(Bore) x (stroke) is 3.8125 x 3.625. Mine is bored .060 over, so it works out to approx. 342 cubic inches. Not huge by any stretch of the imagination...but probably big enough.
Sorry...too late. I painted the engine and carb bases last night. The pictures unfortunately don't really show the true color...it's really dark in the shop today. There's no outside light coming in because of thunderstorms here in Dallas. Anyway...it's House of Kolor Apple Red Kandy over Pagan Gold Kandy Basecoat over a fine silver metallic base. This is as close as I could get to the true color with the camera and a drop light. The Pagan Gold should show through the candy red a lot more in sunlight. Thanks to Big John Mazmanian for the inspiration.
Stainless that I chucked up in the drill press and turned the lettering off of. FLT-BLK did a tech post on here a while back after watching me do it. You can probably find it if you do a search. I got the idea from my hero, Big Ric. He does his bolts in a lathe though.
I hope you guys aren't getting tired of seeing this car yet. Anyway, I got the motor back in the chassis last night and rolled the car outside today to snap a few pics. The weight of the motor put the stance closer to where it needed to be. I painted the motor House of Kolor Candy Red over Pagan Gold...it shines pretty good in the sun. I started mocking up the '32 header panel above the windshield. I think it's going to end up looking good....but I have a lot of work ahead of me to get it to fit well. I also mounted the headlight stands to the frame and tacked in the cross bar. Gonna need some patch panels in the doors and quarters...this body was no prize to begin with. (Yes I know the door handle is upside down on this side...I need to order the right one.) I will be making the cowl fit the deuce frame instead of vice versa. Most people think the rails need to be pinched to fit the cowl..I think the cowl need to be spread to fit the deuce frame. 1" Lug nuts are influenced by Bonneville rule requirements. I got lucky and a 6 cyl Mustang fan I bought at the last swap meet fit perfectly. Just had to redrill the bolt pattern to fit the Hemi water pump. The motor is pretty much all assembled now except for the intake and valley pan. I wanted to leave them loose until I set the valves so I could pour some more assembly lube on the cam before firing the motor. Also need to make a remote thermostat housing and build a generator bracket among other things. I think I'll be able to fire it by Friday...wish me luck! Thanks for looking... -Brian.
Model A split bones off of another old hot rod...yes on the spring perch boss size. Went to put new clutches in the Posi yesterday and found that the pinion shaft is toast...glad I caught that. Finishing up the water outlet/ thermostat stuff right now...had to stop to eat.
I tend to agree with that. I did a quick photoshop of it with a reshaped quarter window opening, and I think I will make some changes there after the Roundup. Please keep in mind that this is a work in progress. I haven't done much to the body yet other than chop it and change the windshield/ header/ A-pillars. There are still more tricks to come. Here's the photoshop...you really can't tell what's been changed until you compare it to the original pic. Look at the quarter window and rear of the top... Original pic.... Thanks guys... -Brian
I feel like a new man after getting a good night's sleep for the first time in at least a month. The Roundup was bitchin'....I had a great time although I was exhausted throughout the whole weekend. It was great to meet a lot of new folks, and I apologize if I seemed a little out of it. I ended up working on the car 'til 5 am on Thursday night trying to get it ready to leave for the show. I have to thank FLT-BLK Tyler, Honest Charley, Phil Husband, Doug Daniel, and the Dude for their help on Thursday night...I couldn't have got it to where it was roadworthy without your help. Friday morning I woke up at about 9 am and finished a few of the last details. About 10:30 am I cranked the Coupe up and drove it around the block for the first time. We loaded it up on the trailer (groan...grumble) right after and headed down to Austin. Once we got there I unloaded it and got ready to drive it over to the Continental Club. This was the second time I'd driven the car. We got stuck in heavy afternoon traffic, and I found out real quick that the 13 lb radiator cap was too light. Spewed a little water, but still didn't get hot. The worst thing that happened was that the clutch was so far out of adjustment I had to stop and re-adjust it because I was having to slip it so bad...Smoke was pouring out of the bellhousing! Pretty scary. After a quick stop to fix that we made it to the Continental. Man...it was jam packed this year! Thanks to the guys for saving me a parking spot. It was awesome to see my good friend Big Ric again...here we are discussing the finer points of compression and massive cams. I think he liked the way the Hemi sounded by the look on his face. So Friday night was killer even though I was a walking zombie by the end of the night. After the cops showed up and took over the street, I thought I was going to have some trouble leaving the club, since my car is ABSURDLY loud. But I backed it out, a cop came over and reminded me to turn on the lights and off I went. The car did great on the way back to the hotel. It's got waaaayyyyy too much power for the tires, but it drives, steers, and handles great. I got it up to 90 or so on the highway and it tracks straight as a string. Saturday morning I woke up to find the car covered in rust from rain the night before and had to spend an hour scotchbriting the rust off. Thanks to Fat Mike for a hand with that. Got 'er cleaned up and hopped in to go to the show. Mike followed me and told me later that I white-smoked the tires in all four gears getting on the highway. He also said that the rear tires grow like