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What I've got is a 1940 Ford Tudor sedan. There is very little left to do to it. It simply needs exhaust pipes, an alignment, an interior and a few other very minor things touched up. I have been building it to be a no-nonsense bare bones hot rod that would be taken to vintage drags.

Now for the details.... It is mounted on a shortened S-10 chassis. The frontend has been completely rebuilt with new center link, ball joints, tie rods, idler arm, sway bar, brake calipers and rotors. It has a round aluminum fuel tank in the trunk and the battery is mounted back there as well. Steering came out of a 63' econoline. The steering box was converted to a manual box so as not to rob power from the engine. The dash is in nice shape with a few art-deco/Kustom accents. Has autometer speedo, and your standard triple gauges. The grille is a speedway motors sheetmetal grille, which is pretty cool. Has all tinted glass, and new anti-rattle kit installed The body is solid and received all new floorboards. The body was painted to look weather worn. It is actually a new paint job that was applied to make it look old.

Basically the car is just a cool vessel for the drivetrain.

about the motor.... Pretty much everything is new. It started with a bare SBC 350 4-bolt main block. I had it hot tanked, bored and magna-fluxed. It was bored .30 over making it a 355ci. It got 72cc heads to up the compression, the valves are the big 2.02 and 1.6 valves. The heads also have studs and guide plates. It has a matched Lunati valve train with voodoo cam and Crane roller tip rockers. The lower end features a Eagle crank, skat weight match set of I-beam connecting rods, Speedpro flat top pistons with 2 valve relief with floating wrist pins. The air gets there through a Weiand X-Celerator intake and 670cfm Holley street Avenger carb. Exhaust goes by way of Heddman Headers. Cooling by a Polished aluminum water pump and 3 row radiator and stainless hoses with Zirgo 3300CFM cooling fan. All inside hardware is ARP and all outside hardware is stainless steel ARP. Has lots of aluminum accents, and many other features that I will divulge to those who are seriously interested. It's quite the laundry list.

The motor is hooked up to a TH-350 automatic tranny. Tranny has B&M hot rod style shifter, jegs 2700rpm torque converter, finned dual pass aluminum tranny cooler, stainless braided flexible dip stick.

In any event, the wiring is done and the motor runs very well and cools very well. It's fire breathing and loud as hell. It has been going through it's break in period. We are estimating 385Hp out of it.

There is very little left to do and all the hard mechanical type stuff is done. The rest could be finished by a novice hobbiest in a couple weekends.

If you are looking to announce your presence and have a traditional rod like they used to build that's bare bones and built for speed, this is it. If you want power steering, and air conditioning, and tweed interior, etc for a hot rod that drives like a Toyota Camery this is not what you are looking for.

I have too many details to mention about this car, and they would be best put forth in an email or by a phone call.

I can send pictures to serious interested parties.

I have 99% of the reciepts and most of the boxes from the engine parts.

I may be interested in trading for 1928-1948 coupes or 1964-1976 coupes (ie: nova, chevelle, cutlass, lemans, tempest, camaro,Torino, corvette, charger, road runner, etc.), full or partial trade (no fiberglass).Otherwise, at this point I am asking $11500.

Will sell without motor and tranny for $8K

Here's a picture:

Since this picture was taken, the front hood trim/hood latch has been removed and smoothed. I have chrome baby moon hub caps for the wheels.

Some details:

Chassis:
1985 Chevy S-10 pickup chassis
-shortened 5in in the center
-front and rear frame horns trimmed to fit
-Wheels: Chrome Smoothies
-Refurbished control arms
-New tranny support with bolt-in center section for ease of removal

Rearend:
-Stock Chevy S-10 w/ wheel spacers
-Lowered about 6in with lowering blocks and new drop leaf springs
-Helper springs in rear
-New monroe shocks

Frontend:
-new Moog centerlink
-new Moog Idler arm
-New tie rods
-New ball joints
-new Energy suspension urethane sway bar kit
-new Energy Suspension urethane end link kit
-New Monroe shocks

Steering:
-Steering Column from 1963 Ford econoline
-Converted from power steering to manual steering to conserve HP.
-Steering dampener for vibration control
-All new u-joints

Electric:
-1940 Ford taillights
-1940 Ford Headlights
-new 1938-39 ford taillights used as front running lights
-new Holley Blue 110gph electric fuel pump
-Battery relocated to the trunk
-E-Z 21 circuit wiring harness
-Proform chrome Alternator

