Projects Most interesting detail on your car...

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49 caddy hood on my 50 pontiac

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49 caddy hood . body line is off a 53 caddy fender.

 

My peaked headlite bezel is my favorite.
Origninally they are completely round and smooth but I wanted peaked bezels so a couple of different things were tried and roadstar ended up brazing a peak on the original bezels and Earl Schieb continued the peak on the top of the fender.

 

Home-made oil/air separator - tall aluminum piece at the right.



And the home-made fittings that go with it.

 

I don't know if these features are the most interesting details to anyone else, but I like them.
My home made interior including the seat, horn button with original art work and the Aristocrat Dash. Also the fuel tank and battery box.

 

That photo doesn't say hot rod it SCREAMS! it!

 

Hot rod: I love seeing that car every time someone puts it up here.

 

It's a small detail but I like it.

 

Now you will know how I got my HAMB name...


Rear-view mirrors out of soup Ladels....
AKA "Spoons"

 

C4 Metal Werks
Neat brake and clutch pedal set up! Had to look at it for a minute but then it started to make some sense!

Rex

 

heres some pics of my57'chevy truck rear ,alot of people who don't build cars ask me 'why don't you put a bed floor in it,but i've got at least 60 hrs. it my c-notch and bag set up,I like showing it off.....

 

The tail lights on El Tiki.... they are the cups from vintage ice crushers with early 60's bezels.

 

Triple V-belt drive on my blower

 

gotta be my mud flap broads. hand beaten out of sheet copper. the things that happen after a few too many cold ones and a centerfold...

 

has to be the stamped FORD from a hood side of a 47 pickup that I put in the back panel of my modified.

 

on my 53 it would have to be the grill. i get asked about it all the time.

 

That would have to be my tailgate and my cupholders

 

My 36 Dodge with PORSCHE 911 HEADLIGHTS ..have yet to see these headlights used on a another hot rod

 

I put them on this Sunbeam.

 

The 3" splitter tips on my GTO.

I built them to look like the optional factory tips that came on these cars, on steriods.

They're built from 304 stainless just like the rest of the 3" exhaust system. The gravel shield on the front tip was cut from a piece of thin wall 4" 304 tubing.

 

i got to say the rally decal on the back of my tail gate is pretty cool

 

Probably the 270 GMC with the hand made 5 carb intake.

 

I thought everyone ran triple v-belt drives. ;-)

 

that blue model a sure looks nice!

 

lots of good stuff

 

Yeah, I know only one interesting gizmo was called for.
The oil/air separator is probably more interesting to me than anyone else, but here's one that fascinates most people who see the car.
Most look, wonder and walk away.
Some will ask.
In 15 years of running the car, only 5 have figured it out.

The front spreader is also a skin-effects radiator/cooler for the trans oil.


Works well, only place it warms up higher than I want is on the really twisting mountain roads.
Even then, not a prob, a 10-20 minute stop at a view site brings the trans temp down enough to drive the rest of the climb up to Sequoia Park from the south end.

The converter is a 2400 rpm stall model and a tighter one would probably run cooler.

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Kerry, how about a few words on whittling out the V-belt pulleys.
I can think of a couple ways, but am curious how you did it.

Would be a good tech post as well.

 

From the most recent build of mine...
Has to be the 55 Chevy dash i put in my 52 Chevy truck.
Not finished yet so the truck hasn't even seen the road, but that seem's to be the center or attention whenever someone see's the truck.



Tony

 

I guess it would be my engine bay;



Before we chopped the top it was all the car had going for it.




BloodyKnuckles

 

The EXPLOSIMETER !


Get it over 60%,and I think we're screwed!

Cheers,PJ

 

my hub caps they are centers from a 14" hubcap placed on chrome reverse wheels nobody has them and they think they are billet until you tweek them with your finger

 

nice ride.....