Features Take Your Traditional Custom to Work Day

I have been retired for almost 20years but before that this was my daily which I sold a few years ago.

 

Amen!

 

Hope you don't mind me slipping a hot rod in the mild kustom thread.




-Abone.

 

I'm happy you fixed your link, now I can see the cool custom wagon you are cruising to work.
Like others here, I drive my old hot rods daily (I retired in 2018). the truck is a year around driver, the coupe more for the non-winter months.

 

Is there a thread to read on this coupe somewhere? I love the stock car style!

 

Nope. Never....LOL

 

Up until this section opened up, the car was not HAMB friendly. I've skated by simply because it looks like it might belong here.

The car started life as a truck, and a rusted out 48 Plymouth body shell (think big model kit). It was originally build as my tribute to the old 50s & early 60s dirt track cars. The original goal was to build a cheap drive able car that looked like it came from my memory of the era (I was 10 when the local dirt track converted to the late model 50s and newer cars and the old coupes were gone).
The vision of those old coupes coming off the #4 turn and coming down the front straight is forever burned into my brain. Those memories are what got me through school and started me onto the path I have followed all my life. I have made a pretty good living and have spent my life enjoying from old cars. The car was built with a 4 point roll cage (which was removed early in the build when I hit my head on it 3 times on the same day), big bumpers, side rub bars, small 1960s sized tires, and originally brush painted. The car was intended to be street driven on nice days, until it wasn't drive able any more. I fully expected to get maybe a couple years out of it. Its still here today because it worked so well and was so much fun.

It is on a Dakota frame, with a power rack & pinion steering, disc brakes, and an electronic fuel injected V6, with a 5 speed manual OD trans, and a limited slip 8 1/4 rear with 3:55 gears. It currently is on its second paint job, has 100,000 road miles on it since it was built (first licensed in 2012) and has been in 27 different states.
My Avatar picture is the coupe in its 1st paint job (applied with a brush) just a few hundred feet shy of the Summit at the Rocky Mountain National Park on May 28, 2016. In the picture, the car is over 1,000 miles from home in the middle of a 2300 mile trip and was only 2 days after they opened the pass for traffic (its closed every winter).

I still have many pictures of the original build from back in 2011 and could do a thread on it, if there is enough interested in seeing it. Usually when people find out what it really is, they loose interest.

 

When got to work (we start at 6:00 A.M.) I saw there was a 61-66 Chevy truck in the parking lot which I had never seen before, I got just close enough to see the decals in the rear window weren’t straight and had it had mid 90’s Billet wheel which told me I didn’t need to look any closer!

The worst part is being one of the only a few car guys at work the office people are probably going to think it’s mine! ​

 

The new old school! I like the late 50's style and even the Bomb style lowrider. Never was a big billet wheel fan...