Projects Border Bandits Gas class builds to the Southeast Gassers rules.

Man, can't wait until I get to that point. Looks awesome congratulations. Must be a great feeling. Hurry up and get that trim on there so we have more to drool over.

 

Man, I hate red normally but that car is killer! I liked it before but i think i'm gonna be in love when I finally get to see it with the slick paint and a cammer!

 

Yea I normally wouldn't pick red either but the car just looked good to me red when I bought it so I stuck with it. It does pay to own a body shop though I actually changed both colors on it yesterday morning we had to mix up new colors as I was painting it. It was actually supposed to be more of a orangy red and a cream white. I decided to go with a bright red and bright white and I'm really glad I chenged it.

 

Great chose screams vintage
I am not worthy. Hats off man!!

 

Perfect, it's going to be one of the nicest gassers around inside and out.

 

3 weeks til greer! Im pretty sure you could make it with ease!

 

I have an engine he can borrow too

 

He don't want to slow it down Kip. Putting a bbc boat anchor in it would make it slower than not having a motor in it.

 

Nice try pal...how many fords on that popular show with the list?

 

If I'm honest...that car would be a serious disappointment with anything other than an FE.

 

Google "AV Boys Gray Mare" if you wanna see a real street race car,not promods with licence plates.
He's running pretty much the same drivetrain combo I am...

And I agree,without a Hi Riser,a Tunnel Port,or a Cammer,that would be one gorgeous old Ford,but it wouldn't keep me up nights like it does now....lol
Once again,nice work.The term "raising the bar" doesn't begin to cover it.

Scott

 

Street car...and street raced car are two different animals...but I know what you mean.lol

 

Cars are turning out great. Cannot wait for Melt down . Hope to meet a bunch of you guys in person. So if you see a big gray haired bald guy with an eye patch fondeling your cars with his eye , My name is Larry and I am from the Portage-Wisconsin Dells area ! I usually bring a black with flames 62 Chevy 2 and park in the car show area.

 

This weekend I worked on the window's for the ford. Since I couldn't find a lexan front or rear window for it i decided to buy a sheet of lexan and try to make them. I think it turned out pretty good for my first attempt. I made a template out of paper and cut a piece of lexan about 1" big all the way around the pattern. Then we just put the flat piece on the outside of the window and stuck it In a huge oven for powder coating. It took like 300° to get it to form around the glass and when we pulled it out we clamped it on the edges til it cooled. Once that was done I trimmed them to the size of the glass. The rear window came out a little wavy from clamping it but not to bad. The front one we didn't clamp rite away so it didn't leave the marks from the clamps. I also moved the car back home this weekend. The motor was supposed to be done this weekend but we ran into a few problems so now I'm hopefully dynoing it and picking it up on Saturday as long as everything goes as planned.

 

Kicking ass and taking names

 

Looks dam good to me.

 

Food for thought. You may consider gluing the rear window in along with some sort of fastener (if you haven't already). A friend of mine had a 55 Chevy lose the rear lexan window on the top end of the traps. I don't know what the proper procedure is for installing rear lexan, but I was there to watch it pop out of the car and thought it was worth mentioning. I know his was a similar set up, original window gasket, glass doors, aluminum floor. Not trying to be critical, I love the old Ford! Just sharing an experience.
Mike

 

Yea I was worried about it flying out also. We are planning on gluing it in on the final install. When I trimmed the window I made it fit as little as possible so it Fitts extra tight. Only bad thing about it fitting tight is its a pain to get in but when it's in its really hard to get it back out. Thanks for the heads up

 

I think you will be at the end of the strip before it has a chance

 

More motivation to stay out in front you

 

Well I'm going to pick up the motor Saturday so I should have dyno numbers so u know what it takes to stay in front

 

Looks like you've been called out Jeff! Dazed and Confused is my all time favorite movie Tony

 

That's the class that I graduated with.

 

We need a movie screen at Meltdown

 

I think we're gonna have all the entertainment you can imagine,Brother.....lol

 

Movie screen would be great I've never seen that movie it was before my time. I have herd people talk about it but never seen it. might be showing my young age a little on that one lol

 

Nothing wrong with that.

 

Been working on all the trim lately. I got it all polished and about all on the car now. No good news on the engine it's been nothing but bad news on it the last few weeks. Was supposed to pick it up and dyno it on sat but got a call Thursday night with a huge problem with it and it had to be tore completely back apart. Not gonna go into detail on it but hope to have some good news in the next few days. If I don't get the motor back this weekend I think the southeast gassers Knoxville race will not happen for my car.

 

Man, that thing looks Awesome!!