There was a silver lining to Dave Smith’s stay in the hospital a few years back. The Sedalia, Mo., resident got sick and had to spend a few days as an in-patient fighting pneumonia.
It was at the same time he was fighting pneumonia that the affable Smith found himself also stricken with a case of “T-bucket Fever.”
Smith still blames all the down time he had in the hospital for his decision to build his own custom roadster. And once he got started, it didn’t take him long to put together his splendid little 1923 Ford T-bucket. “I was in the hospital and I was looking at car magazines and looking for something neat to do,” he said. “I started sketching some things out and this is the result.
“Twenty-one days is how long it took us to do it, once we got started, and we were actually held up by the body man. He painted it Chevrolet Torch Red, and he wasn’t satisfied with it, so he painted it again, and it came out very nice. I was really happy with it.”
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