slicks on a dragster. That's bitchin!! The car was running great on the way there until I ran out of gas about 25 yards from the show gate. Here's my dad guarding the car for me while I was gone to get gas. After I got it filled up with 5 gallons of premium and 2 cans of octane booster, it popped right back off and I got to experience what was the highlight of the show for me....driving it through the gates under its own power. Cackling, snarling, rockin and rollin....I think everyone on that side of the park stopped and looked to see what was making so much racket. Sorry for blowing grass all over the place by the way. One of the biggest compliments I think I got all weekend was when Jack Chisenhall told me "Hey that thing sounds like it's pretty rowdy." That's a compliment coming from a guy that drives a 200 mph Studebaker on the street. It was really surreal to me to be parked with the big guys over on the peninsula. It made my car look pretty ratty, but hopefully people could take a look at what I had done so far and realize that the body was the last thing to be attended to. It still needs a lot of work. The icing on the cake was receiving the "Kontinentals Pick" during the award ceremony. It was totally unexpected and I am just floored that the guys that put the show on chose to recognize me and my car when there were so many other awesome cars in the show. I am honored guys....thanks for giving me a place to show off my work. So in short it was a great weekend, and it was totally worth all the hard work I had to put in over that past 4 months. The car is slated for bodywork, shiny paint and a finished interior now, but I'm really glad I got the car to the show under its own power, even though I had to trailer it down there. Trust me it'll probably be the last time it's on a trailer unless it breaks something at the drags. Thanks to the Kontinentals for putting on a great show. Thanks to all the people I met and talked to for being so cool. Thanks to my friends that helped me get this car to where it is today...those mentioned above and also Jimmy White, Bob Wilson, and everyone else. I had a blast! -Brian
Here's some video of it running for a few seconds at the show compliments of Jai... It's no comparison to the real thing, but it's still pretty damn cool. Thanks Jai!
I think it was an 8 or 10 part series on the chop, I've watched it a few times, Bass has the skills, fun to watch. Damn, this thread started in 2005....
Anyone have a link to the Wade Coupe build? Curious about the specs on the Hemi in it. H Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Truly a passionate Hotrod builder and a master with Metal and Style...it never gets old...thanks @Bass
I’m not sure you realize it, but this thread is from 2006 (It is now 2023). The Hamb was different back then when it came to posting multiple photos. In the first few years of the Message board after the revamp in 2001, the Hamb did not have a good way to host photos, and members were encouraged to host their own photos on external photo album sites. I did that and it was not free to host photos that way. I finally got tired of paying the yearly fees to host the photos myself, and the red Xs you see are the result of that. In fact, the hosting service I was using back then doesn’t even exist anymore. I think I may still have most of the photos from this thread saved somewhere. If I get some time to go back and add the photos to this thread, I will.
A lot of the photos are still there on the continuation thread: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...e-bass-hemi-model-a-coupe-version-2-0.463952/
@Bass, I looked at the other thread and you did a great job on a timeless car and build style. It’s every bit as cool today as it was when you built it.
No problem Brian I understand. The way the HAMB is configured now is much better for posting pictures. Photo bucket was awful. I was just thinking about your coupe the other day and it made me remember the day I visited your shop and found you in the middle of laying out the numbers on the side of your red roadster. The flathead sounded great. Sometimes browsing through older posts and looking at the pictures is like a stroll through memory lane. Your coupe is one of my favourite builds. By the way I still have the T Shirts I bought while I was there, they’re a little bit worn by now but still around. I also managed to get my RPU finished, with the Tim McMaster Y block that you may or may not remember that I showed you some pictures of. Larry A short video of one of the first times I had it out and tuned to drive. https://youtube.com/shorts/qYdHM7AHXG0?feature=shared Thanks for the inspiration Brian. Larry
@Bass Brian did I see a pic of your car on FB somewhere today? You may have even replied about possibly building another one?
That was probably the Wade Coupe that you saw. (Different car, but I did comment that I wouldn’t mind building another one like that.) Although there was a new photo posted over the weekend of my coupe from The Gathering at the Roc show in Oklahoma this year. That was the first time I’d driven the car out of Texas in about 10 years. Made it up there and back without any issues, a 700+ mile round trip.
Bass- I've loved your coupe ever since seeing it rip down at little river probably 15? years ago, and I wore out my shirt with the Wade coupe. I recently built this model inspired by both cars. I used a 32 3w coupe for the header on mine.
First time I’d ever seen the coupe move or make noise and was 100% not let down. That’s a fucking hot rod. Super happy you road tripped up to the roc in it.
I had the opportunity to see The Bass Coupe at the Hunnert Car Pileup in 2006. Here's a photo I took that day.... @Bass I wish the newer HAMBers could have experienced shows like this.....or even the HAMB in the early 2000's.......LOL.....it was a much different place around here back then
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