Don't mean to cast aspersions about another rodders car but wonder if others think the way I do about it. Considering that Steve Moal was involved with it, the craftsmenship is immpecable. My thought is that from the windshield back, the car is somewhat normal "29" without a lot of compound curves. From the w'shield forward, it's ALL compound curves and it looks wrong to me to combine that style front end (track nose) and the rear of a more coventional street rod. Just wondering if anyone else had any feelings one way or the other...
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Fred P.

A yellow LT1 zip gun with 95 louvers punched in the deck lid, track nose, Halibrands and plenty of room for 2. I think you might be just a little picky, Fred. After all, self expression is what it's all about. I like the car, personally.

Dave

Please don't take my remarks as being picky! Yeah! If it were sitting in my garage I'd be doing guard duty over it constantly even to the point of shooting birds in the rafters with an air powered grease gun. (great fun in the helicopter service bays until it came time to clean plastic bubbles...) Since I have a Track T based '26 ready to come off life support and start out on it's own, I was just trying to get a feel for the mixing of a '29 back half to a "Track T" front half. It is different and I was trying to see what others thought either good, bad, or indifferent.
Since I've been sneaking Hot Rod mags into school in the early 50's I shouldn't be suprised at anything that has been tastely done and presented through the years. That's what started an argument between the halves of my remaining braincells (some of us were REALLY into the 60's!) about the Orange Crate possibly being a reincarnation of another with a similar title.
I would have to say that by the remarks of you good people (read Gearheads) that you have pretty well answered my question. I hope to have a pic to look at soon and you are welcome to make any comments you desire. Fred P
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Fred P.

If you look back on where the trak noses started i think you will remember that those cars were usually seriously channeled and/or chopped. Both items would ruin a car if you were wanting to drive them long distance in comfort. But without doing those kind of mods you end up with the look you see on the cover. Traditionally they were usually on 27's which were a much shallower body.

Its different, and i guess when your Meadors and you already have one of each, you can afford to step out of bounds. It is kind of a street rod meets lake racer look. I have seen the car in person and it does look ok though.
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Glen
www.hotrodsbyglen.com

Fred its not my cup of tea either. I agree but differant strokes for differant folks, thats what streetrodding is all about, doing what you wan't thats why cars all are differant colors.
Dave

I haven't seen the cover shot yet, because I don't subscribe to the magazine. But just on your description, I must have the twin sitting in my garage. It's a funky looking thing; a 27' turtle deck rear, a regular 23' T-bucket body, and a completely molded and covered track car from the firewall forward, with an old Curtis sprint car nose on it. It has 1974 magnesium Halibrand split rims with knock offs on each corner; 15" wide rearward and 5" x 14" front. Custom tube chassis, with a channeled body.
The car was built and registered in Northern California in 1974, brought to Florida in 1988, and sat in various yards until I rescued it in June 2000.
It has 1967 Karmen-Ghia brakes front, 1952 Belair 10 bolt rear housing and brakes and a 1973 3rd unit, a c4 tranny in a c3 bellhousing, a 2.8 V-6 Mustang motor (made in West Germany for 4 months before Ford changed the block configuration) a 1957 chevy master cylinder, an early 60's british steering box, and God only knows what early rail dragster front suspension system is on it. A definite myriad of parts and stlyes, that when tossed about in the workbench conversations, people turn their nose up at the thought. But put it all together, and it's a neat looking little sucker; like a T-bucket collided with a sprint car. Since track-T's are hot right now, I guess that explains some of the reasoning for the cover shot car. I'll have to take a peek in the Wal-Mart rag rack and see if I can spot it.
Til' Lat'r

i think you would like these pics of a 27 with a track nose and a p/u bed. http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/theater/3168/chopper.htm
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Glen
www.hotrodsbyglen.com

Heya Glen,
Dang fine looking hot rod. Very unique with the track front vs. t-bucket pick-up body. I like it!! Maybe a couple a' louvers in the hood and sides in the future?? Let me know when ya' get some more pics ready to go; I'd like to see the work in progress. Best of luck with it...!!

Thanks, but those pics your talking about are not my project, that gentlemen hangs out on another board i frequent, and i thought you guys would enjoy those pics. My stuff is on the site listed below.

I agree though, it is a great project. This is a pic of one of my cars.
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Glen
www.hotrodsbyglen.com

Hey Glen,

Thanks for posting the pics site for my track roadster pickup. Imagine my surprise. It's gonna get a whole gang of louvers, three rows on the hood top and a couple rows on the hood sides. The hood sides last probably as I need to make the lakes style header come out thru the drivers side yet. I'm working on the belly pan now - made it in a couple sectins and will louver that too.

This thread was kind of a good one and sure demonstrates how "taste" plays such a big part in style. Personnally I like the two prior track nosed cars that Moal did better than the Meadors car, but tp paraphrase what some of the guys said, "I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers!"

I'm sure some will think my TRP is a little strange - smooth in the front, lotsa barbs from the box front back, but it's being built to my tastes, no-one elses, and in an un-done finish to boot.

Charlie
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da chopper sez so

Reminds me alot of the Dick Flint roadster onthe cover of the August 2000 issue, just a lot more comfortable. Bottom line. Would you want in your garage? Oh yeah!

.......Who is to say what is wrong and what is right??? I guess the Big Goodguy likes it and that is all that matters.