east coast. I grew up next door to this car as a child and my neighbor restored it before I was born and finished when I was around four years old. I have always wanted the car (since I was around 4) and was able to purchase it recently. I brought it to Florida in June of last year and from our gps and non-gps trips, I estimate we have put just a little over 7,000 miles on it since bringing it home in June.

[Kevin Pharis]

Most speedsters are never really finished, just waiting for the next accessory to come along. Mine just got an under the hood face lift since the pic posted at the beginning of this thread. Runnin great again and waiting for the next outing

[Michael Peternell]

That's a peach Kevin! So glad I got to see it in person!

[DaveBarker]

My 1919. Been in my family since 1927 when my grandfather was a teenager. Rajo Model 30 overhead, Stromberg RF, Simplex wheels.

[Reno Speedster]

My 1926 is a long term speedster project, but it’s back on the front burner. I have been collecting speed parts for almost 30 years (Rajo BB head, Dayton wire wheels, Muncie transmission, Bosch front plate distributor, Stipe 180 cam among other things). I am building a mahogany skiff body. I made some from axle drop brackets and designed my own rear drop brackets. Some shots in project. I am pushing hard to get it on the road.