It occurs that I've never introduced myself here, so here goes. My name is Dale Van Zant, and I am the President of the SoCal chapter of the Road Devils car club. You may or may not know us, but we are a club dedicated to traditional hot rods and customs, with a history that goes back to 1946. I do custom work out of my garage in Valley Center, CA, and call my buisness "DVZ Kustoms". My daily driver is a 1949 Chevy kustom coupe, and every bit of work on the car is mine. 6" chop, frenched headlites, peaked hood, shaved, 55 Plymouth tail lights, '49 Poncho rear bumper, etc. I also built and drag race a 1940 Chevy with 455 Pontiac power. Currently has a hot rod stance, but I'll soon be putting it back to it's g***er roots. You may have seen a feature on it a couple issues back in Ol Skool Rodz called "the Devil's Grocery Getter". And, I built a '57 Ford sedan for my wife (up for sale) and stuffed a 400ci Poncho in there, too. I also have a '28 Model A coupe waiting for some love. Lastly, I write a regular "back page" column for Car Kulture DeLuxe called "The Boulevard Crawl". It's a commentary on the Car Culture...trends, cars, music, whatever. Some of my junk... Little skater girl wants to get diddled in a sled, I think... (If you have seen this '52 Fleetline Kustom, I'd love to find it. Sold it about 12 years ago...The driver's seat is shaped just like my ***...) Needs the straight axle, and bad...
btw, if you're interested in build pix on the chopped '49, I've got a bunch of 'em on Rik Hoving's excellent custom site...check out the curved b-pillars and door tops... http://public.fotki.com/Rikster/11_.../49-51_chevy_custom_cars/dale-van-zant---dvz/
Dale?! Whats up man...Looks warm in those pix. I'll tell ya' what, the Getter looks just fine like it sits now to me. It will be killer nose-high, but I love it just the same now...
It was a poorly-built g***er when I got my mitts on it, and I put a Mustang II under it. Great suspension and brakes, but I'm jonesin to put it back how it was, got a '50 ford axle drum to drum waitin to go. Gotta love g***ers, can't see enuf pix of Stone Woods and Cook, ya know? Del Val Rules! dvz rdcc socal
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