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That's a cool car. I especially like that the roll bar looks like it was designed more to protect the Weber carburetors than the driver's head....
I like the front and the rear wheel openings, but not the mismatch. Also, is that really a 63? Did they take out the split window?
Live axle Corvettes are the most hot rod production cars ever. Lightweight roadster body, obsolete chassis and the best motor you can find. That...
I remember trying to build a 1/24 scale version of that from an AMT model kit of a Falcon Ranchero when I was a kid. It was an abject failure. A...
I like the 12 cylinder distributor. It's like an old school dirt track hack on what otherwise looks like a total high buck Yuro car.
When I lived in Brooklyn in the 60s there was a serious street racing scene on Connecting Highway and Cross Bay Boulevard. It might still be going...
In 1970 I had a chance to buy Corvete no. 46 for $150. It was in tough shape but I had a rusty 1958 Biscayne with a strong 283 that it could have...
The guy who designed the 49 Buick taillights could have come up with something better than the 53 Corvette lights. Maybe 1953 was when Harley...
I agree. They should have used 1949 Roadmaster tail...
Live axle Corvettes are the most hot rod production cars ever. Lightweight roadster body, obsolete chassis and the best motor you can find. What's...
I want to like it but it's too nice for a TROG car so I'm sort of in the middle on it. I think I would have liked it better if he had started with...
In no particualr order: 63 Riviera (I like the rear bumper and taillights, and the round headlights in the square grill) 63 Avanti (I really like...
That checks all the hot rod boxes for me. Straight axle chassis, souped up flat head and a lightwehgt body mounted in a way its original designer...
I saw both those cars in a museum 30 years ago. I was impressed with how crude LeMonstre looked and how ridiculous a Coupe DeVille in racing...
FIFY Never forget what they did.
His first mistake was that he didn't put the motor and the driver's seat INSIDE the drop tank. That would have been awesome.
That car is perfect. I don't usually care much for body mods, but the raised wheel arches look perfect. But what really caught my eye was the 4...
Great film. The woman in the whitr dress at 47 seconds is my mom.
I would almost hate to find something like that just because I couldn't bring myself hot rod it. Almost.
I'd like to admire that truck in my neighbors driveway. I like the idea of keeping it mostly stock, until I think about finding brake parts and...
I couldn't get any sound but it reminded me of the "cross at the green not in between" stuff from when I was a kid. That never caught on in NY...
If those are worth more than $1500, they must have been involved in some kind of well know event, like an accident that killed somebody famous...
Maybe it's Blue Flame, 265, 283, 327, 396, 427 and nothing else matters.
There was never a C1. It's live axle, mid-year, chrome bumper, rubber bumper, C4, C5...etc.
Make it a driver. Unless it's a fuelie and you have all the trim, make it a 50 foot car. Live axle Corvettes want to be hot rods, not customs....
I knew a guy who did that. He swapped a 289 from a GT350 into a 56 Vette. It turned out the motor was from a stolen Hertz rental. The car was...
OK I was too harsh. In my defense, I was almost killed when I spun out my mom's base model Corvair on Grand Central Parkway. How about best...
Is there category for the best dashboard in the worst car? [ATTACH]
I love that Bonneville Buick. I wonder wht would make anyone build something like that. Did the builder have some secret knowledge of 1952 Buick...
Now that I read this I realize what I really want is to be 17 again.
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