AzPete
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Sweet...........does it only go slow?
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70_Fastback: RAT ROD - 193x Ford / 1942 GMC Truck
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70_Fastback
Hell Bent for Speed
Right now, yes.
Fast68back
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Just curious, which type if timing gear are you runnin?
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Anonymous
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"Fast68back" said:
:yah :bomb :nut
blue65coupe
Well-Known Member
Wow, just damn wow.
Fst Blk
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Very cool.
Bill
Bill
70_Fastback
Hell Bent for Speed
"Fast68back" said:
Edelbrock.
70_Fastback
Hell Bent for Speed
"AtlantaSteve" said:
Nice!
OK Jeremy, it's G-day -1 .......... Tomorrow is the big day.
Are you done? :shrug
Is it ready for the 10 mile drive to Greasearama?
art
Going to get it autographed by Eddie Munster? :confu
Are you done? :shrug
Is it ready for the 10 mile drive to Greasearama?
artGoing to get it autographed by Eddie Munster? :confu
70_Fastback
Hell Bent for Speed
Hell yes we made it...! though with a few hiccups..... as usual!
Friday:
Pre-party/registration for Greaserama down in Westport at the Record Bar. I test drove the truck for a good hour Friday afternoon before we headed down to Westport that night - which was about a 30 mile drive. Halfway there the truck just dies going down the highway doing about 65. Pull over. It starts right back up. Weird. Keep driving.
Get down into Westport, about 1/2 from the record bar and she starts popping & cracking, backfiring, missing - you name it, it did it. So I hurriedly pulled into a parking lot and it kapoots. Well %^$!. It won't restart. I start checking around... the oil filled coil is no longer oil filled. It's leaking everywhere. It's 9 o'clock at night, stuck in the hood in a hotrod that can't be locked up and most auto parts stores are closing. CRAP!
Called my neighbor and talked with him. Asked him to run to O'reilly - one by me stays open until 10. They didn't have a round coil with a male end. So had to get a new coil & new coil wire. While waiting on him to show up, I try to restart it. It fires up I yell at Bonnie to get her arse in the truck and I burn some major rubber down to the record bar. Just as I pull in it backfires and sputters so I just shut it off and coast in the lot with all of the other hotrods. Neighbor shows up, we swap the coil & wire and it fires right up and purrs like a rabid kitten again! All is well. Commence drinking beer from brown paper bags bullshitting with other car guys. The ride home is much less eventful.
Saturday:
Greaserama day - chance of rain 40%. Do I still go.... YES!
We are there for an hour or so and it starts coming down in buckets. I throw our blanket (yes blanket) over the cab to try to keep the rain from going in the open cab (again... no windows). The rain & I do this for about 4 hours off and on. Eh, not much I can do about it. We sit under a big beer umbrella, of course drinking beer. Most folks didn't even care about the rain. But around 5 it's starting to look bad. So I pack it up and we head out as there was a break in the rain.
Well.... 10 minutes down the road it just cuts loose BIG time. DAMN! As Bob stated above... no side or rear window, no wipers, drag slicks an engine that is not tuned 100% AND to top it off a floor that is not totally enclosed yet - I ran out of time to finish it.
Did I also mention that I never installed the speedo cable - that I just had a rag stuffed in the hole...? Well.... the rag got wet from the rain, got heavy, fell out and the trans puked out burning hot transmission fluid all over the side of my right leg and all over the sheet metal floor of the rat - making it slicker than shit too.
So, I'm burnt, I'm wet, I can't see crap driving down the road. I am leaning out the window using my hand to wipe off the windshield to see... NOT a happy camper. But we get home unscathed. I wipe the truck down and clean up the fluid mess. And drink beer.
Looking back on it now, it was pretty comical.
Sunday:
Sunday morning - it's a beautiful day! 60 degree temps, clear - just perfect.
I head to the garage & install the speedo cable (That i had) - finish cleaning the mess up. Pack the cooler full of beer and load it up in the rat and we head back to Greaserama for another fun day.
A photographer watned to do a magazine spread shoot of my rat. He took well over a thousand pictures and was doing it for over and hour & a half. Later he brought a semi-skanky pin-up style model over and had her spread out on the truck doing a photo shoot with her.
Bonnie.... was not so impressed. Come to find out the lady runs a porn site too.
And then I was contacted by some independent film makers shooting a "viral" film here in KC called "Road Warriors" or something like that.... and they want my truck in their movie too. I would be driving it of course. They took all of my contact info, so we'll see if I hear back from them.
