Thread: Project American Graffiti Coupe

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This is my car loosely influenced off the American Graffiti Coupe. It is a '32 5 window with a kustom grille shell. Powered by a supercharged flathead and backed by a '39 Ford Trans with Zephyr Gears.

Wow what a cool looking coupe!!!! i always loved that movie and the car!! im glad you are bringing it back!!

Originally Posted by Gearhead442

Wow what a cool looking coupe!!!! i always loved that movie and the car!! im glad you are bringing it back!!

THANKS Gearhead442,
I am going to do my best to replicate this coupe the best I can. If the weather would just clear up and turn warm and my kidney stone would go away, maybe I could get some work done on this thing.
Rick

Hey Guys,

THE COUPE IS ON TV SHOW EMERGENCY!!!! IT IS FROM SEASON 6 EPISODE #8 CALLED "CAPTAIN HOOK". CHECK OUT THE PHOTOS BELOW!!!!!!! THIS SCENE IS IN THE UNIVERSAL GARAGE WHERE THE TWO NURSES ARE PHOTOGRAPHED WITH THE COUPE (as seen on my website and here)!!!!

THOUGHT YOU JUST MIGHT LIKE TO SEE THIS!!!!
Rick


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These Photos were taken while the coupe was getting freshened up for "More American Graffiti". The women in this photo are not nurses but rather dental assistants who just wanted their photos taken with the coupe.

Emergency,... woa, what a flashback. One thing I thought was always funny was no matter what accident the patient had, Dr. Early would always say " Start D5W with Lactated Ringers". I don't care if they fell off the top of the Eiffel Tower, or drank Rat poison, they got D5W with lactated ringers....

Hi THX138, I am new to this site and am thoroughly enjoying following your built. Having also suffered with kidney stones,I can feel the pain with you,hope it passes soon. Am looking forward to your next photos.

I loved that show!! What's a lactated ringer though??

IV solution with lactate(complex milk sugar) also with electrolytes of sodium, chloride, potasium and calcium. Very popular on that show! We use D10W alot in our Neonatal intensive care nursery which is 10% Detrose(simple sugar)Water.
I loved that show too! It's funny I just recertified in CPR two days ago, and from thirty years ago when I first took CPR to today, they have gone from giving 5 chest compressions and 2 breaths, to 30 chest compressions and two breath cycles. It turns out that they study recoveries and found out the breaths have little to do with bringing people around, as the compressions do. As a matter of fact they American Heart Assoc. now says if you don't have a protective mouth barrier to do just chest compressions until one arrives, or EMS gets there! The biggest change is shocking them with a defibulator right away!
O.K. enough side track, back to the yellow beast!

Wow, that's cool the coupe had some stardom. Emergency was great; right up there with Ponch and John on CHIPS.

Hi looking to build a highboy with just rear fenders. Can you tell me where you got yours. Are they glass? Randy

Originally Posted by 32highboy54

Hi looking to build a highboy with just rear fenders. Can you tell me where you got yours. Are they glass? Randy

Hey 32highboy54,

The rear fenders story goes like this. New Age Motorsports sent me a set of their stock (fiberglass) rear fenders. I spent something like two weeks and a lot of beer shaping them to look like Milner's rear fenders (I had a ton of photos of the original rear fenders by me when I did this). Once I was happy with what I came up with I sent the rear fenders back to New Age Motorsports for Ed to mold. These rear fenders (along with the front cycle fenders which I also copied and have not put on the coupe yet) can now be bought at New Age Motorsports.

Rick

Hey Everyone,

Just wanted you all to know that I'm back. This was a REALLY HARD winter for me as my kindney stones would not let up so I didn't even touch the coupe once this winter . Well GOOD NEWS, I had surgery on the stones and now I feel like SUPERMAN!!!! With this being said I was already to get back on the coupe this spring but as I was getting ready to get started I lost my grandfather who was like a father to me so I had to take a little time off to gather myself back up before getting back into the car thing as at that point my heart just wasn't in it. Now if all of this being said I am ready to get back to turning wrenchs (as this is how my grandfather would have wanted it). I will however be sharing my time between the coupe and going back to the farm to help my grandmother out. Today was the first day that I had a chance to even be back in the garage and man was it DIRTY!!!! I spent the whole day just getting things back in shape so once I getting going I will be able to move a lot faster (come to think of it I was never very fast). The old coupe as about an 1/8 inch of dust all of her but she still looks good to me! I pushed the old girl outside where she saw daylight for the first time in seven months. I was so happy to she her again I took a picture of her just incase you forgot what I am working on (photo below). Now it's time to get this thing done so you all will be seeing a ton of photos coming up here REAL SOON!!!!

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Very nice. That car is one of my favorites. Saw one yesterday at show. Had the THX-138 plate. Color was too pale. Only 3 duces. Ft fenders were wrong. Interior.............same. If it was in primer or blue, and you took the plates off it would have been a nice car. But if your gonna clone it, then clone it. Yours looks real good so far. And is apparent by details. Cal custom reg cover and relay cover. I spent way too much for a vintage cal custom reg cover on e-bay to put on my 66, now if you look at the firewall of my hot rod you will find i used it to cover wireing thru firewall. Drilled a hole in bottom and slotted it. I thought long and hard about it. But you really couldnt see it under the hood of the 66.
Keep up the good work. Look forward to seeing it completed.