August 27th - Update

Photos by Dave F.

August 18th Update

Photos by Greg B.
Every hot rod needs some flame treatment, and this one is no exception. Very tasteful flames appeared over the weekend, Beautiful ! Prior to that the team worked more on engine ancillaries, mounting the radiator and lamps, steering rack, Windshield and rear view mirrors...

Check out the flame job...

Radiator, Lights and hoses all done !

August 20th - Update

The team assembled for another Monday night of Bucket work. There seemed to be a lot of head scratching this evening as Dave S and Steve L tried to figure out the brake pedal mounting, Mark V worked on the steering shaft routing, Toan worked on the hinges for the decklid, Mark J and Nate worked on the front drive belts and Knox sorted through the wiring....

Toan, Dave S and Steve L position the fuel tank to clear the hinges...

Knox ponders the wiring.....


Dave S searches the Speedway catalogue...Now where does it show how the brake pedal mounts....

August 11th - Progress report

We really needed to get the engine installed so we could position the body shell, radiator and steering gear...Rick J and John R get the transmission mount located while Steve L and Don L

offer encouragement - Left a bit, no right, other right, now down.....Perfect !

Eyeing up radiator position and steering gear

Just couldn't resist trying some of those shiny bits for the photos ! Mark J fits the
radiator shroud while Tom W models the ram air intake, whoa !

Rick J and Mark J mock up the headers, nice !

August 6th - Progress Report

We now have something that resembles a rolling chassis, some tweaks needed to the front suspension and perhaps the most exciting things - our Body has been sprayed and the interior finished trimming - wow - they look fantastic....

And here it is - the picture does not do it justice, a beautiful Gold paint job with
a wonderful custom hand trimmed tan interior - Sweet !

Both front and rear suspensions received significant modification - the original leaf springs were removed in favor of coil overs for better ride and control, a front watts linkage was added and multilink rear end. All new structure was added to the rear of the frame to support the fuel tank