Hi you guys. Not too long ago, I found a nice T bucket on Craigslist and man it looked to exactly what "I thought" I wanted since I built my first model of them as a boy.
I wanted to show pictures but the "Manage Attachments" is not working for me now.
So here is a video I did of a walk around and "attempting" to drive it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXBrHJypaI8 I drove 1000 miles round trip, to Oklahoma because I intended to buy the car. Spent the night, next morning, went to see the car. I was blown away, a beautiful 383 stroker with everything good.
Just a perfect T for me. Not hardly! I'm a skinny 165 pound guy 6 feet tall. You needed to be either a child, or a midget to fit behind the wheel!
The car had a tilt steering wheel, and with it tilted all the way forward, I could slide in from the passenger side only. Even then my left leg was pulled back tight against its self pointing straight up in a most un comfortable fashion.
My right leg was spread as wide as I could with out cramping and was also pointing almost straight up. I could barley touch the pedals with the side of my shoe.
You can see the gyrations I went thru trying to get out and hold the camera at the same time.
A long trip for a 30 minute disappointment, couldn't even drive it. I later came across a place called Detroit Speed Craft who builds something with more room but there butt ugly, and not a True T. I talked with them about building me there "high performance" 23 T-X. They build a turn key car, for $27.000 but like I said, its ugly, with a funky 350 small block that's stock with there cobbled up crappy looking exhaust pipes.
I offered them the chance to build me a car to my specs and was going long to at least $40k. I was going to supply them the engine and trans, my self, but the greedy skunks told me that for $40K they would build me a car but they get to choose everything including there nasty *** engines and transmissions so they could use there vendors and middle the deal so to make more money from me!
I told them "really" you would expect me to just give you free reign to throw together some crap you think I should have instead of what I want and am paying for? He frankly told me yes. If he could not use his vendors and I insisted on having what I wanted, the price was now $50.000!
On top of the cost to me of the engine and transmission of course.
I have a good idea you all can figure out where I instructed him to firmly implant that idea!
I wanted to show pictures but the "Manage Attachments" is not working for me now.
So here is a video I did of a walk around and "attempting" to drive it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXBrHJypaI8 I drove 1000 miles round trip, to Oklahoma because I intended to buy the car. Spent the night, next morning, went to see the car. I was blown away, a beautiful 383 stroker with everything good.
Just a perfect T for me. Not hardly! I'm a skinny 165 pound guy 6 feet tall. You needed to be either a child, or a midget to fit behind the wheel!
The car had a tilt steering wheel, and with it tilted all the way forward, I could slide in from the passenger side only. Even then my left leg was pulled back tight against its self pointing straight up in a most un comfortable fashion.
My right leg was spread as wide as I could with out cramping and was also pointing almost straight up. I could barley touch the pedals with the side of my shoe.
You can see the gyrations I went thru trying to get out and hold the camera at the same time.
A long trip for a 30 minute disappointment, couldn't even drive it. I later came across a place called Detroit Speed Craft who builds something with more room but there butt ugly, and not a True T. I talked with them about building me there "high performance" 23 T-X. They build a turn key car, for $27.000 but like I said, its ugly, with a funky 350 small block that's stock with there cobbled up crappy looking exhaust pipes.
I offered them the chance to build me a car to my specs and was going long to at least $40k. I was going to supply them the engine and trans, my self, but the greedy skunks told me that for $40K they would build me a car but they get to choose everything including there nasty *** engines and transmissions so they could use there vendors and middle the deal so to make more money from me!
I told them "really" you would expect me to just give you free reign to throw together some crap you think I should have instead of what I want and am paying for? He frankly told me yes. If he could not use his vendors and I insisted on having what I wanted, the price was now $50.000!
On top of the cost to me of the engine and transmission of course.
I have a good idea you all can figure out where I instructed him to firmly implant that idea!