Uncertain
T
Famous
Award Winning Show Car
- Original year: 1966
- Company: Monogram
- Scale: 1/24
- Designer: Steve Scott
Steve Scotts Uncertain-T started like as a cartoon
drawn by a school chum of his. The cartoon was a wild characterization.
of a Model T. When considering this cartoon as a basis for a real machine
it was deemed impossible by all of Steve's friends. So Steve started
on it as a challenge to show his friends it could be built. It turned
out to be more of a challenge than Steve imagined, not only to his friends,
but to his experience as a college Physics major and his imagination
as well.
The car made its show circuit debut at the '65 Winternationals
N.H.R.A. Custom Auto Fair, and won Special Sweepstakes Award and prove
itself worth the effort. Since that time it has won at every show entered,
including the '65 Oakland Roadster Show, the Seattle Custom Auto Show,
and many others. The big one came however at Indianapolis at the N.H.R.A.
National Custom Auto Fair where it was the Grand Sweepstakes winner
in the rod class.
The Uncertain T took three years of Steve's time
and effort and 15,000 dollars to build. The paint job alone, which has
more than a dozen hand-rubbed coats, cost over 600 dollars. The hardest
part according to Steve was the making of a one-piece fiberglas body.
The chassis was constructed from 2"x3" rectangular aluminum tubing.
The engine is built around a 57 Buick block with '63 Buick heads. The
finished engine with all the goodies shows good cross breeding between
show and go options. The transmission is a much reworked '55 Pontiac
hydro. When the finishing touches were completed and professional paint
and upholstery jobs were finished, only the radiator shell, headlights,
and steering wheel were original Model T parts. The windup key at the
rear doubles as a functional push bar and bumper.
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Steve Scott spent $15,000 to
build the Uncertain T. So what you say? Look at this CPI calculator.
It shows that $5,000 in 1965 is worth over $26,000 in today's
buying power. If Steve Scott built this rod in 2000, it would
have cost him about $80,000.
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