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Does anyone have the internet site for the American Hot-Rod show? Last week while flipping threw the channels on TV I watch a TV show where they took a perfectly good Model T and destroyed it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All they could say was it was ugly and needed to be brought up to modern style. Well why did they haft to take a perfectly good model T (Cherry) and hot rod it? Our past car history is in thies old cars and as time goes by their are less and less of them. I could see taking an old model T body that was not on a running frame and use it to hot rod but why a perfectly good car? Does anyone hear agree? I know this is a TV show and it goes over the top when it comes to production but still you would think someone would think? hay where can we get another body to do this hot rod modification? Jipjob

I agree, they got that Marcel guy that can make sweet ass steel bodies but they still have to go get an original and Boyd the hell out of it. Of course he doesn't care what others would think and I am sure he said that to himself when he got the car.

I wonder what he did with the frame and running gear? Maybe he could make a speedster out of it on one of his shows. Still looking for E-mail address for his show? Jipjob

It is a Model T for crying out loud... There are only about a half million of those around in that kind of shape.... Why do you guys care what someone else does with their own cars...

It ain't worth owning if it ain't worth cutting up!!!

Dave Brisco

amen , big dave

About 754,434 to be exact. But of course most of them are rusted junk not worth saving. I like the T's the way they were HIGH, but if others want to cut them up then thats there right.

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. . . they took a perfectly good Model T and destroyed it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yep, they did. Several reasons:

1. They DIDN'T WANT a perfectly good Model T.
2. It was THEIR CAR, so they get to decide.
3. Restoration isn't the only way.

Well your perfectly right , it was their car and they can do anything they want to do with it. But when all is said and done and all those model T's are history (Nice ones) then they can go and get a remanufactured model T body and use them. Our history is in those old cars and yes maybe a few of them are still around but for how long? The Jipjob ( I guess this is why I didn't hot rod my 42)

I agree that it was there car and they had a right to do whatever they wanted to it but, I think it was too nice to chop up, if it was a tired/ neglected or amature restoration, I could see chopping it up. Think of how it must have made the guy who sold it feel, it was in his faimily for a long time and he probably restored it himself as he owned a restorations & hotrod shop. I also think the model T is overlooked, people don't realize that without the model T coming out in 1912, mass produced vehicles may not have come out until the 30's, it was only because 1 person ( Henrey Ford ) that cars were mass produced in 1912, people don't realize how versatile model T's were, they were designed to be useful as farm vehicles, they could go off road fairly well. I think that Boyd may have done it to P$^# off restorers because I don't think he appreciates restorations. A guy in my town has 1926 Ford Model T that is compleatly restored, it's been in his faimly for ages, his grandfather may have bought it new but I'm not shure, he also has a compleatly restored 1948 Dodge Convertible and he has a 1936 ford hotrod F#$@ up, someone took a compleatly restored 1936 Ford convertible, cut off the body so all that was left was the dash forward, it was going to be turned into some type of bucket, his show/driver is a 1970's linclon, compleatly original/ unrestored. A guy I met at his lawn sale was selling a restored 1931 Model A 3W w/ rumble seat, we looked at it and he said, if you want a hotrod, this isn't it. He invited me into his shop, he had a slightly customized '59 Fairlaine 500 hardtop, he also had a compleatly unrestored 1925 ( I think ) model T pickup, drivable and only a few paint chips on the original paint job, he said it was a guys he knew and he died or somthing and his son was going to turn it into a doodlebug and he stopped him and bought it from him.

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Originally posted by Henry Rifle
Yep, they did. Several reasons:

1. They DIDN'T WANT a perfectly good Model T.
2. It was THEIR CAR, so they get to decide.
3. Restoration isn't the only way.

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Henrey, normally I agree 100% with u but

1. Why did they buy a perfectly good Model T then?
2. yes, your righy on that 1
3. yes restoration isn't the only way but, why spend the money for a whole car when all you want is a body, figure, the car was probably around 13,000 when, they could have found a just as nice body for around 5k or less. what does he have? 8k in parts that will probably get sold for low prices to restorers because theres not a big demand for them or trashed all togther. I guess, if ya got money, anything seems practicle.

I still would like to contact this Hot-Rod show and ask them why did they use a perfectly good car? Maybe then I could understand. Jipjob

Ok now I can say the I have taken a few great cars and ruined them but that was 30 years ago, when you could buy a 34 two door sedan for 200.00. People would kill me for cutting oft the top and having my dad spray paint it with silver paint or I had a 38 Packard sedan and did the same thing. But who would have ever thought that thies cars today would be a premium car, not so much the Packard but the two 34's I had sure could bring a pretty penny. And I saved the best for last, we chopped the top on a 31 Packard and installed a Cadalic tank engine in it. It looked like a 32 ford sedan but on steriods. But this car today would be worth probably $50,000 or more but that's past history. So maybe in the future someone will look back at that show and say to themselves"What to hell did they go and do that for?" And the answer " I just wanted too"

Just added a picture of the 31 Packard-take a look and see what a cool car from the 60's would look like. It weighed in at about 2 tons. And while in high school I cramed in 21 friends and went for a ride. Great car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bear in mind that I'm just expressing a different point of view, not denigrating yours.

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1. Why did they buy a perfectly good Model T then?

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That wasn't what I meant. They didn't want a perfectly good Model T as an end product. They wanted a hot rod for an end product.

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3. yes restoration isn't the only way but, why spend the money for a whole car when all you want is a body, figure, the car was probably around 13,000 when, they could have found a just as nice body for around 5k or less. what does he have? 8k in parts that will probably get sold for low prices to restorers because theres not a big demand for them or trashed all togther. I guess, if ya got money, anything seems practicle.

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Why spend the money for that car? Probably the same reason they climb a mountain . . . because it's there. Beyond that, they wanted a prime body that they wouldn't have to completely rework. At $50+ per hour, labor adds up in a hurry. On the other hand, how concerned is a Boyd customer with a few extra bucks?

Think of it this way. Some restorer got running gear for a decent price that he was probably having a tough time finding.

That's what happened with my A-bone. I bought a running steel-bodied car for $1600, pulled off the body, chopped it, then sold the running gear to someone who really wanted it. We were both happy.

Anyone want to discuss the Viper-powered Chrysler Airflow while we're at it?

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/event....asp?id=178146

How about this?