Early Florida Hotrod
 

This picture was taken in the mid-twenties in West Palm Beach, Florida. The driver was a well-known architect and developer, not a bad wrench man either judging by his car. Imagine how much fun it must have been to cruise around West Palm in this little car back in the mid-twenties! If I didn't have so many projects I'd be tempted to find a running T chassis and duplicate this car. Maybe even go down and cruise around some of the same streets.

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Deuce Man ...................
That is cool !
MIKE :)

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Down to pure basics and absolutely pure fun, ah the good ole days.

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What do you guys tink about those wheels? they look like plywood, but I dont think they had any back then. Sure look racy for the day!

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Deuce Man ................
I think that Chevrolet had disc wheels, back in the day. Maybe others.
MIKE :)

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How did he get it so low? is the front axle pushed out in front of the crossmember with the spring on the wishbone? Or is the spring just flattened and reversed eyed? I think the wheels just have an early form of MOON discs, probably wood?

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Spring is in front of the axle. Some guys heat and "drop" the axle on the ends also. You can flip the perches upside down also.

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Looks like it has a ROOF lowering kit among other things. This kit has blocks that mount on the axle in the spring perch holes that sets it ahead of the front crossmember. The roof kit at the rear requires a second rear crossmember mounted ahead of the regular one and has blocks that mount on the axle and the radius rods so the rear spring rides ahead of the rear axle and the original crossmember. I had a T with a ROOF lowwering kit and it was great. Only problem was that on rough roads the front axle bangs on the starting crank. That's a great picture you posted. I think it probably has Chevy wheels.

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I think the wheels are tin discs used to hide the wood wheels. The big hole in the back of the front right wheel is to get to the valve stem.
I have this kind of disc with hole on the back of an old wheel in my shed.
Bruce in Melbourne AUS

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Yes, there was plywood in the 20's.