Cooling:
-1964 Ford mustang heavy duty 3-row radiator
-Zirgo 3300cfm 16in electric cooling fan
-Flexible stainless steel radiator hoses
-Moroso intake manifold filler water neck

Body:
-Solid and mainly stock
-Have the stainless side trim
-New floor boards
-All new Dennis Carpenter anti-rattle kits for windows
-All new vent window rubbers
-All new tinted safety glass
-Replaced rear tailpan with a new Vintique pan
-New trunk weather seal
-Working trunk latch with light and key
-Custom dash with custom gauge cluster
-Glove box with working key
-Window regulators removed for power window conversion, but still have regulators
-New Wescott fiberglass running boards
-"Patina" paint (new paint, made to look old)
-All new turnsignal lamps
-All new light lenses
-All new light gaskets
-Speedway Motors "hot rod" grille
-Bob Drake Headlight bezels

Other:
-Round aluminum 15gal fuel tank in
trunk

Interior:
-S10 Bench seat
-Door Panels
-Needs carpet and headliner
-Autometer and Sun guages
-Grant Steering wheel
-Led turn indicators
-Custom speedo bezel/panel


Braking:
-New Corvette 4-port master cylinder
-Wilwood adjustable proportioning valve
-Wilwood residual valves
-All new brake shoes and pads
-All new rotors
-All new drums
-All new calipers
-All new wheel cylinders
-All new lines and hoses

Driveshaft:
-Cut
-Balanced
-Straightened
-New U-joints

Transmission:
-Th-350 from 1974 Chevy truck
-Lokar style stainless braided flexible dipstick
-New Kick down cable
-Dual Pass aluminum tranny fluid cooler
-New Filter
-Lokar Speedo cable
-B&M hot rod style 16in shifter
-Jegs 2700 rpm torque converter

Engine:
-1974 Chevy SBC 350 w/ 4-bolt mains estimated 385HP
-bored 30 over to 355ci
-Eagle Crank
-Skat weight matched I-beam connecting rods
-Speedpro skirt coated Pistons w/ 2 valve relief and floating wrist pins
-Speedpro rings
-Clevite 77 performance bearings
-72cc heads w/ 2.02 and 1.6 valves and crane cams teflon umbrella seals w/ studs and guide plates
-Crane roller tip rockers
-Lunati valve springs
-Lunati Lifters
-Lunati Voodoo Camshaft
-Blue racer push rods
-Blue Racer double roller timing chain set
-Mallory Uni-lite distributor
-Be-Cool high flow thermostat
-Polished aluminum timing cover
-Polished aluminum high flow water pump
-Morroso water neck
-Finned aluminum oil pan
-Non-bypass oil filter adapter
-Moroso high strength oil pump drive shaft
-Melling high volume oil pump
-Weiand X-Celerator intake manifold
-Holley Street Avenger 670cfm 4bbl carburetor
-Edelbrock valve covers
-Alan Grove alternator bracket
-Proform chrome alternator
-Holley "blue" elctric fuel pump
-Heddman Headers
-Power Force harmonic balancer
-Aluminum pulleys
-Finned aluminum fuel pump block off
-Chrome 2HP high torque mini-starter
-Accel 8mm plug wires
-Bosch Platinum spark plugs
-Holley Air cleaner
-All Hardware is either grade 8 ARP or stainless ARP hardware


Have 99% of receipts and most all of the boxes for the engine parts. Clear ohio title.

Johnny would you conside trading your car for another vech?I can send pics. need your e-mail address to send you pics of my ride.

Leo

Originally Posted by 66elky

Johnny would you conside trading your car for another vech?I can send pics. need your e-mail address to send you pics of my ride.

Leo

Yes, trades considered. Prefer partial trades up to a value of $6K. But will consider full trades if it really grabs my attention. Offers and questions can be sent to: hotrodderguy@yahoo.com

Didn't meet reserve. I'm open to offers.

I'd like to get into some drag racing. Maybe somebody has a cheaper '64-74 coupe that would make a good drag car?

I also have a 1977 Ford F-250 Truck that I could add with my car if there is somethingout there that's real nice and catches my eye for straight trade.

BTW- If you don't like the paint scheme, repaint it and make it yours.