Buck T Special, and TT both worth respect. My first would have been a 57 Nomad. Currently building maybe a dozen projects. Current favorites, maybe 36 Plymouth, A Deuce Coupe Rat, 59 Caddy, and my 55 Nomad Ecco Rat.

Nice car Joke

Awesome ideal, only problem is that every time I get more money I find myself buying another car. But I'm going to have to do something, my adopted daughter is b****in about me parking cars in the kitchen.

jxvogel, Ever hear of Cycle cars? They were quite the rave back a bit before our time. My fave was the IMP.

For goodness sake, OP --- It is YOUR thread ... and you asked the "open ended" question --- first car you built? .... In an attempt to clarify YOUR thread topic question, whom else would I have been addressing but the OP? DUH!

I'm impressed that you even know the car. No, I wish I owned one, but closet I ever came was one I missed in an auction many moons ago.

And she has already been complaining about the car parts in her room. Drug her Motorhome out of mothballs and into the back yard, you'd think she'd be happy...

The wing is my Countach, her along with the nicer XKE and my Vette will be the three moving into the kitchen as soon as I get a larger patio door. My Studebaker is taking over the porch and the 59 Caddy and 55 Nomad get the garage.

lost my big garage to a crooked bank, so adjustments need to be made until I build a garage here.

Did I ever get an answer to my question, OP?

Mine was a 73 vega. 327 chevy tunnal ram, twin 4s, mild cam, headers, and a 4 speed trans.

here is my second project... The 68' Ford....

Nice, indeed she never came from Ford that nice, never.

You were asking me it was a kits etc? Perhaps if you would have said who you were addressing your question, being that several people have post about different cars, you would have gotten an answer.

So your asking if this yellow car is a kit car or something like that? No, it is not a kit car. I don't build kit cars. First let me explain this type of car just to educate you a little.

It is a "Speedster". Speedsters were made typically in the 1910-30's and most out of fords T's and A's because there were so many of these cars made and sold. Some 15 million model T's. Speedsters were built normally by kids in their back yards out of junk yard car parts. No matter what year or make parts but has to be of the time period. They were the hot rods and race cars of their day, 1910's -30's.

Today, speedsters are made much the same way. 95% of speedsters still around or are being made today are made out of Model Ts. Speedsters were NEVER factory made. A true speedster is put together using only orginal or after market parts with few changes only for safety and even with that, it can't be seen. To be a true speedster anyway.

OK, This yellow car. It is a 1923-25 T chassis with a 26-27 engine. The radiator shell, hood, cowl, head lights, windshield are 1923-25 Chevy. The seat and truck is pre 23 T. The rest is home made using wood.

Speedsters are not liked by the antique purest but there are still us young at heart that love them.

Now if you look at my photos, the Buck T Special is a 1924 Bobtail Country Fair Dirt racer. It too is all Model T with the exception of the hood back. The body I formed and the gas tank is from a farm tractor. When I build cars, I use ONLY the materials and tools that would have been available in the period. Currently I am building a 1930 Model A Boattail racer. The first basic use of aerodynamic on a car. The body is hardwoods, canvas and resins.

So how's that?

No one in here built a car. They may have made alterations or modifications or implants to existing pre made bodies or engines or chassis or upholstery but they didn't build any car