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Roofing the Model A
Lately I've had the Challenger bug again, so I've been trying to get the electrical done in the car. I figure a few more hours and I'll have it done, then maybe move onto some more body work, and get a fresh coat of primer on it, maybe even paint! I think I'd like to do a 440 again, that makes 3 times I've changed my mind since the original 440 spun a bearing.
Al's 1955 Chevy Gasser
The Pumpkin Smash @ Altamount Raceway
Norm's 1964 Chevelle Two Door Wagon This year was a crazy year for everyone! Here at the house before Jimmys my room mate Norm decided to get his 1964 Chevelle Two door Wagon going for the Picnic. Did he make? What all did he do? Check the pictures and see how far it came!!
Jimmy's Old Car Picnic!
This set of pictures were taken by Bill in San Francisco! Here's what he's got to say about these pictures:
California Hot Rod Reunion Here are the pictures Justin's buddy Greg took on Sunday, still waiting for the ones from Saturday. Greg has a 1200 horse '65 Nova that boogies down the track doing an 8-something. He's a cool guy, too!
Big Daddy Don Garlits fires up the Swamp Rat!!
Pure unadulterated hot rod sensory overload goodness!!
My 1931 Ford Coupe
Anywho, I'm not sure how it even ran, or why it didn't bend every single exhaust valve when they collided with the piston!!
Last Turlock swap I scored front and rear fenders for it for $70!! Model A Mike down the street hooked me up with the brackets and running boards for it, so I might try out fenders! I don't know what it is about the fenders, I love the stripped down hot rod look. As Pete said, maybe I just need to try them out so I can know for sure.
Bill's 1969 Dodge Coronet
Finally!
Photoshop for radical stance:
Way to go, Bill it's looking great! Looking mean with the bumblebee strip and the black steelies with chrome nuts! This has to be one of Chrysler's best musclecar body styles. Can't wait to see it in person again!!
Al's 1955 Chevy Gasser
Matt's Newest Addition: 1939 Ford 1/2 ton
Justin runs 12.40s at 122 MPH!!
Lots more pictures and videos coming, as soon as the files my way!!
Burnout!!
Scott Henderon's 1963 Chevy Nova
Working on the Challenger again!
Paso Robles Carshow 2007
See more HERE.
Greg's Gasser Ranchero!!
See more of Greg's Ranchero HERE.
5.19.2007 Kingdon Drags in Lodi CA
Hot Rod Rollcage fabrication!!!
My 1957 Chevy Truck
Scott "Snot" (Not Me!) Henderson's 1964 Chevy El Camino
So, now that my truck is going, I sold my Elco to another Scott, who has proceeded to put another front clip on it. We just have to put a new differential in it and it's out of my hair! Yay!! Lookin' good dude!
4.23.07 evening
Poppin' off Justin's Alcohol Injected 500 Caddy!!
It was a beautiful day so we decided to head out and shoot some pictures of our stuff.
Got it back together tonight and she runs pretty hard, nothing like a big block in a tiny car! Still needs to be tuned up, but feels good to have it running good again!!
Sacramento Autorama 2007
Go to the Relic's Car Club webpage for Jeremy's complete write-up on it.
My First 1968 Dodge Charger
My 1957 Chevy Truck drives!
Mike's 1930 Ford Coupe
Trevor's 1969 Chevy Camaro
Doug's 1957 Chevy Bel Air
Norm brought his camera with him down to Johns Burger last Friday, and took some cool pictures.
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Matt has cut out and replaced some rusty metal around the windshield in his lil' Nova. He has been busy with some filler work lately. Keep up the great work, Matt!!
Jason has come a LONG way with his Mustang!! You can see old pictures of it in the rides area.
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'Mopar' Bryan's 1966 Dodge Coronet
Bryan has got a 1966 Dodge Coronet with a built up 400 big block Chrysler, 727 automatic.
More pictures soon?
My Trip to the exhaust shop!
Livermore Muffler is pretty good, its the only exhaust shop I go to for all my stuff. Only $150 to put exhaust on my Model A, and $125 or so for Steve's Dart a whileback.
Winston took a couple pictures...
Last night our search for a “thrifty” way of melting aluminum to cast new club plaques led us finally to a reusable method. We “repurposed” an old oxygen bottle (empty for many years) into a makeshift furnace.
Sure it may look a little like R2D2, but it puts out one hell of a flame. After warming it up to operating temprature it melted an usable amount of aluminum in about 15 minutes. We didn’t time the warm up as it was interupted but I would venture a guess of about 30 minutes at 15psi on the propane. Once we get a successful pour I’ll detail our entire process from start to finish. Now we just need to work on a proper sand mixture and we’ll be ready to go!
The rest of the progress pics are here in our gallery.
Jim's Crazy Engine!!!
Lots of good stuff in this engine, Brodix heads, DART block, Eagle crank, the list goes on like that for days!!
The crown of this blower engine is Hillborne mechanical injection that has been modified to function as modern EFI! Very cool stuff!!
Jim says he was hoping to make 500 horsepower, but his engine guy is telling him to expect more like 800!!
Pictures of the truck soon!!
Marco sent me an email the other day. He writes:
I’m not sure if you remember me. It is a long time ago we have been comunicating a little. My name’s marco and i’m from switzerland europe. I saw your black charger few years ago, and thought I MUST have a car like this too. So i found a rotted project and you helped me out with some information, know-how tips and links were to find parts. After about 3000hours of work into the car, and around 100T US$ spent to parts and paint, i’m almost done. I thought you as a freak might be interested in my work and my final setup. This weekend i was on a test ride first time, even first time in a mopar ever. And it felt damn good!
I’m an office guy and it was my first restoration, but i gave my best and it came out very well i think. Attached you find some pictures. I hope you enjoy them. It is not finished yet, but winter is coming and still much time left to do that.
To the engine, i’ve built a stroker. It is a 72 charger block 474ci 0.60over, 11.5:1 diamond pistons, eagle H-beam rods, edelbrock heads, crane roller rockers, crower cam, holley race carb, electric holley fuelpump, edelbrock waterpump, flexalite dual fans, hedman ceramic c. headers, 3“ flowmaster pipes, spezial built reverse manual tranny, external b&m oil coolers, msd ignition with billet distributor and and and absolutely everything as been restored. The only thing i want to do is having a second hood with the sixpack scoop. There are different sizes available can you remember which one, and from which manufacturer you did get yours?
Wish you all the best, and hope to hear from you anytime. I like your site, and it helped me pushing my ass to continue with working. Thanks for that.. !! :-D
Greetz marco
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