As a good friend of mine(who owned an 1100 hp T bucket at the time)once said:"NOTHING is TOO MUCH if it is PROPERLY OVERDONE!" I would love to just HEAR that car fire up! Pic of T enclosed.There is nothing quite like the feeling when an 18 inch wide tire start smoldering about 2 feet from your right ear at about 60 mph with a 6 inch diameter barely muffled exhaust pipe right in front of it.You will know it when your sphincter muscle starts trying to inhale the leather upholstery under your scrawny ass.
Yeah, I like it too. I saw it at Paso Robles and my wife thought I was nuts to get close to it like it was going to hurt my eyes looking at it or something. I thought it was pretty cool. The engine and headers are pretty bad ass. That obnoxious chartruese metalflake color is cool too. To me, a car like that is supposed to have an obnoxious color. It looks like what I remember on some pretty wild drag racers and custom cars in the '60s. You can probably see it sparkling in satellite images from 150 miles up. It's probably got 800 horsepower and it must go like a bat out of hell. The car sure gets noticed. There were people all over it all day. It would be kind of boring going to car shows if everybody made their cars the same. I took a few pictures of it. I don't know if you can read it in this little picture, but it says "What's the problem, officer?" on the roof over the door. Pretty cool.
Ahhhhhh, no. I'm sure it sounds great running the 300 feet from the trailer to its parking spot at the show.
I love black....but it's the easy way out. Always looks good, but no thought required. That's why my roadster was black.....I got tired of changing my mind on which color.
I saw it at CHRR last year....in the sunshine...it DOES sparkle....and its got a blown hemi in it.... I liked it!!
My stomach actually did a flip when the picture loaded... Seriously... I never had that happen before even with all the stuff that's been posted over the last 6 or so years I've been on the HAMB... It's just got so much going on... A way-ward ray of sunshine and that thing's a grand-mal-seizure waiting to happen... Depending on your mood that day, that may be kinda cool...
Here's the deal on that car, folks... The car is owned by a guy here in Bakersfield. GREAT guy, he's an oil derrick electrician in the Gulf, home two weeks, gone two weeks, that sorta thing... DRIVES that car every chance he gets. Drives it to Paso, Primer, Antique Nats, Pomona, Fresno...to the post office. No trailers, for Lillard. GNRS last year, invited to Blackie's show last year, Best Street Rod at Paso...and DRIVEN to each. The front wheels are narrowed ET III's, I believe. Blown hemi, obviously, rear mount radiator, oil accumulator, full cage, the whole enchilada. Obviusly, it's intended to be over the top. I built the headers. It is NOT the "skull air cleaner" car....THAT car was built by another great guy in Olympia WA named Bob Biehler (Mr. Weld Hot Rods)...
A few changes's: crome here,polish there and remove the flame's and bling-o . Drive the wheel's off it so the next paint job is sooner than later. Is bueno, oui?
Isn't the guy that owns the car (Lillard, maybe) on the HAMB? Sign in is something like Badtodabone. And that car is. OK, I just read the post above and I guess it is his car.
Looks like a great time waiting to happen love the setup, like the colors but not a fan of the glitter.
I like it too. I like flashy, over the top stuff. Guys who go through life all reserved and subtle are sissys. A real man flies his freak flag loud and proud.
I think if I was to change anything, it would be wilder flames....EVERYWHERE!!!!...more candy....more pearls...more flake...more striping.....more more more!!!!!! More gas in the tank and more ME behind the wheel
Needs to be flat black, red steelies, & a SBC I'd leave it alone & drive it like I stole it....'cept spindle mounts on the front.
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