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OK guys, what's the baddest street ride you ever built.
I'll open with a Jeep CJ3 I built in the mid eighties with a 450HP 454 Chevy.
It wouldn't stop, hated to go around corners, but if you got it aimed roughly where you wanted to go, let's just say there wasn't much at the stoplight that had a prayer!!
Sorry the pictures are so "grainey" but there all I've got.:eek:
Mine was a 29 roadster that I built around a motor that was running 10:90's in a 56 chevy. I couldnt keep it going straight and my wife refused to ride in it,I had it built and running for 31 days and put 30 miles on it. I should have built a tube frame for it:LOL:
omg those are both crazy rides. when my monte comes together soon it should be a little wild :3dSMILE: but nothing like that.
a A bone with a blown sbc 355 . a tub out glass body A body roaster with my old 548 bbc 14to8 .740 @ 275 on 108 something like that 9inch stall 1050 holley more then two hands full .two anglia one with a blown 383 built car and machine and built engine one with a BBC in it every thing but paint and engine ... my red 66 GTO here the list and all the engines were bad to very bad just ask the few that would ride or the very few that i would let them drive them.the engines 462 13to1 solid roller cam good heads. 468 13to1 solid good heads roller cam .548 14to8 good heads solid big roller cam. 572 13to1 solid roller cam .632 donovan 10.5 solid very big roller cam very good heads very nasty.. . my tub out 66 GTO .477 13to1 roller cam.572 13to1 very good heads 862 .roller cam big . my 50 chevy coupe one 462 11to 1 solid roller cam engine .548 10to1+ blower with solid roller cam 9 inch stall this one will only stay strait when its parked .side ways any gear any time . under boost at 110 mph side ways EZ.
Nothing like driving basicly a tin can w/a BBC/400 turbo between the seats in a dropped 69 Chevy Window Van, Nova rear end & M50's on 10" rims inside the uncut wheel wells.
Pegged the needle on the speedo once and then realized what would happen to me IF I had a blow out on a front tire :eek: :whacked: ....joe
Big Dude that "A" Roaadster is so cool and that yellow just screams "look at me":cool:
Pat, when do you find time to build your own cars when you are so busy building those awesome engines?? And what do you drive for everyday transport,something from Japan with 4 cylinders???:LOL::LOL::LOL:
Cool thread as I would think we have all build something at some stage of our lifes that wasn't really practical.:(
53 Ford 2dr wagon Lots of fun to build and drive people in town called it the window rattler. Over 400hp. 9" ford rear 350 60 over big cam 202 angle plug heads roller rockers3" exhaust. built frame in house mustang front realy narowed rear. It has a linclon interior, realy wish I hadn't sold it BUT.:CRY:
Built this from scraps laying around in my shop :o
Ninja Star brake pedal, 3 chain meat grinder primary drive, swinging ankle slicer knife blade for the jockey brake, leg searing straight pipe, self designed 2-speed automagic transmission, composite bicycle front wheel, golf cart rear wheel, 67mph in high gear :toocool:
'glass '28 Roadster body on a modded Deuce frame Blown 501" BBF, Nash 5 speed, 9" rear with 18" wide MT's on the back. Friend of mine called it the "Mystery Machine".....everytime you grabbed a gear it was a mystery what direction the car would go....
Big block powered sand rail, not so much the rail was the badest, it was the driver, no fear, I only rode once for twenty minutes or so, twenty feet in the air over the dunes, saw my life flash in my mind:eek: I know I left stains in the seat...!
Back in the mid eighties,I found a Isuzu pickup,a rarity in this country,but built as a Chevy LUV in Australia,and of course,America...We only got them for government departments,and as they got old,they were auctioned off..After reading an article in an American hot rod mag,I decided to give the old pig a heart transplant,so,in went 350 horse/350,th350 and a narrowed 9",crank up the torsion bars,new gabriel red riders on the front,rebuild the brakes,and DRIVE...The 9'' had 2.75 gears,14x8 rear mags,so it launched quite hard without going up in smoke,but that was easy too,,,the smoke I mean...:D:D Its biggest problem was,if your wheels werent straight when ya nailed it hard,it had a habit of trying to come around and bite your arse...short wheelbases,,,ahhh,what fun..Was economical on a trip though....:LOL:if you could keep the shoe out of it every time you wanted to pass someone..**)
Also managed to get a new tail gate [genuine Chev] out of Aussie,and got the LUV emblems from a GM dealer in Auckland..
This started out as a '57 four door, I cut it in halve used halve of the rear doors and welded them on halve of the front door to get the transition of the body correct. The top was pie cut starting at the A pillar and opened up to match the width of the middle of the car. It was a lot of work, but well worth it. It was a true street wheel stander. Small block and a 4 speed. I built this in the 70's. 86" wheelbase!
Ken
That thing is SWEET! *Insert High five hereQuote:
Originally Posted by cffisher