The Florida teenager who built this spot-on perfect rendition of a low-buck Highboy decades ago, started with a rust-free circa 1925 Ford Model T all-steel roadster body found in the attic of famed drag racer, winner and multiple-time Top Fuel Champion Don Garlits. This period-built rod exhibits the required, but seldom achieved hot rod format of an attractive rake and a perfect stance. This body, with its original cowl-vent, doors and trunk with a locking lid was mounted on a strengthened 1929 Model A Ford chassis with the customary shaved deuce grille and shell in addition to BLC headlights.

The rebuilt flathead V-8 engine, otherwise known as a “flattie,” has stock heads and intake feeding dual carbs with the lot powering a 1939 transmission to a ’40 rear end. Recently, a custom alloy radiator and a set of cadmium-plated Fenton headers were added. Other neat and attention generating touches include the “rattle-can” flat black paint job, tube shocks, “juice” brakes, a dropped axle, custom aluminum radiator, Coker Classic “big ‘n little” wide whitewalls on red “steelies,” five Stewart-Warner period curved glass gauges, cast aluminum windshield frame, a 15-inch four-spoke sprint car steering wheel, red naugahyde seats, an “oogah” horn, 12-volt conversion and fuel cell that is found in the trunk of the machine. This T/A V-8 Highboy is fully usable as a practical daily driver, and is fit with a thermostatically controlled electric fan.