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After 14 months, I rollled my latest project out of the shop to see what it looked like in the sunshine. It is a BeBops body/frame combo with a 351 Windsor engine, C4 transmission and a 9 inch Ford rearend. I was trying for a newstalgia look so it has a 40 Ford steering wheel, a SoCal front end with the Buick drums covering the disc brakes, outside door handles and trunk handle. I have not started on the interior but I am thinking of white with medium blue trim. The wheel/tire combination were left over from another project but I am thinking about changing them to chrome wheels and wide whites.

I had just returned from the muffler shop when these pictures were made.






A close up of the engine with the air cleaner and hood installed.

Looks great, sure do like the color!

Nice. I think your idea for the interior would go great with your theme. I really like rods that are stylistically consistent.

Very nice looking Deuce. Should be a great long distance driver too. I see you had to do exactly what I had to do for breathers on the Edelbrock valve covers, but those Moon breathers do the trick and look good too.

Don

She's a real looker, Don. You're really captured the whole hot rod with the stance and the color scheme. White and blue trim would set the interior off real nice!

Beautiful job!

Great job, and nice workmanship. I love the small air cleaner! It reminds me of what I would have seen when I picked up a magazine in my youth. :-)

I also think the change in wheels will fit the car better. I think the only "critique" I can offer is to put a painted box around the A/C hoses to hide them. Those just don't look "classic". :-)

Looks real good like it is. I wouldn't put the chrome/wide white walls on. But that is just me and my opinion.

Originally Posted by Rickomatic

Looks real good like it is. I wouldn't put the chrome/wide white walls on. But that is just me and my opinion.

Rickomatic, Shhhhhh! (If he changes them, I hoped he'd give me the old "useless & undesireable" wheels!)

I am a child of the '60s, where I spent my teen years, and developed an obsession for rods, customs and drag racing. I am a "big tires, big horsepower, and flame job guy", so Halibrand style wheels are near the top for me! :-)~

OK, what do you think about using the wheels I have with wide whites?

I really think you should take them off... and I'll take them to the dump for you. :-)

Those are not normally associated with the whitewalls, but they were available very early, and used at Bonneville, so I think the wide whites would be interesting on them.

According to one site, they might have been used at Indy in 1951. Wide whites were used on production cars until the early sixties.

Excellent car. Really like that shade of Blue. Do you know what the color is called? I too like the way it stands right now. Maybe one of our photo shop guys could change the tires to whitewalls to give you an ideal of the difference?
Like the 351 too. Never seen moon breathers before, but they just add to the overall effect, leaving the cool valve covers with a clean look. Wish they made covers like those for the 460!

The wheels/tires you have are ok, but I would suggest you do an entirely different set like the chromies/ww you mentioned and switch off every once in a while. That setup would look killer on your car.

Don

I agree with Don. Chromies, ww's and maybe Baby Moons. Another option would be to look into Radir mags, a retro mag from the early sixties which also look good with ww's.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

The wheels/tires you have are ok, but I would suggest you do an entirely different set like the chromies/ww you mentioned and switch off every once in a while. That setup would look killer on your car.

Don

DD, you've got an awesome looking Deuce, you should be VERY proud. I kinda like Don's idea of 2 separate sets of wheels/tires, especially since you already have these. Keep the guys at the cruise nights guessing when you roll in, wondering who the 'new' guy is.

Mike

stovens,

The paint is a PPG color called Roadhouse Blue. I saw a car last year at the NSRA SE Nationals in Tampa and there just happened to be a PPG booth right across the street. I asked them for a similar color and ended up with roadhouse blue.