Vehicle Description
As soon as you lay eyes on this car you can tell that it is a
serious street weapon. It is loud and its proud from its exposed
big-block engine in the front to its barely street legal racing
slicks in the back. However, most of time the fun of a car a car
like this is just knowing what it's capable of as you enjoy cruise
nights and club gatherings.
Big engines in lightweight cars with big tires have always been the
recipe for success in a street rod. For any given engine, the less
weight it has to accelerate the faster is goes. So, removing
unnecessary items like the fenders and the hood help tremendously
and, it is the very thing that defines the street rod look.
Additional weight savings were realized on this car through the use
of a Gibbon Fiberglass Reproductions body which was then coated in
a not so subtle shade of Purple. A tall grill of vertical bars
leads the way with large chrome trimmed headlights on either side
of it. The look is kept clean with the removal of door handles and
the upright 5-Window cab has a significant forward tilt to it due
to the serious chassis rake of the car. Chrome Smoothie wheels
mount those very wide back tires and side pipes just add to the
awesome look.
For all the evidence of hard-core speed on the outside, when you
open the door on this car you will find a nicely appointed and
comfortable custom faux leather interior. The door panel is trimmed
out in a Light Gray diamond pleated pattern with a Dark Gray bottom
with a pull at the top. That pattern is echoed on the bench seat
with the light gray pleated seating surfaces and dark gray accents.
The deep dish three-spoke chrome steering wheel is mounted on a
tilt column with a cowl mounted tach directly in front of the
driver and a B&M shifter for the automatic transmission rising
out of the floor. The dash is panel is body colored in purple with
a cast aluminum Champion gauge bezel loaded with Stewart Warner
gauges for the speedometer, water, oil, voltage and fuel. Overhead
is a Pioneer stereo that is AM/FM/CD and iPod compatible for your
listening pleasure. A full black headliner and carpeting ties the
look of the interior together nicely.
That big block motor perched out front for all the world to see is
a very healthy Oldsmobile 455. Feeding air to all those cubic
inches is a ribbed cast aluminum filter assembly. A Holley 4-barrel
carb handles the fuel mixing duties and a cast aluminum intake
manifold gets it to G cylinder heads which are capped by Oldsmobile
aluminum valve covers. Headers get the spent gasses out to those
awesome side pipes that sound oh so sweet. Power flows back through
a TH400 transmission to a Ford 9" rear end with 3.00 gears. It puts
the power on ground effectively through those 315/60R15 tires via a
4-link rear suspension and coil over shocks. Up front, tubular
control arms and coil overs work with rack and pinion steering to
provide good handling while disc brakes insure that you can haul
this rod back down from speed when you decide to let the horses
run.
Big power, big thunder, big tires, big fun. Come on down and check
out this great looking street rod.