Four Score and one year ago a little coop was ....

Brought forth from the black hills.Next week is offically one year since it made it home from Crazy D's place in So.Dak. My goal was to be driving it by now but working on others stuff and life gets in the way once in awhile.

The chassis is done and ready for disasembly and prepp'in for shiney.Gotta mount the grille shell and a few odds and ends.My plan is to strip the body and epoxy rimer it and hope to drive it to the pileup in Oct.Then this winter lift the body and make it shiney to match the chassis.


This is how she looked a year ago.........



This is how she looks today








And my fravorite view and I hope the view of most challengers



ENjoy,
Shoe

PS:Lotsa of window all the better to see you with....No it aint getting chopped as of now.......Okay Bass and Evel

 

WOW! Nice!!! Is that a Weiand Drag Star intake?

 

Looks good, When are you going to chop it?

 

No its a orig 50's u fab.I got it from the guy who built it back in the day.I got my eye out for a Drag Star just gotta make myself spend the money for it though.

 

Nice lookin Hot Rod with a lot of nice fabrication work.

 

good job ya got a lot done!!

 

That's gonna be a really neat hot rod. Nice work.

 

You are a magician!! Nice work, looks very good. Glad to see some more South Dakota tin saved. What size Hemi and what trans did you use?

 

Bitchin' coupe!! A helluva lot of work and love put that thing back together again, but man, what an outcome. That is sweet with a mean as hell looking engine.

 

Its a 1957 392 the trans is outta of a late model Dodge Dakota 5 speed.Me and a machinst friend worked it out and made pcs to adpat it to the motor.I have not tried it yet but getting close and it appears all should be good to go.

 

That car looks killer man!! The hemi with the zoomies looks perfect!! I had some short zoomies like that on my Model A for awhile, it sounded crazy!! Your hot rod is going to be fun, you should be proud!!
Jimmy White

 

Thanks Jimmy and all others for the comments.After seeing our mutal friend Bass' car a few years ago at the Pileup I sent the roadster truckdown the road I had about finished and went coop hunting.I gotta split my time between it and bikes I am building. So its a juggling act once in awhile, but I am gonna finish this one instead of selling before its done.May never sell it who knows.Not the plan as of now.

As far as he headers I built them for short drives and around the area.Long drives will call for some under car muffled headers.Should be a quick swap as long as they dont interfere with the a/c brackets and pulley........HAHAHAHA

Shoe

 

Very nice ! Congrats !

 

looks like you put in a lot of hard work.looks really good

 

wow! excellent job man!!

 

I love it.

 

Looks great Shoe. You done good!

 

cool stuff....is that anti-roll bar a torsion deal or tube....? been thinking of one on my new chassis.... brandon

 

Stop being a pussy and chop it! It's not like you need the head room or anything!



Seriously, it looks great so far...I think you're gonna like driving it with the Hemi and stick.

 

looks like alot more than i've gotten done in the last year. car wise at least. lookin killa my brutha. still need to get my BSA motor to your buddy so i can get it rebuilded.

 

Its a tube deal.Jerry Bickel style.I built the car so if I wanted to race it I could.Nine inch,Moser axles all the good stuff.I am gonna give the anti roll bar a try.Just couldnt take how much roll it appeared to have and I had a set up like this on my SS/Gt car I sold awhile back.It can be run disconnected if need be for street driving.

I will keep ya posted once I getter fired up..

 

i had one on my old tube chassis anglia....it took the scary out of the ride... keep me posted ...thanks brandon

 

Whoa!! Super cool Shoe! I don't know if you ever seen these, but here are pics from when Dave, his pal and I pulled the coupe from this ol shed.










I got some pieces of at least 2 more if you want to check out?

 

Nice work (and quick too !!) I don't suppose you ended up with any spare rear 1/4 parts (I'm looking for the section along the trunk sides as mine were trucked,funny how that rhymes with.....). I love where the back tires are located too I like em being in the right position to follow the body line.

 

Too Cool!! SO this was the onr you were telling us about at Bowling Green

Good job

Rusty

 

Hey Shoe,
looks good man

 

Car looks great.

 

So where does the side car go???

Looking good.

 

Shit! Jesse is still alive?!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yeah, car looks nice Shoe

 

That thing is going to be loud with all that open window....


Hahaha


Naw fer real doe.... Its fucking bad ass Shoe.....