Customs Half of the fun of owning and restoring the Car Craft Dream Rod

I may have read but don't remember. How long did the restoration take?

 

Thank you , glad to see it powered with an engine that has dist., on the correct end of the camshaft

 

Man what a great restoration. Being born in 1978 the show circuit was long since dead and even the disco era boogey vans were showing their age by the time my memories start.
Cars like this are what got me into cars when I was a young child in the 1980s. I am glad you managed to save it because it was pretty far gone with some rare bits that were scarce even when the car was first built. Great job.

As a genuine car lover (obviously I like my old cars the most but I can appreciate all vehicles) What is crazy to me is nobody does stuff like this today, My parents and grandparents generation were amazing peops they built fiberglass buggies, T buckets, show rods like this and all kinds of of other awesomeness. Today I can't think of anybody building a 21st century version of a bubble top car or some outlandish show car or even some customized new car that smooths them out and makes them longer lower wider appearing. Even the mini truck trend where we saw some cool customized stuff was probably 25+ years ago now. Today people black out the trim and call it customized and I've always wondered why.
Anyways I'm getting off track Great job restoring that car, I hope it inspires young kids when they see it like it did in the 1960s and 1970s.

 

Maybe someone would like to buy that tail and recreate the Tiger Shark?

 

You have more old car stuff in an attic as well?
Wow, another floor to discover!

 

How the hell do you paint shit with no overspray?

 

Awesome
Dan

 

Now you'll have to collect a bunch of models of that version too, or do already have a bunch?

 

Super cool. Are you are going to wire up the light?

 

I'm looking at that painting fixture, thinking wow that's cool - now I see that its a Park work stand - brilliant!

 

One of my Kustom highlights was having dinner with you at the Starbird show at the Lake. We were sitting in his back yard and you had brought your Dream Rod photo album. You walked me through the pictures and amazed with your attention to the smallest detail. Wow! This was an incredible restoration and thank you for going to the extremes to make sure its right. Respect

 

@Moriarity , I hope you are with us for a long time.
That said, I also hope you tuck little notes into things like this so they are recognized as the treasures of the past that they are in the future. Way too many things are lost in time or worse, hucksters create icons from nothing but greed.

 

Do you have any plans to show the Dream Rod? I live on the north side of the Cities and would love to see it, or any of your other cars out at a show! I think I remember seeing the Zingers at an indoor show a long time ago?

 

Wow okay! I'll send you a message in the summer sometime so I can cruise down there in my car

 

Well worth the trip, no matter what the distance is. Mark is an awesome person and excellent host. My Wife and I stopped by last summer while traveling (it was on our list of places not to be missed), and we both thoroughly enjoyed the tour of his place and lunch at drive in afterwards. Ron