Dave,she's lookin pretty wicked! Where did you get the top chopped hmmmmmmm? I better get a ride in that when it's done!!!!
Oh yea,you better bring that down for next years party,again, but drivable!!!!! We'll take it down main street and scare the shit outa some people!!!!
mothers will be pulling thier rugrats off the curbs when this bad mother thunders by,ain't no doubt in my mind.that bitch is flat nasty sittin there.gonna be in "minnasoder"in january,love ta see it up close.
HOLY MOTHER OF CHRIST DAVE!!! THAT IS FUCKING AWSOME!!! uh, that said, and I DO mean it, can we have a recap on the build ? that is just way too cool!! I love it! Paul
I bought the car out of a junkyard last November, and did a bunch of bodywork to it over the winter. I built the frame when spring came around, based on a boxed A rails. Motor is a Golden Lion 413 from a ’59 Chrysler. A push button 727 backs it up. Rear end is a solid mounted mopar 8-3/4, spinning a 3.91:1 sure-grip. Brakes are Imperial. Front end is ford type with a model A transverse leaf spring, drilled ’34 axle, ‘40 split wishbone, ’36 plymouth hydraulic lever shocks. The ’40 spindles were reworked by me to fit the 12 spokes. It will use a reversed corvair box and side steer. Rear tires are Hoosier recaps, fronts are rotten old hoosier front runners. Steering column will be ’62 plymouth, seats are dodge A-100 van, pedals and master are ’63 valiant. Gauges will be a sun half sweep tach and moon oil preasure gauge. Fuel tank is an old Eelco unit supplying fuel to a stewart warner 240. All the fuel fittings are stolen off a surplus naval rocket launcher… I think the body was an old dirt track roundy-round racer. It was cut all to hell when I got it, the quarters were torched up for a roll bar, and the wheel wells notched for rear end clearance. The 6” channel job was half finished when I bought it. We chopped the top 6” at Scoop327’s barn fresh burnout this summer. This was the only work done under a roof on the car; everything else was done in my driveway. I plan on making an aluminum panel to fill in the top, and then drilling it full of holes; a friend of mine named it the “Cheese Grater” for the top treatment. The taillights are ’62 plymouth. The motor was done entirely by me, it’s a stock bore 413, with about 9.5:1 compression. Uses mildly worked over 516 heads, and a .500” hydraulic cam with 292 duration installed straight up. Intake is a ’63 max wedge cross ram, using ’62 max wedge carter carbs for now. The Strombergs are stock, 2 are 48 and 2 are 97s. Headers are 2” tube, TIG welded by me. Scintilla Vertex magneto by Ronco fires champion plugs through solid clear red spark plug wires, as recommended by Don Fransisco. Crank is stock and swings stock LY rods. For street use I’ll mount a model T gas tank in the trunk, a ’62 mopar radiator, and clamp some headlights to the framerails. I have a bunch stuff to do on it yet, steering, brakes, wiring, cut some lexan for it, stitch up a few interior panels, driveshaft, finish welding on the roof, mount the body, the list goes on. Dave
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