Two-tone paint on the frame rails (dark gray/black on the front). Rear fenders are maroon. Tell us about the paint scheme, please??
If I remember right, a 4.25 stroke BBC crank with the mains turned down, dropped into a stock 409 block bored 30 over, makes a 482CI engine. So it could be an original block.
Great looking motor & 3W, but got a question, the first picture shows the radiator return line from the motor going down. How does the water get to the top of the radiator?
Had an old fella once tell me that a street rod with steel wheels was still a street rod. Of course that was in the early '70s and he was an old flathead racer and very resistant to change. The car is very pretty and no doubt is exactly what the owner wanted. I would drive myself, not very far unless I could figure out a way to by race fuel on the road but I would drive it none the less.
It's a split radiator, two vertical cores, inlet at bottom ,coolant travels up half the radiator across in the tank, then down the other half and exits at the bottom.
That is a hot car! I "Traditionally" like my cars the way i like them and not the way a website dictates. Its ok to have opinions thats what makes us all different, BUT if i could i would "drag my banker by the colar" to that shop and have a car built i wouldnt hesitate for a second. I do enjoy working on cars and i am semi able to do it all my self but lets not hate on the guys that pay big bucks to have non traditional hot rods built. They are ALL cool.
I'd guess it's a GM block, too. The heads and intake are the aluminum LWR Z11-type ones, although the heads look to have been painted.
I would have loved AC in my 54 olds today. The burbs have too many stoplights. I didn't see any of those features! You guys know too much to enjoy the shiny.
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