Hey HAMBers... my name is Matt and I'm from Leavenworth, Washington... little Bavarian themed place in Central WA. Anyway, I don't own any hotrods.. but I enjoy working on them, especially older Fords. My dad is nuts about older Ford trucks, or anything else for that matter. I hope to one day own something cool, probably an earlier roadster of some sort. Here's two pics of the project truck we've been working on for 6 years now... just fired up the fresh 292 Y-Block with Hilborn fuel injection, passenger car G-heads, home-built headers, and some other goodies. Don't mind the fire extinguisher dust under the hood... it's a good thing we got it out before we needed it... haha. I have video, but I'll have to find a better host for it, as it's 34 megs. Look for it at Bonneville next year.
Hey Matt, glad you made it over. Nice to see another unibody F100 on the site too. That's cool about running that thing on the salt, but I gotta ask, what are you doing for front suspension (God knows how scary my factory front suspension is at 55mph, I can't imagine going for records on the salt with it! ). For other cool uni's, do a search for El Polacko, Loogy, and Jeems. There are others as well, I'm just not remembering. Tons of great info. and bright people here, and if you need anything traditional hot rod related or kustoms, try a search and I bet you find something on it. Oh, and I know someone will ask, so I may as well do it. Tell us more about '31 Model A Ford in the background. They're gonna wanna see pics of that too!
Hey Mark, thanks for the welcome. Honestly, the front suspension is mostly stock with a dropped axle... of course all the bushings, tie-rods, etc are brand new as well as the steering box being rebuilt. I'm not sure if this is the configuration my dad is going to keep, or if he plans on changing it... I know what you're talking about though on the road manners... I drove the white '61 for a while in high school and it wasn't much fun above 50. We will hopefully have access to a "testing area" to get it up to a decent speed and see how it handles before we go, as it would be a major bummer to get down there and have it not handle or go like we expected. Oh yeah, and here's some pictures of the new project that just arrived in the shop yesterday... my brother's going to be working on getting axles under it and doing a chop/channel over the winter, I'll be helping of course.
Heh... she's just a stocker Tudor with a dropped axle up front and a little spring re-working to lower it a bit in the rear... we converted it to juice brakes, put some Kelsey-Hayes wires with bigs 'n' littles on, and re-upholstered the front seats. The little 4cyl. wheezes to life every time, and it'll do about 40mph. It's a driver.
Ah, I see you replied while I was typing. Cool little driver for sure. Don't sell that thing short. Plenty of people here would dig that thing (myself included!) Now with gas what it is, nobody's gonna be able to drive their hemi-powered coupe's anyway, so you'll be the last one standing at the dance!
Yeah, I've got some pics of it somewhere but I think they're pretty old. Tomorrow when I'm down there I'll snap a couple new ones... It was a damn good find... the car itself has never been restored or messed with except for it appears to have had some accident repair in the rear at some point, and it was sitting in a garage for years before the guy finally decided to sell it instead of restoring it. Good thing he didn't take it apart like my brother's 33 truck... all the pieces were in buckets... that were left in the rain... ugly, I felt like an archeologist going through all that rusty junk.
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