Vehicle Description
If Doc's character in the Disney movie Cars was played by a Chevy,
it would have been this car. Doc Deluxe? It looks the part with a
really cool "Patina" paint job. But the rest of the wear, cracks,
and creases on this car were earned the hard way and remain
authentic. You can almost hear this car trying to impart some old
school wisdom into the modern "Rookie" cars its surrounded by.
That paint job makes it look like this car just rolled out of an
old barn, yet it's easy to keep clean and polished up. The fastback
style and the smooth curves of the body are 1950s, state of the
art, aerodynamic design. The rear fender has a sweeping curve from
its leading edge to the rear of the car. It has a chrome gravel
guard to protect the leading edge from damage and a polished metal
bead where the fender joins the body. A fender skirt encloses the
rear wheel, while a flat dish hub cap keeps the air flow clean over
the front wheel. Polished trim runs along the base of the windows,
an accent line in the center, and the rockers. Quite a few pounds
of chrome lead the way at the front of the car. The headlights have
chrome "eyelids", and a split windshield is flanked by Two!
Spotlights. At the rear, dual chrome tailpipes exit below the
bumper with two tag lights sitting high on their chrome towers
above it.
Inside this car you will find a cloth bench seat and a metal dash.
Both look their age with the wear that comes from an adventurous
life. If they could talk, the stories they would tell! There are a
couple interesting features on this dash. One is a knob labeled
with a "T" which operates the throttle to assist in start-up.
Another is the vacuum tube radio with integrated speaker, and a
manual wind, 7-day clock built into the glove box door. There is a
knob on the steering wheel, which comes in handy wheeling it around
in parking lots. A plaid bench seat has a couple rips where the
driver sits, as would be expected with this original interior, but
the rest of the front seat, and the rear seat upholstery are in
pretty good shape. Original door panels and head liner are faded
and wrinkled a bit, but that's all part of the vintage charm of
leaving them that way.
Under the hood you will find a hot rod engine that goes with those
vintage racing decals. It is a 235-cubic inch powerhouse. A finned
Wayne valve cover looks great in red and polished metal. Polished
metal bells top dual Rochester carbs and an Edmonds Custom intake
feeds the beast. New plugs, wires and coil make sure it gets good
spark, and a cherry bomb style exhaust make it sound good. Again,
this engine compartment is true retro, just like you would find it
back in the day. Even down to the manual shut off for the coolant
running to the heater core, because you could never seem to get
those factory heater control valves adjusted quite right. The
suspension is conventional, sharing its basic design with many
modern cars. Control arms with coil springs and sway bar in the
front. Leaf springs in the rear. In keeping with the racing theme
of this car, there are lowering blocks on those rear springs giving
it that unique stance. Steel wheels with 215/75R15 white wall tires
all around get the power on the ground.
Don't you think this car would be a bunch of fun to drive around?
Come on down and see if it might be you who gives that dash board
and those bench seats more stories to tell.