Although this project was bought from me, it was by an old friend so we are working together to finish it ASAP. We are now in the final ***embly stages. We hope to put the engine and trans in tomorrow and maybe have the complete body on by friday. Don
We are waiting for a master cylinder to arrive and a couple of smalll items left but I am onto to my new project while we wait. here are a few more pics.
Don looks great, but the pink drink gl***es have to go..... He He He Trying to figure out what the small vertical black box is on the firewwall with the red toggle switch?
Vern Christy (Worked for IHRA at several Canadian drag strips) who bought it from me and who I raced and worked with 41 years ago is using the car for the Taggz program.(Kids ID tags) He told me the pink and yellow JUMP in a foto so that is why he choose them. I am just helping him finish it now. Colour and such are up to him. I asked him about the box. He told me it is there so people will ask "whats that for?" Really that is what he said. He reads the mail here maybe he will jump in.
I asked him about the box. He told me it is there so people will ask "whats that for?" That is great, I guess it works....
One of the things I did on this build that I would do again is bring the steering out the right hand (p***enger side) and underneath. It turned out to be very simple to do and eliminated thehole in the firewall or side of the body normaly required. The steering link goes to the steering arm much straighter and the whole deal is to me much cleanner. At the suggestion of a friend and felllow racer who asked "why cant you put this steering arm under the axle instead of on top". I , since i didnt have a good answer, tried it . It fit perfectly and further cleaned up the look of the front axle. Although he is not a builder the idea was a good one and so I kept it. If you enlarge these pics you can plainly see the under the frame rail steering in the above pic and the under the axle steering arm in the bottom one. It actually works very well.
Its done. It left today in a U haul trailer for Toronto OnTrac show. Because the big race trailer Vern bought was still at the paint shop we had to borrow a set of front wheels from Mike the Willys guy so we could squeeze it in the trailer. We had about .030" to spare in width. Vern will put the slicks back on once he unloads it. Has been hard for us ol boys to get this done but we were done with a couple of days to spare. I am very pleased with its looks. Pictures dont realy do it justice. It is going to the Taggz program which some of you will be familiar with. Shop seems empty now. Just the Sr dragster ther MAX Wedge and the new FED project. Tis a good feeling though when it all comes together. Projects are fun but there is great satisfaction in finishing one. So this will be it for this thread I guess unless Vern wants to take it over from here. Don
That's pretty awesome. This local guy has an old Jeep flat fender pickup. I always thought one of those would make a cool g***er, 'specially if you shortened the bed.
Body is fabbed from .050 aluminum. I made a plywood version and had the metal shop repo it in aluminum. It is all on my website under HE-EP. 5.7 hemi 904 trans 8 3/4 narrowed rear end. The grill is from an early postal Jeep. I narrowed it down to three bars and welded it back together. This is what popped out about 5 months later. Weighs just over 1400 .lbs The 63? Thanks. My favourite . 426 MAX WEDGE with nascar rev2 single four max wedge intake.
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