Arthur
03-08-2005, 10:59 PM
Just joined tonight. Found this site in a roundabout way while researching Y-Block Ford blowers and intakes. I'm putting a E-Bird 312 in a 34 Ford pickup. Leaving the body stock except for paint,and hooking a 3-speed+ od tranny out of a 80's Ford pu to the Y-Block because it looks like a 39 Ford shifter sticking up out of the center of the floor,and because it will allow me to run a 8 iinch rear with 3:25 gears and more modern rear suspension. Going to keep the beam axle up front,and will probably use drum brakes on all 4 corners. I will be running black steel wheels with narrow whitewall radials and 49 Merc hubcaps. No ps,no pb,no ac. Gonna put a heater in it,and maybe a AM-FM radio out of a 56 Olds that I have been saving. With a Y-block with glasspacks,who really wants to listen to anything else?
I also have a "East Coast Style" 32 Ford 5-window coupe that I almost have ready to put on the road. This car was probably originally built sometime back in the late 40's or early 50's. Body is unchopped but channelled 7 inches,and it has a 122 inch wheelbase with a suicide front axle to give it that popular "Altered gas coupe" drag car look. The chassis was bent,twisted,and cracked when I bought the car,and it even had a galvanized pipe front crossmember and a single outlet master cylinder with a "T" at the chassis and copper brake lines. Which most likely explains why the chassis was bent and twisted. Had to build new boxed frame rails to weld over the stubs,so I decided to go ahead and modernize it with a 4-bar setup up front instead of the hairpins.
Been interested in old cars and hot rods all my life. My brother was 12 years older then me,and he and all his friends were into hot rods back when I first noticed cars in 1955-1956. My brother had a 2 year old 54 Merc Monterey with dual quads and a Isky cam in 56,but there were two coupes VERY similiar to the one I have now on the block where I grew up in Virginia Beach,Virginia. One was a Model A with a Chrysler hemi and 6 97's,and the other was a 32 coupe with a Chryselr hemi and 8 97's. Only guy around who ran a SBC was a guy who had a 55 Chevy 210. Even the guy who had the 33 Chevy Master 4dr his aunt gave him had a 6 carb Caddy engine and hydro in it. He was in high school and working at a gas station at the time. I saw him and this car years later (we had moved to NC in 62) at the drag strip,and it was the second show-quality hot rod I had ever seen that was actually driven. Had a black lacquer paing job so slick a fly couldn't land on it,red rolled and pleated interior,chrome wire wheels,and a dual quad 327 Chevy with a 4-speed. The first show-quality hot rod I ever saw was also seen at that drag strip. It was a 34 Dodge coupe named "Slo-Motion" that belonged to a sailor out of Norfolk,and it had a 394 Olds J-2 engine with a B&M Hydro-Stick and Olds rear. LOVE those old Mopars! Probably going to end up selling my 32 Ford coupe to get a 33-34 Dodge or Plymouth coupe.
Just recently got back into cars after being forced into retirement after VN caught up with me. Was a career NCO in the US Army back in the 60's,and didn't have a place to work on or store cars. Got into Harley's instead,and played around building and riding Harley's until I got to where I couldn't raise my leg high enough to get on one. Decided to get back into cars because of that and because I now have a permanent address and a place to work on them. Pretty much have zero interest in any car built after around 1964,and pretty much like everything built between 1925 and 1964. Even have a 58 Rambler stationwagon! I no longer drink,smoke,do drugs or gamble,so I spend all my money on hot rod parts and tools.
I also have a "East Coast Style" 32 Ford 5-window coupe that I almost have ready to put on the road. This car was probably originally built sometime back in the late 40's or early 50's. Body is unchopped but channelled 7 inches,and it has a 122 inch wheelbase with a suicide front axle to give it that popular "Altered gas coupe" drag car look. The chassis was bent,twisted,and cracked when I bought the car,and it even had a galvanized pipe front crossmember and a single outlet master cylinder with a "T" at the chassis and copper brake lines. Which most likely explains why the chassis was bent and twisted. Had to build new boxed frame rails to weld over the stubs,so I decided to go ahead and modernize it with a 4-bar setup up front instead of the hairpins.
Been interested in old cars and hot rods all my life. My brother was 12 years older then me,and he and all his friends were into hot rods back when I first noticed cars in 1955-1956. My brother had a 2 year old 54 Merc Monterey with dual quads and a Isky cam in 56,but there were two coupes VERY similiar to the one I have now on the block where I grew up in Virginia Beach,Virginia. One was a Model A with a Chrysler hemi and 6 97's,and the other was a 32 coupe with a Chryselr hemi and 8 97's. Only guy around who ran a SBC was a guy who had a 55 Chevy 210. Even the guy who had the 33 Chevy Master 4dr his aunt gave him had a 6 carb Caddy engine and hydro in it. He was in high school and working at a gas station at the time. I saw him and this car years later (we had moved to NC in 62) at the drag strip,and it was the second show-quality hot rod I had ever seen that was actually driven. Had a black lacquer paing job so slick a fly couldn't land on it,red rolled and pleated interior,chrome wire wheels,and a dual quad 327 Chevy with a 4-speed. The first show-quality hot rod I ever saw was also seen at that drag strip. It was a 34 Dodge coupe named "Slo-Motion" that belonged to a sailor out of Norfolk,and it had a 394 Olds J-2 engine with a B&M Hydro-Stick and Olds rear. LOVE those old Mopars! Probably going to end up selling my 32 Ford coupe to get a 33-34 Dodge or Plymouth coupe.
Just recently got back into cars after being forced into retirement after VN caught up with me. Was a career NCO in the US Army back in the 60's,and didn't have a place to work on or store cars. Got into Harley's instead,and played around building and riding Harley's until I got to where I couldn't raise my leg high enough to get on one. Decided to get back into cars because of that and because I now have a permanent address and a place to work on them. Pretty much have zero interest in any car built after around 1964,and pretty much like everything built between 1925 and 1964. Even have a 58 Rambler stationwagon! I no longer drink,smoke,do drugs or gamble,so I spend all my money on hot rod parts and tools.