History Your wildest street cars..

Howdy Kevin!

Jeff Jones, Bakersfield.

 

My daily driver. Had it since '65, on the road from about '71 thru '73 in VERY DANGEROUS form. Tore it down in '74, finally rebuilt it to semi- safe current condition in '95, been driving it ever since. last shot is a dream scenario created by sister on Photoshop. Never piss off someone who knows PotoShop!!

 

Same as me I had to sell a 56 ford sedan I had just put A 390 in. A large hammer to the firewall was needed.

 

My '51 coupe has a sleeper look, a 392 hemi under the hood.

A narrowed 9" Currie rear, T400 with a Gear Vendors OD plus HH Aluminum heads, Isky cam, MSD, etc

 

Wow...That is a sleeper..Never saw one like it.Great car

 

Hi Jeff, we should catch up some time whenI'm in Bakersfield.

 

Had a 427 in this, about 11 to one compression, dual quads, 4 speed. The baddest bitch I ever drove. Make a Hemi Cuda cry. Now its a 327, may not make anyone cry, but I can afford to drive her.

 

Great looking car..I've always liked the 59 EL CAMINO in fact here's a rendering I did for the FAS a while back of a "Slightly Modified Version"

 

Come on guys ...Dig out those old pictures !!!!!

 

Dangit. I really liked the work it had going on.

And that F1 for sale.... uh.. they can keep it

 

HAMBERS from Indiana, trying to locate this car, sold in 1979, to the Baumgartner boys (?) Huntington, IN or Bluffton IN (?) I know this is OT.

 

I think your old car is the subject of this very recent Hot Rod Magazine article.

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/russia-hacks-chevrolet-steals-camaro-design/

 

AH did you look at the DATE on that article???

 

Assembling that carb setup looks a little dicey! Getting all the tubes connected with the carbs properly spaced must have been an all-afternoon project.

 

Yes, the text of the article is a complete fabrication for April Fool's Day. I'm saying the photos look to be the same car with a lot of bad fiberglass work done to it.

*edit* 1927Graham reached out to me and indicated this is a different body, but made by the same manufacturer that made his.

 

allthough ive only tested it on the street, the pic is an undoctored pic it now runs a 429 ford and has been to the pub down the road for a beer a few times for a laugh the chap who's drive i do a 10 point turn in loves old cars so all is good.

 

how it looks now

 

Seen this for sale and thought of your post.

 

A little less pain in the neck this way LOL.

 

I owned a very early hipo '65 (some call it 64.5, but that's not correct) Mustang. Notchback, of course, with T10 4 speed 3.25 gears and mostly bondo. I had no clue what I had until I called the old Ford museum with the VIN to find out its history. That's what you did, back before internetz. They ended up bugging me to donate it, but ended up buying it when I went off to college. Even though it was quite tired and made a little smoke, it would still get rubber in all 4 gears. (Good year Blue Streak bias plies!!!)

The wildest car I ever owned, I was 50/50 in with my best friend. We found a '68 Belvedere 4 door sedan, which had a 440 cross ram dual quad setup, I suppose it was from the factory. You could no kidding get that big old front end to lift enough to scare the crap out of two 17 year old kids. Dad wondered why I would spend $400 on half of a "family car", but he didn't know what was under the hood.

 

A well known hot rod collector/builder has been searching for this car. I got a call from him today and he said, "are you sitting down? I found your car". Wow, this has been an emotional rollercoaster!!!

 

Here are a few of the pavement pounders I've owned.
All were licenced, and I drove everyone of these on the
street, through out the 60's - 70's - 80's and some into the 90's.

'29 Ford roadster, Blown Chry Hemi.
'41 Willys, (PSYCO), Blown 427 Chev
'60 Vette, 383 Chev with 2 4's.
'65 'Stang, 430 hp. sb Ford,,, Bought New, still have it tucked
away it in a corner of my shop for the last 43 years.
To the Mods, If any of these last 3 offend the rules here, please Delete... thx, Lanny
'66 Corvette, 427 Chev
'66 Cobra, 427 Ford
'67 Camaro, 454 with 2 4's

Sorry for the crappy old pics. Click on pics to Enlarge.

 

@Lionheart ....All great cars but I sure would have liked to give the Willys a whirl !

 

I used to dream of mustang's like that as a kid.... Nice

 

So that would be the one we broke the most parts on? My dropped in 396. in an old 409 SS car ....thread to follow some day....

 

UPDATE 4/29/2017: I am now in negotiations to buy back my street driven funny car I built in 1971, I know this is OT but what the heck, I'm excited!!

 

Well.....I'm reliving being 15 years old again and pretending it is the mid-1970's. I couldn't afford a cool car but my friends who were a couple of years older than me all had muscle cars, mostly Mopars. I worked on my friends cars and never forgot the looks and the raked stance of those cars.

So I have been working on this for 3 years now. 1964 Plymouth - Car has built 360 bored .30 over, 727 with reversed valvebody, fenderwell headers, rollcage, trans brake, narrowed Ford rearend spool 4.11 runs high 10's low 11's depending on exhaust.

Each weekend I put the car at the end of my driveway ( I live on the water on a scenic drive - lots of old cars pass by on weekends). I take out some old rusted jack stands, a ghetto blaster from 1981, and a cassette ( yes a cassette ) and blast Dark Side of the Moon as loud as I can. I just feel like a teenager again. Lots of cars stop and people just come to chat. It's awesome.

Here is a pic.



Here is vid of engine running. Love the sound of this engine. ( Yes, the " triangle of death" air filter has been changed. )



Cool thread. I can't believe the builds on here. It is very humbling. Just awesome work guys.

 

Wow that's cool...Hope you able to put a deal together. Will you still be able to drive it on the street with the current laws???