What a concept. You mean that cars are not supposed to be put into trailers and towed behind huge tow vehicles. Way cool guy's, I wish I could do that every day!!!
The A-400 was my old car. I was a custom job. I purchased it that way no idea who did the work. Cool to see my old car in japan.
funny stuff. when I did a google images search for A-400 to see if 28-29's were made your car was the only 28-29.
Cool video, thanks. Something just occurred to me. Those rodders in Japan.......I'm wondering if they get parts sent to them from local USA sources only to realize most of the repop stuff was made a whole lot closer to them than us?
I just watched this video and when it was done, called the guy building my engine and told him to hurry the fuck up. Thanks.
Another that floats my boat...and evidently sees the open road... [/QUOTE] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yes, Another Great One! Bob
Hello, One of our best friends had built up a black, 1934 Ford, 5 window coupe for his daily driver to school and work. But, somewhere between all of that time, he installed a big Oldsmobile motor with a myriad of carb changes over time. The 4 barrel ran the best, but, the log manifold with 6 Strombergs sounded and felt the most powerful. I was a young teen and saw this 1934 coupe in our driveway. I could not get over the idea that some kid, a teenager, had the time and skills to build such a cool looking, sounding hot rod. I eventually got a ride in it and it met all of my dreams of going fast and much faster. The acceleration in this 1934 5 window coupe was pretty awesome. This to me was a daily driver to our high school. It also ran in the A/Gas class at Lions Dragstrip. It did well for a carburetor provided Oldsmobile power in the class. When the big names started coming to Lions on a weekly basis, the competition in A/Gas got a little hectic and definitely harder to win in the class. Jnaki When my brother was having great results in the A/Stock class at Lions in the new 1958 Impala, he started winning some trophies. But, the funny thing was as he told me, (as did the owner of the 1934 Ford Coupe/Olds) those two never raced each other at the drags or at the Friday night Cherry Avenue Drags in Bixby Knolls. It was always a battle of words or ideas, but the two friends never raced for “PINKS” or holding the “top of the food chain” bravado at the local drive-in, neighborhood, and at the high school. When asked in many conversations during this time of the 58 Impala vs 34 Ford/Olds, my brother always said that he just did not want to race. His times were usually faster than the 34 Ford/Olds, but that did not matter. Being his best friend meant more to him than a trophy or win over his friend. They both put on many miles of So Cal driving in their own “hot rods.” Now, in late 1959 and early 1960, when our Willys coupe was somewhat finished with just the 6 Stromberg SBC motor, my brother wanted to race the 34 Ford/Olds coupe. Our times were significantly faster at Lions, even though we were in B/Gas. It was a question of what happened to the friendship of old school mates with their hot rods? My brother told me that friendships will last, despite the upcoming loss (his friend’s) during a drag race or two against our Willys Coupe. HA! We did drive it on the street for many weekends, just to have some fun with our first time hot rod/drag race coupe. But, the writing was on the wall for both coupes. The two differently built coupes, the 1940 Willys coupe and the 1934 Ford 5 window coupe never did race each other, so the problem of long standing friendships never was challenged. One was phasing out of the drag race scene, but still driving on the street. The other was just getting started driving around So Cal and at Lions, but was concentrating on being a national record holder in the C/Gas class. Just like a home built hot rod is supposed to be doing. The hot rods were different, despite the Gas Coupe Class at Lions Dragstrip. The 34 coupe was a hot rod, drag racer, daily driver to school, job, cruising, and just having fun going nowhere. The 40 Willys was driven on the street on some weekends, just to have fun with the legal street hot rod. But, the main emphasis was winning at the dragstrip in our newly found class. Besides, no one at the time was running a 671 with 6 Strombergs on a SBC motor daily, on the streets of Bixby Knolls or anywhere in the Long Beach area. But, both hot rods were street driven with much experience at Lions Dragstrip, too.
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