whats up all!!!!! im james and ive been around hotrods all my life and am working on a 47 plymouth business coupe. Ive owned several different hotrods over the last few years i started at 19 with a 1955 second series chevy truck and it was a project that my grandfather and i started and unfortunately he didnt get to finish. ya see he passed away in the middle of the project and it took me a while before i could work on it again. i finished it about two years later and enjoyed a few shows and won a few trophys but decided i wanted another. unfortunately i couldnt afford it without selling the truck. so i did and came across a 1950 desoto custom club coupe. i was told it was a pretty rare car but it was just another car to a 21 year old lol i was told i could never cut/chop/french anything, it would ruin the rareness of the car. so i believed them and simply drove it around stock for about a year. while at a show in town i noticed a fella passing out fliers about a plymouth he had for sale. it was a 47 and it just had an overhauled original flat-six and tranny put back in it. well as we all know i had to have it. the old man wanted something else so i offered him a trade for my car and a little money cause his car was a little nicer then mine. he stubernly accepted my offer and away i went with my new ride. since then ive managed to drop the thing to the ground and begin the process of tunneling the floor. i went down a total of 7 inches in the back and 4 in the front. i didnt do it the way most people do, no it isnt bagged. i did it ole school i moved my spring purches in the back and made a pocket for the front spring to sit down farther into the lower controll arm. my tires kick out a little in the fornt but i figure ill adress that with some enginuitey later. i found an offey two-one barrel intake and am making my own duel exhaust manifold. well enough about me! see ya>>> ps: if anyone has some sudgestions on the front tire issue without bagging or a measly two inch drop spindle please reply thanks
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