Here’s a video of the first episode of Motor City Motors. The job is to turn a 1926 Ford Model T into a hot rod. They have to be able to beat a stock Model T by the deadline. If they meet the deadline the Detroit Bros and the other guys who help them build it get $5000 in tools. Should be fun.
This episode airs tonight, December 28th at 10pm ET. If you watch the episode, come back to MotorCityMotors.net and talk about it in our comment area. We want to hear what you have to say!
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Bob – Awesome job man! I’m partial to trucks myself and did a similar type of resto about 10 years ago. The pride you get when it first fires is a great feeling. Mine was a much newer truck (’54 Chevy), but tearing a truck apart and resto work is all a challenge. I can’t imagine how hard it was for you to find parts for that Indiana though…wow. I was an idiot to sell mine, the ’54 was a great year for the Chevy as it has a number of unique parts that the earlier and later models didn’t have. One of these days I want to do an old Dodge or ???
Anyway, very, very nice work….and inspiring!
I always wanted a nice original model T to play with and when I found my 1926 tudor it was no where near as nice as that car was. They only built that car for 1926 and a few months into 1927 so there are very few of them left and now we have even less of them. Shows like this will inspire every hot rod builder without a clue to go out and chop up the rest of them and also countless more historic and more rare cars and trucks. When I was 16 I found the body of a 1925 Indiana Motor Truck in the loft of a barn and wanted to make a street rod out of it because that is what I had seen done with old cars. After I started working on it I found out it was a one of kind truck and changed my mind. 30 years later I have and all original one of a kind truck that I bet none of you have ever heard of or seen and never would have if I had done what I thought would be “cool” back then. Thank god I didn’t do it.
1:39 “There’s gonna’ be a lot of people mad at us for cuttin’ up this car.” -Jamie
Yes, there are.