Hot Rods Green Grenade...........picture thread

Paint the fucker and change the fucked up rear spring if has not bee done already. Then drive the wheels off an Iconic HAMB car!

 

He probably lives as close to you as he does me. I've loved that car since the first time I saw it here on the HAMB. Saturday night there was a small show at the local Chevy dealership and I decided to swing by at the last second...........I couldnt believe the Grenade was sitting there in the lot. It's almost like running into an old friend even though I'd never seen it in person before. Its cool to see a car up close that has so much HAMB history and that I have admired in magazines and on my computer screen for years. I introduced myself to hawkerdriver and was happy to find out he was a HAMBer. We must have talked for 45 minutes about the car and Hot Rods in general. The Grenade is in good hands........that car is a beast.

 

Since it's name is "Green Grenade" I'm staying with green but not the usual, How about that Jeep color?

 

That is bad ass

 

Great meeting you there. Thanks for the into's today. Had a blast!

 

hawkerdriver

Any plans to run the car down to the Ventura Nationals in a few weeks time ??


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Great looking ride. Congrats!

 

I wouldn't paint it green just because of it's name. "Green grenade" is in reference to a live grenade. Live grenades are green, grenades used for training are blue...

I always wanted to paint it dark red.

 

Cool ride...don't paint it...leave it alone, as is.

 

Heres a few i liked

 

Id like to. When is it?

 

From speedweek '03

-Saint

 

looks a lot different. Nice pics

 

Would be nice to see that car finished one day. I'm totally seeing that red but in a dark maroon shade with those cream wheels. That would be cool....although I am not sure it would give that nasty look the bare metal give it. Dark blue with cream wheels might do it.

 

jey shiney black!! how can that car not look meen!!!!!

 

Hey Loudpedal, do you still have all the details about the back of the engine?

 

My buddy helped the new owner drive that thing to from so cal up to fresno the other day. Says that thing is an animal, does 100 mph no problem and has plenty more!

 

In my head I do. What are you looking for exactly? It's got a long-bell Hemi with an alternator driven off of a pulley that is between the crank and flexplate. It also has a TH700-R4. My Dad shortend the bellhousing to fit the long-bell Hemi. It's also got a hidden water pump...

 

If you paint it, don't go with green...you'll lose the appeal of the name. I think you should leave it bare metal, because I plan to build one just like it, only painted like Kris was going to do before he started building the 'A' roadsters.

 

The engineering on that part of it still floors me.

 

What about SILVER paint???

 

Hey Hawk - What size wheel/tires are you running? They fill the wheel well nice and give that 32 frame a nice stance!

 

September 4/5th


http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=490650&highlight=ventura+nationals


Hope to see you and the car..


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Such a bad ass car... easily on my top 10 of-all-time list.

 

What do we all like about this car?The way it looks as it is, so why would anyone want to change a thing about it!!!
Leave the paint off of this one.

 

No baffles in those headers?

I honestly can't imagine driving an unmuffled car anywhere but a race track for more than a few minutes. The decibel level would begin to annoy me that quickly.

Yeah, I suppose that makes me a wuss (or something), but I've lost enough of my hearing already and I'd really like to preserve the rest for as long as I can.

Am I the only one here who feels that way? I dunno.

 

The training nades we used in the Corps were black. It must be an Army thing..

 

Before I picked the car up i bought a box of foam ear plugs (praise Harbor Freight). It helps...sorta.
Unless its to pull it out of the shop or just up the street, I use the plugs. My wife is already bitching because I say "Huh"? more often since I got it.

 

DITTO!!!!!!! mine is gonna be silver or grey