Projects Race of Gentlemen - Build Thread

When I first saw the Race of Gentlemen pictures and videos, I knew it was something that I wanted to be a part of. I've always been a fan of reliability runs and races, favoring them over static car shows. While I enjoy a good car show, a sitting car just never gives the car the justice it deserves. So, we decided to throw our hat in and build a pre-war, Muroc, style race car and plan to travel to New Jersey to participate in the Race of Gentlemen this coming October 2-5, 2014. To say I am excited, can't even explain how I feel right now.

I've already started piecing things together and my goal is to have this car race ready well in advance of the event. I'll be building this as a side project to the three other full builds I have going at the shop here at Clayton's Hot Rods and the busy car show schedule we have this summer.

Here is what we have so far. The '29 Roadster body and chassis was from my friend Dave's father Bruce (an avid car collector and hot rodder) who had recently passed away. Bruce was building the chassis and sedan for touring. He had a built c-motor with unknown internals.

The build plan goes as follows:
- high rise, two carb manifold
- two Stromberg 97 Barn Finds
- high compression head
- vertex mag
- homemade header
- '39 transmission
- 3.54 geared rear end
- 17" Kelsey's
- model A mechanical brakes
- 32' commercial grille shell
- one piece hood top
- no windshield or headlights
- tonneau cover
- brushed on washington blue with temporary race lettering

 

Looking good so far.

 

Looks like a great start man! I've heard nothing but awesome things about the race of gentlemen. I will go one day and I will have a car to run as well. I look forward to seeing this build. Good luck!

 

sweet build, she's gonna be an awesome car!

 

Man that body looks solid!

 

Looks like an exciting build,,,,

 

COOL, good luck!

 

Man Mel and the boys are gonna have their hands full picking some of the cars this year , myself and several others are putting together 28 29 roadsters for consideration for this years event ! There will be no shortage of killer period perfect race roadsters to pick from


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love the intake...try and not look at where the link came from , but the information therein. have fun!

http://www.team-integra.net/forum/b...e-manifold-tech-runner-size-calculations.html

 

Looking great.....I am sure you will not be sorry that you are going to all the work to build this hot rod. The race event will make it all worth while......But you will have to beat Andy and that might be hard to do. Good luck...

 

Rodders Journal #63 has a cool story about the Race of Gentlement. Another thing to see someday...

 

Thanks guys for the positive feed back. Will post soon.

 

Will be watching this one. Keep the updates coming, looks like a fun build.

 

awesome man

 

Got the roadster in the shop today. Time to get serious...

 

cool roadster! I like the banger....Look forward to seeing your car there. Good luck on the build!

-Mike

 

Good luck, looking forward to seeing this on the beach! Also great paint color choice!

 

Boss!!!!!! Subscribed!

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Looks awesome! I love prewar-ish stuff!

 

Man,that roadster has got the look..gow! HRP

 

Good work, Clay. The 97s are on their way. Can't wait to follow progress and then see it at TROG.

 

Very nice! 31-34 MoPar clusters are WAY underrated!

 

Gonna be bitchin, good luck getting it onto the sand! Such a cool event, gotta put it on the list!

 

Thanks gwhite I was wondering what that gauge cluster came out of. Got it in brush paint, not exactly washington blue but cool none the less. Mixed 1 quart blue one pint black. Knocked some of the motor down, confirmed a recent rebuild with counter balanced crank,adjustable lifters and a diamond block . Ordered an exhaust flange for the header. Clive from www.stromberg-97.com gave us a deal on some barn find 97's for some signage on the roadster. Check out the barn finds on his site there really neat and they will fit our build perfectly. got a finned side cover but still looking ford a rare high compression head something that is not reproduced preferably. If you guys know of anything send me a pm . Thanks

 

Looks like fun, this show/race is on my bucket list after seeing video and pics from last year. Very cool!! Its like the races at Pendine Sands.

 

I believe that cluster is out of a '31 Plymouth.

 

Three Thumbs up Clay!

 

Got a little more done on the Race of Gentlemen car ,fabricated the header mounted the fuel tank and order a few things. Got my barn find stromberg carbs from Clive, they look the part perfectly. working on a few leads on heads.The grille shell is not finaled. Will post again soon.

 

Having a hard time with pictures...

 

Cool car! Love seeing videos and photos of this event!


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