8" channel Frame lengthened 8" 1948 Ford front axle and spring Front hubs re-drilled for late Ford 4.5" bolt circle 1968 Plymouth GTX rear end 9 3/4" Dana 1963 Dodge Ramcharger master-leaves w/1968 GTX springs 15x7.5 E-T IV fronts Dunlop Qualifer P235/60 SR 15 15x8.5 E-T IV rears Dunlop CT Qualifier P275/60 SR 15 1963 Chevrolet (Borg Warner) T-10 53 gallon (U.S.) stainless steel fuel tank (Jim Koehner, welder) Dual voltage electrical system 6 volt back-up ignition, fuel pump, instruments 12 volt lights, stereo, c.b., radar detector, Halogen back-up light electronic ignition 1932 radiator (3" Griffin) 1978 Corvette seats Hurst Competition-plus shifter Stewart Warner instruments Concord HPL350 AM / FM stereo, cassette Cobra 132, 23 ch. w/sideband Whistler 1290 radar detector Accel 300+ racing ignition
1953 Chrysler 1954 heads Specifications: 354 c.i.d. (+0.125" overbore of 331 c.i.d. motor) 12.5:1 M/T pistons, Crower roller tappet camshaft ("Imperial" cam with roller journals) lifter bore oil supply holes restricted to .052", Weber aluminum flywheel, Centerforce Clutch & pressure plate, Weiand WC245 intake, Stromberg 97 Carburetors (4), K & N air filter elements, Cagle vacuum controlled fuel pressure regulator, Sanderson DD3 Block Hugger headers, HPC coated, Exhaust by Jay's Custom Exhaust, Lowell, Mass. Milodon "Mouse-trap" rev kit, Chrome (done in 1964) by National Metal Finishing, West Springfield, Mass, O'Brien Truckers finned rocker covers, O'Brien Truckers finned valley cover, Kendall GT-1 SAE-50 Racing Oil, Balanced by Precision Balancing, Hudson, New Hampshire.
Kandy Apple Tangerine over Cinnamon Firemist and gold "flip-flop" pearl over Ford white. Ribbon of opaqued Kandy Apple greens, blues, reds, oranges, purples and yellows over the pearl white base. Characatures and scenes on the ribbon and on the rear of the
body."Ribbon of time" starts on the front door with a pair of period characatures from 1934 in the form of Laurel & Hardy and W.C. Fields to correspond to the date of manufacture of the vehicle. On the rear door, corresponding to the owner / builder's date of birth, is a depiction of 1945's atom bomb explosion on Hiroshima, Japan. Over the rear fender and a surfer riding the crest of the ribbon and a young couple silhouetted against the sunset as seen on contemporary greeting cards popular at the time of the paint scheme's application in 1972. On the rear of the vehicle is a version of John Petre's painting entitled "Overpopulation". Both sides of the car are identical to within 1/4 inch.
'39 tranny and rear (replaced in '66), '56 Ford gas tank (replaced with current tank in '74), '63 Plymouth rear w/ traction bars toward the rear and a '39 rear spring. That was great for the strip but poor on the street (replaced in '73). '52 Saratoga block that was damaged in an accident in 1966 on Route 20 at the West Springfield line when a young kid and seven of his buddies made a U-turn into my right front wheel. I finally got sick of the oil consumption and, in '76, bored out a '53 Imperial block and swapped all the innards out of the '52 block into the '53 block. That block, with over 100,000 miles on it, was replaced in '93 with another '53 block when two roller tappets wore out on the way home from NSRA nationals in Louisville, KY. Pistons and cam are originals, still. The billet cam was welded and re-ground by Crower. '68 GTO seats (replaced in early '80s), Black lacquer paint in 1965 re-painted in 1972 to current condition stock '32 radiator, replaced w/ Walker in '73, 3" Walker - Kept leaking so he replaced it in '79, 4" Walker - Kept leaking so I replaced it in '96 with a Griffin. Stromberg 4bbl for a while, changed to the Holley in '72, machined stock intake to match Holley R-3310 throttle bores, replaced with 4 Stromberg 97 carbs in '94. '55 DeSoto "Wonder Bar" radio, '68 Plymouth AM & 8 Track, Holley's then Concord rear tires, Protrac fronts.
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