Thread: 1st Hot Rod

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My first real Hotrod, A glassfibre Jago 32 5W in 1974, bought it back in 1990 and replaced the body with a 32 roadster and sold it minus the 289 which ended up on my T bucket in 1999, that engine which i built in 1972 for the 5W is still going strong 37 years later !!!

Steve,

That is one "hot" 1st. hot rod.

Jack.

BTW, where can we get a larger pic of your avitar.

My first hot rod was a '29 Ford roadster with one of the first Gibbon fiberglass bodies. I finished it in 1988 and sold it in 2000. It is still going strong in upper New York state.

Lynn,

Another beautiful 1st hot rod.

Jack.

My first hot rod was a '53 Ford Tudor Customline that I put a full race flathead in after I blew the original. That flattie was destined for another car, but that one became someones stock car in a "good" deal. The flathead eventually gave way for a built 312 Y block, well warmed with a blower cam and heads, Mallory ignition, huge AFB and the sweetest sounding set of glass packs. Then came "Snaggle Tooth", my ex and it along with my 'hot' cars disappeared for quite a few years I have a few pictures somewhere, but no clue as to where.

This 312Y engine looked like a sleeper - with '54 239cid valve covers and paint color. This has to be one of the easiest engine transplants ever - Hurst(?) motor mount, dropped drag link and slightly modified oil pan - everything else '54-'56 was bolt on.

Neat story Dave,

Keep looking for those pics.

Jack.

(Sorry. Only picture I have.) When I was a senior in an Illinois high school (65-66), one of my two best "motorhead" buddies wanted to go partners on building a street rod. The idea of being partners on a car sounded like a problem, so I told him we would build it together, but it would be his money and his car. We spent approximately the next three years getting it together and running.

It started out as a dirt tracker with an early 30s Ford pickup chassis and 33 Plymouth coupe body.... until we cut the tack welds on the doors that held them shut, and found out they were just skins!!!

We found a 'glass Fiat coupe, with one functional door, being made in Ohio... so we drove over and got it! We chopped the nose off and used a Model A Ford grillshell.

The engine was a '57 Olds that we punched to 383, balanced it, added an Isky Hydraulic, McGurk pushrods, Weiand Manifold, and two AFBs. That bolted up to an Olds bellhousing, with an adapter to a Muncie 4-speed. We built the headers ourselves, using a flange kit and collectors. Those are small mufflers out back, with an angle-cut extension welded on. (It was the only place they fit!) :-)

The rear was pulled out of a '58 Plymouth drag car, and had a 4-something gear and
positrac. We built some box tube traction bars, and added a set of recap slicks out back.

I wasn't painting yet, but a friend my buddy worked with painted it a chocolate matallic, with gold fogging and gold lace covering the sides.

Not bad for "home brewed". We would back it all the way to the back of his dad's barn... sweep the concrete floor.... and lay stripes the length of the barn!!! The only problem was that we lived on dirt roads, and once you left the barn door, you would slide down the dirt drive, and across the road into the ditch! ...but it was a ball!!! :-) Good times!