wow, thats a helluva collection, man! the black chevelle is awsome, was it a factory buckets / no console car? and i love the plymouth, my dad had a black '49 plymouth business coupe " back in the day" that he built up with a 413 max wedge with the long ram intakes, along with a torqflite with the pushbuttons under the dash and an 8- 3/4 sure- grip, all outta a FACTORY a/ fx drag car that was on its way to the scrap yard due to rust issues! keep in mind, this was, like 1978. he ran the 'coupe with the factory steelies & poverty caps, he had the wheels widened to run fatter tires.... that car was faaaaast, lol.

 

The chevelle was a factory cloth bench car. My dad bought the SS style vinyl seats a while back and drove all the way to NC to pick them up. He had a console and floor shifter to go in it too but we are just going to use the consol in the SS. I agree I am lucky to have a dad thats into cars. Thats where I got my passion from. My father has a talent that he can pretty much do whatever he wants with his hands, whether its woodworking, metalworking, drawing, ect. He just picks it up and starts doing it. Its a gift that I always admired him for so I really tried to learn from him as much as possible and thats what got me into cars, when he started building them over 10 years ago. I can actually say though that my brother and I helped him learn the bodywork side of it and hes doing really well on the plymouth and its coming along great. As for that furd pickup, it will pretty much eat up anything on the road. Its got a OMC king cobra 460ci boat engine massaged to put out 443hp and 560lb ft torque at the flywheel. Its got a 9" rear end and a C6 transmission out of a diesel pickup to hold the power. I remember my father racing ricers on the highway with it and leaving them in the dust with 2.73 rear gears lol. Its got 3.55s in it now which woke it up alot. The SS, plymouth and the 55 all have air ride suspensions, something my dad got into after he started putting together the plymouth chassis. Thanks everyone for the compliments, our family really takes pride our show vehicles and hopefully building them is something we can do for a living in the future.

 

wow, that sounds great, keep up the great work!!

 

Very very very cool! Sad to see it go though.

 

What people who don't do this stuff will never understand is that the fun part about these cars is the working on them, taking a car down, restoring it, and putting it back together. After you've had one together for a year you're ready to move that one along and get to work on another one. Good luck on all future projects!