It was a GREAT, fun weekend. The truck was a HUGE hit. People were flocked to it all day. I never got to walk around & see the entire show because I was BS'ing with people all day long.
The grill shell was the biggest hit I think... Hundreds & hundreds of comments & pictures were being made/taken.
Friday:
Pre-party/registration for Greaserama down in Westport at the Record Bar. I test drove the truck for a good hour Friday afternoon before we headed down to Westport that night - which was about a 30 mile drive. Halfway there the truck just dies going down the highway doing about 65. Pull over. It starts right back up. Weird. Keep driving.
Get down into Westport, about 1/2 from the record bar and she starts popping & cracking, backfiring, missing - you name it, it did it. So I hurriedly pulled into a parking lot and it kapoots. Well %^$!. It won't restart. I start checking around... the oil filled coil is no longer oil filled. It's leaking everywhere. It's 9 o'clock at night, stuck in the hood in a hotrod that can't be locked up and most auto parts stores are closing. CRAP!
Called my neighbor and talked with him. Asked him to run to O'reilly - one by me stays open until 10. They didn't have a round coil with a male end. So had to get a new coil & new coil wire. While waiting on him to show up, I try to restart it. It fires up I yell at Bonnie to get her arse in the truck and I burn some major rubber down to the record bar. Just as I pull in it backfires and sputters so I just shut it off and coast in the lot with all of the other hotrods. Neighbor shows up, we swap the coil & wire and it fires right up and purrs like a rabid kitten again! All is well. Commence drinking beer from brown paper bags bullshitting with other car guys. The ride home is much less eventful.
Saturday:
Greaserama day - chance of rain 40%. Do I still go.... YES!
We are there for an hour or so and it starts coming down in buckets. I throw our blanket (yes blanket) over the cab to try to keep the rain from going in the open cab (again... no windows). The rain & I do this for about 4 hours off and on. Eh, not much I can do about it. We sit under a big beer umbrella, of course drinking beer. Most folks didn't even care about the rain. But around 5 it's starting to look bad. So I pack it up and we head out as there was a break in the rain.
Well.... 10 minutes down the road it just cuts loose BIG time. DAMN! As Bob stated above... no side or rear window, no wipers, drag slicks an engine that is not tuned 100% AND to top it off a floor that is not totally enclosed yet - I ran out of time to finish it.
Did I also mention that I never installed the speedo cable - that I just had a rag stuffed in the hole...? Well.... the rag got wet from the rain, got heavy, fell out and the trans puked out burning hot transmission fluid all over the side of my right leg and all over the sheet metal floor of the rat - making it slicker than shit too.
So, I'm burnt, I'm wet, I can't see crap driving down the road. I am leaning out the window using my hand to wipe off the windshield to see... NOT a happy camper. But we get home unscathed. I wipe the truck down and clean up the fluid mess. And drink beer.
Looking back on it now, it was pretty comical.
Sunday:
Sunday morning - it's a beautiful day! 60 degree temps, clear - just perfect.
I head to the garage & install the speedo cable (That i had) - finish cleaning the mess up. Pack the cooler full of beer and load it up in the rat and we head back to Greaserama for another fun day.
A photographer watned to do a magazine spread shoot of my rat. He took well over a thousand pictures and was doing it for over and hour & a half. Later he brought a semi-skanky pin-up style model over and had her spread out on the truck doing a photo shoot with her.
Bonnie.... was not so impressed. Come to find out the lady runs a porn site too.
And then I was contacted by some independent film makers shooting a "viral" film here in KC called "Road Warriors" or something like that.... and they want my truck in their movie too. I would be driving it of course. They took all of my contact info, so we'll see if I hear back from them.
It was a GREAT, fun weekend. The truck was a HUGE hit. People were flocked to it all day. I never got to walk around & see the entire show because I was BS'ing with people all day long.
The grill shell was the biggest hit I think... Hundreds & hundreds of comments & pictures were being made/taken.
70_Fastback
Hell Bent for Speed
Grill shell....
I'm pretty sure we all know that had it not been for the those of us here keeping you from taking short cuts none of this success would have occurred. I can only imagine how it could have gone if you had used stock alternator brackets, for example. There's a lesson here for everyone, I think.
70_Fastback
Hell Bent for Speed
"Horseplay" said:
LMAO! Thanks Terry.
70_Fastback
Hell Bent for Speed
One from the show... this was pre-rain
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janschutz
Corn Hauler
Real cool! I like how the shell grill came out.