Size: 19" x 9" x 5.5"
Weight: 5 lbs.
Finished: 2005
Hours: 225

Price: $6000

It was an old 1930 model A roadster with grass growing all over it. So I pulled it down to my Dad's shop and started welding up all the holes drilled in it. I also went out and found an early fiberglass T Bucket. I also bought a 1950 Old's engine and drive train.

So over the next few months I put all the parts together and had a nice project, but not a running car. I never did finish my Hot Rod.

Eventually my Dad sold it.

The T Bucket got rekindled in me when I saw the Big One Sixth size model Engines in some of the Car Catalog magazines. So I went out and found one of the big 1/8 scale plastic kits and decided this might have to satisfy my need for that Hot Rod I never finished.

I took the basic body and made a mold I could use to make a fiberglass body. Then I made a frame out of 1/4" brass and soldered it together. It seemed to help quench the need. So I made three or four different cars.

This one was like one of the old altered dragsters that ran in my era. It was also like the cartoonist cars of that era - you know shove a huge engine in a compact car. I like the way this one turned out.

– Will Neely, October 2008