Hot Rods LIVE WIRE gets a transplant: Rebuild thread

Tell you painter I said Hi, I talk to him once in a while about old school BMX bikes...Your car is one of my faves honey!!

 

Wait til he tells you how much he wants for it, haha!


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I'm gonna have to go with..........RAD.

 

Awesome dude! Glad to see the coupe getting some loving, looking forward to your progress. If you don't mind me asking, what did happen to the original headers you had? I really liked those on your car, bad@ss

 

My friend Shaun has a top shift LaSalle in his Model A behind a built 390 Ford. Things are bullet proof!!

 

Like titus said- you can use that trans and use a slip-driveshaft.

I have one but it was in the fire- I had this caddy setup for my shoebox with that long style lasalle and you use a fiftys jeep driveshaft- they have the same u-bolt/ bolt on setup as the cadillac. I'll see if I can find it and snap a pic- Its trad- I seen an article in a littlebook and located the driveshaft from Johnny whos the king of willy's jeeps- ;-)

Tuck

 

Fuck yeah Man!, Piero 3 pedals are the way forward.

Nick.

 

Thanks Tuck.. I'm sure between you , Bleed, Titus and Johnny..will get it to work..

I would love to see a pic if you can find the time... Are you coming to the Round Up?

 

You got some great guys helping you, but if you need anything let me know...L.B.

 

Thank you Lynn I might take you up on that!

 

Watching with intrest...this is going to be good stuff! I have the others, so if you need anything for referencing just give me a call or drop by.

Steve

 

YES I'm coming

 

Sweet! Looking towards to meeting you guys.

(Disclaimer: this is my first LSRU. Go easy on me)


iPhone - TJJ app

 

hahahaha great video

 

Awesome piero!!!! Good luck brother.... It's gonna be nice!!!!

 

Hey Piero. I sold some of my old caddy stuff on a Cadillac lasalle forum. They have a classified section, and I saw a guy selling some Cadillac ambulance stick shift parts if you still need anything.

Hope it goes well. Let me know when it is back to the house.

 

Piero,

My roadster has a '37 Lasalle transmission with the short, Ford closed driveshaft tail section. If you are not going to use an early ford type rearend and Torque Tube, I can't see the advantage. Other than maybe because it is so much shorter. My car has a closed tube and a Columbia, so it all works together great. If you use the Lasalle shifter, it won't need much bending but I do recommend chrome...

If you have any questions or need any measurements, don't hesitate to ask.

Later,
Kevin

 

thats what im talkin about!

p cakes my question is yet to be answered here and ill make it shorter

sooooooooooooooooooooooooo dose this mean you'll actually drive the damb car?

 

haha...ain't that the truth,

anyway, i'll be watching this closely man, hope it all goes well!

 

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Wasn't what I was expecting...!

That's the fun of CGI...

Great to see the coupe on the front burner again... get er done!

 

I love the little books... Kinda fitting question..rodding and restyling 1959

 

I found many of answer for my 265 in those little books. The rest came from Chris whose like my own large ogre like little book with good taste in parts.

Has this swap started yet or are you tailgating in Austin already?

 

Were gonna start on it after the round up.. Gotta pick up some parts there.. Can't wait!

I actually had a dream the other night and i was driving the car for the first time with the lasalle and it was like heaven..woke up very happy

 

theres just something about a lasalle thats cooler than anything else

 

I'm looking at hotel prices right now. There's a good change I might get back down there this year. Who knows though. Gonna be an interesting 19hr drive with my 20 month old son Memphis along for the ride!!!

I feel like my '35 (the Wizard) is going to be the new live wire in the sense I had it done since October but haven't drove it since I have issues to deal with before I can. Is there a Live Wire curse your cast upon me? I want to make mine explode too.

 

You said dukey.....haha.
Cool to see a manual going it my personal favorite Model A......it's gonna be RAD....man...

 

I have to agree 100% I just think that Caddy motor needs a Caddy trans...

No Live Wire Curse that I know of.. that was more of a bad decision,, hhahaha its simply called Hot Rodding...

Thanks Dude... I'm really excited to get that thing in there and blast those 3 gears ..

 

Some pics I took.

 

Try again.