It has a Rootlieb flat wood dashboard. I want to add a sheet metal cowl. more of a curved shape. Any ideas or does anyone have one for sale? or a blue print or patterns?
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Building a 1913 brass speedster(Help Needed)
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Mike Silbert
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Re: Building a 1913 brass speedster(Help Needed)
Frontyboy,
I can not give you a quick answer because what I think you are building is around 10% (guess here) of the speedsters built.
That makes getting information harder.
I don't know what is in your head so I can only give you areas to look and maybe something will stick.
Most I have seen use a setup like a '15-'16 firewall to cowl adapters.
There is also the style that Everett Currier makes in Maine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRuYUH3WfNE
The Northwest Vintage Speedster website has a huge collection of information from cars to builds to plans
You could spend days drooling over that stuff.
https://www.nwvs.org/Technical/MTFCA/Sp ... Body.shtml
https://www.nwvs.org/Technical/MTFCA/Construction.shtml
https://www.nwvs.org/CarPhotos/CarPhotos.shtml
If you search MTFCA Speedster Build then select Images you can get a preview and find pages that have the style you want buried in them like
https://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/80257/114634.html
https://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/5 ... 1424117466
https://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/7 ... 1493584480
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/thr ... ld.835391/
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/for ... meck-32259
Hopefully others will have more ideas for you (and me) on your build.
I have a chassis in the corner of the barn that I plan (hope, dream) to make a full body speedster but that is a project with no priority or scheduled start time.
Beauty is in the eye of the Bee Holder
Mike
I can not give you a quick answer because what I think you are building is around 10% (guess here) of the speedsters built.
That makes getting information harder.
I don't know what is in your head so I can only give you areas to look and maybe something will stick.
Most I have seen use a setup like a '15-'16 firewall to cowl adapters.
There is also the style that Everett Currier makes in Maine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRuYUH3WfNE
- Screenshot 2026-02-04 084152.jpg (36.66 KiB) Viewed 73 times
You could spend days drooling over that stuff.
https://www.nwvs.org/Technical/MTFCA/Sp ... Body.shtml
https://www.nwvs.org/Technical/MTFCA/Construction.shtml
https://www.nwvs.org/CarPhotos/CarPhotos.shtml
If you search MTFCA Speedster Build then select Images you can get a preview and find pages that have the style you want buried in them like
https://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/80257/114634.html
https://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/5 ... 1424117466
https://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/7 ... 1493584480
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/thr ... ld.835391/
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/for ... meck-32259
Hopefully others will have more ideas for you (and me) on your build.
I have a chassis in the corner of the barn that I plan (hope, dream) to make a full body speedster but that is a project with no priority or scheduled start time.
Beauty is in the eye of the Bee Holder
- Screenshot 2026-02-04 085821.jpg (20.92 KiB) Viewed 73 times