Hot Rods "The Official Model A Roadster Thread" (PICS)

My Dad's 777ag was finished in '48 and he street raced it until the mid 50's all over Southern CA. My uncle Ron, my Dad's youngest brother, swears up and down to this day that this car was the inspiration for Tony Nancy's first 22 because they would go up to the San Fernando Valley and whoop the crap out of Tony's '32 coupe. My Uncle Ron was a good friend of Tony's and the 777 was sold to one of Tony's buddies in the SFV in '58 and it took me until a few years ago to re-locate it and buy it back from an oil field mechanic in Texas. I never knew how cool Dad was until I started studying some of his cars. This car started out with flatheads and he tossed an Ardun with a blower in it for awhile and a 180 degree crank, that combo scattered when Nitro was added. Then a Hilborn injected, nitro burning Cadillac was run and finally the Red Ram injected and later blown. The car was a combination of '28AR and '29 parts. Originally it had a 3/4 ton truck floating rear axle with a Franklin box converted to center steer and a LaSalle trans. Later it was updated with a Halibrand big car center steer unit, a Halibrand Champ quick change with Ford large truck floaters and Halibrand spot disc brakes on the rear. It was state-of-the-art in its day.
It was run at the Smokers events at Taft, before Famoso, and at Famoso but not many other events because Dad said there was no money to be made on the drag strips; the real money was made on the streets.

 

777-
That car is badass!!! I can only imagine the havoc that car created back in the day. People tend to look at the '50s as the era of the custom, but there were some wicked hotrods running the streets, and that car is a perfect representative of a real '50s hot rod.

 

777! Talk about inspiration!!

 

What I did was to take a sport coupe rear clip, roadster doors and cowl and narrowed a '32 frame to fit under it. I added 2 inches in height to make it the same as a '32 and then slightly channeled it on the frame. This is like the Green Grenade, but only done with a roadster. It has an all aluminum Buick 215 V8, 4 speed and a V8 quick change.

Here is the build thread:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=587868

 

From the pics I have of them building it, it was pretty crude but when you really look at it the damn thing is so close to a stocker it's ridiculous. There were no body mods other then stripping it down and cutting the hole for the drag link and taking the firewall out.
The frame was just a step in the rear rails; split the wishbone added a Dago Axle and the roll bar.

 

A few more collected mostly from the Hamb (of coarse).

 

not sure if A model coupesters fit in here but im the current owner of this one


Shot at 2011-10-09

 

WOW,thats a long W B ---what frame is it on?

 

Long frame...rides good, handles good. That car is pure sex!!

 

Mine's nothing fancy.

 

Here is a pic of my new project. Banger with dual carbs..still locating parts,gaskets and some odds and ins..looking for front stock shocks..

 

the frame is kustom built WB is 119"

 

A bump with a few more I thought were cool.

 

Summer and a winter shot of mine.

 

Here is mine. Its not much, but a pile of parts at this point.

 

Great Thread! I love roadsters... Snapped these this year at the Showdown...

 

Heres one I rescued.

 

Very cool site.

Frenchy

 

Damn son , that ride is a classic. Don't touch it it's perfect

 

Here's my '29 on pinched '32 rails. '64 Buick Nailhead 425 bored .030 over that I dressed up to look like an earlier nailhead. I apologize for the large pictures.

 

x 2......very cool ride!

 

Roadsters with glove boxes are cool and that one sure is.

 

Man....That thing sits very nice on that Deuce frame. What a ton of work to get that thing to sit like that. Beautiful.

 

Once again, Tover's A-V8.

 

"Here's my '29 on pinched '32 rails. '64 Buick Nailhead 425 bored .030 over that I dressed up to look like an earlier nailhead."

Great looking car 30Tudor.

A few more pics I've collected lately. Yes, we like trucks and Phaeton's too. Right?

 

my junk....but it is mine!!

 

The '30 roadster just hangin' out..........

 

Things might change later this year.

 

That's a very nice car!

 

my 1930 big block mopar 4 speed